Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote:From the Pac-12 Blog on ESPN:

An anonymous Huskie in Cougar Land writes: Why can't Pac-12 teams schedule good opponents? Other than Oregon playing Michigan St and UCLA playing Texas, I can't count another Pac-12 team playing a team from a power five conference with a winning record. Why do we have to be such wimps? It's quite simple why nobody thinks the Pac-12 can compete with the SEC: they don't play anyone good! Imagine Oregon playing Alabama. Or Stanford playing LSU. If they played tougher opponents, they would not only get the credit they need - and want - but could also vault themselves into national prominence.

Maybe it's because we play 9 conference games and the SEC will only play 8.

It would be interesting what their OOC schedules look liked if they played 9 in conference and quit throwing apples and oranges and saying they are better because........

ASUHATER! wrote:mississippi state is probably the least good road trip. 2nd smallest stadium with one of the smallest fanbases and worst programs in the conference in the smallest town in the conference. it's in bumf*ck mississippi...nearly any other sec team would've been a better road trip.

funny to read this now that MSU is #1 in the country and they just hosted game day.

"I think we have a pretty good plan," Rodriguez said of scheduling. "If you see us playing Alabama and LSU and Florida State back to back to back, that will be in years when I'm planning on retiring."

I agree.

is the point of a bye if it comes at the end of the season?

Sep. 3rd (Thursday) vs. UT-San Antonio Roadrunners
Sep. 12th @ Nevada Wolf Pack
Sep. 19th vs. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks
Sep. 26th vs. UCLA Bruins
Oct. 3rd @ Stanford Cardinal
Oct. 10th vs. Oregon State Beavers
Oct. 17th @ Colorado Buffaloes
Oct. 24th vs. Washington State Cougars
Oct. 31st @ Washington Huskies
Nov. 7th @ USC Trojans
Nov. 14th vs. Utah Utes
Nov. 21st @ Arizona State Sun Devils

again....the home slate of UTSA, NAU, UCLA, ntOSU, Wazzu and Utah is a barn burner.

CalStateTempe wrote:I agree.

is the point of a bye if it comes at the end of the season?

Agreed. It sucks. But, if you wanna look on the bright side and we make it to the PAC12 Championship Game AGAIN, we will have a two weeks to rest up and game plan. Both Oregon and Stanford have games the prior week. Also, our real football season starts on 9/26 against UCLA. We should be able to dispatch of UTSA, Nevada, and NAU pretty easily and I hope that RR can bench the starters early to keep them fresh.

Last 4 games stretch of the season is brutal

Quality opponents in the future... How's that Houston game next year looking now?

Just signed a home and home with Colorado St for 2027-2028.

azgreg wrote:Just signed a home and home with Colorado St for 2027-2028.

Hope I'm alive to see it.

Nice to see our brand gets us a home and home against a MWC school. I would have hoped for a 2 for 1 with a CSU. RR will need the 3 cupcake schedule to keep his contract probably but he was promised that in his first contract. The program should be ready to beat the UNM's and CSU's of the fotba;l world consistently.

Already started the smack talk with the CEO a decade in advance . . .

Ooo. So nau, Houston and @UTEP this year. Southern Utah, UTEP and @Houston in 2018.

How embarrassing to to get beat down by a non-directional directional school.

They have been FCS champs many times.

They have won 5 straight over FBS teams. This game is sadly most likely a loss

RR setting up the next coach LOL. What a joke. In one sense it takes balls to play a team like that but man is that stupid scheduling

Didn't rr lose to app state?

Fuck him this is a terrible match up.

CalStateTempe wrote:Didn't rr lose to app state?

Fuck him this is a terrible match up.

Lloyd Carr

CalStateTempe wrote:Didn't rr lose to app state?

Fuck him this is a terrible match up.

The game is 5 years away. How is it possible to know that?

azgreg wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote:Didn't rr lose to app state?

Fuck him this is a terrible match up.

The game is 5 years away. How is it possible to know that?

If Arizona had scheduled Alabama in 5 years we could say that's a bad matchup.

From Wiki regarding ND State


FCS records[edit]
5 Consecutive FCS Championships (2011-2015)
33 Consecutive Wins (2012–2014) (3rd Longest in past 50 years of NCAA Division I football.)[2]
30 Straight Weeks at #1 in the FCS Coaches Poll (2012–2014)[8]
20 Straight Weeks at #1 in the STATS Poll (2012-2013)[9] (30 weeks at #1 out of 31)
10 Consecutive Weeks with at least 1 vote in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll (2014)
22 Consecutive Playoff/Post-season Wins (2011–2016)
5 Seasons with votes in the AP College Football Poll (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
Ranked 29th in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll (2013 season) (Highest end of season ranking by an FCS team)
45 Consecutive Non-Conference Home wins (Ended 12/16/2016 with playoff loss to James Madison University)
Ranked 27th in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll (week 4, 2016 season) (Highest ranking by an FCS team)
74 Total AP votes for FBS Top-25 ranking (week 4, 2016) (Most votes received by any FCS team)
22 Consecutive Road Wins (2012–2014)

With the state of our program ND ST would be favored. Even if we rev it back up again this is just one of those games you just hope to survive. How you would schedule this game over say a mid level power conference team is beyond me. No win in this match up

I know they've been really good for a long time Merk. I've watched them often. If you want to predict that we will lose that game fine, but you can't blame match ups when just about all of current players won't even be on those teams.

I love it. Some sizzle to the FCS game.

So in 2019 are we playing 4 OOC games? we're playing @ Hawaii on August 24th (!!)

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019 ... hedule.php" target="_blank

scumdevils86 wrote:So in 2019 are we playing 4 OOC games? we're playing @ Hawaii on August 24th (!!)

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019 ... hedule.php" target="_blank

Does travelling to Hawaii still provide for a 13th regular season game?

Merkin wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:So in 2019 are we playing 4 OOC games? we're playing @ Hawaii on August 24th (!!)

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019 ... hedule.php" target="_blank

Does travelling to Hawaii still provide for a 13th regular season game?

I'm assuming it does. Otherwise we'd have 3 bye weeks during the season.

Merkin wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:So in 2019 are we playing 4 OOC games? we're playing @ Hawaii on August 24th (!!)

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019 ... hedule.php" target="_blank

Does travelling to Hawaii still provide for a 13th regular season game?

In 2015 Rado played 13 games with a road game at Hawaii.

Merkin wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:So in 2019 are we playing 4 OOC games? we're playing @ Hawaii on August 24th (!!)

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019 ... hedule.php" target="_blank

Does travelling to Hawaii still provide for a 13th regular season game?

It's called The Hawaii Rule. A team has the option of adding a home game to subsidize the trip to HI.

You guys are shitting your pants over a FCS school, that we don't even play for 5 years... Man the culture in our football program is looking up!

BibbysTowelDude wrote:You guys are shitting your pants over a FCS school, that we don't even play for 5 years... Man the culture in our football program is looking up!

We're not the ones to blame for that. That's completely on RR and the program.

Washington inked a home and home with Ohio St in 24 and 25.

azgreg wrote:

What, skip half the teams in your conference every year and play FCS teams in November so we can crow about how hard our schedules are?

ASUHATER! wrote:

azgreg wrote:

What, skip half the teams in your conference every year and play FCS teams in November so we can crow about how hard our schedules are?

Plus the nuance of the best teams across divisions conveniently never play, so the top playoff contenders have 1 less loss factored in.

LSU generally schedules 2 FCS teams if memory serves, even though only 1 counts towards bowl eligibility.

The PAC is going the opposite direction in basketball, trying to get teams to get harder home schedules.

Well we're getting better at least. Over the next decade we have Texas Tech, Mississippi State, Kansas State, Nebraska, and Virginia Tech on the schedule.

azgreg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:37 pm

Didn't LSU use to play 2 FCS teams a season, which only 1 counted for bowl eligibility which they didn't need? Used to be when I was a student that you could only play an FCS team once every 4 years and have it count.

Last I heard, UCLA and Notre Dame are the only 2 teams to never play an FCS school. USC was among that very small group until a couple years ago.

azgreg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:37 pm

It makes sense. We played NAU 8 times, and reliably one FCS team a year.

Sometimes we'd have one P5 team, sometimes two G5 teams. Can't remember any years of two P5 opponents, so it's probably just 1.0 to like 0.75 as a FCS to P5 ratio.

Unless we reach a point where we're reliably on the top 25 list and occasionally in the top half of it I'm not against playing a FCS team and two G5 teams in the OOC.

Well in the next 12 seasons we have Mississippi State, Kansas State, Nebraska, Virginia Tech...and Alabama scheduled. Only years we won't be playing a power 5 team coming up are 2021, 2026 and 2027, and we still have an open slot in 2026 that will probably be filled by a ACC or Big 10 team in the new partnership.

But if BYU accepts the Big 12 offer, then by 2026-2027 they'll be a power 5 team...so theoretically 2021 is the last year we won't have a power 5 team on the schedule.

ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 5:20 pm Well in the next 12 seasons we have Mississippi State, Kansas State, Nebraska, Virginia Tech...and Alabama scheduled. Only years we won't be playing a power 5 team coming up are 2021, 2026 and 2027, and we still have an open slot in 2026 that will probably be filled by a ACC or Big 10 team in the new partnership.

But if BYU accepts the Big 12 offer, then by 2026-2027 they'll be a power 5 team...so theoretically 2021 is the last year we won't have a power 5 team on the schedule.

Good chance for those teams to get a nice early season warmup while cruising to an easy win over a super weak program.

Carcus you strike as that type you end up in a conversation with at a party, and within 1 minute you’re trying to find an excuse to remove yourself from the conversation. It’s not the fact that you think we suck, pretty sure all of us are aware of that. It’s your incessant need to constantly chime in to remind everyone that you are Captain Negative. You bring zero substance to the table.