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Three non-conference games to open the season and eight straight weeks of league play are included in James Madison University’s 2010 football schedule announced Tuesday.
The Dukes will start the season with games with Morehead State and at Virginia Tech, have an off week and then host Liberty before playing their eight Colonial Athletic Association contests to complete their schedule.
JMU’s CAA schedule includes games with four NCAA playoff teams from a year ago, including two at renovated Bridgeforth Stadium/Zane Showker Field. The Dukes will host 2009 playoff participants New Hampshire and William & Mary and visit playoff teams Richmond and Villanova.
JMU’s other CAA opponents will include Delaware and Massachusetts at home and Maine and Towson on the road.
With the CAA including only 10 teams for football after Hofstra and Northeastern disbanded their programs, each conference team plays eight of the other nine members. JMU this season isn’t scheduled to meet Rhode Island.
JMU will begin the season Sept. 4 at home against Morehead State. The Dukes will be facing the Eagles for the seventh time overall but for the first time since 1987.
JMU’s Sept. 11 game at Virginia Tech will be its seventh against the host Hokies, all in Blacksburg. The teams last met during the 2003 season and also played during Mickey Matthews’ tenure as JMU’s head coach in 1999.
The 2010 season will be the fourth straight during which the Dukes will have faced an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent. They played at North Carolina in 2007, Duke in 2008, and Maryland in 2009.
2010 JMU Schedule
Sept. 4 – Morehead State
Sept. 11 – at Virginia Tech
Sept. 25 – Liberty
Oct. 2 – Delaware (Family Weekend)
Oct. 9 – at Towson
Oct. 16 – New Hampshire (Homecoming Weekend)
Oct. 23 – at Villanova
Oct. 30 – Massachusetts*
Nov. 6 – at Richmond
Nov. 13 – William & Mary
Nov. 20 – at Maine
Nov. 27 – NCAA Playoffs, First Round
Dec. 4 – NCAA Playoffs, Round of 16
Dec. 11 – NCAA Playoff Quarterfinals
Dec. 17-18 – NCAA Playoff Semifinals
Jan. 9 – NCAA Championship Game
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