Good thread topic.

Non-Conference: @ Vanderbilt, @ "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (Troy)
Conference USA: @UTSA @ East Carolina, "Beep-Beep!!" (trans: @ UTSA)

Louisville - one of the very few contiguous states that I've been to.

Chapel Hill and Provo.

UTEP & New Mexico

(05-31-2013 08:31 PM)TG4 Wrote:  Cheater Hole and Provo.

FIFY

(05-31-2013 09:00 PM)SATXBOSSMAN Wrote:  UTEP & New Mexico

UTEP vs UTEP might be a good game... I didn't like you guys coming into the conference, but ootsa and KFC are starting to grow on me

This year it's going to be MTSU.

UNT (Apogee, see if Denton's worth the hype), Tulsa (strong program, good benchmark for us).

I got my sights set on Tech (easy one), ECU and Marshall.

I would love to go to Norfolk for our away game this year, but I have a feeling tickets will be really hard to come by at an affordable price.

I guess I'm most looking forward to Coastal Carolina and Charleston Southern. Southern's campus looks like a worn out high school stadium, but it's hard to beat a weekend in Charleston.

East Carolina: I'm really looking forward to the trip to Greenville. It's not a conference game, but I think it qualifies in the spirit of the question. It is not just the first game of the year, it's the first FBS game in the first year of leaving CAA and the FCS. As one of my fellow ODU fans signs off, we are "pumped up and ready to go!"

At this point it's probably UAB, as that's the only road game I'll definitely make, roadies are a bit tough for me cconsidering all home games are a 400 mile roundtrip. I'm really hoping to make BYU, but that will likely cost me a couple of trips later in the season.

FIU in Miami, this year. It's the only game I'll get to see, other than TV. I was there when these two teams met in St. Petersburg at the Beef O' Brady Bowl. Glad we won, but one of the most boring games I've ever seen. I think this one will be much more entertaining...most entertaining, of course, with a Herd win.

been to Legion Field for earlier match ups with UAB, so looking foward more to a trip to Southern Miss. Made stops to eat and gas up in Hattiesburg on trips to New Orleans and LAfayette, but never got to see the campus.

I went to Tulsa last time UNT played there, and was really looking forward to going back. Too bad Tulsa is leaving for the AAC. With SMU, Tulane, Memphis, and probably a Florida school in their division, they are going to have to get used to an empty stadium on Saturdays.

If I can only make one conference road game this season it going to have to be the LA Tech game. I think C-USA West is going to have some really great rivalries. This match-up should be one of them. Where are the best restaurants in Ruston?

Looking forward to FIU. Especially because it will involve a Key West trip.

I really wanted to go to ECU.

(05-31-2013 06:22 PM)Marge Schott Wrote:  As someone who will be rooting for FIU, I think El Paso, San Antonio, Hattiesburg, Charlotte, Huntington and Norfolk will be fun GAME atmospheres. Basically, schools that are either established, good C-USA schools or start/move-ups that seem to have a great deal of fan support.

This is nothing against Sun Belt schools, or the "equivalent" such as UNT, LT, MTSU and WKU. You're just kind of "known" quantities thus far.

PS - I assumed this was in-conference games, but apparently it's not?

You are probably too young to know (as many on this board seem to be) but North Texas has been playing NCAA Division 1 football (except for 12 years in D1-AA) since the 1950's. For the first 30 years of what sports scribes call the beginning of the modern era of NCAA Division 1 the Mean Green were building what some might call a legacy or a bit of history. No , there were no NCAA national football champions during that time (except for 4 NCAA National Champions in golf).

Even our Southern Miss-graduated Athletic Director said when he was a student at USM they were trying to emulate what had been going on in Denton, Texas, America, for about about 35-40 prior years; especially during the Abner Haynes Sun Bowl teams of the 50's as well as the eras of Mean Joe Greene and Hayden Fry the next 2 decades. (I wouldn't say that our A.D. said said those words if in fact it were not true; in fact, he said those words to a handful of us who were at the very first meeting our fans and alums had with him when he was first hired).

To not have any early modern NCAA history or legacy will be common in the new CUSA, but North Texas will not fall into that category at all. Our last few years we've been in a losing cycle, but have maintained about 18,000 per game averages during this down time. We have a good base of fans who are itching to see if Apogee Stadium will be large enough when the winning seasons come back to us again.

To those on this forum who continually persist in wanting to make North Texas seem as if we've never been there--done that or have been a chopped liver kind of college football program forever merely need to check out a bit of NCAA history beginning in the NCAA modern era; that is, beginning in the 1950's when North Texas was even the first traditionally Caucasian university to integrate in the Southwest and Deep South for that matter. We had schools in the Southwest Conference who would not play us because we had 2 African-Amercians, ie, Abner Haynes and Leon King on our team but truth be told....some of them did not play us because they know the outcome would not have benefited their school's win columns; same thing during the Mean Joe Greene and Hayden Fry eras. Only time TCU would ever play us was when our talent level was down and their A.D. came to the conclusion that..........."now is the time to schedule North Texas!" [/font]

So here you have North Texas versus the Texas Longhorns in the 80's which will be a repeat for some to view (who chose to view it). Yet what was your school doing in the 50's, the 60's, the 70's and the 80's up till the 90's? The silence will be deafening with some of your "non-answers" especially by some of you younger ones who may not actually know what your school was doing or even what level of the NCAA it was participating.

First time we played UT in 1976 Earl Campbell had to run for a last minute TD to beat Hayden Fry's version of the Mean Green. The Austin American Statesman estimated there were approx. 20,000 traveling Mean Green fans at what is now called DKR Memorial Stadium on the UT campus. Back in that time it was mostly Texas Aggies or TT Red Raiders that would have matched such traveling fan numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPcZN6adx7U

UT Longhorn broadcasters: "Uh....oh!"

PS Ever leave a stadium after a game with your opponent's fans apologizing to you for a very, ver bad "homer" call which cost your team a win? Well, many of us did that evening in Austin, Texas, as we were leaving DKR Memorial to get back to our cars.

Maybe traveling to Troy and Vandy, but the road game I'm looking forward to the most is Lsu. Despite Lsu losing however many players to graduation and the draft. Nobody expects a dropoff in talent or production on the field. Uab will keep this game closer than expected. Or Ty Long kicks game winning field goal.

I have decided not to go to our road games @ NC State & @ UNC this year. I just hate those places so much, the fans suck, and I'd much rather watch it on TV for once.

That said... I WILL be going to Huntington for the ECU @ Marshall game. So... that's the one I'm most looking forward to.