http://www.aseaofred.com/2018-schedule-t...-saturday/

Appears Troy, Wake and Army will be playing at Liberty in the future.

Very nice and hope we still get a mid-season bye. There was some mention of schedule re-arranging during our AD Q & A on Facebook. The above shows New Mexico State on 11/24, which was the slot for an FCS game. We have a mid-season bye on Oct 13. Guess we were able to do some re-arranging for Liberty. Perhaps the at FIU game on 9/15 is being move and 9/15 will now be a home game. Would like having Liberty home on 9/15 and move at FIU to 11/24.

FBS Schedule UMass 2018 link

2018
H
UNT
Troy
NMSU
FCS
FCS

A
Wake Forest
NMSU
Auburn
UNM
UVA
Army
UMass

2019

A
Rutgers
BYU

Wake Forest and Army will be coming to Lynchburg in 2025 and in 2021 respectively. Expect ODU and BYU to have a regular series with Liberty in the future. There are a couple P5 schools that they are talking with regarding 2 and 1 and home and home deals.

That's a pretty good schedule to start off with.

How much did all that cost?

Idaho should have went Indy. Would have had no problem filing schedule.

(05-11-2017 10:31 PM)LUbball23 Wrote:  2018
H
UNT
Troy
NMSU
FCS
FCS

A
Wake Forest
NMSU
Auburn
UNM
UVA
Army
UMass

2019

A
Rutgers
BYU

Wake Forest and Army will be coming to Lynchburg in 2025 and in 2021 respectively. Expect ODU and BYU to have a regular series with Liberty in the future. There are a couple P5 schools that they are talking with regarding 2 and 1 and home and home deals.

2018 isn't a compliant schedule. So 2018 is transition year 1 and 2019 the second year?

(05-12-2017 03:03 AM)GhentFan Wrote:  That's a pretty good schedule to start off with.

How much did all that cost?

I doesn't matter what it cost, if you've got the money.

(05-12-2017 07:32 AM)Denny Crum Wrote:  Idaho should have went Indy. Would have had no problem filing schedule.

I totally agree. I think Idaho will regret the drop down.

(05-12-2017 10:58 AM)msm96wolf Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 07:32 AM)Denny Crum Wrote:  Idaho should have went Indy. Would have had no problem filing schedule.

I totally agree. I think Idaho will regret the drop down.

We don't know that for sure - Rabonchild has a good point a few comments above, that Liberty might be paying money or foregoing some of the moneys a G5 team would otherwise get, in order to get enough FBS home games. If that's so, then this schedule is something that Idaho couldn't afford.

Even if these deals are a bit worse for Liberty than they typically are for G5 teams, it's something that Liberty can easily afford because the school's bank accounts are overflowing with money. That financial advantage, coupled with the fact that Liberty's geographic location is much more advantageous than Idaho's in terms of having several times as many FBS teams within a few hundred miles, means that it is far easier for Liberty to make FBS indy schedules than it is for Idaho...

... or for NMSU. Note on the Liberty schedule posted above, if that's correct, NMSU is playing Liberty twice in 2018, which is a red flag for NMSU. If NMSU is forced to schedule a transitioning team twice in the same football season, then NMSU is probably having a very hard time building compliant FBS schedules.

There are more independents now that when the Belt gave them the boot. UMASS, NMSU, and Liberty would have been three teams they could have scheduled on the regular. I feel for them, their destruction of Colorado St. was one of the most enjoyable games of the bowl season for me. It was a little bittersweet though, knowing they are dropping down.

Well, if the Wasatch front has to experience an earthquake sometime in the next 100 years, I now know which day I'd choose.

(05-12-2017 11:25 AM)Wedge Wrote:  ... or for NMSU. Note on the Liberty schedule posted above, if that's correct, NMSU is playing Liberty twice in 2018, which is a red flag for NMSU. If NMSU is forced to schedule a transitioning team twice in the same football season, then NMSU is probably having a very hard time building compliant FBS schedules.

Optimist in me says they were holding open a scheduling slot for Idaho. This seems unlikely because NMSU needs to look for #1. OTOH, Idaho remaining FBS would be very helpful for NMSU in the long term.

Idaho, NMSU, and Liberty could have fillled a third of each other's schedules for 2018 and 2019 if push came to shove. They could have played their home-and-home series over the last six weeks of the season. One of the three could take their SEC whooping in November during one of the open dates in "conference" play. Liberty would have then needed only one more FBS home game for 2018 and then two more for 2019.

(05-11-2017 10:31 PM)LUbball23 Wrote:  2018
H
UNT
Troy
NMSU
FCS
FCS

A
Wake Forest
NMSU
Auburn
UNM
UVA
Army
UMass

2019

A
Rutgers
BYU

Wake Forest and Army will be coming to Lynchburg in 2025 and in 2021 respectively. Expect ODU and BYU to have a regular series with Liberty in the future. There are a couple P5 schools that they are talking with regarding 2 and 1 and home and home deals.

I haven't seen anywhere that Rutgers and BYU are playing or that you have a H&H with Virginia....

(05-11-2017 10:31 PM)LUbball23 Wrote:  2018
H
UNT
Troy
NMSU
FCS
FCS

A
Wake Forest
NMSU
Auburn
UNM
UVA
Army
UMass

2019

A
Rutgers
BYU

Wake Forest and Army will be coming to Lynchburg in 2025 and in 2021 respectively. Expect ODU and BYU to have a regular series with Liberty in the future. There are a couple P5 schools that they are talking with regarding 2 and 1 and home and home deals.

A BYU poster said on another thread that BYU is doing a 1 and done with Liberty, not a series. I still haven't seen proof of the Wake H&H....

http://www.aseaofred.com/several-future-...nnounced/o
2018 ODU, Troy, NMSU at home
4 game H & H with Army
2 for 1 UVA and Wake
H & H Buffalo & BYU
Away Money Game Rutgers and Ole Miss

(05-13-2017 05:22 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  http://www.aseaofred.com/several-future-...announced/

4 game H & H with Army
2 for 1 UVA and Wake
H & H Buffalo & BYU
Away Money Game Rutgers and Ole Miss

Thanks. I'll add to it:

At Auburn in 2018
At Virginia Tech in 2020
Home vs Old Dominion in 2018--is there a return game for OD?

(05-13-2017 05:29 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(05-13-2017 05:22 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  http://www.aseaofred.com/several-future-...announced/

4 game H & H with Army
2 for 1 UVA and Wake
H & H Buffalo & BYU
Away Money Game Rutgers and Ole Miss

Thanks. I'll add to it:

At Auburn in 2018
At Virginia Tech in 2020
Home vs Old Dominion in 2018--is there a return game for OD?

Got ODU from this link. Did not see anything about return game. http://www.aseaofred.com/2016-schedule

This is a pretty horrible schedule (a home and home in the same year?). But I cant help but be impressed they were able to cobble together an entire schedule in barely 3 months.

(05-13-2017 05:51 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  This is a pretty horrible schedule (a home and home in the same year?). But I cant help but be impressed they were able to cobble together an entire schedule in barely 3 months.

I don't like that so many eastern schools are adding FBS football. It's going to effect ECU getting H&H's with ACC schools like in the past. I won't even get into Recruiting
5 new area FBS teams:
App St: Has played or scheduled ACC teams including Miami, Wake & UNC

Old Dominion: Has played and scheduled Wake, UNC & Virgina Tech (3 home games with VT)

Charlotte: Home games with Duke, UNC and Maryland

Liberty: Home games with Virginia and Wake

Coastal Carolina: no one yet