Tech vs CO already getting attention

[00Burdell]

You mean we need to have a standing game with a major team, like say, UGAg? We've been ahead of this for years. We always play a tough schedule, historically with UGAg and Clemson every year, with Miami, ND, FSU, etc., sprinkled in. It's about time teams like Clemson had to do this and start scheduling tougher opponents more often. It's not about drawing in fans. It's about TV viewership. That's where all the new money is coming from.

In fairness to Clemson, they play the dwags every so often and, of course, USCe who are occasionally reasonably tough.

 

[Supersize that order mutt]

You mean we need to have a standing game with a major team, like say, UGAg? We've been ahead of this for years. We always play a tough schedule, historically with UGAg and Clemson every year, with Miami, ND, FSU, etc., sprinkled in. It's about time teams like Clemson had to do this and start scheduling tougher opponents more often. It's not about drawing in fans. It's about TV viewership. That's where all the new money is coming from.

We didn't play Clemson last year, and with the new way the ACC does things and them not being our primary conference opponent, we probably will not play them as much as we do play them. I would LOVE to see a home-and-home with Auburn and Tennessee, past just the 2 years we have coming up with Tennessee. Those games will draw fans and viewers.

 

[OptionJacket]

We didn't play Clemson last year, and with the new way the ACC does things and them not being our primary conference opponent, we probably will not play them as much as we do play them. I would LOVE to see a home-and-home with Auburn and Tennessee, past just the 2 years we have coming up with Tennessee. Those games will draw fans and viewers.

I get it. But doing that will make our road even harder. We gotta win games to keep winning the recruiting battles. At the end of the day, pre-season polls and talking heads only care about win/loss record. No one ranks a team because they lost 8 close games to ranked teams. If so, we’d be a perennially ranked team.

Why are we all excited for this coming season? Because we have a manageable schedule for the first time in years with only Clemson and UGA as high percentage losses. SMU parlayed their easy schedule into being ranked and getting to a conference championship game and the playoffs which has paid off in recruiting and the portal. No one cares who they played. All they see are the W’s.