Ohio State and Notre Dame will play each other in 2022 and 2023.

As of right now OSU's 2023 schedule consists of 9 conference games, Boston College, a road date at Notre Dame, and Texas.

The timing is a nice little F-U from Notre Dame to Michigan -- announcing a future series with Ohio State two days before ND's final scheduled game against Michigan.

(09-04-2014 10:27 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The timing is a nice little F-U from Notre Dame to Michigan -- announcing a future series with Ohio State two days before ND's final scheduled game against Michigan.

Agreed, classic.

(09-04-2014 10:27 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The timing is a nice little F-U from Notre Dame to Michigan -- announcing a future series with Ohio State two days before ND's final scheduled game against Michigan.

Yanno what would be an even bigger F-U...?

If Notre Dame (since it's a private school) used this series to secretly gauge Ohio State's interest in becoming ACC member #15.

"Tell me, Mr. Ohio State Prez, did you really want Rutgers and Maryland as fellow institutions in the B1G...? You know we have some fine members in our league who are AAU institutions -- ignore the folks in Chapel Hill -- and we (ND) will agree to be member #16 if you join up..."

Really, who's to say this VT/Ohio State series isn't a precursor...

Ok, Ok... here's the pipe. Take it.

But still...

I have never seen a scheduling agreement do a bigger troll job on another school than this...

Where is TerryD when you need him?

Means little if we lose this week. Nice troll job if we do win..

Yeah, this is some massive trolling. Well done though.

Wow! Possibly a legendary series!!!!

OSU AD is a Domer so I assume they sat on this til Michigan week. There has been murmurs about his series for a while now.

(09-04-2014 02:23 PM)domer1978 Wrote:  OSU AD is a Domer so I assume they sat on this til Michigan week. There has been murmurs about his series for a while now.

Forgot about being a Domer, any chance to mess with Michigan at Ohio State is hard to miss.

The admins at ND and UM must not like each other very much. I'd guess that series is history unless its in a bowl game. I never really thought ND/UM was needed since they played Mich state which had a lot more history. A game with Ohio state makes a lot more sense, same with Wisconsin or Penn state. I don't care for the Purdue series either but i do think ND should play 1 big 10 school per year. Looking at Ohio state, they are suppose to play Texas the same years as ND so maybe the texas series gets changed. Such a move would open up a possible Texas- Texas A&M series which after 10+ years should happen.

Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

13-game regular season by 2023

(09-04-2014 03:04 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

13-game regular season by 2023

Don't see that happening (too many legal issues already with players not being compensated free market prices for yet more regular season games). Even if it did though, it's not something they'd know now.

My guess is that ideally they would have arranged this a bit differently, but they liked the idea of playing Notre Dame enough to justify 6 home games for a year. If they absolutely need to, they could cancel the Boston College series and have 8 home games the following year to make up.

(09-04-2014 01:25 PM)ecuacc4ever Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 10:27 AM)Wedge Wrote:  The timing is a nice little F-U from Notre Dame to Michigan -- announcing a future series with Ohio State two days before ND's final scheduled game against Michigan.

Yanno what would be an even bigger F-U...?

If Notre Dame (since it's a private school) used this series to secretly gauge Ohio State's interest in becoming ACC member #15.

"Tell me, Mr. Ohio State Prez, did you really want Rutgers and Maryland as fellow institutions in the B1G...? You know we have some fine members in our league who are AAU institutions -- ignore the folks in Chapel Hill -- and we (ND) will agree to be member #16 if you join up..."

Really, who's to say this VT/Ohio State series isn't a precursor...

Ok, Ok... here's the pipe. Take it.

But still...

Really? Seriously? I know you tried to make it sound at the end as if this was lighthearted but this comes off as you being serious.

Perhaps you need to step away from the realignment talk for awhile if you are actually being serious about this.

Ohio State is one of the "most friendly" of the Big Ten schools towards the Catholics. Also, Ohio State is generally always very highly ranked and many folks say that they don't earn it. So that seems like a pragmatic signing by Notre Dame. The State of Ohio lately has been a stronger recruiting State than Michigan. It's population generally speaking is more friendly towards Notre Dame.

The choice makes sense but the timing, as others have said, smacks of purposefully being an insult towards Michigan. I can understand why but that doesn't mean it is a respectable move. Definitely lacking of class and that goes for Ohio State as well.

(09-04-2014 03:04 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

13-game regular season by 2023

Conference Tournaments.

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

The BC series isn't the issue. It's that the Texas and ND series are the same two seasons. In any event as teams look for more strong so of games, the conferences with nine conference games will see their home games to from 7 per year to 6.5. It's a trade off to make tv networks, who are shelling out big, big bucks, happy. You can't always have your cake and eat it too.

(09-04-2014 07:34 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

The BC series isn't the issue. It's that the Texas and ND series are the same two seasons. In any event as teams look for more strong so of games, the conferences with nine conference games will see their home games to from 7 per year to 6.5. It's a trade off to make tv networks, who are shelling out big, big bucks, happy. You can't always have your cake and eat it too.

Strength of Schedule.

I don't think most folks realize just how big of a deal it is about to become. Ohio State is well aware. OOC matchups will decide more than ever.

(09-04-2014 07:34 PM)adcorbett Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 02:48 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  Very interesting from an OSU scheduling perspective. They can't have this game and 7 home games. That means 6 home games. I'll be interested to see if the Boston College series remains. I didn't think it would go anywhere and it still can (the road game is the following year the only one scheduled that year with 5 conference home games), but that's one heck of a schedule for 2023.

The BC series isn't the issue. It's that the Texas and ND series are the same two seasons. In any event as teams look for more strong so of games, the conferences with nine conference games will see their home games to from 7 per year to 6.5. It's a trade off to make tv networks, who are shelling out big, big bucks, happy. You can't always have your cake and eat it too.

It's not even the Texas and Boston College series per se (granted OSU can't put them all in that time frame). Even without either one of those, OSU will have 6 home games in 2023 simply because of the 5 Big Ten away games and Notre Dame being away.

What's odd about this isn't simply the strength of schedule argument with the new playoff because even with the CFP, Ohio State's moves so far have been to keep 7 home games. They just cancelled a home and home with North Carolina and replaced it with 2 one and done games (vs. Oregon State and UNLV).

My guess is that this it simply is a special exception they will be willing to make every 5-6 years. They wanted to play Notre Dame and to do it with both teams scheduling issues, they had to accept 6 home games one year.