Tough OOC Schedules

[Goober McTuber]

What an interesting idea for a thread.

[Degenerate]

For a couple of years in the early to mid '90s, Florida State's OOC consisted of Miami, Notre Dame, and Florida. One of those was the '93 MNC team*.

* yes i know they also whipped KU in the Kickoff Classic

edit: In the early '00s, I remember the 'Canes playing Florida and Tennessee in the same year, in addition to FSU. In '02, they waxed UF and UT both on the road.

[Dinsdale]

Next year's "OOC" --

LSU
Nevada
Utah*

* -- Not sure Utah is joining the PAC next year or 2012. But that was a H&H scheduled a few years ago.

Toss out the conference confusion, and that's a pretty nice OOC slate.

[Goober McTuber]

What an interesting idea for a thread.

I was reading a piece this morning that mentioned that Bama schedule and I was like "SHIT!" You don't see that these days. Don't guess we ever will again either.

Is it too much to ask for just one big game every season? Glad to have PSU back on ours.

I agree with the premise. It just seems that we see some similar OOC schedule thread thread just about every week.

[L45B]

The 1990 Colorado team that won the MNC played Tennessee, Stanford, Illinois, Texas & Washington in non-conference play.

[SEC! SEC! SEC!]

Graveyard Shift Bedpan Nurse Academy Atomic Punks @ home
Mississippi State Penn Bulldykes @ home
Middle Tennessee School for the Blind Roamers @ home
Eastern Florida Disabled Vet Institute Hoppers@ home
MEATGRINDER!

[King Crimson]

Colorado's 1990 split NC team played (Big 8 schedule, UT OOC):

(rank)
Tennessee #8 (Pigskin Classic--Anaheim)
Stanford (with Tommy Vardell and Glyn Milburn) NR
@Illinois #21
@Texas #22
Washington #12

When UT was a non-con, OU had some tough OOC's with USC, Ohio State, UCLA, Pitt, SMU, FSU, Miami (FL) on the slate in addition to UT....to name some teams i saw in person. Also, of note: I saw Stanford with Elway (OU loses in the rain), WVU with Hostetler (OU still doesn't understand the forward pass....loses), and UNC with LT (dirty player, UNC talked a lot of shit before the game coming in with a #6 ranking....OU wins 44-6 or something)

71 (for example...but before my time):
SMU
@Pitt
USC
Texas

[Screw_Michigan]

The SECBSH troll has been over-used and is stagnate. What to do? Create another one.

Are 2 shit trolls better than 1?

Jealous much? Fucking tard.

[Goober McTuber]

Fine, if we’re talking historically I’ll play. Back when I attended UW, (1970-74) UW played 3 OOC games per season. Opponents included Oklahoma, Penn State, Syracuse (twice), LSU (twice), Colorado (twice) Nebraska (twice) and Missouri. I believe we won 4 of those 11 games, including a 21-20 win over then #4 Nebraska in 1974.

[WolverineSteve]

1985
ND, @ S.Carolina, Maryland

1986
@ND,Oregon State, FSU (Homecoming )

1988
@ND, Miami (FL), Wake Forrest

1989
ND, @UCLA, Maryland

1991
@BC, ND, FSU

1994
BC, @ND, Colorado (don't remember what happened in this game)

1996
@Colorado, BC, UCLA

It was shortly after this era that UM instituted the 1 good opponent and 2 cupcakes method. They would still venture out west to play at Oregon, UCLA, Washington, but lost more than they won. Thus came the Notre Dame and 2 (now 3 with the expanded schedule) cupcakes. It's all about money. The conferences want as many bowl eligible teams as possible in order to make the most money. Nobody likes it but it's the reality of the sport today.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I thought all the big boys played each other back then? In 2015, I believe it is, MSU has got Bama, USF, and ND on the slate. Not too shabby.

[MuchoBulls]

I thought all the big boys played each other back then? In 2015, I believe it is, MSU has got Bama, USF, and ND on the slate. Not too shabby.

We're there in 2013 and MSU returns the game in 2017

[WolverineSteve]

I thought all the big boys played each other back then? In 2015, I believe it is, MSU has got Bama, USF, and ND on the slate. Not too shabby.

There were a lot more good OOC games in the 70's and 80's. UM played OU, aTm, etc. The 2015 schedule would be tough but bama will be on probation by then, USF will be the 6th best team in Florida, and ND will be breaking in a new head coach. But when the contracts were signed it certainly looked good.

[SoCalTrjn]

CFDW is down but USC never plays non 1A teams, one of a very few teams to still not have done so. They also dont play service academies or Sun Belt teams.
They only get 3 OOC games except in years where they travel to Hawaii when they get the extra game
This year
@ Hawaii, Virginia, @ Minnesota, Notre Dame
last year
San Jose State, @ Ohio State, @ Notre Dame
2008
@ Virginia, Ohio State, Notre Dame
2007
Idaho, @ Nebraska, @ Notre Dame
2006
@ Arkansas, Nebraska, Notre Dame
2005
@ Hawaii, Arkansas, @ Notre Dame, Fresno State
2004
@ Virginia Tech, Colorado State, @ BYU, Notre Dame
2003
@ Auburn, BYU, Hawaii, @ Notre Dame
2002
Auburn, @ Colorado, @ Kansas State, Notre Dame

In NONE of those seasons did USC have more home games than away games

[King Crimson]

There were a lot more good OOC games in the 70's and 80's. UM played OU, aTm, etc. The 2015 schedule would be tough but bama will be on probation by then, USF will be the 6th best team in Florida, and ND will be breaking in a new head coach. But when the contracts were signed it certainly looked good.

to my knowledge, Oklahoma and Michigan have played only one time. the 75/76 Orange Bowl.

edit: yup.

http://soonerstats.com/football/series/ ... m?oppid=97

[Screw_Michigan]

CFDW is down but USC never plays non 1A teams, one of a very few teams to still not have done so. They also dont play service academies or Sun Belt teams.
They only get 3 OOC games except in years where they travel to Hawaii when they get the extra game

In NONE of those seasons did USC have more home games than away games

Stop the sanctimonious fucking bullshit already. Christ, you're pathetic.

[Goober McTuber]

CFDW is down but USC never plays non 1A teams, one of a very few teams to still not have done so. They also dont play service academies or Sun Belt teams.
They only get 3 OOC games except in years where they travel to Hawaii when they get the extra game
This year
@ Hawaii, Virginia, @ Minnesota, Notre Dame
last year
San Jose State, @ Ohio State, @ Notre Dame
2008
@ Virginia, Ohio State, Notre Dame
2007
Idaho, @ Nebraska, @ Notre Dame
2006
@ Arkansas, Nebraska, Notre Dame
2005
@ Hawaii, Arkansas, @ Notre Dame, Fresno State
2004
@ Virginia Tech, Colorado State, @ BYU, Notre Dame
2003
@ Auburn, BYU, Hawaii, @ Notre Dame
2002
Auburn, @ Colorado, @ Kansas State, Notre Dame

In NONE of those seasons did USC have more home games than away games

They are also a private college with deep pockets. Go fuck yourself. Or un-fuck yourself. Your choice.

[Bucmonkey]

Is SoCaL really Nye?

[SoCalTrjn]

You guys want to know who plays what kind of OOC schedules and some of you pointed out that to stay competitive your schools have started scheduling cup cakes. Then when I post USCs OOC schedules pointing out that they play 6 home and 6 road nearly every season (this season having 13 scheduled games, the trojans will play 6 home games and 7 road games) and you call me sanctimonious or make an excuse about USC being a private school, by the way... Notre Dame, Miami, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Rice, Texas Christian, BYU... are also all private schools, how many of them are willing to play all 1A schools and more road than home games?

[SoCalTrjn]

Charles Barkley stated last week that he was getting paid by as many as 3 agents while he was a student at Auburn and the school knew about it. Auburn is just as guilty of cheating as USC, maybe 3 times as bad since Barkley was getting money directly from 3 times as many sources as Lamar Griffen was getting money from.

[The Seer]

I'll challenge any school's OOC schedule the past 20 years to UCLA's...

[War Wagon]

The 1990 Colorado team that won the MNC played Tennessee, Stanford, Illinois, Texas & Washington in non-conference play.

I still think Ga. Tech would have beaten Colorado that year. The coaches did, too.

Mizzou did beat them that year.