(12-26-2018 01:17 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(12-25-2018 11:08 PM)airtroop Wrote:  

(12-25-2018 03:35 PM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Well, lets look at the next 5 years of OOC schedules....


2019-2023 Home Games vs P5/AAC


CUSA

Charlotte- 2/0
FIU- 1/0 (Very few games scheduled)
FAU- 0/2
Marshall- 2/3
MTSU- 3/0
ODU- 3/1
WKU- 2/1

La Tech- 1/1
North Texas- 1/4
Rice- 3/2
So Miss- 0/1
UAB- 0/0 (Still have open dates and catching up from shut down of program)
UTEP- 1/0
UTSA- 0-2


CUSA Total Home Games vs P5/AAC- 17/17



Sun Belt

App St- 1/2
Coastal- 1/0
Ga Southern- 0/0 (Do host BYU which is equivalent to AAC imo)
Ga St- 1/1
Troy- 1/0 (Still a lot of open dates)

Ark St- 0/4 (Still a lot of open dates)
Louisiana- 1/1 (Still a lot of open dates)
USA- 0/1
TX St- 1/1
ULM- 0/1 (Still a lot of open dates)


Sun Belt Total Home Games vs P5/AAC- 6/11


This seems to go with the historical trend. Yeah, you all get a few home games against P5 and AAC but no where near as many as CUSA gets. Over next 5 years we already have 17 home games scheduled against the P5 to Sun Belt's 6 and we have another 17 home games scheduled against the AAC while you all only have 11.

That is a big disparity for sure. Sun Belt needs to do a better job of getting the P5s at home.

Could it be that P5's are just a bit more willing to risk a road game at a C-USA stadium than an SBC location? Composite rankings over the last few years would (overall) indicate a slightly larger chance of them losing on the road at an SBC venue. Juss' sayin'...

Generally speaking, you aren't getting a P5 unless you are in a major recruiting hotbed, or they are local enough they see it as an easy trip.

AState could join the AAC tomorrow and still have the same issues getting P5 schools to come here. Conference has next to nothing to do with it. Hell, until CUSA agrees to start playing us again, we're struggling for any home games outside of AAC and some far flung G5 somewhere in the same boat we are schedule wise.

On the other hand, you guys are the undisputed #2 program in your home state with no other FBS schools threatening this status.