Newly updated. NMSU has scheduled Hawaii, Utah State, Wyoming, UNM and now Fresno State have scheduled home and away series in football next couple of years. Very interesting.

(02-19-2018 05:57 PM)dancingNMSUaggie Wrote:  Newly updated. NMSU has scheduled Hawaii, Utah State, Wyoming, UNM and now Fresno State have scheduled home and away series in football next couple of years. Very interesting.

I like the 4-year UMass H/H series. As long as it stays one game a year, no twice a season like Liberty, it needs to happen every year while both are independent. I hope the same starts with Liberty and NMSU past the next two years, but once a year from then on

I agree, if both UMASS and Liberty go every other year, that means that every year NMSU has the following
UNM
UTEP
Liberty
UMASS
2 home and 2 away.

Mario Moccia has done a great job of putting this schedule together for the next six years. They look committed to FBS football for at least the next six years. If they stay independent for the next six years, I would think they are more likely to stay in the WAC, unless they were to receive an Olympic sports invite from the Mountain West Conference. I don't think that is coming anytime soon.

If the sun belt and cusa would both realize that they’re pretty much the same now, they could just swap schools for a western conference and an eastern conference. Then nmsu would get an invite from the western conference. I’m just assuming that cusa has too much pride to accept this.

CUSA is still "better". CUSA does not play Tuesday or Wednesday night games. Just by looking at the conferences, you would rather be in CUSA.

Not saying you're wrong, but perception is reality and the SBC is still a notch below CUSA.

(02-21-2018 02:43 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  Mario Moccia has done a great job of putting this schedule together for the next six years. They look committed to FBS football for at least the next six years. If they stay independent for the next six years, I would think they are more likely to stay in the WAC, unless they were to receive an Olympic sports invite from the Mountain West Conference. I don't think that is coming anytime soon.

I think it helps NMSU that the MWC schools are having a harder time landing home-and-home OOC series with Pac-12 schools, and that the disappearance of WAC football leaves only BYU and NMSU as western alternatives. Like BYU, NMSU is an attractive home-and-home opponent for MWC members because it's FBS and the away game doesn't require playing in the Central or Eastern time zone. And unlike BYU, NMSU doesn't have to overcome antipathy based on a messy break-up from the MWC, rather there is some affinity for NMSU stemming from MWC's members' historical Big West and WAC connections with the Aggies.

Personally I would be happy to have NMSU on UH's football schedule every other year.