Tag: 2020 schedule

The Buccaneers’ 2020 opponents are official

With the 2019 regular season behind us, the 7-9 Tampa Bay Buccaneers opponents are locked in- physical schedule still to come. Coach, Bruce Arians and his coaching staff are looking forward to building upon a season which started off slowly, but …

With the 2019 regular season behind us, the 7-9 Tampa Bay Buccaneers opponents are locked in- physical schedule still to come. Coach, Bruce Arians and his coaching staff are looking forward to building upon a season which started off slowly, but seemingly started clicking despite injury adversity.

Away- Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and New York Giants

Home- Green Bay Packers, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Chargers, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Los Angeles Rams

Collectively the Buccaneers opponents finished 103-104 in 2019 with five of their future opponents being playoff teams this season.

The Buccaneers will have the 14th overall draft pick, have a lot of expiring contracts of current players on their roster, namely Jameis Winston and Shaq Barrett, so to say they have their work cut out for them this offseason is an understatement.

Latest look at Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium, which Saints will visit in 2020

The New Orleans Saints will play the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium in 2020. A viral video showed how construction is progressing.

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The New Orleans Saints will hit the road in 2020, and help ring in the then-Las Vegas Raiders’ inaugural season at Allegiant Stadium. That venue is still under construction, but is progressing well towards its Aug. 2020 opening date, and The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the NFL is considering it to host the 2020 season’s first Sunday night game.

That means there’s a scenario where the Saints and the Raiders headline the NFL’s Week 1 schedule next year. While the reigning Super Bowl champions traditionally host the first game of the next year (and the Saints are very much contending for that championship), the NFL has shown a willingness to go in other directions when it benefits them. For example, they scheduled a game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers to open up the league’s 100th season in 2019, putting the Super Bowl-champion New England Patriots on Sunday night.

Next season, there’s the added factor of Los Angeles opening the new SoFi Stadium, which will house both the Rams and Chargers. The Review-Journal report adds that a Rams home game is being considered for Thursday night in Week 1, which would boot the Super Bowl champions (whoever they are, and hopefully the Saints) into another time slot.

So the Saints and Raiders could kick off on Sunday night in early Sept. 2020, even in the event that the Saints win Super Bowl LIV in Miami. While it would be disappointing for the Saints to lose that prestigious opening-night game in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for Week 1, it’s tough to complain about the idea of opening the 2020 season in Las Vegas at a shining-new venue against a fringe playoff team. With NFL superstars like Drew Brees, Michael Thomas, and Alvin Kamara and one of the league’s best-traveling fanbases involved, this would be a tantalizing draw for the NFL.

As for Allegiant Stadium itself: it’s a $1.8 billion project that will host 65,000 seats and host both the Raiders and the UNLV Rebels. A recent viral video shared a street-side view of the under-progress stadium, along with its glossy black exterior. Yeah, it’s easy to picture the Saints playing here (and leaving with a win):

 

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Looking ahead to the Miami Dolphins’ 2020 opponents

With the 2019 season coming to a close, who are the Dolphins set to play in 2020?

The 2019 season has reached its final stretch. In less than two weeks, the Miami Dolphins will play their final football game of the season and will then begin the massive undertaking of overhauling this roster and looking to revamp the team in the offseason. The good news? The Dolphins are well positioned to do exactly that. The bad news? This Dolphins’ schedule looks mighty tough for 2020, too.

There’s a lot that will change between now and then and teams are almost never exactly what they’ve shown to be the prior season. But in looking ahead at the Dolphins’ 2020 scheduled opposition, the team is going to have their hands full heading West.

Here are each of the teams Miami is currently scheduled to play during the 2020 NFL season.

  • New England Patriots (x2), currently 11-3
  • Buffalo Bills (x2), currently 10-4
  • New York Jets (x2), currently 5-9
  • San Francisco 49ers, currently 11-3
  • Seattle Seahawks, currently 11-3
  • Los Angeles Rams, currently 8-6
  • Arizona Cardinals, currently 4-9-1
  • Kansas City Chiefs, currently 10-4
  • Las Vegas Raiders, currently 6-8
  • Denver Broncos, currently 5-9
  • Los Angeles Raiders, currently 5-9
  • Cincinnati Bengals, currently 1-13 (Last place in AFC North)
  • Jacksonville Jaguars, currently 5-9 (Last place in AFC South)

We’ll get to find out pretty quickly how improved the Dolphins are with the 49ers, Seahawks, Patriots and Chiefs on Miami’s schedule — each of these teams will have a legitimate opportunity to play in the Super Bowl. Add in the rising Bills of Buffalo and a Los Angeles Rams team seeing to get over their 2019 Super Bowl hangover and half of Miami’s schedule is going to be quite a handful.

It will be a good challenge. Miami isn’t going to turn into a Super Bowl contender overnight, there’s too much to fix. But if Miami can overhaul the roster and come into 2020 with all the right faces in place, then this caliber schedule can help forge these Dolphins into the best position to be successful by providing them with valuable experience against some of the league’s elites.

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2020 Tennessee baseball schedule announced

2020 Tennessee baseball schedule announced.

KNOXVILLE — A late fall and early winter chill may be in the air, but the 2020 baseball season is looming around the corner and the University of Tennessee baseball team has announced its 2020 schedule.

The Volunteers, who went 40-21 in 2019, will open the new campaign on Valentine’s Day at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The season opener will be the first of a three-game series against Western Illinois. Game times for the series (which runs from Feb. 14-16) have yet to be announced.

The Vols will also host Charlotte on Feb.18.

Tennessee will then play in the Round Rock Classic in Texas Feb. 21-23, where it will see the likes of Texas Tech, Houston and Stanford.

The Vols will then host midweek games against Northern Kentucky and UNC-Asheville on Feb. 25-26.

The following weekend, the Big Orange will host George Washington in a three-game set.

On March 3, UT will entertain Longwood before play a three-game set against Wright State on March 6-8.

Tennessee will host East Tennessee State on March 10 before traveling to South Carolina to open Southeastern Conference play on March 13.

Other games in March include a home midweek tilt against Georgia State on St. Patrick’s Day. The following weekend, the Vols entertain defending national champion Vanderbilt.

Tennessee plays UT-Martin at Smokies Stadium on March 24.

Other home conference series include LSU (March 26-28), Florida (April 17-19), Kentucky (May 1-3) and Arkansas (May 14-16).

The Vols play SEC road series against Missouri (April 3-5), Alabama (April 10-12); Georgia (April 23-25) and Texas A&M (May 8-10).

Other midweek games include: Georgia Southern (April 1, home), Alabama State (April 7-8, home), Alabama A&M (April 14, home), Morehead State (April 21, home), Lipscomb (April 28, home) and Belmont (May 12, home).