(09-09-2015 12:51 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  The G5 academic schools seem best poised for good schedules. Tulane, Rice, SMU, BYU, Air Force, Navy should be constantly scheduling 1 and 1's with Vandy, Duke, Northwestern, TCU, Baylor and Stanford.

Since when has Baylor and TCU been in the same class as those other 3?

Baylor won't even schedule decent G5 programs.

When I was at Memphis State our 79 schedule was
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Wichita State
Vanderbilt
Northeast Louisiana
Florida State
Louisville
Cincinnati
Tulane

80 was the same with a couple of changes.

By the way, Tulane was really good back then and beat LSU fairly often.

Another thing not mentioned. There were only 104 D1a teams.

(09-10-2015 05:45 PM)PGPirate Wrote:  Another thing not mentioned. There were only 104 D1a teams.

The whole COA thing is a way to whittle-down (or at least, put a cap on) the # of teams playing at the highest level.

Coogs schedule from 1976:

September 11 at Baylor W 23–5
September 18 at Florida* L 49–14
September 25 vs. #9 Texas A&M W 21–10
October 9 West Texas A&M* W 50–7
October 16 at SMU #19 W 29–6
October 23 vs. #15 Arkansas #14 L 14–7
October 30 TCU W 49–21
November 6 at #20 Texas #19 W 30–0
November 20 at #5 Texas Tech #9 W 27–19
November 27 at Rice #7 W 42–20
December 4 Miami #6 W 21–16
January 1 vs. #4 Maryland* #6 Cotton Bowl W 30–21

Played 5 ranked teams, beat 4 of them