(08-27-2017 11:47 AM)RGV Pony Wrote:  BYU school doesn't start for another week

They played an FCS yesterday

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(08-27-2017 07:53 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 11:47 AM)RGV Pony Wrote:  BYU school doesn't start for another week

They played an FCS yesterday

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Think he meant classes.

Yup

(08-27-2017 07:56 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 07:53 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 11:47 AM)RGV Pony Wrote:  BYU school doesn't start for another week

They played an FCS yesterday

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Think he meant classes.

Derp. Thants what I get for jumping to the back of the thread.

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(08-27-2017 07:47 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 07:40 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 10:52 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 06:42 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  BYU: 55,427
Colorado State: 37,583
Stanford/Rice Down-Under: 33,101
San Jose State: 13,377
UMass: 12,145

Notes:

1. Colorado State couldn't sell out their brand new 41,200 seat stadium vs a PAC school.
2. BYU attendance could be even higher if they didn't have to go on those time-consuming missions.
3. Perhaps the AAC should look into Australian expansion candidates.
4. Even UCONN/Tulane is no San Jose State. We should all be thankful.
5. Fanhood predicts UMass will be the AAC's San Jose State come 2025.

Well, to be fair to CSU, the seated capacity is 36,500. 41k is allowed for SRO.

Yep. Wifey is a CSU grad. They'll ne fone, especially this year. I think they can win the Mtn Div.

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I just got it. Bwahahahaha

(08-27-2017 06:42 AM)HuskyU Wrote:  3. Perhaps the AAC should look into Australian expansion candidates.

I can see it now, the North American-Australian Collegiate Partnership.

(08-27-2017 03:44 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 03:30 PM)Blue Tiger15 Wrote:  Forgive me if this has already been discussed but why were these games played a week ahead of the rest of the season? It seems silly to start games when many schools haven't even started back yet.

The main reason is a relatively new (I think 2009?) NCAA rule that allows Division I teams that play a road game against Hawaii** the chance to play 13 games, which they could make an extra home game and pocket more revenue, as an inducement to get a team to commit to making the long, expensive haul to Hawaii.

But, that then creates the problem of having to play 13 games in 13 weeks, which nobody wants to do because of wear and tear. So to allow those teams a bye week, this means pushing one of their games to "week zero", a week earlier than most. Note that a team that plays at Hawaii doesn't have to schedule 13 games. They can keep their schedule at 12 and still play in week zero, thereby giving themselves two bye weeks rather than the normal one.

This year, BYU, SJSU, and Colorado State all travel to Hawaii, so they were all allowed to host games yesterday. Then the Rice/Stanford game was a special promotion in Australia, so they got a waiver for that.

** The rule actually applies to playing in Alaska and Puerto Rico as well. Note also that to play 13 games, a team from outside those three places has to play a school located in them OR the game has to be sponsored by an NCAA member school located in them. E.g., USC and LSU could theoretically schedule a game against each other in Hawaii, and then play 13 game schedules, if their game was sponsored by the University of Hawaii. If it wasn't, they would not be able to avail themselves of the rule.

Good info/explanation.

UC did this 2009
went 13-0


then got skulldragged in the Sugar Bowl by Florida...