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Future Football Schedules (Updated 8/31/2024)

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Coqui said:
Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas (again)?
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UW, Cal, CU, VTech are all kind of the same group.
Miami is kinda sketchy too... it's been awhile since they were relevant.

It's been a few years yet since USC, and it'll be a few years yet til we get OU and Oregon. Even if those two are down, nobody can really argue them imo.
Losing Georgia also hurt imo.

Regarding other posts about us being scared to schedule SEC opponents... I seem to recall Tressel complaining that it was them who refused to schedule around 2007 or so? That was a number of years ago, but with Vandy chickening out last year... it seems to me it's still SEC who refuses to schedule home and aways... they want a "neutral" location. And we all know in NCAA that "neutral" really means "South".
We already have play bowl games down there. And any playoff games will be down there too. Screw that.
 
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kujirakira said:
UW, Cal, CU, VTech are all kind of the same group.
Miami is kinda sketchy too... it's been awhile since they were relevant.

It's been a few years yet since USC, and it'll be a few years yet til we get OU and Oregon. Even if those two are down, nobody can really argue them imo.
Losing Georgia also hurt imo.
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The downside of scheduling conference champs is that they don't always stay on top. What's what UW, Cal, and VaTech were. So you might as well dismiss Texas then based off of what you're going with.


The irony though, is this is coming from a cancellation of UNC which has never been known as a good football team. (Which hasn't won a conference championship since 1980)
 
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jlb1705 said:
That much is clear.

With the 9-game schedule, every other year the Buckeyes would play five games on the road in the B1G. Because home games are so lucrative for Ohio State, you're not going to see them play more than that number of road games in a season unless it is a true marquee OOC opponent. North Carolina is not a marquee opponent. They are a basketball school. They weren't replaced with a marquee opponent, but they converted a road game to a home game.

Playing UNC hardly benefits recruiting. Sure, the Buckeyes are going to want to recruit in that state, but you can't host visitors when you're on the road.
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I get the desire for the home game, that part is easy. I just would have preferred they push out the UNC away game if possible and keep it on the schedule. Given what we have seen in variability in team strength when scheduling so far in advance, UNC would be an OK place to play. Cal was a dumpster fire, Washington wasn't that great, and even VaTech isn't the VT of a few years ago. So if we are going to have to endure the variability in team strength, why not at least play in areas that are good for recruiting.

Perhaps UNC wouldn't have wanted the game in CH to be pushed out however many years needed, but I didn't see where OSU made that offer.
 
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Coqui said:
The downside of scheduling conference champs is that they don't always stay on top. What's what UW, Cal, and VaTech were. So you might as well dismiss Texas then based off of what you're going with.


The irony though, is this is coming from a cancellation of UNC which has never been known as a good football team. (Which hasn't won a conference championship since 1980)
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Like I was saying before, though, perception is more important than results. I know it doesn't "make sense", but at what point have the polls ever made sense? And I can't see the Shadow Council being a step towards logic.
We could've played Texas last year and taken it to the bank... even though they were not very good.
But Cal et. al. will only count in your favor if they're good *that* year. Nobody will give us credit if we beat VTech and they proceed to take a dump in ACC play.

If you read back, I didn't have an issue with dropping UNC. I was just commenting that the marquee level has fallen off a bit lately.
 
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kujirakira said:
If you read back, I didn't have an issue with dropping UNC. I was just commenting that the marquee level has fallen off a bit lately.
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It's not by choice though. The only consistently decent teams I can think of are Ohio State, Oregon, and Alabama. Everyone else has had bad down years if you go back 6 years (which is somewhat around the time you would be scheduling these marquee games)

TCU had a nice stint of top 10 finishes (which is probably why OSU scheduled them), we already have Oregon on our schedule, and 'Bama won't play in the 'Shoe.
 
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Coqui said:
It's not by choice though. The only consistently decent teams I can think of are Ohio State, Oregon, and Alabama. Everyone else has had bad down years if you go back 6 years (which is somewhat around the time you would be scheduling these marquee games)

TCU had a nice stint of top 10 finishes (which is probably why OSU scheduled them), we already have Oregon on our schedule, and 'Bama won't play in the 'Shoe.
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Again, perception != results.

TCU has no perception despite some results.
USC and Texas have that perception. Miami debatable... they've been losing it lately imo after a very long time of irrelevancy.
We'll always get credit from irrational decision makers for Georgia, USC, Texas, Oregon, Auburn, Bama, Florida, LSU, etc. ... doesn't matter what their current record is.
VTech, Cal, UW, CU, etc. ... we will only get credit if they're Top25 at the time we play them *and* at the end of the year.

It doesn't make sense, because it has only a tenuous connection to results. But that's how perceptions work.
 
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Texas & Notre Dame both booked for 2022 & 2023 seems a solid complement to the inevitable 10-game B1G schedule.

The cynic in me wonders if that means the Texas series is at risk ...
 
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