UH Future Schedule

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It is clear that the CFP Committee will tweak the criteria regarding how they decide who makes the playoffs. Rewarding conference champions is a given, along with a high ranking G6 team. Higher value must be given to strength of schedule (SOS). Hopefully, when that happens, teams will be less inclined to schedule all cupcakes for OOC games.

Looking at UH’s future OOC schedule, UH has:
2025 at Oregon St.
2026 Oregon St.
2027 LSU
2028 Oklahoma
2030 at Boise St.
2031 Boise St.

I am not sure of the likelihood, but I would try and replace Oregon St. with a P4, ideally for a home-and-home series. 2029 is wide open. Since road victories are valued higher than home wins for playoff consideration, I would consider playing a name brand P4 on the road.

I have not heard any talk from AD Nunez on future scheduling, but with the playoff criteria most likely giving greater weight to SOS, Nunez needs to take that into consideration when scheduling.

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I can’t believe Bama, Cal, Pitt, Tennessee, and UCLA scheduled UH in 1997. We had just gotten left behind by the SWC breakup. They all really should have scheduled a P4 opponent.

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If SEC and Big Ten can make playoffs just from in-conference scheduling weight alone, then what makes you think they would schedule anyone other than peewee schools

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Because it was an easy win that’s why

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No need to buy out of the Oregon St series. We aren’t a playoff team next year and in 2026 we actually still have an open slot so we could try to get a P4 opponent there. In 2027 and 2028 we have marquee non-conference opponents so overall I would say we’re doing excellent on the scheduling front.

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lol

The only Big 12 representative in this years’ CFP was projected to be the worst team in the Big 12

and one of the Big 12 teams that was projected to make the CFP went winless in-conference

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I mean just because you type lol doesn’t mean I’m wrong. But I’ll give you action if you want to bet on whether or not UH makes the playoffs next year… lol

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I’m not saying they will or wont, but you are pretty adamant that UH won’t make the playoff.

You don’t know what could happen next year

Honestly, that should be the Big 12’s motto

“Anything can happen”

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Pretty adamant = made one statement saying we aren’t a playoff team. All I’m saying is I don’t think we need to sweat our SOS next year. Lets just go win some damn games. We can still make the playoffs by winning the league. No?

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If Arizona State can do it, so can we…

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You must not realize how bad we were back then they got a home game with no chance to lose.

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In my opinion, we don’t need to replace Oregon State with a P4. CWF is still building his team and I want them to get another year of experienced before increasing the toughness of their schedule.

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Well they made the playoffs and their big marquee non-conference game was against a 2-10 Miss St team. So that was more my point. No need for us to sweat the schedule that hard next year.

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My point is that the shoe is on the other foot and our fans are not exhibiting very much Christmas Spirit about it. We spent 25 years trying to tell everyone we still belonged, who are we to look down on Oregon State? They were in the club a lot longer than we ever were.

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Question is, for the almost 25 years we were in the wilderness, how many times did Oregon state schedule us.

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Texas A&M needs to schedule a bunch of games in 2026…

…could it happen?

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Why aren’t we a playoff team next season?

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Once. And gave us a home and home.

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That’s definitely something I’d look at.

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I just don’t think we’re there yet. Crazier things have happened though. But my bigger point is that I don’t think we need to worry about scheduling up our non-conference next season. I’d rather see us clean up in the non-conference against weaker competition and have some confidence/momentum rolling into conference play.

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