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Future Football Schedules (Updated 11/21/2023)

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ScriptOhio said:
Upcoming Power 5 Series
  • 2020 – at Oregon
  • 2021 – Oregon
  • 2022 – Notre Dame
  • 2023 – at Notre Dame
  • 2024 – at Washington
  • 2025 – at Texas
  • 2025 – Washington
  • 2026 – Texas
  • 2027 – Alabama
  • 2028 – at Alabama
  • 2030 – at Georgia
  • 2031 – Georgia
They are really scheduling "premier" non conference games, etc.
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We are doing it too. Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Clemson, Ohio State, UCLA
My guess is Kirby (and Ohio State) truly believe an 8 game playoff is inevitable and you have to really, really challenge yourself if you're gonna get in with 1-2 losses.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
We are doing it too. Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Clemson, Ohio State, UCLA
My guess is Kirby (and Ohio State) truly believe an 8 game playoff is inevitable and you have to really, really challenge yourself if you're gonna get in with 1-2 losses.
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Ohio State has been scheduling a top-tier Power 5 every year since 2005; for the Buckeyes at least, playoff expansion wasn’t part of the decision to go that route.

Some of the top-tier teams were less top-tier than others; I was excoriated for predicting that Cal would be no big deal by the time Ohio State played them, but I was right. Scheduling historically good teams like the Dawgs is a better bet than flash in the pan teams, but you never know.
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
Ohio State has been scheduling a top-tier Power 5 every year since 2005; for the Buckeyes at least, playoff expansion wasn’t part of the decision to go that route.

Some of the top-tier teams were less top-tier than others; I was excoriated for predicting that Cal would be no big deal by the time Ohio State played them, but I was right. Scheduling historically good teams like the Dawgs is a better bet than flash in the pan teams, but you never know.
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We did the "middle of the road teams" during the Richt years simply because it was easy to get them to say yes and drop the "sisters of the poor" from their schedule.

Arizona State, Okie State and Colorado were fine opponents, but nobody gushed about them on the schedule
 
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I'm not too enthusiastic about Stanford or aTm series; however, the other 6 would be OK. It's always nice to have an Ohio State non conference game be the premiere college game in September and the "talk" of college football.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Calling it now: Alabama will not play in CBus in '27, '28 or beyond. They'll TCU us. Move their game to Birmingham and then not come to Columbus. Maybe we can make a vbet?
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JCOSU86 said:
Well, that was smart to get them up here first. If it was the other way around - no way they come. I'm still not 100% convinced they will yet.
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Per the terms of the contract between the schools, as obtained by Eleven Warriors through a public records request on Thursday, the visiting team will receive $1 million and 5,000 tickets from the home team for each year's game, while either school would owe $3 million to the other if it backs out of the agreement. Per the contract, “the teams agree to discuss in good faith a future date(s) for the game(s) to be played” if conference rule or alignment changes dictate that a game between the two schools cannot be played in 2027 or 2028.
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https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ama-to-play-home-and-home-series-in-2027-2028

It was also smart to put in the $3M "back out of the game" clause........:lol:
 
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DaddyBigBucks said:
Some of the top-tier teams were less top-tier than others; I was excoriated for predicting that Cal would be no big deal by the time Ohio State played them, but I was right. Scheduling historically good teams like the Dawgs is a better bet than flash in the pan teams, but you never know.
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Same with Duh U, and to an extent VaTech and Washington.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
We did the "middle of the road teams" during the Richt years simply because it was easy to get them to say yes and drop the "sisters of the poor" from their schedule.

Arizona State, Okie State and Colorado were fine opponents, but nobody gushed about them on the schedule
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But "theoretically" they could win the National Championship. The Citadel, Florida A&M or any of a number of other teams that have been scheduled by the big powerhouse schools cannot.
 
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I'm not sure when scheduling these "lesser" schools started but they didn't do it when I was at OSU. I remember OSU's non-conference games being Florida State, Stanford, Washington State, Oregon and the like. I don't remember seeing even a MAC level school, much less I-AA. In 1989, OSU's non-conference schedule was Boston College, USC and Oklahoma State. In 1990 it was Boston College, USC and Texas Tech.
91: Louisville, Washington State, Arizona
92: Was the first year a MAC teams was scheduled (Bowling Green). Louisville and Syracuse were the other non-conference opponents
93: Rice, Washington, Pitt
94: 4 non-conference games! Fresno State, Washington, Pitt, Houston
95: another 4 non-conference games. Notre Dame, Washington, Pitt, Boston College
96: Rice, Pitt, Notre Dame
97: This is where the non-conference scheduling began to change. Wyoming, Bowling Green, Arizona, Missouri
98: West Virginia, Toledo, Missouri
99: Miami(FL), UCLA, Ohio U., Cincinnati
00: Fresno State, Miami(OH), Arizona
01: Akron, UCLA, San Diego State

It continued that way with 2 opponents from P5 conferences and 1 mid-level (UC, MAC, etc). Then in 2007 it changed

07: Youngstown State, Akron, Washington. The first I-AA team and a mid-level to go with one P5
08: Youngstown State, Ohio U., Troy, USC. Only 1 P5
09: Navy, USC, Toledo, New Mexico State
10: Ohio U., Miami(FL), Marshall, Eastern Michigan
11: Akron, Toledo, Miami(FL), Colorado
12: The beginning of the new scheduling (2-3 cupcakes and 1 P5) Miami(OH), Cal, Central Florida, Alabama-Birmingham

Since 2012, it's been MAC schools (plus UC), 1-2 teams from other non-P5 conferences and 1 P5
 
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