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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

I doubt we play any away games in the OOC going forward in-state. We're not going to play SMU or Rice away from DKR. We don't need to go to Dallas as that's an annual event. The one off with UCLA was because they wanted to play a neutral site in Arlington. I doubt we have any desire to play at JerryWorld ever again outside of the playoff. 

Be careful about certainties, but I think you are correct as long as competence is in favor in the AD. 

I think the 3rd OOC game is just going to be a sign of the times. If hard schedules get rewarded, maybe another P4 is on the roster. Otherwise, I assume it’s just going to be a middling G6 team. Something like Kennesaw State or Kent State is going to be a problem for people. What seems to be misunderstood is that a bowl team like San Jose State hasn’t been roasted as a home field opponent this cycle. 

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23 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Be careful about certainties, but I think you are correct as long as competence is in favor in the AD. 

I think the 3rd OOC game is just going to be a sign of the times. If hard schedules get rewarded, maybe another P4 is on the roster. Otherwise, I assume it’s just going to be a middling G6 team. Something like Kennesaw State or Kent State is going to be a problem for people. What seems to be misunderstood is that a bowl team like San Jose State hasn’t been roasted as a home field opponent this cycle. 

We can get recommendations from aggy!

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Posted
11 hours ago, closetojumping said:

I think the 3rd OOC game is just going to be a sign of the times. If hard schedules get rewarded, maybe another P4 is on the roster. Otherwise, I assume it’s just going to be a middling G6 team. Something like Kennesaw State or Kent State is going to be a problem for people. What seems to be misunderstood is that a bowl team like San Jose State hasn’t been roasted as a home field opponent this cycle. 

No one complains about last year's Colorado State either, who ended up 8-4 and bowl bound.  Our scheduling since 2022 has been exactly what I think we should aspire for. 

P4 name team (Alabama, Michigan State, Ohio State, upcoming games with ND)
In-state G5 (UTEP, UTSA with some sprinkling of Rice and TXST)
G5 bowl team (Memphis, UNLV, JMU, Georgia Southern type team) or a sucky P4 team (Rutgers, Stanford, Minnesota, etc., but still P4, so we get credit for an 11-game P4 schedule) 

2026 is a double Texas OOC (UTSA/TXST), which I think fans will love

2027 and 2029 have the middling G6 teams you mentioned that fans will kind of hate (LA Tech and ULM)

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

No one complains about last year's Colorado State either, who ended up 8-4 and bowl bound.  Our scheduling since 2022 has been exactly what I think we should aspire for. 

P4 name team (Alabama, Michigan State, Ohio State, upcoming games with ND)
In-state G5 (UTEP, UTSA with some sprinkling of Rice and TXST)
G5 bowl team (Memphis, UNLV, JMU, Georgia Southern type team) or a sucky P4 team (Rutgers, Stanford, Minnesota, etc., but still P4, so we get credit for an 11-game P4 schedule) 

2026 is a double Texas OOC (UTSA/TXST), which I think fans will love

2027 and 2029 have the middling G6 teams you mentioned that fans will kind of hate (LA Tech and ULM)

Next years OOC is going to be fun with all three games at home to start the season.  My youngest will be a Junior at Texas State next fall so it will be house divided for one day and one day only.   

Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

No one complains about last year's Colorado State either, who ended up 8-4 and bowl bound.  Our scheduling since 2022 has been exactly what I think we should aspire for. 

P4 name team (Alabama, Michigan State, Ohio State, upcoming games with ND)
In-state G5 (UTEP, UTSA with some sprinkling of Rice and TXST)
G5 bowl team (Memphis, UNLV, JMU, Georgia Southern type team) or a sucky P4 team (Rutgers, Stanford, Minnesota, etc., but still P4, so we get credit for an 11-game P4 schedule) 

2026 is a double Texas OOC (UTSA/TXST), which I think fans will love

2027 and 2029 have the middling G6 teams you mentioned that fans will kind of hate (LA Tech and ULM)

If it's a given that we are going to play an in-state G6 opponent each year - and apparently it is - I HATE the 2nd nobody G6 opponent. Please, no La Tech, ULM, New Mexico, etc. Instead, give me a G6 bowl team, upper PAC-12, low level P4. 

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2 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

If it's a given that we are going to play an in-state G6 opponent each year - and apparently it is - I HATE the 2nd nobody G6 opponent. Please, no La Tech, ULM, New Mexico, etc. Instead, give me a G6 bowl team, upper PAC-12, low level P4. 

I agree. The nobody G6 opponent is lame and boring. A G6 bowl team or low level P4 team is more interesting. You get more credit for beating either a bowl eligible G6 team or having 11 P4 games, even if the 11th game is Stanford or Boston College or Cincinnati 

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I think it depends.  If we are playing Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan types for one of our nonconference games, I do not care if we play UTEP/UTSA/Rice plus another weak g5 team.  Does not matter.

If we are playing ASU, maybe we want to play a lower P4 plus UTEP/UTSA/Rice.

Posted
2 minutes ago, alincoln said:

Won’t P4s require a home and home series? I think we will always schedule 1 blue blood P4 and two G5s. 

Yes and that's what we want to happen. That's also why we're not playing Big 12 teams for a while other than the newbies. We don't need to go to Lubbock or Stillwater again for a while. G5s will come to Austin only. Next we'll see if the Big 10 wants to do a scheduling alliance with the SEC which is fine with me as long as we're going west or playing the better opponents like Penn State and Wisconsin. We also haven't really scratched the surface on ACC teams. There's plenty of good options like Clemson who doesn't seem worried about playing a couple of SEC teams every year. 

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14 hours ago, Js1 said:

I agree. The nobody G6 opponent is lame and boring. A G6 bowl team or low level P4 team is more interesting. You get more credit for beating either a bowl eligible G6 team or having 11 P4 games, even if the 11th game is Stanford or Boston College or Cincinnati 

This is very similar to Cal, Maryland, and BYU…how’d that work out for us again?

Posted
4 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

This is very similar to Cal, Maryland, and BYU…how’d that work out for us again?

Tom Herman can’t hurt you anymore 

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Posted
19 hours ago, alincoln said:

Won’t P4s require a home and home series? I think we will always schedule 1 blue blood P4 and two G5s. 

P4's should tell us and other SEC teams to get fucked if we won't schedule a game at their place.

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Posted
7 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

This is very similar to Cal, Maryland, and BYU…how’d that work out for us again?

 Maryland had never scored a point on Texas until Herman got here. He’s gone now. 

Posted
3 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

P4's should tell us and other SEC teams to get fucked if we won't schedule a game at their place.

That may depend on how many research dollars have been cancelled from a university. For example, it looks like Purdue has $13 million cancelled. Indiana University $10 million. Minnesota $23 million. Iowa - $9 million.  This list goes on and on.

We go to them and say, we will not play home and home, but if you come to Austin we will through $1 million, maybe $1.5 million your way. Maybe we put it on a sliding scale with the amount going up depending on viewership, the number of tickets they sell, etc.

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Bama cancels West Virginia home and home for 2026/2027. Replaces them with East Carolina. Before we crap on Bama, they still have Florida State in 2026 and travel to Ohio State in 2027.

 

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Won't crap on Bama because they already have a marquee P4 team scheduled for those years

They have some decisions to make, as they have two P4 opponents in 2028 (OKST/Ohio State), 2029 (OKST/ND), 2030 (GT/ND), 2031 (GT/BC), 2032 and 2033 (Arizona/Minnesota), 2034 (VT/BC)

I respect their scheduling philosophy - it is a lot like ours.

But them cancelling WV means they will likely not keep two P4 opponents on their schedule in those years

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Posted
21 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Bama cancels West Virginia home and home for 2026/2027. Replaces them with East Carolina. Before we crap on Bama, they still have Florida State in 2026 and travel to Ohio State in 2027.

 

I'm not sure those teams are materially different over the last 5-years. East Carolina generally isn't a bad team. That is a legit opponent. 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Bama cancels West Virginia home and home for 2026/2027. Replaces them with East Carolina. Before we crap on Bama, they still have Florida State in 2026 and travel to Ohio State in 2027.

 

 They just didn’t want wvu and tosu both in ‘27 along with 9 conference games?

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8 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

 They just didn’t want wvu and tosu both in ‘27 along with 9 conference games?

Maybe they were given a heads up on what years they would have more home games so they didn't want to lose a home game by having to go to Morgantown. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Won't crap on Bama because they already have a marquee P4 team scheduled for those years

They have some decisions to make, as they have two P4 opponents in 2028 (OKST/Ohio State), 2029 (OKST/ND), 2030 (GT/ND), 2031 (GT/BC), 2032 and 2033 (Arizona/Minnesota), 2034 (VT/BC)

I respect their scheduling philosophy - it is a lot like ours.

But them cancelling WV means they will likely not keep two P4 opponents on their schedule in those years

I really hope the OKST series isn't cancelled. It's sort of a big deal for us, and we already had a home and home with Clemson cancelled during the last round of realignment. The home-away seems to work out. In 2028 they get Ohio State at home with OKST in Stillwater. In 2029 they go to Notre Dame while OKST is in Tuscaloosa. 

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Likely not getting better in 2025...

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It's been mentioned several times how difficult a path LSU had to the College Football Playoff in 2025. That got magnified even more when the AP Top 25 Poll dropped on Monday. Just like with the Coaches Poll, the Tigers checked in at No. 9 with the AP voters.

Seven of LSU's roadblocks on the schedule also earned a spot in the AP Top 25, and that tied for the most ranked opponents on a team's schedule. The commonality between the other teams that also play seven ranked foes is that they are in the SEC – Oklahoma, Florida and Mississippi State.

Clemson at No. 4 sets up a top-10 road matchup to open the season on August 30. LSU also travels to No. 8 Alabama, No. 18 Oklahoma and No. 21 Ole Miss, while No. 13 South Carolina, No. 15 Florida, and No. 19 Texas A&M travel to Baton Rouge. With 10 SEC programs ranked in the AP Poll, it's not a surprise to see so many schools playing ranked opponents.

Below is a look at the teams that play the most ranked teams in this year's AP Top 25 Poll.

(7) LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Florida

(6) Kentucky, Wisconsin, Arkansas, South Carolina

(5) Texas, Syracuse, Texas A&M, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss

(4) Florida State, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Northwestern, Tennessee, TCU, Washington, Auburn, Missouri, USC, Rutgers

(3) Notre Dame, Miami, Clemson, South Florida, Baylor, Arizona, Utah, Indiana, Penn State, UCLA, Boston College, Louisville, Stanford, Kansas, Colorado, Michigan State, Maryland

Outside of the trip to Clemson's Memorial Stadium, having to go to Tuscaloosa is never easy and is the next most difficult game in Geaux247's rankings. Ole Miss will be a heated atmosphere after LSU's overtime upset last season, and the trip to Oklahoma to close the regular season will be the first in the program's history.

Playing Clemson and Florida in the first three weeks of the season will reveal a lot about Brian Kelly's team in Year 4 of his regime. Those two outcomes will also reveal whether the Tigers are true contenders in 2025. Before it even gets to the Gators in Tiger Stadium, though, Kelly's focus is getting off to a 1-0 start.

"Goals are simple for me. One, they have to be specific. If we want to set goals, I want a specific goal. And that is to be 1-0 and beat Clemson. No. 2, it's gotta be attainable and I knew what roster we were putting together. I know we're going on the road, but it's an attainable goal for our players.

"The third, it's gotta be challenging. Any goal that you set has gotta be worthwhile. It's gotta have a challenge element to it, and this has been the prime mover for our players over the last six months. Then, it has to be self-driven. It's about you and how you do things on a day-to-day basis. Let's put out a goal; let's not talk about anything else but 1-0 against Clemson."

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, Royale with cheese said:

If only there was this global network of linked computers, servers, phones, and smart appliances that facilitate research through the fast exchange of information and files . . .

If only I cared enough to look it up...

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