Cal dropped BYU short notice for next season today. I don’t think it can be replaced in time.
What was their thinking?
Ahhh, SHANE on SEC
Georgia’s non conference schedule for 2025 consisted of Marshall, Austin Peay, Charlotte and Georgia Tech. Marshall, Austin Peay and Charlotte were ALL home games and instate rival Georgia Tech (16-9) was on the road game.
SEC is supposed to be a Super Conference but their teams play a cupcake out of conference schedule.
George is ranked 3rd in the country but they, like other SEC teams, play a cupcake OOC schedule every year!
Within two years, a non SEC/BIG team will win the CFP.
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And Georgia Tech was not a true road game. It was played in Falcons’ stadium where UGa had over half the fans.
When we scheduled those games, PAC was still a conference and OSU was a viable member who had won 8 games and gone to a bowl. We arent going to cancel because later they had the bad luck to be in a league that fractured and they were left behind. Ridiculous to whine about it.
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Link? I think making things up to make a douchey point is weak.
Re the rules, I doubt anyone is going to force anyone to comply immediately. College football schedules are made years in advance and it is difficult to find replacements short-term.
I have no doubt UH (or others similarly situated) will not have come with some reasoning or excuse for keeping their near-term schedule intact. Many, most, will play out what is already scheduled.
Point is, these are the types of rules that have to be prospective as college football schedules cannot be changed easily.
Hopefully the next move is for P4’s to get rid of conference championship games. At the same time, the playoffs can be expanded to 24 teams.
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It will go to 24 teams when the b10 and sec think they need five more teams each because other people are getting too much money
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How about within 2 months when Tech wins it?
The first one part of that isn’t happening.
Ratings and ad dollars are too high to bring about the demise of those anytime soon.
Hey, hey, hey… the sec needs to have some cupcakes to make up for all those quality losses…
That’s a different discussion…
Playing Oregon State, in 2026, hurts our SOS
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That would be true even if they were still in a P4.
Playing a bottom feeder P4 is never particularly helpful for SOS.
I feel bad for Ore St. They invested heavily in fantastic facility upgrades just to compete with the Pac, then the world collapsed underneath them.
I think it would be cool if UH signed a long-term OOC deal with Washington State in honor of John Bender who first recommended our mascot name.
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Just sayin…when we have an argument to be an At-Large playoff squad next season, not scheduling a “real” P4 OOC, “talent wise”, will come back to haunt us.
I could care less about "they were PAC members for 100 years "…neither will the committee.
This is on Nunez
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It’s a tough call. If you try to play a mini-Notre Dame schedule you risk taking a couple of losses that will be used (along with a traditional media bias) to affirm we’re not good enough.
If you don’t you can have a better record and get the same. I’d rather try to squeak in with the traditional cupcake method then increase SOS after you have caché.
I haven’t heard anything on playoff expansion lately other than various reporters saying it should be expanded.
Again BY should try for 2 auto spots then we could get a 3rd or 4th at large
Anyway
PLEASE…Tech is playing Oregon State next year, along with Abilene Christian and some other patsy…You dont see them whining about it…WIN your games!!!
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And how many "At-large " playoff spots has Texas Tech secured using that scheduling strategy?
Answer…ZERO
Tech none. but 2022 TCU played:
Colorado - 1-11 in PAC
Tarleton - FCS
SMU - 7-5 in American