Michigan Completes 2011 Schedule with San Deigo State

As you can probably tell from the title, Michigan has added a home tilt for Sept. 24th against the Aztecs from San Diego State University to complete the 2011 schedule.

This will be the 2nd meeting all-time against SDSU. The first meeting was back in 2004 at home, with Michigan prevailing 24-21.

SDSU is coached by this man...

Hey wait a sec, he looks familair!

Thats right sports fans, its former Lloyd Carr assistant Brady Hoke!

Hoke coached the defensive linemen  at Michigan from 1995 to 2002. He was hired in 2009 after resigning his head coaching position at Ball State which he had from 2003-2008.  In his first year at SDSU, he went 4-8.

So...the 2011 schedule now looks like this:

Date                       Opponent

Sept. 3                   Western Michigan

Sept. 10                 Notre Dame

Sept. 17                 Eastern Michigan

Sept. 24                 San Diego State

Oct. 1                     Bye Week

Oct. 8                     at Wisconsin

Oct. 15                   Indiana (Homecoming)

Oct. 22                   at Michigan State

Oct. 29                   at Iowa

Nov. 5                    Minnesota

Nov. 12                  Illinois

Nov. 19                  at Northwestern

Nov. 26                  Ohio State

First impressions -
• NO FCS SCHOOLS!!!!
• 8 home games - Thank you.
• All of September is played at home - Thank you again.
• 3 November home games - Now we're getting spoiled.
• Same opening 3 games as we had in 2009 (WMU, ND, EMU)
• Convenient bye-week before starting Big Ten play
• NU and Minnesota back on the schedule in place of Penn State and Purdue.
• tOSU will be played post-Thanksgiving

As far as the addition of the Aztecs to the schedule, I like it. I don't love it...I don't hate it. I like it.