Notre Dame schedules Akron for 2015

[NDPhilly]

Akron football to play Michigan, Notre Dame - Canton, OH - CantonRep.com

Tentative 2015 schedule

Texas
at scUM
at Purdue
Akron
TBA
Navy
USC
TBA
TBA
Wake Forest
at Pitt
Syracuse
at Stanford
TBA

2 Games dont have dates yet which are a home game with Temple and a way game at BC

 

[meowmix]

This must be because of the Ianello connection. Hopefully those TBAs get filled with schools of higher caliber, because Purdue, Akron, Navy, Wake, and Syracuse? Take out Navy for obvious reasons but the rest are poor football programs. Let's get an SEC school.

 

[NDPhilly]

This must be because of the Ianello connection. Hopefully those TBAs get filled with schools of higher caliber, because Purdue, Akron, Navy, Wake, and Syracuse? Take out Navy for obvious reasons but the rest are poor football programs. Let's get an SEC school.

see above Temple and BC are other 2 games but dont have dates set yet

 

[calvegas04]

I am okay with that schedule... would be nice to have a "off" year. To most schools this would be a tough schedule for them

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Why must we always schedule such a difficult beginning to each season?

No Sparty?

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Good. We need to weaken up the schedule to ever compete. Still have Michigan, Texas, and USC for tough games as well. Solid schedule.

 

[meowmix]

It is in 2015 so maybe some of these teams will be a lot better. Who would have thought Stanford would be good 4 years ago?

 

[irishff1014]

I know that it is a little bit aways but I don't like the signing

 

[Rhode Irish]

I like it, although it makes a lot less sense if we cannot open the season with them. We need to push the filler up to the front of the schedule so we can avoid derailing our season while we're working out the kinks.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I'm glad Brian Kelly hasn't recently criticized Ohio State for scheduling Akron. Oh wait...

“We’ve made so many mistakes against two pretty tough teams coming out,” Kelly told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Again, as you see the schedule, Ohio State is playing Toledo. I mean, teams are playing easy games early on in the schedule. We don’t get that luxury. We have to go play in front of 115,000 [at Michigan Stadium]. Those mistakes are more glaring against opponents that are physically pretty good, as well.

 

[Rhode Irish]

Akron football to play Michigan, Notre Dame - Canton, OH - CantonRep.com

Tentative 2015 schedule

Texas
at scUM
at Purdue
Akron
TBA
Navy
USC
TBA
TBA
Wake Forest
at Pitt
Syracuse
at Stanford
TBA

2 Games dont have dates yet which are a home game with Temple and a way game at BC

Should play @BC in between Akron and Navy, and host Temple in one of the two weeks between USC and Wake.

 

[Rhode Irish]

I'm glad Brian Kelly hasn't recently criticized Ohio State for scheduling Akron. Oh wait...

Doesn't seem as much like criticism as jealousy to me. I'm sure he wishes he had opened with Toledo rather than a team that very well may end up playing in a BCS game.

 

[anarin]

no msu?

 

[Dizzyphil]

I would like to see Alabama or Tennessee again around that time. If Kelly is everything we believe him to be, this would be good timing for the Irish to make a mark in the SEC.

Diz

 

[Irish4Life09]

I would like to see Alabama or Tennessee again around that time. If Kelly is everything we believe him to be, this would be good timing for the Irish to make a mark in the SEC.

Diz

I completely agree with you.I'd love to see us schedule Tennessee again,that was a fun rivalry.
I love this matchup with Akron...Nothing is a guaranteed win,but we do need to lessen the SOS and scheduling a MAC team definitely does that, and it helps us even more in the Ohio market.

 

[DCirishfan]

can we play them week one please? Why do we have to put Texans and Scum back to back, retarded as ****.

 

[irishff1014]

I completely agree with you.I'd love to see us schedule Tennessee again,that was a fun rivalry.
I love this matchup with Akron...Nothing is a guaranteed win,but we do need to lessen the SOS and scheduling a MAC team definitely does that, and it helps us even more in the Ohio market.

AS long as we stay independent we need to scheduke harder teams.

 

[HereComeTheIrish]

This schedule will be null and void once Super Conferences take over... It'll never happen. Just one man's opinion.

 

[BeauBenken]

Making the schedule weaker? Weak sauce.

 

[NDPhilly]

Making the schedule weaker? Weak sauce.

+1 rather just add MSU back on and take off Temple or Akron

 

[BeauBenken]

One thing I've always appreciated about ND is how the schedule when broken apart piece by piece may not be the toughest, but put together is a one hell of a gauntlet. We have to face a variety of very capable teams who are out to play their hardest against us because we are ND.

Note: When I say variety, think of all the types of offense our defense has to plan to stop throughout the year.

 

[irishtrain]

One thing I've always appreciated about ND is how the schedule when broken apart piece by piece may not be the toughest, but put together is a one hell of a gauntlet. We have to face a variety of very capable teams who are out to play their hardest against us because we are ND.

Note: When I say variety, think of all the types of offense our defense has to plan to stop throughout the year.

Agree but 1 easy early ( first) game is a must. Everyone does it and wait till next year when you see that schedule. In my opinion some of the great teams do themselves no justice by what they do early. You watch somebody get smoked because they played too easy too early. Week 3 surprises for some of these schools. Boise has the country by the balls. Fla State did it for years after Bowden built his program.

 

[JadeBrecks]

Making the schedule weaker? Weak sauce.

+1 that is one of the things ND fans can always be proud of. We may not be the best team each year but we always have had a schedule to be proud of. We've been waiting for the coach that can take us through our schedule which will prove we are #1 and then win a championship. We think we have that coach and we lighten the schedule up? What the heck?

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

I don't want to see the schedule get substantially weaker, but I like the idea of playing one MAC team a year - like everyone has said - to start the season. I really liked the civic-ness of playing Western Michigan. Having grown up in South Bend and knowing A LOT of people that went to both ND and Western, it was a neat thing for me.

I'd like to see a rotation of Western, Toledo and Ball State every three years. It would be a nice thing to help out the MAC schools, and they are all close geographically, and of course, lightens up the schedule a bit.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Who says that this is the 2015 ND schedule? I buy the Akron announcement of course, but where is the rest of this coming from??

 

[AlbuquerqueIrishFan]

no msu?

I thought we were changing out MSU for Arizona State for a few years??? And Michigan for Oklahoma???

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

I thought we were changing out MSU for Arizona State for a few years??? And Michigan for Oklahoma???

Looks like MSU is off from 2014-2016 and back on in 2017.

Current future games scheduled:

2013
8-31 Temple
9-7 @ Michigan
9-14 @ Purdue
9-21 Michigan State
9-28 Oklahoma
10-5 Arizona State @Arlington, TX
10-19 Southern California
11-2 Navy
11-9 @ Pittsburgh
11-16 Brigham Young
TBA @ Air Force
TBA @ Stanford

2014
9-6 Michigan
9-13 Purdue
9-27 vs. Syracuse @East Rutherford, NJ
10-11 @ Temple
10-25 @ Arizona State
11-1 vs. Navy @site TBA
11-8 Pittsburgh
11-15 Northwestern
11-29 @ Southern California
TBA Army @Orlando, FL
TBA Stanford

2015
9-5 Texas
9-12 @ Michigan
9-19 @ Purdue
9-26 Temple
10-17 Southern California
11-7 Wake Forest
11-14 @ Pittsburgh
11-21 Syracuse
TBA @ Boston College
TBA @ Stanford

2016
9-3 @ Texas
9-10 Michigan
10-1 Purdue
10-8 Miami FL
10-29 Pittsburgh
11-19 @ Army
11-26 @ Southern California
TBA Boston College
TBA Stanford
TBA Syracuse @East Rutherford, NJ

2017
11-25 @ Miami FL
TBA Arizona State
TBA @ Michigan
TBA @ Purdue
TBA @ Michigan State
TBA @ Stanford
TBA Syracuse @East Rutherford, NJ

2018
9-22 Purdue
TBA Michigan State
TBA Boston College
TBA @ Northwestern
TBA Stanford

 

[mick2]

this game seems about 4 years too late. we sure could have used a warmup like akron this year.

 

[OCIrish]

God, I hate reading about how "we need to soften the schedule to ever compete" or, "other teams are doing it". If that's what people want then we should just join a damn conferance and be done with it. I have no desire to see them schedule Akron, or Syracuse for that matter.

 

[Old Man Mike]

geez guys... count the numbers. None of those are a twelve game list except 2013. Where are these schedules coming from?? What's the factual basis??