Wyoming, North Texas added to the 2017 Non-con

[ohhawk]

There's been pretty good participation by a majority of BIG teams to ramp up their non- conf schedules going forward...........under the directive of the BIG commish. I would not put Iowa on that list unless you believe ISU, Pitt (off the schedule in a couple years), ND State, N. Texas, Wyoming, etc are marquee reputation building games.

A few examples from our divisional colleague's non conf opponents going forward.....

MSU..........Oregon, ND, USF
WI........LSU, Alabama, Washington
NE.....U of Miami, Oregon, BYU,
NW........Cal, ND, Stanford
IL.......Washington, N. Carolina
MN.......TCU, Oregon State

I'm not in the camp that would call Barta aggressive with his scheduling at this point. Looks like a lot of games where we have little to gain but much to lose.

 

[1977Hawkeye]

If this was college basketball, let's just say I'd be concerned about our non-conference SOS.

"Agressive"... LOL. The games with Pitt are OK, but other than that....

 

[74Hunter]

That and the 2014 schedule sucks with two byes in October.

Barta is an idiot for the two byes.

Not much can be done about it if you want to start play on Labor Day weekend, as the majoirty of college football does. It has more to do with how the calendar lays out, playing Labor Day weekend while having the CCG and Black Friday when they fall.

 

[kicker22]

Iowa schedules more aggressively than most BCS teams. Research what other teams do.

I totally understand that and I think its a joke who other programs schedule OOC. That said I think calling our scheduling "pretty aggressive" after adding Wyoming and North Texas to the schedule is a little humorous.

 

[ICHawk24]

I totally understand that and I think its a joke who other programs schedule OOC. That said I think calling our scheduling "pretty aggressive" after adding Wyoming and North Texas to the schedule is a little humorous.

He was asked about the schedule, and he answered honestly. Too bad most fans are dipshits, see this thread.

 

[guffus]

This is never ever going to happen. No team in the country plays one non-BCS team per year. NONE. Very very few ever have a schedule with two non-BCS teams, I'm not even sure that happens.

You seem quite certain about this which is surprising. USC is very famous for playing little or no cupcakes. They play 9 conference games, plus ND, plus usually 2 other decent teams. Just look at their 2012 schedule. Only non-bcs team was Hawaii. In fact many PAC-12 teams have 11 bcs teams on the schedule. Look at Oregon in 2013. Once every conference starts playing 9 games, you will start to see this type of scheduling a lot.

But why am I looking at the Pac-12. even Iowa state did it in 2011. Played 11 BCS teams plus UNI.

 

[ICHawk24]

You seem quite certain about this which is surprising. USC is very famous for playing little or no cupcakes. They play 9 conference games, plus ND, plus usually 2 other decent teams. Just look at their 2012 schedule. Only non-bcs team was Hawaii. In fact many PAC-12 teams have 11 bcs teams on the schedule. Look at Oregon in 2013. Once every conference starts playing 9 games, you will start to see this type of scheduling a lot.

But why am I looking at the Pac-12. even Iowa state did it in 2011. Played 11 BCS teams plus UNI.

Thank you for finding two individual seasons where a team played one non-BCS team. Great work showing that outliers do exist.

 

[guffus]

Thank you for finding two individual seasons where a team played one non-BCS team. Great work showing that outliers do exist.

Your very welcome but it was 3 teams actually and that was just off the top of my head. USC, Oregon, Iowa State in the last 3 years. I am sure more will come.

If the ACC goes to 9 games and sticks with the Notre Dame scheduling agreement, there will be years when Clemson, FSU, Georgia Tech, and Louisville will have to schedule 11 power conference teams because of in-state rival games.

 

[seepig]

There's been pretty good participation by a majority of BIG teams to ramp up their non- conf schedules going forward...........under the directive of the BIG commish. I would not put Iowa on that list unless you believe ISU, Pitt (off the schedule in a couple years), ND State, N. Texas, Wyoming, etc are marquee reputation building games.

A few examples from our divisional colleague's non conf opponents going forward.....

Kirk is afraid to play those teams because it would mean that he has to go better than 4-4 in conference play to become bowl eligible. Having said that NDSU is likely an L in 2016. I'm calling it now the BIZON beat us in 2016. No idea why we would put WYOMING on the schedule instead of Boise St. or Fresno St....even Air Force would be more of an attraction than Wyoming.

MSU..........Oregon, ND, USF
WI........LSU, Alabama, Washington
NE.....U of Miami, Oregon, BYU,
NW........Cal, ND, Stanford
IL.......Washington, N. Carolina
MN.......TCU, Oregon State

I'm not in the camp that would call Barta aggressive with his scheduling at this point. Looks like a lot of games where we have little to gain but much to lose.

 

[HawkeyeMHA]

I have an in-law who happens to be the offensive coordinator at South Dakota, and this past Xmas bowl season made the claim that ndsu would have beaten the hawks this year, I think he said "smoked" us. Yeah yeah they are good, but I ain't allowing that type of blanket statement about my hawks from an fbs school. Prove it tuffy. Until then, you are little brother