What is with all of these OOC opponents we play crapping the bed every year

#26
#26
Rocky Top T said:
Wrong, they might play a average team at best, the other 3 are cupcakes
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They schedule P4 teams every season

From the 60s-early 2000s they played almost everyone in P4, with 1-2 really good midmajors and a creampuff

The only difference in now and then is they play 1 P4, 1 decent midmajor and 1-2 creampuffs which will drop to 1 with the new conference schedule

They had USC, Ohio State, Nebraska all cancel on them this decade and still found good ACC programs to replace them in a moment's notice

So try harder with that BS
 
#28
#28
farmdogvol said:
Most of the OOC games are scheduled 4-5 years out, hard to predict how good anybody will be.
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True. However, for many years now we've been selectively scheduling P4 conference opponents that have long-established histories of being mediocre, at their best, and generally considered in the lower tier of their conference.
 
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farmdogvol said:
Most of the OOC games are scheduled 4-5 years out, hard to predict how good anybody will be.
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Yeah, this is biggest issue. A lot of them are even scheduled further than that. Tennessee already has a home and home on the books with Washington for 2029/2030, that were scheduled back in 2022.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
They schedule P4 teams every season

From the 60s-early 2000s they played almost everyone in P4, with 1-2 really good midmajors and a creampuff

The only difference in now and then is they play 1 P4, 1 decent midmajor and 1-2 creampuffs which will drop to 1 with the new conference schedule

They had USC, Ohio State, Nebraska all cancel on them this decade and still found good ACC programs to replace them in a moment's notice

So try harder with that BS
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I see you are a tough guy 😔
 
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#43
Lekvolrrah said:
I'd love to see that notre dame series revived.
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Rickyvol77 said:
it'd be nice but I don't think Tennessee will schedule Notre Dame in late November anymore.

It would have to be early in the season
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Vol423 said:
Neither Notre Dame nor Tennessee's administrations have the stones to schedule that game.
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It's also a little harder to schedule with Notre Dame than it used to be.

It used to be Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, Navy, USC, Pittsburgh, and starting in the 1990s Boston College were the only mostly-set-in-stone games on Notre Dame's 11-12 game schedule each year, so there were 5-6 spots open they could schedule with other teams each year (and honestly, the BC series wasn't a thing until the 1990s and the Pitt had some small one year gaps, so some of those years it was really more like 6-7 open schedule spots).

Now that the rest of their sports are housed in the ACC, the Fighting Irish have to play 5 ACC teams each season, along with yearly mostly-set-in-stone games with Navy, USC, and Stanford (they want to make sure they're playing out in California, given the school's brand presence in San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as how they recruit the state). Compared to the open spots they used to have, it's really only like 2 open spots (because let's be fair, in modern day college football, like everyone else they're not going to pass on scheduling an FCS team and one midmajor/group of 5 team...so those 8 set spots really are more like 10 fixed schedule spots) that a Big10/SEC/Big12 team can try to appeal to them for scheduling a home-and-home series.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
They scheduled Ohio State, USC, Washington, Syracuse, Ga Tech, Oklahoma, Nebraska, WVU, NC State, Virginia, Pittsburgh, BYU, Virginia Tech, Oregon just in the last 15 seasons...

who would you prefer?
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I said recently. We also don’t have a traditional power 4 opponent like several SEC schools.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Still, you think they would at least be competitive. Not only are they not winning games in the ACC, they are getting blown out like clowns.

We are being trolled now (rightly fully) because our wins are all against teams that can't win conference games.
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Their starting QB is out for the season.
 
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