BCS 2013-14: This space for rent

[RaceBoarder]

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I've given up on D-I NCAA Football making sense...

[Spartanforlife4]

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I know MSU has done it before in basketball and baseball, but that was so they could play Michigan in a home and home or just get them on the schedule once. The new football divisions make sure that you play at least your main rival every year, they went as far as making Purdue-Indiana the only permanent cross over game just so they could keep playing.

I wouldn't mind MSU doing it, but the only team I could think of doing a non-con with would be Wisconsin, though thanks to the scheduling any chance of a rivalry growing in football has been squashed.

[French Rage]

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ASU signs up with Michigan State for a home and home in 2018 and 2019. Nice addition after they also recently lined up LSU for a home and home. The Pac Ten keeps bringing it in non-conference scheduling (plus nine conference games of course).

Very nice.

For the immediate future, Stanford's OOC schedule is Notre Dame, academic-school-with-BCS-team-in-separate-east/midwest-so-we-get-a-recruiting-trip-there (Wake in 09/10, Duke in 11/12, Army in 13/14 (OK maybe not a BCS team there), UVA and Northwestern in the next few years), and ???. ??? used to be a local team for the first week, usually San Jose State unless they had some other game (in which case it was Sac St. or UC-Davis). But they've basically backed out of the series because they want either home-and-home or to be paid more, and we probably should pay them more since I believe it was only $100K which is ridiculously for a first-week warmup game. So we knows what happens with that slot going forward, this year it's UC-Davis as a stopgap, but it'd be nice if it were a BCS-level team going forward.

Edit: Looks like we have Rice and BYU to fill that slot in some of the coming years, so not too bad there. All things considered I never minded the San Jose State game since they're less of a pushover than some pushovers (they were a top 20 team in 2012), they're right up the road, and both teams were coached by Bill Walsh so there's some history/rivalry.

[LynahFan]

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ASU signs up with Michigan State for a home and home in 2018 and 2019. Nice addition after they also recently lined up LSU for a home and home. The Pac Ten keeps bringing it in non-conference scheduling (plus nine conference games of course).

I note that LSU gets no credit for adding ASU...

[MavHockey14]

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Unfortunately, being locked into the series with ISU, Iowa just can't schedule any marquee non conference games. With a 9 game conference schedule, it makes no sense to add another BCS conference foe when everyone else is also playing 10, unfortunately.

[Spartanforlife4]

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According to a text to a reporter from the AD Hollis, Michigan State is also close to locking up a neutral site game in 2023 and a home and home in 2025 and 2026 with Notre Dame. Some of the kids playing in those games are in kindergarten today if you would like to feel old.

[Bob Gray]

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I note that LSU gets no credit for adding ASU...

There were some unique dynamics at work there, as there's the history of moving the LSU-ASU game to Tempe after Katrina devastated Louisiana back close to a decade ago, with all game proceeds going to hurricane relief.. The home-and-home had been scheduled for I think 2015 and 2016, but LSU had asked to get out of that series. It's a little surprising that it took this long to nail down the new home and home. I hope it doesn't get cancelled again, given how far off it is now.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

[French Rage]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

Godammit what a ****ing bunch of *****s.

[RaceBoarder]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

Kinda funny how the asking price for cupcakes has gone up... It does beg the question: "Where is the limit to that?" I mean, what happens if the lower level BCS schools figure out that they can start asking for $2 million or more? Where does it end?

[French Rage]

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Kinda funny how the asking price for cupcakes has gone up... It does beg the question: "Where is the limit to that?" I mean, what happens if the lower level BCS schools figure out that they can start asking for $2 million or more? Where does it end?

I like it. "What's an undefeated regular season really worth to you?"

[bigmrg74]

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Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

And some how I get the feeling that Alabama wasn't exactly jumping at MSU's suggestion of Ford Field was they??

[French Rage]

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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...with-crab-legs

Apparently the way to defend against Jameis next year will be to disguise your defense as grocery store aisles and he will get easily lost.

[Slap Shot]

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It's nice to see that big gold chains are still in style.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Alabama series was cancelled not because Alabama was worried about a nine game schedule, but because Alabama wanted to play in Tuscaloosa and then a neutral site, rather than East Lansing

I'm hardly an MSU fan, but this just confirms my wish that Saban and Alabama get slapped with NCAA violations so harsh, it sends the program into another 15-20 year dormancy and makes Saban unemployable.