8 Home Games in 2025 -- Griz Set To Be First FCS Team Ever

[Griz til I die]

Question: has there ever been ANY team that had 8 regular season home games? At any level?

Michigan has the last 2 years (and I believe next year too) cause they refuse to play anybody tough in the non conference play

 

[BozAngelesGriz]

I’m not thrilled about the week 1 bye week, but 8 regular season home games? Wow! That’s a once in a generational opportunity! We may never see that ever again. I’ll gladly play a D2 team if it means 8 home games

That’s concerning to me as well. More worried about team fatigue than fan fatigue. That stretch of games after Sacred Heart could be a brutal gauntlet.

 

[kemajic]

Going to be interesting to see if fan fatigue sets in...8 home regular season games is a lot of travel and expense for the folks who drive hundreds of miles to attend games. Sometimes too much of a good thing isn't the answer. And before anyone jumps my $hit I get that home games are a cash cow that drives the budget, more curious on how people will react to the heightened travel schedule....

Fan fatigue could take a couple forms. The obvious one, just forcing choices of which of the eight to attend. Less obvious is the cost of season tickets. For the 7 game schedule this year my season tickets went up to $700 each. So I suspect next year for the 8 game schedule, they will be at least $800 each. Could price some season ticket holders out.

 

[Griz til I die]

I’m not thrilled about the week 1 bye week, but 8 regular season home games? Wow! That’s a once in a generational opportunity! We may never see that ever again. I’ll gladly play a D2 team if it means 8 home games

That’s concerning to me as well. More worried about team fatigue than fan fatigue. That stretch of games after Sacred Heart could be a brutal gauntlet.

They may wanna consider finding a game in the middle of the season (maybe the Sacred Heart game) where they just sit all the starters and let the backups play. Similar to what some NFL teams do the final week of the regular season when they got nothing to play for

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

That’s concerning to me as well. More worried about team fatigue than fan fatigue. That stretch of games after Sacred Heart could be a brutal gauntlet.

They may wanna consider finding a game in the middle of the season (maybe the Sacred Heart game) where they just sit all the starters and let the backups play. Similar to what some NFL teams do the final week of the regular season when they got nothing to play for

LOL, WTF

 

[MikeyGriz]

Going to be interesting to see if fan fatigue sets in...8 home regular season games is a lot of travel and expense for the folks who drive hundreds of miles to attend games. Sometimes too much of a good thing isn't the answer. And before anyone jumps my $hit I get that home games are a cash cow that drives the budget, more curious on how people will react to the heightened travel schedule....

When the gates open, this Griz fan will be there (God willing)!

 

[1981Griz]

I don't see a bye week for 2025. That could be an issue for recovery, injury recovery, and burn-out.

 

[MissoulaMarinerFan]

I don't see a bye week for 2025. That could be an issue for recovery, injury recovery, and burn-out.

That is because UM's official bye is the very first week of the season. UM's 1st game of the 2025 season is week 2 of the 2025 college football season.

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

That’s concerning to me as well. More worried about team fatigue than fan fatigue. That stretch of games after Sacred Heart could be a brutal gauntlet.

They may wanna consider finding a game in the middle of the season (maybe the Sacred Heart game) where they just sit all the starters and let the backups play. Similar to what some NFL teams do the final week of the regular season when they got nothing to play for

You're making a joke that is just going over my head and its bothering me that I can't figure it out. I'm assuming you are calling NoColorado "Sacred Heart"? What's the reference?

 

[uofmman1122]

They may wanna consider finding a game in the middle of the season (maybe the Sacred Heart game) where they just sit all the starters and let the backups play. Similar to what some NFL teams do the final week of the regular season when they got nothing to play for

You're making a joke that is just going over my head and its bothering me that I can't figure it out. I'm assuming you are calling NoColorado "Sacred Heart"? What's the reference?

He's talking about the 2025 schedule when we play Sacred Heart University on October 18th. We don't play UNCO that season.

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

You're making a joke that is just going over my head and its bothering me that I can't figure it out. I'm assuming you are calling NoColorado "Sacred Heart"? What's the reference?

He's talking about the 2025 schedule when we play Sacred Heart University on October 18th. We don't play UNCO that season.

Totally Googled the wrong schedule. Thank you.

 

[Grizbeer]

Going to be interesting to see if fan fatigue sets in...8 home regular season games is a lot of travel and expense for the folks who drive hundreds of miles to attend games. Sometimes too much of a good thing isn't the answer. And before anyone jumps my $hit I get that home games are a cash cow that drives the budget, more curious on how people will react to the heightened travel schedule....

Fan fatigue could take a couple forms. The obvious one, just forcing choices of which of the eight to attend. Less obvious is the cost of season tickets. For the 7 game schedule this year my season tickets went up to $700 each. So I suspect next year for the 8 game schedule, they will be at least $800 each. Could price some season ticket holders out.

1 season of paying the extra game isn’t a giant issue. Season 2 bigger deal. Biggest deal is that is potentially 3 games they could have used for the first 1/2 of home and away (as an away) to get cash now. When the complain about nobody wants to play here or home and homes are hard to schedule etc, remember they had 1 game I. 24 and 2 in25 to give away for future marque games that people would pay a premium for and they chose instant cash.

It’s called cashing in. High risk high reward short term strategy What happens when they go back to 6 home games with less that star quality opponents? Will fans still pay the extra ticket price?

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

Fan fatigue could take a couple forms. The obvious one, just forcing choices of which of the eight to attend. Less obvious is the cost of season tickets. For the 7 game schedule this year my season tickets went up to $700 each. So I suspect next year for the 8 game schedule, they will be at least $800 each. Could price some season ticket holders out.

1 season of paying the extra game isn’t a giant issue. Season 2 bigger deal. Biggest deal is that is potentially 3 games they could have used for the first 1/2 of home and away (as an away) to get cash now. When the complain about nobody wants to play here or home and homes are hard to schedule etc, remember they had 1 game I. 24 and 2 in25 to give away for future marque games that people would pay a premium for and they chose instant cash.

It’s called cashing in. High risk high reward short term strategy What happens when they go back to 6 home games with less that star quality opponents? Will fans still pay the extra ticket price?

I don't think that is what is going on here. Western Carolina was going to be a home and home, but they don't want us to come there and asked to get paid instead. Morehead is postponed from the covid year. Indiana state is the back end of a home and home. North dakota and all the 2025 games are part of a home and home agreement. I think they are doing exactly what you are saying you want them to do.