FIVE saturday home games. Thank god. I might actually make it to a game this year.
2019 WESTERN MICHIGAN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Saturday, Aug. 31 - vs. MONMOUTH (Arbor Financial Youth Day)
Saturday, Sept. 7 - at Michigan State
Saturday, Sept. 14 - vs. GEORGIA STATE (CommUniverCity)
Saturday, Sept. 21 - at Syracuse
Saturday, Sept. 28 - vs. CENTRAL MICHIGAN (Rivalry Game / Hall of Fame Weekend)
Saturday, Oct. 5 - at Toledo
Saturday, Oct. 12 - vs. MIAMI (Homecoming / Family Weekend)
Saturday, Oct. 19 - at Eastern Michigan
Saturday, Oct. 26 - vs. BOWLING GREEN (Salute to Heroes)
Saturday, Nov. 2 - Bye Week
Tuesday, Nov. 5 - vs. BALL STATE (ESPN2 or ESPNU or CBSSN) (Indoor Tailgate)
Tuesday, Nov. 12 - at Ohio (ESPN2/ESPNU)
Tuesday, Nov. 26 - at Northern Illinois (ESPNU or ESPN+ or ESPN3)
MACC on a Saturday this year. Wonder what that'll mean for TV.
Good schedule. Plenty of Saturday home games, including CMU. Alternates in a way where there isn't a 3+ game road streak.
NIU seems to have become our "go to" annual season finalé.
TV: Unless ESPN 2, should be on ESPN+ or ESPN 3.
Nice schedule but MACaction sure has dented the CMU rival game. NIU every year to close? Come on MAC
The most well attended and fun WMU/CMU games I have seen were anywhere from late September to mid October.
WMU@Toledo is the Rockets' Homecoming. Should be a big crowd and a lot of fun.
Best schedule we have had in a long time. Love the CMU game being early. Always fun and well attended, regardless of where it is played, when it is early, and both teams still have everything to play for. I like the Toledo game being early too. Very manageable schedule. Good spot for the bye week. I approve 100%.
We always seem to stomp the chimps when we open with them in MAC play, see 2011 and 2016.
Nice schedule! The season opener at home vs the FCS instead of a P5s home opener, 5 Saturday home games, Georgia St between Michigan St and The Cuse should give some rest, and Central Michigan in warm weather in Kalamazoo. Finishing up in Athens and DeKalb will be tough tho, although possible Northern Illinois will take a dip now their coach is with Temple. Once again I Look at the games vs Miami OH and Eastern Michigan as the games that’ll be determine if we go bowling. I’ll predict 7-5 again, though 8-4 should be the expectation for the program
I like splitting up the opener and CommU.
In all honesty, we should be 10-2. If Espo can somehow create turnovers and or get the defense to get to the QB regularly, 11-1 is possible. No worse than 8-4 or we have real issues.
Central-Western weekend is much more fun when it's warm. Having the die hard rivalry game for the last week of the season is for big schools like UM/OSU or Alabama-Auburn where the game has postseason meaning every year. CMU was winless for the game last year on a cold November day and there were fewer than 500 people in the stands at Smelly Shorts. Embarrassing.
Quote:In all honesty, we should be 10-2. If Espo can somehow create turnovers and or get the defense to get to the QB regularly, 11-1 is possible. No worse than 8-4 or we have real issues.
We'll have real issues, then. Our schedule is a lot tougher, with @Toledo, @NIU, @EMU, and @Ohio -- instead of at-home. Going 10-2 this year would be a Much Bigger Jump than us going 8-5 to 13-0 under Papa-PJ. We have a lot of issues on D to shore up; our senior QB could get injured again; lost our awesome center; Lester is not (yet?) proven to be a HQ HC...
I would say if we go below .500, we have real issues. But the record itself alone doesn't tell the whole story of how the team's doing and where it's going. But under .500 should given a tougher road to ho.
WIN %:
- Monmouth: 97%
- @Michigan State: 25%
- Georgia State: 80%
- @Syracuse: 30%
- CMU: 70%
- @Toledo: 40%
- Miami-OH: 50%
- @EMU: 50%
- BGSU: 60%
- Ball State: 70%
- @Ohio: 45%
- @NIU: 45%
Basically, IMO, 6-6 is the "line" to go higher or lower.
(02-25-2019 04:54 PM)toddjnsn Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:In all honesty, we should be 10-2. If Espo can somehow create turnovers and or get the defense to get to the QB regularly, 11-1 is possible. No worse than 8-4 or we have real issues.
We'll have real issues, then. Our schedule is a lot tougher, with @Toledo, @NIU, @EMU, and @Ohio -- instead of at-home. Going 10-2 this year would be a Much Bigger Jump than us going 8-5 to 13-0 under Papa-PJ. We have a lot of issues on D to shore up; our senior QB could get injured again; lost our awesome center; Lester is not (yet?) proven to be a HQ HC...
I would say if we go below .500, we have real issues. But the record itself alone doesn't tell the whole story of how the team's doing and where it's going. But under .500 should given a tougher road to ho.
WIN %:
- Monmouth: 97%
- @Michigan State: 25%
- Georgia State: 80%
- @Syracuse: 30%
- CMU: 70%
- @Toledo: 40%
- Miami-OH: 50%
- @EMU: 50%
- BGSU: 60%
- Ball State: 70%
- @Ohio: 45%
- @NIU: 45%
Basically, IMO, 6-6 is the "line" to go higher or lower.
Good W/L analysis Todd.
(02-20-2019 09:33 PM)jubbasubba Wrote: [ -> ]In all honesty, we should be 10-2. If Espo can somehow create turnovers and or get the defense to get to the QB regularly, 11-1 is possible. No worse than 8-4 or we have real issues.
Haha yea right. I see 6-7 wins again. Lots of tough road games but still a very fun schedule.
I'm glad our tough November games are on the road. We have negative home field advantage at Waldo for mid-week November games under Lester.
I see 5-7 wins this year.
WMU has more online Negative Nellies than any other D1 program.
IMO - With a healthy Wassink our Broncos are a lock for atleast 8 wins.
(02-27-2019 01:55 PM)okgc Wrote: [ -> ]WMU has more online Negative Nellies than any other D1 program.
IMO - With a healthy Wassink our Broncos are a lock for atleast 8 wins.
Agreed. I see 9-4. We have a lot of talent, and a great coaching staff now