Memphis football 2023 schedule

Sept. 2 vs. Bethune Cookman

Sept. 9 at Arkansas State

Sept. 14 vs. Navy

Sept. 23 vs. Missouri (in St. Louis)

Sept. 30 vs. Boise State

Oct. 13 vs. Tulane

Oct. 21 at UAB

Oct. 28 at North Texas

Nov. 4 vs. USF

Nov. 11 at Charlotte

Nov. 18 vs. SMU

Nov. 25 at Temple

I am personally really excited for the match up in Charlotte as I live in Greenville, SC and can finally see them again!

Here are all the teams

Won't argue the relative strength or weakness of this schedule, although I will comment again that there is little in this schedule to encourage increased attendance avg in terms of opponents among those who are not regular attending Memphis fans. One big concern is playing Temple so late in the schedule at Philadelphia - it could be very cold (attended our night game there years back with temps in the low teens) & I'm guessing our guys would prefer to be playing in warmer conditions late in the season.

no weekend home games in October, that won't help things.

(02-21-2023 11:23 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  Won't argue the relative strength or weakness of this schedule, although I will comment again that there is little in this schedule to encourage increased attendance avg in terms of opponents among those who are not regular attending Memphis fans. One big concern is playing Temple so late in the schedule at Philadelphia - it could be very cold (attended our night game there years back with temps in the low teens) & I'm guessing our guys would prefer to be playing in warmer conditions late in the season.

Agreed. And Missouri being a neutral game really hurts imo. Would have been a nice addition to the home schedule. I am personally excited to see the new teams come in, but we really need to schedule more exciting games OOC. I know not everyone feels the same as I do.

Let’s pray for global warming in Philly in November. I expect it will be low scoring anyway. Seems to be that way no matter what. Some of the other teams scheduled more interesting matchups and we need to be out there doing the same.

I mean this is what we get to play in come November.

Navy at home on Thur night. Tulane at home on a Friday night. Might get a decent bump with Boise

I am just glad they gave us Navy week 3 instead of making that our bye week. As is now we get the bye a couple weeks later & before we play our final 7 conference games, so bodes we’ll to have a week off & focus on finishing season with all conference goals still achievable.

I am not going to cry/complain/ take cheap shots at our new members. There is nothing we could do to prevent the 3 teams leaving from going, so no point in trying to compare to something that isn’t possible.

That said, I am looking fwd to having another road opponent that is an easy drive to in UAB.

Not a terrible schedule, IMO. Boise St. is a plus. Losing the Missouri home game to St. Louis hurts, but it is the best we could expect once they wanted out.

I am not a fan of Friday night games in general (make that weeknight games), but I know we need the national exposure on ESPN, so ok. I would love to go to St. Louis, but 'my wheel chair does not travel well (motorized 350 lb'er).

GTG!

7-5 at worst. Should win 8 to 9 games imo

(02-21-2023 11:36 AM)fsquid Wrote:  I mean this is what we get to play in come November.

Fortunately, Charlotte is upgrading and adding onto their stadium in the next few years. It was built to be expandable to 40,000. Currently seats 15,000 but announced last year to double it. Do not know the expected timetable however.

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/sports...78837.html

Lot's of ESPN+ in our future

Hard to get excited, honestly, about the conference slate.

Woof. Uninspiring to say the least.

(02-21-2023 12:10 PM)Eagleonpar Wrote:  7-5 at worst. Should win 8 to 9 games imo

Honestly I can see anything from 5-7 to 8-4, and no where in that total range is "dominating G-5" or winning the AAC.

(02-21-2023 11:25 AM)fsquid Wrote:  no weekend home games in October, that won't help things.

We get a Labor Day weekend home game, but it isn't very appealing.

Then we miss the Columbus Day three-day weekend October 7th to 9th.

Then the Veteran's Day three-day weekend is an away game in Charlotte.

Then the long Thanksgiving weekend is another away game.

Another year where I can't take advantage of my Federal holidays to make for easy travel to a home game. I am beginning to believe this is their scheduling preference.

(02-21-2023 11:41 AM)hk25 Wrote:  I am just glad they gave us Navy week 3 instead of making that our bye week. As is now we get the bye a couple weeks later & before we play our final 7 conference games, so bodes we’ll to have a week off & focus on finishing season with all conference goals still achievable.

I am not going to cry/complain/ take cheap shots at our new members. There is nothing we could do to prevent the 3 teams leaving from going, so no point in trying to compare to something that isn’t possible.

That said, I am looking fwd to having another road opponent that is an easy drive to in UAB.

Not thrilled about playing Navy on a short week (Thursday). Unless their scheme changes with new coach, it is a tough team to prep for on a short week. Glad it's at home.

(02-21-2023 01:54 PM)UofMark Wrote:  Lot's of ESPN+ in our future

But not as much of an increase that UH, UCF, & Cincy are likely about to see, now that they are mid to back of pack of list of schools ESPN has to chose from for their limited shared B12 package instead of the being the leading choices in the AAC. I don’t believe B12 has many more (if any more) dedicated TV slots than AAC. AAC typically has at least 3 cable slots each week (weekday on ESPN/ESPN2) & 2 on Saturday normally between (ESPN2 & ESPNU).

But yes I guess since we are now sharing those 6 slots with 13 other teams instead of 11, we may see an increase by a game, but likely still have over half our games on an ESPN cable station. Given the 3 Thur/Fri games on our schedule ESPN has already out of the gate basically guaranteed half of our conference games to be on tv.

(02-21-2023 11:30 AM)TylerTiger Wrote:  

(02-21-2023 11:23 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  Won't argue the relative strength or weakness of this schedule, although I will comment again that there is little in this schedule to encourage increased attendance avg in terms of opponents among those who are not regular attending Memphis fans. One big concern is playing Temple so late in the schedule at Philadelphia - it could be very cold (attended our night game there years back with temps in the low teens) & I'm guessing our guys would prefer to be playing in warmer conditions late in the season.

Agreed. And Missouri being a neutral game really hurts imo. Would have been a nice addition to the home schedule. I am personally excited to see the new teams come in, but we really need to schedule more exciting games OOC. I know not everyone feels the same as I do.

Let’s pray for global warming in Philly in November. I expect it will be low scoring anyway. Seems to be that way no matter what. Some of the other teams scheduled more interesting matchups and we need to be out there doing the same.

It's not that bad up here in late November...it's Philly, not Buffalo.