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August 17, 2007

College Football Scheduling

Filed under: Football | by bedir @ 10:22 am

College Football is a sport with so much inequity in scheduling that sometimes I wonder why the NCAA or BCS allow the gimmicks that some Universities pull in their non-Conference calendar. Take the University of Florida Gators, they have four games outside of the SEC this coming season. Each game is at home, and besides the annual match-up against the Seminoles the other three are against non-BCS conference teams, and ones that aren’t that good at that. They host Western Kentucky, Troy and Florida Atlantic. While the SEC is a strong, possibly the strongest Conference, how does that schedule compare to say a mediocre PAC-10 team?

The University of Washington Huskies schedule is possibly the toughest out there. They open against a Big East squad 3,000 or so miles from home. While Syracuse isn’t very good, it is a long trip to open the season for a team in a BCS conference. Just over a week later the Huskies get to return home, but where many teams would plan to face a weaker club, the thought in some office in Seattle was to face Boise State (BCS qualified last year) and after that the OSU Buckeyes (BCS team). Within the PAC-10 season the U-dub faces USC (a the pros that play in college). The Dawgs end the season with another very long trip going all the way out to Hawaii to face a Heisman candidate after that trip.

Should the NCAA or BCS make an attempt to balance the schedules? Or is the current practice the best for the game? Anwer in the thread

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