#3 Miami has a 1 point lead on #6 Western Michigan and a 3 point lead on #12 Notre Dame. Miami plays ND twice this weekend, Western plays ND twice next weekend. On Friday night Notre Dame at Miami is at 7:35 on CBS Sports Network (of interest to hockey fans, the new National Conference that WM and Miami will be a part of next year has signed an 18 game contract with CBSSN for next year).

Normally Miami would then host ND again on Saturday night, but we gave up the home game to be part of a big outdoor DH at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday. Miami and ND play at noon Central and Minnesota and Wisconsin play a WCHA league game a half an hour after the first game ends. The Miami/ND game will be telecast by FSN nationally (unless one of the local franchises has a game, like the Cavs or BlueJackets, etc.) It can be seen on FSO and FSD in this area. As of Monday 44,000 (60,000 available) tickets had been sold and the Miami athletic department had sold more tickets than any of the other 3 schools. Miami has never played in an outdoors game before.