Starting Friday we play 8 teams that are not on our future schedule. Some we have much history with(Tulsa), some not so much.
I suspect they will all give us their best effort and try to send us off with an L.
What teams will you miss playing?
What teams are you glad we won’t play again for the foreseeable future?
I’ll miss playing Navy. The trip to DC and Annapolis was really nice but I won’t miss their cut blocks.
I will miss Navy because it one was one of the few games with real gravitas. Just on history alone. I won’t miss Tulsa or Temple or USF or Tulane. I will kinda miss ECU. I hope Wichita can come back to championship status, too. Would like to play them again someday. I also won’t miss SMU.
Some strong history with these schools as we bounced from conference to conference. They built up athletics along with us. Gave us the competition necessary to capture a national audience, especially in the AAC. Will always have a soft spot for these schools going forward.
Glad you created this thread.
We keep reading that one school moved to this conference because of monitary reasons.
This started after the 1984 SCOTUS decision. This SCOTUS decision is felt every day around college football. The way the ruling was written is 100% responsible for the current sec and big10 dominance.
IMO college football is made of geographical rivalries. Again IMO this is what made college football so popular.
By “redrawing” the college football landscape we can only a decline.
Someone in Houston gave a damn playing you know who in Austin, College Station, Lubbock/our SWC comrades.
Is it the same today?
I’ll miss Tulane and Memphis. Easy roadies to an actual city. I’d miss SMU, but we’re getting basically a straight-line upgrade when we play TCU instead. I’m glad we’re not gonna play ECU anymore, since we managed to avoid memes about playing in Touchdown East Carolina University Stadium.
Eh. Our rivalry with Memphis reminds me a lot of when the Dynamo, at their peak, were rivals with Sporting KC. For a while there, they were the two top teams in the Eastern Conference, and the Portal Cup was one of the most anticipated matchups on the schedule. The Dynamo hated the Sporks, and the feeling was mutual. But then the Dynamo moved back to the West, and they got back to 3 games a year against F_C_ Dallas, and it reminded the fans what it’s like to have a real rivalry, even though the Dynamo are now the Texans of MLS.
If the AAC had managed to been able build itself up more, I’d have been content staying in it. In my mind we’re as at home in an eastern urban conference as a Texas/Plains one (if only that urban conference included Miami, Pitt, Louisville, and so on…)
The money, fan support, and competitive differentials were just way too much. I remember when Aresco was taking his shot and the AAC and Big 12 were in the scrum, what kept me grounded was “There is no way a conference with Tulsa beats a conference with Oklahoma State.”
I’m definitely looking forward to facing off with Texas Tech and our other SWC rivals, but also definitely feeling the cultural divide (esp with the Big 8 leftovers).
Temple when Temple was good had something going for it. Hard school to maintain success though.
I went to the game last year and it was one of the most dead game experiences I’ve ever experienced. They’ve had decent draws when good, but their fanbase is more fickle than ours.
As a program they are hindered by the city’s indifference. Apparently any time they try to build something the city won’t get on board.