EMU 2012 football schedule announced

We’ve had some discussions about this previously, and for a while we thought we at least knew EMU’s opponents, if not the dates, but the Temple had to go and leave — and since they were on EMU’s schedule, that obviously meant something was going to change. The MAC football schedules were released today, and it turns out that not too much changed.

As far as EMU’s schedule goes, the MAC kept the trip to Bowling Green, although that’s no longer a divisional game, and replaced the trip to Temple with a Thursday night game at OHIO.

We’ll go into more detail — much more detail — on this schedule as the fall approaches, but a few things jump out at me. First, that’s a nice little home stand in October, and when you throw in the trip to Bowling Green, I can imagine the Eagles going 4-0 that month. Second, the MAC West games that I’d expect to be tough are pretty-well spaced out, with Ball State to open, Toledo right in the middle of the schedule, and Western Michigan in mid-November.

EMU has two Thursday night road games (August 30 at Ball State and November 1 at Ohio) but except for the return of the home game the Friday after Thanksgiving, which I’m already on record as disliking, the rest of the games are on Saturdays. No mid-week home games, and no Tuesday or Wednesday night games.