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BCS 2013-14: This space for rent

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Re: BCS 2013-14: This space for rent

MavHockey14 said:
Which is why I said not a bad start..:p When one team in the AAC has three players drafted, and would've been at least a top 3 team in any league, it's a different story.
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And that 1 team won't be in the AAC in two months.
 
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Considering Rutgers is a Big Ten team in 6 weeks, doesn't that play hob with the Minny-Buttgers transfer anyway?
 
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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).
 
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MSU has a nice non-con set for about the next decade.

Oregon 2014 and 2015, Notre Dame back on the schedule for 2016 and 2017, then Arizona State replacing what would've been ND for 2018 and 2019, followed by Miami FL in 2020 and 2021, and then wrapping up the Boise series that started in 2012 with matchups in 2022 and 2023.

Plus a game with Air Force, another with USF. Though I just realized we start the season at Western in 2015, ending the Friday night season opener streak, so that's a little depressing.

After reading this article, it looks like anything goes. A season opener against Iowa or Nebraska could be in the works at some point.
ACC, Big Ten discuss non-conference games against conference opponents
 
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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.
 
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Bob Gray said:
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).
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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.
 
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Bob Gray said:
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).
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I note that LSU gets no credit for adding ASU...;)
 
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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.
 
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