Has this ever happened before for any school? Nebraska will play four schools in a row that begin with the letter M: Michigan, Michigan State, Maryland, and Minnesota.

You’ve uncovered college football history.

Tombstone worthy!!!

The Big 10 has an awful lot of Is and Ms.

(10-11-2025 01:32 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The Big 10 has an awful lot of Is and Ms.

I think a really funny stat would be "Conference record against M and I schools".

(10-11-2025 02:02 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(10-11-2025 01:32 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  The Big 10 has an awful lot of Is and Ms.

I think a really funny stat would be "Conference record against M and I schools".

Introducing the Big 10’s M-N-O-P Division:

Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan St, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio St, Oregon, Penn St, & Purdue

Vanderbilt plays Tigers in 3 of the next 4 weeks

Last year UTSA played Kennesaw St., Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic.
And to top off the 4 Owls, they also played the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina and the Mean Green of UNT whose mascot is an eagle.

There was probably someone in the SWC years who had Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Texas Christian together or who had 3 of those coupled with a Tulsa, Temple, Tennessee or Texas St.

(10-16-2025 06:01 PM)bullet Wrote:  Last year UTSA played Kennesaw St., Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic.
And to top off the 4 Owls, they also played the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina and the Mean Green of UNT whose mascot is an eagle.

A whole parliament!

In this age of revenue chasing I don't know why we don't have MTE tourneys with sponsors based on mascots.

Be a little odd for the Owls because 3 share a conference, but the sponsor seems obvious (well known "breasturant" with owl mascot).

You could have JSU, SC, Coastal, and maybe Delaware sponsored by Zaxby's (or Cane's or CFA, or KFC - take your pick).

Colorado, NDSU, Howard, Marshall brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings?*

Of course the easy ones would be easy - wildcats, tigers, bears, bulldogs, dogs in general, etc (and you'd have more options for which teams to invite)



Credit that one to an old post by GemoftheHills.

On the letters in the Big Ten, I have always noted that I is kind of a late letter to be the earliest of the schools in alphabetical order. All this expansion and Illinois is still the earliest.

Miami played 4 Florida schools in a row at the beginning of the season.

(10-11-2025 01:17 PM)saturdaysarebetter Wrote:  Has this ever happened before for any school? Nebraska will play four schools in a row that begin with the letter M: Michigan, Michigan State, Maryland, and Minnesota.

That’s also very close to being an alphabetical-order schedule. The way of the future?

(10-16-2025 06:01 PM)bullet Wrote:  Last year UTSA played Kennesaw St., Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic.
And to top off the 4 Owls, they also played the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina and the Mean Green of UNT whose mascot is an eagle.

That’s a lot of poultry in motion.

This is getting into random baseball facts territory

Love it!

(10-17-2025 10:33 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-16-2025 06:01 PM)bullet Wrote:  Last year UTSA played Kennesaw St., Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic.
And to top off the 4 Owls, they also played the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina and the Mean Green of UNT whose mascot is an eagle.

That’s a lot of poultry in motion.

(10-17-2025 11:10 AM)TexanMark Wrote:  This is getting into random baseball facts territory

Love it!

Yes! When I first started reading this thread, I didn’t expect to be so entertained as a am now.

Well done, folks! keep it coming!…

Reminds me of the time in the late 80's when Dick Vitale made his Final Four picks: "The three I's and UNLV!" Illinois, Indiana, Iowa.

The B1G can't get 3M as a sponsor because they have 4 M's. I guess they could get M&M Mars, though. M&M's: The Official Candy of the B1G. Would the B1G be plain, or peanut?

Other weird conference stuff:

1. Look at the colors in the Big East. I think you have like two teams who primarily color isn't blue.

2. New PAC-12: Every football member has word state in their name.

(10-17-2025 10:33 AM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(10-16-2025 06:01 PM)bullet Wrote:  Last year UTSA played Kennesaw St., Rice, Temple and Florida Atlantic.
And to top off the 4 Owls, they also played the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina and the Mean Green of UNT whose mascot is an eagle.

That’s a lot of poultry in motion.

We need to establish the Avian Coast Conference for all these bird teams.