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Post by showyourgold on Jul 18, 2014 11:27:06 GMT
I'm not sure that makes sense. It doesn't fulfill the SEC mandate of playing a game every season against a team from a "BCS" conference.
The Southeastern Conference recently mandated that each member school play at least one non-conference game against an opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 or Pac 12 beginning in 2016. Houston, which is a member of the American Athletic Conference, will not fulfill that obligation for Vanderbilt in the 2021 meeting.
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Post by jones2mitchell on Jul 18, 2014 13:05:33 GMT
Agreed. We've reverted to the moronic CBJ style of scheduling. CJF left so now the ATH dept is in control of scheduling and is screwing it to pieces. The return game in this series isn't until 2021 or something red oculus like that! Oh, and VU opens at Middle next year.......real smart VU. I can't wait for that one..not really.
Seriously worried about who is scheduling games now. Xcjf had control of that. I'm not sure Mason does.
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Post by opendorepolicy on Jul 18, 2014 16:25:38 GMT
I'm personally excited about playing somebody that draws more interest than Old Dominion or Charleston Southern. Houston is still a team that we should absolutely take care of but it capable of winning games against quality opponents. It looks good if we beat them and they turn around and surprise another good team.
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Post by jones2mitchell on Jul 18, 2014 17:31:32 GMT
The part that looks bad is that they are not in a BCS conference so a win vs them counts just as much as a win over Old Dominion. In addition the amount of years between the return visit is just bush league and not something any other SEC school would do.
BTW ODU might not interest you but they have one of the best returning QB's in college football. He's really good.
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Post by opendorepolicy on Jul 18, 2014 17:45:55 GMT
Every game interests me and I'll be watching. I didn't realize they had a really good QB so I'll be sure to keep an eye on him.
Technically, all the games count the same, it's just a more noticable team. I also attribute it to the difficulty of changing schedules on such short notice, which is very difficult.
And we can avoid the big payout to a smaller program.
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Post by jones2mitchell on Jul 18, 2014 18:37:17 GMT
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Post by vuphil on Jul 18, 2014 18:53:08 GMT
A should be win against a should be bowl team. I guess I'm ok with it.
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