Are we still only doing “home & home” ?
What if it was a single game @Ohio State for example?
I wouldn’t even play them in baseball unless it is a one and one and at our field !!
Piss on 'em !!!
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Really !!
Plays right into the P5 mantra !!
For $3 Mil…maybe !!!
Dreams are nice.
Sucker play…
Ohio State payed $1.8 million for a recently scheduled 2020 OOC home game.
$3 million could happen down the line.
100% agree.
Yes. Conference is pushing for all schools to do 1-and-1s or 2-and-2s. If we want to be considered a P6, we have to act like one.
Some schools don’t follow the policy:
- Cincy is playing at Ohio State with no return game next year,
- Temple did a 2-1 with OU starting in 2024,
- Memphis has a 1 off at Purdue in 2020,
- SMU is doing a 1-off at Michigan this year,
- Tulane has a 1-off at Ohio State this year and a 2-1 with Kansas State starting 2022,
- Tulsa is at Texas and at Arkansas this year in 1-offs, at Michigan State next year in a 1-off, at Ohio State in 2021 in a 1-off and at Ole Miss in 2022 in a 1-off,
- UCF had the 1-off with Texas in 2023 cancelled,
- UCONN is at Clemson in 2021 in a 1-off,
- USF did a 2-1 with Texas starting in 2020, did a 2-1 with Louisville starting in 2022
So, basically, Navy, ECU, and UH are the only schools following the policy right now, and those two have contracted games every year (Navy with the Armed Forces schools and Notre Dame and ECU with the NC law that forces the other NC public schools to play them).
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I would play Texas or Texas A&M on Mars if they wanted.
The reality is they don’t wany to play us. We are good at a fraction of the cost of what they throw at football. If you were them, would you chance playing us and forever implanting in your donors minds “what are we paying for?”.
That 2023 game was supposed to be the last game in a 2 for 1 that Texas signed with UCF back in 2006. Texas opened UCF’s bouncy house stadium in 2007.
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Then it looks like UH, UCF, South Florida, Memphis, Boise State etc will have a hard time getting the top tier P5s on a schedule.
The AAC needs to have 3 or 4 teams that consistently win 9+ games a year and win the bowl games also in order to get a P6 label.
But that won’t happen with too many good coaches leaving for a payday or better opportunity.
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UCF did a 2 - 1 with Texas awhile back that included Texas playing UCF at Brighthouse when it opened in 2007. Texas bought out of their 2nd home game to play Alabama. Hopefully, UCF is following the policy now as well.
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Bought it out to play Alabama? Or because they’re scared to play the defending National Champion?
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The game was originally scheduled for 2017, but UCF suddenly (as in less than 1 year before) requested the game be rescheduled. I would say they are as much to blame.
Given a choice between playing UCF and Alabama, not many would take UCF.
And now they’re doing a 2-1 with Florida.
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BTW, USF has a pretty salty 2019 OOC:
08/31 - Wisconsin
09/07 - at Georgia Tech
09/14 - at Central Michigan
10/12 - BYU
Compare UH’s OOC for the same year:
08/31 - at Oklahoma
09/14 - Washington State
09/28 - at North Texas
[still need one]
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Looks like we’re about even for 2019. If we have to settle for an FCS school, our OOC will be weaker, imo.
yep. our best bet is for north texas to build on the season they just had and Washington st being a good PAC 12 team.
If North Texas has another good season this year, Seth Littrell will probably be gone. He’s been rumored to be in the mix for different jobs.