The 2012 Look Ahead: The Schedule

Brian Kelly can't wait to play this guy again. Gregory Shamus / Getty Images Well, the 2011 season is in the books, and by almost all accounts it was a resounding success. Eleven wins, beat Notre Dame in the first ever night game at the Big House, beat Ohio...finally, beat Virginia Tech in overtime in the Sugar Bowl – hard to look back, even with the losses to Sparty and Iowa on the road, and remember this season, Brady Hoke's first, and team 132, as anything other than memorable. But 2011 is sooo last year. We can only sit back and enjoy past accomplishments for so long. It's also January and we don't go gaga over recruiting, so we need something to talk about. So what's going on for 2012? What can we look forward to? Who's leaving? What incoming and red-shirt freshman will make an immediate impact? How does the schedule look? This series of posts will attempt to address each one of these topics. First up, the schedule, after the break. ...