I was being sarcastic with Miami and I hope you are too, the program stinks right now. And really you include Cal and North Carolina as tough out of conference matchups. Some of those so called scheduled games are 6-8 years out. Georgia is in 2020 and 2021. Thats really sticking it to the SEC to prove it. Virginia Tech another ACC team. I'll concede Oregon and Georgia in this decade, but 8-9 years out, cmon. This isn't the NFL where the schedule is set in the main office based on divisions and strength of schedule for the following year. The Ohio plays doormat teams because they choose to play garbage teams. If they come from a week division which they can't control, choose to play real teams with your 3-4 non conference team slots. Dont base your arguments on teams you will play in the 2020's.
Dude are you from Earth? You are bagging on the only program who plays marquee out of conference games every year. These are scheduled 10 to 15 years ahead of time, you cannot forecast what quality the programs will be at when the games finally come. You will concede Oregon and Georgia but not Texas, Southern Cal, Oklahoma, etc etc... Virginia Tech is consistently the best program in the ACC. You are just hating, not being rational. I see not point in discussing with you any further unless you want to be real.
Hey NC dont go back and edit your posts after a rebuttal, thats weak. Keep it up front. It was asked what out of conference games OSU scheduled I answered the question.
Fact is your argument is baseless. You say tOSU plays doormat out of conference. I asked you to name anyone... Any one program that schedules more out of conference bcs conference opponents. You came up with a lame duck ND response.
I didn't mean to edit, I think you quoted and virtually the same time I was editing prior to posting. Now back to the schedule. so using your logic, when you set this schedule in 2003 Ohio Miami, UCF and UAB were powerhouses in their respective conferences and were deemed schedule worthy for such a mighty program.
Actually thats the argument The Ohio uses years after year for playing in a weak conference. Keep scheduling Vandy, UAB, UCF etc. Whats next ECU and Coastal Carolina. Play Oregon, Alabama, USC, hell Texas year in and year out an I'll give you a pass. Nothing in your discussion discredits my observations.
I never said they play 4 BCS out of conference opponents per year. I said one. Some years two. You cannot run an athletic department playing home and home series with every opponent. A major program needs 8 or 9 home games a year to fund all of their varsity sports. If they played a home and home series with all 12 opponents that's only 6 home games. Can't pay the bills with that.
That's impossible. You obviously do not understand the logistics of college football. Most programs do not want to play good out of conference teams. Go look at other teams yearly out of conference schedule. You will see a good game here and there, thats about it.
That's why more and more big game matchups are going neutral site. Split the revenue 50/50. OSU has typically a better ooc schedule than most tho, ill give them that. Most SEC teams seem to want one huge game and then home game cupcakes to offset their brutal conference schedules
The problem with to many neutral site games is getting the fan bases to travel for a regular season game. It's expensive.
Hence Michigan/Alabama in Dallas. Btw they dont care about fans filling the stadium they only care about Television contracts. Its a far cry from what it started out as, and its time to have a governing body treat it like what it is, Minor League NFL.
You must be kidding.... $70 per ticket X 105,000= $7,350,000 $7,350,000 X 9 home games= $66,150,000 Yeah, ticket sales mean nothing... That does not include concessions or shirts, hats etc.
Seems like we go through this every year... Whole bowl selection process is an absolute joke. Only thing more irritating is the fact that it's pretty much turned into an "all ESPN bowl schedule". Out of 30+ bowls, only 3 aren't on some flavor of ESPN - ABC, CBS and FOX each have ONE bowl! The 'public' networks just can't compete... Best part is - anyone paying for cable internet and cable in general gets to pay for it... ESPN has figured out that they can pay whatever it takes to get the games - the extra cost of their billion dollar contracts are just passed directly to us...
Here in a few James Quick is going to choose between the ville and Ohio State at the Army All American bowl... I feel he ends up in the ville.
