Big10 to stop scheduling FCS schools

aeromech

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Auburn is a conference game. They played Michigan as well, that while not a great team , is a öööö good OOC game.
Alabama isn't the team to look at for ööööty OOC games. Look to teams like arkansas that play Rutgers, Tulsa, Jax St, ULM. Now THAT, is a ööööö OOC slate.
Yes, but according to the post I was responding to, Alabama should have been stomped in the MNC game.
 

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This may be disadvantageous to them competitively in some ways, but it strikes at the heart of a perceived problem in college football that has reared its ugly head further in the expansion era: teams are playing too many games that the fans and players don't care about at all, at the same time as many of them are dropping historical rivalries and traditions. It's a small step for the B1G towards building a more exciting brand capable of competing with the SEC, which trumpets its tough scheduling and fan interest in recruiting battles and TV deals.

Of course, what remains to be seen is which teams actually fill in for those FCS games. Bowling Green probably isn't going to draw much more fan excitement than Texas St, but there are a lot of opportunities to schedule teams like So Miss and ECU which even if they aren't marquee matchups bring a lot more to the table than the 450th school to use the 'bulldawgs' as a mascott. I don't know if there's enough scheduling room at the bottom of the FBS for all fourtwelven teams in the B1G to grab a crappy matchup every year. We'll see though.
Out of the almost 15,000 posts, on rare occasion you find one worth a öööö. This one is like #10.
 

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Y'all realize that if we stopped playing FCS schools we wouldn't just replace them with a top opponent, right? We'd end up playing an awful MAC or WAC team or something.
Or worse, we'd get our teeth kicked in by BYU.
 
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Couldn't the fan interest in SEC football be due to the fact the vast majority of those large state schools are located in cultural backwaters?
 

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Without FCS games we'd have a losing record over the past three seasons and an actual losing record two of the three.
 

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Without FCS games we'd have a losing record over the past three seasons and an actual losing record two of the three.
That's assuming we didn't play anyone in their place or that we lost to whomever replaced them.
 

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If I was the Big 10, then I would rather schedule MAC teams than face Ga. Sou., App State, JMU, or Richmond.
 

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Auburn is a conference game. They played Michigan as well, that while not a great team , is a öööö good OOC game.
Alabama isn't the team to look at for ööööty OOC games. Look to teams like arkansas that play Rutgers, Tulsa, Jax St, ULM. Now THAT, is a ööööö OOC slate.
Didn't Rutgers, Tulsa & ULM all make it to bowl games? Not that that's saying much.
However you slice it, I wouldn't call it ööööty
 

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The only way that this would matter is if the BCS starts to take into account the strength of schedule. Ever since they removed that criteria, you could schedule 4-5 awful OOC games and win the others, and you'd be in a BCS game. The NCAA knows what gets ratings, and as long as the SEC are in ESPN and the NCAA's pocket, this won't be an issue.
 

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The only way that this would matter is if the BCS starts to take into account the strength of schedule. Ever since they removed that criteria, you could schedule 4-5 awful OOC games and win the others, and you'd be in a BCS game. The NCAA knows what gets ratings, and as long as the SEC are in ESPN and the NCAA's pocket, this won't be an issue.
They do take into account strength of schedule.
 
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Our AD needs to take into account that scheduling interesting games will help fill the stands and will get players (recruits) excited about playing here.
 
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