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All you can do is beat everybody on your schedule. Let’s Go Tigers.

(05-14-2018 12:15 PM)tomstigs Wrote:  https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...e-it-easy/

It's a crap schedule, for sure. The team has been good the last 4-5 years, so attendance should remain healthy. But think how much better it could be with a decent OOC home game mixed in there somewhere.

Our schedule is really weak. And as I recall, future schedules continue to be weak. If we aspire to greatness, we need to beef up our schedule. Even if it means playing folks like Purdue away, with no return game. Just my opinion.

We need a certain number of home games every season. Most P5 teams wont play us 1 for 1. Some will. Most wont. Some of the teams that usually do dont want to play us when we are good.

So you end up with GA State and USA

A few things. The writer states that he ranked UCF at #10 in the AAC SOS at this time last year. UCF finished #5 in AAC by most SOS rankings by year end. So this doesn't mean a whole lot right now.

Secondly, the writer implies UCF's SOS kept them out of the playoff. It simply didn't. Money-driven collusion kept them out of the playoff. According to RPI (SOS is one thing that metric does a decent job with), UCF had a higher SOS than Oklahoma. According to most polls, UCF's and Alabama's SOS entering post-season were in the same neighborhood.

For an AAC team, SOS just doesn't have much bearing. If our league champ has 1 loss or less, it will go to the Access Bowl 9 out of 10 years. It's pretty basic. We are that much ahead of all other G5 leagues. SOS would matter within the rest of the G5, just in the case where they can take a run at getting our bowl slot. The Access Bowl is the ceiling for the G5 as it stands today. End of story.

(05-14-2018 12:52 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  So you end up with GA State and USA

Who we both gave away games to also. Mobile seems like a pretty good place for a September away game. Reachable in a six hour drive plus you can spend the game day on the beach at Dauphin Island.

(05-14-2018 12:52 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  We need a certain number of home games every season. Most P5 teams wont play us 1 for 1. Some will. Most wont. Some of the teams that usually do dont want to play us when we are good.

So you end up with GA State and USA

Rather have USM and UAB on the schedule than those two.

Ni dont see the point of playing both Ga. State and South Alabama in the same season.

Not many of the P5's beating down the door to play us right now....Little ole Memphis giving you a beat down wouldn't be too shiny for the bowl committees...

First, we can't control how good or bad our conference mates are. Problem is, we're in a division that outside of Houston, isn't perceived as being that great.

Second, even the OOC games are harder to schedule with P5 teams. We're too good to be an easy win for most, they'd have to struggle to beat us at best, therefore they gain nothing by either coming here into a loud environment that the LB has become in recent years, or by potentially getting beat by a non P5 school at home.

Now, I'll agree we probably could've done better than South Alabama, Georgia State, and Missouri... but the AD doesn't get the total blame in this one. At this point, the schedule is what it is, you just try to win every game you can and let the chips fall where they may. Honestly, until the conference renegotiates bowl tie ins, whats the difference whether it is the Frisco Bowl or the St Petersburg bowl?

We need a better schedule,but schedules are often planned years in advance and it is difficult to forecast the strength of a team. For example, I surmise schools that scheduled us as an easy win years ago have a different perspective now.

Planning on heading to Columbia, MO,,,,,,,4 hours away

Going the Boise St. route (early years) might not be the worst if getting into a P5 is the long term goal.

Otherwise the focus should be scheduling P5 schools from the north that would be interested in creating a footprint in the south for recruiting. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn St. Although those would most likely be losses, they would give UofM much needed exposure. In order for that to work w/ those schools, most likely we would need to give 2 away games for every one home game. We might also need to look at a neutral site (Nashville - Titan's stadium) to accommodate the excess crowd and make it more attractive, although the Liberty Bowl isn't too shabby. The four teams mentioned average 100k per home game and the Liberty Bowl can't accommodate that.

Realistically, they should target Michigan St, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illionois, etc; the tier 2/3 of the north P5 schools. Improve SOS and perhaps get a win.

(05-14-2018 02:46 PM)mrwigglesby2121 Wrote:  Going the Boise St. route (early years) might not be the worst if getting into a P5 is the long term goal.

Otherwise the focus should be scheduling P5 schools from the north that would be interested in creating a footprint in the south for recruiting. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn St. Although those would most likely be losses, they would give UofM much needed exposure. In order for that to work w/ those schools, most likely we would need to give 2 away games for every one home game. We might also need to look at a neutral site (Nashville - Titan's stadium) to accommodate the excess crowd and make it more attractive, although the Liberty Bowl isn't too shabby. The four teams mentioned average 100k per home game and the Liberty Bowl can't accommodate that.

Realistically, they should target Michigan St, Wisconsin, Purdue, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illionois, etc; the tier 2/3 of the north P5 schools. Improve SOS and perhaps get a win.

What does any tier 2/3 team gain by playing Memphis?

It has been proven the past 3 years that we beat good teams @ home. No P5 schools really need a SOS boost and it won't be a big TV game

I wish we had our old 70's--80's schedule

Tough to gauge.

UCF will likely be a top 15 team, UH may be top 25, and don't count out Mizzou, since Drew Lock returned and their defense seemed to turn a corner once Barry took control over it. Navy is Navy.

(05-14-2018 02:41 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  Planning on heading to Columbia, MO,,,,,,,4 hours away

It takes more than 4 hours by automobile.

Gross.

O.K. once again I must point out we have to play the toughest ooc schedule possible
However, it's hard to get home and home, but could probably pull it off with a Indiana maybe maryland
Get in the lower tier of the power 5 conferences
Ripp had the right idea as did Chuck Stobart, Ripp played every big 10 team he could, got a h and h with Minnesota
Put together a good recruiting class that tommy west road until they graduated and Ripp's tough schedule got weakerand weaker
Under tommy.
I hope Mike is working on a game with Arizona, Arizona state and va tech