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shabamon
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2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:10:50 PM

Ohio

Aug.

31 at Louisville

Sep.

7 North Texas

14 Marshall

21 Austin Peay

Oct.

5 *at Akron

12 *Central Michigan

19 *at Eastern Michigan

26 *Miami

Nov.

5 #*at Buffalo, 8:00 pm ET (ESPN2/ESPNU)

12 #*at Bowling Green, TBA (ESPNU/ESPN3)

19 #*Kent State, TBA (ESPN2/ESPNU)

29 #*UMass, TBA (ESPNU/ESPN3)

Thoughts:
- Central Michigan looks like it will be the homecoming game. I doubt the university waits until the 26th to host that weekend.
-Miami on an October Saturday? Sign me up. But will that be Halloween Saturday? If it is, that can potentially be a good crowd. I know it was terrible a few years ago when we were hosting Louisiana-Lafayette, but if marketed well and scheduled early enough in the day, that could be a pretty special atmosphere.
-The BG game potentially could be broadcasted only on ESPN3? I don't care if it's 2013, ESPN3 is not real television. If that game is available only on ESPN3, there will be very few eyes watching it in any capacity.
-Kent should be a good crowd for a midweek game. Look for that to be the blackout special.
-UMass on Black Friday? They may want to sell tickets at $10 for that one.

Last Edited: 3/1/2013 3:22:04 PM by shabamon

mf279801
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:16:47 PM

Is it just my aging eyes or does the mac-sports.com page use a really weird font in the 2013 Schedules press release?

Brufus
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:21:07 PM

They sold tickets for the Temple game on Black Friday 2009 for only $5, so maybe they might drop it down to 5 for UMass.

Arkley's latest Tweets show chance to keep winning more games, plus no "3 games in 12 days" scenario.

Buster
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:35:26 PM

shabamon wrote:

Ohio

Aug.

31 at Louisville

Sep.

7 North Texas

14 Marshall

21 Austin Peay

Oct.

5 *at Akron

12 *Central Michigan

19 *at Eastern Michigan

26 *Miami

Nov.

5 #*at Buffalo, 8:00 pm ET (ESPN2/ESPNU)

12 #*at Bowling Green, TBA (ESPNU/ESPN3)

19 #*Kent State, TBA (ESPN2/ESPNU)

29 #*UMass, TBA (ESPNU/ESPN3)

I like this schedule a lot better than last year's. Just a couple thoughts: 1) Those from outside of Ohio University, who pay the ridiculous fee to visit their friends on Halloween in the dorms, should receive a ticket to the game. 2) Everybody hates Black Friday, but I personally like it. However, I can understand why some people would be against it. Marketing is going to have be very creative to sell for that game. It would be cool if Peden Stadium went with a Black Friday theme and had ridiculous deals on concessions, merchandise, tickets, etc. Maybe work with community businesses on free-giveaways.

I'll tell ya where we'll go. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' bout a little place called... ATHENS.

mf279801
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:40:02 PM

I haven't had time to analyze it for every team yet (though perhaps this evening after work), but it looks like we aren't getting shafted this year. Actually, the MAC office must have felt bad for us because we seem to benefit from having as much as or more rest as all of our conference opponents. In short:
We and our opponents have equal rest 5 times (CMU, EMU, Miami, Buffalo, BGSU)
We have marginally more rest (1 day) once (Kent)
We have much more rest (4 days, 7 days) twice (UMASS and Akron, respectively)

	OHIO's Rest (Days)	Opponent's Rest (Days)
Akron	14	7
CMU	7	7
EMU	7	7
Miami	7	7
Buffalo	10	10
BGSU	7	7
Kent	7	6
UMASS	10	6

All in all, I'd say that thats fairly favorable, with the caveat I haven't looks at the rest of the pair-wise comparisons to see just how favorable our favorable-looking schedule actually is, if they were ranked most-to-least favorable.

EDIT: After some further research, we owe somebody in the MAC offices a fruit basket or a Shuffle or something along those lines. We have the best schedule in the MAC. As I noted above, we have 12 more days of rest between games than our opponents. The next closest team in those terms is CMU (+10), and Kent State (+3) is the closest to us in the East. The cherry on top: Miami has the least favorable breakdown, having 11 fewer days rest than their opponents.

Team	Score
OHIO	12
CMU	10
WMU	9
Kent St	3
UMASS	3
EMU	3
NIU	-1
Akron	-3
Ball State	-5
Buffalo	-5
BGSU	-7
Toledo	-8
Miami	-11

Last Edited: 3/1/2013 8:07:51 PM by mf279801

Tyler
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 3:50:42 PM

shabamon wrote:

-Miami on an October Saturday? Sign me up. But will that be Halloween Saturday? If it is, that can potentially be a good crowd. I know it was terrible a few years ago when we were hosting Louisiana-Lafayette, but if marketed well and scheduled early enough in the day, that could be a pretty special atmosphere.

Halloween is on a Thursday this year. I can see the big block party being Nov. 2 rather than Oct. 26. Plus if it's 11/2 you have the added bonus on an extra hour of partying when we turn the clocks back.

OUbobcat9092
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 4:07:39 PM

Brufus wrote:

Exactly! Great Schedule with none too close together. In fact, we get 10 days off before the switch to the 3 Tuesday games, then 10 days off before the Black Friday game.

13 days off from Non-Con to our 1st MAC game.

The schedule sets up pretty well to rest and recover during the season!

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anorris
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 4:07:58 PM

If Central is homecoming, I'm thrilled because I guessed the right week to ask for vacation all the way back in November.

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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 4:32:13 PM

get by L'ville and Fiami might be playing an undefeated, ranked Ohio for the 2nd year in a row.

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

Pataskala
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 4:47:28 PM

perimeterpost wrote:

get by L'ville and Fiami might be playing an undefeated, ranked Ohio for the 2nd year in a row.

Would like to see Herbie having a conniption next December over Ohio being invited to a BCS bowl.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

The Optimist
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 7:18:04 PM

I started a thread about a Halloween Home Game back when we were undefeated and life was good.

I maintain my stance, it is a bad idea if we are not undefeated. However, if we are undefeated, that is a very special game. Very special. Ohio University and Athens are known for Halloween. The potential is there to have Ohio football complement that, it just can't be seen as competing against it... If we are undefeated, it will not be seen that way.

I like where are bye weeks are a lot.

Last Edited: 3/1/2013 7:18:24 PM by The Optimist

I've seen crazier things happen.

ts1227
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 7:40:50 PM

Tyler wrote:

shabamon wrote:

Past practice would suggest it'll be 11/2.

C Money
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 8:27:05 PM

I like this schedule. My only complaint is that I would have liked Can't and BUGS in October, but I'll take being better rested than every conference opponent over that every single time.

Buster
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 8:43:52 PM

Dec. 6 – Friday

East Division Champion vs. West Division Champion

Marathon MAC Championship Game, 8:00 pm ET (ESPN2)

At Ford Field in Detroit, Mich.

davepi2
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/1/2013 10:31:26 PM

it would be nice if the eastern game was a 700 start. Of course it won't be that late in the year . My son and I however were looking to go the Indiana-Michigan game that same day and it would make a great end to drive the 5 miles over too watch us play.

Ted Thompson
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/4/2013 10:18:34 AM

anorris wrote:

If Central is homecoming, I'm thrilled because I guessed the right week to ask for vacation all the way back in November.

Ohio just announced Homecoming Weekend October 11-13. Good planning, Alex.

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Kinggeorge4
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/4/2013 2:21:20 PM

I see we are Akron's homecoming opponent.

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OUcats82
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RE: 2013 MAC schedule released

Posted: 3/4/2013 4:06:21 PM

Kinggeorge4 (George Cheripko) wrote:

I see we are Akron's homecoming opponent.

That just means an extra 10-15 more people will see the game than if it were on another day.

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