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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 881261, member: 27"]
Without cheating, my memory is that we stepped up our scheduling and tried to become more of a national power circa 1900.  I think we played Yale for the first time around then.  If it wasn't Yale, it was another school like them that was a major powerhouse at the time.

I am pretty sure we played Michigan for the first time circa 1907.  That was the year Archbold opened.  Not sure how well known this is, but at that time, I believe Archbold was the biggest football stadium in the country, and certainly the nicest.  That made it a lot easier for SU to schedule big name teams, and schools like Carlisle (who was huge around 1910 with Jim Thorpe et al) and Army (another major national power) started popping up on the schedule.

Anyway, a lot of the schools in the P5 conferences were not particularly good back in those days, which complicates matters.  I don't think we played Penn State until the 1920s.  I think our first game against Pitt was in the late 1910s.  Don't believe we played Rutgers or BC until the 1920s either.

My guess is Michigan sometime around 1907.  I am sure we played them a couple of times in the 1907-1912 time frame.
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