College Football Scheduling
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.
This kind of wild variation of scheduling makes the game unfair. The NCAA or BCS need to step up and fix this.
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