[NU Sports] 2009 schedule

[Jonathan Hodges]

Also note that in 2009 and 2010, NU will play Wisconsin as the last game of
the year, including the Saturday following Thanksgiving in 2010 (in
Madison).  Starting that year the Big Ten schedule will be extended one week
to accommodate a longer schedule (as a response to recent years that have
seen Big Ten teams ending up in bowls after 5-6 weeks off and also to get a
bye week or two in the schedules - at the start of the 12 game schedule in
2006, some Big Ten teams didn't even have one bye).

In 2011 and 2012, Michigan will be the final Big Ten team on NU's schedule,
followed by the bye (the Michigan/OSU game will be Thanksgiving weekend).
We'll see if NU moves a nonconference game into that slot.

Jonathan

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Agree that it seems weird. It's a new two-year cycle of scheduling, where
> we drop Ohio State and Michigan, and we add Penn State and Wisconsin.
> Because our home schedule in 2009 has both the Nittany Lions and Badgers on
> it, the schedule makers sent us packing to Iowa City again so that we would
> still have four home conference games and four away games.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> >Subject: [NU Sports] 2009 schedule
> >
> >OK schedulholics, why are we playing at Iowa again next  year?   (good bye
> >week fodder)
> >
> >     GO CATS!!    Eric
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