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We'll be dealing you an opening night loss on 9/3/11 in the Cowboys Classic.

I was kinda hoping that open date wouldn't result in Idaho, or any other such stupidity.

Actually, next year's OOC is LSU, Nevada, and Utah.

A little help here, Dins...

When does your game against the Utes become officially in-conference?

Everything I've read so far says that Utah is playing a Pac schedule next year, but the only games that I've seen officially scheduled by the Utes next season are against Iowa State, Boise, Pittsburgh, and your Ducks.

That is, unless Oregon recently joined the Mountain West and I missed the news conference...

I'm not sure how that shit is working, frankly.

Pretty sure next year's Utah game was the away side of an H&H... just to make it interesting, I guess.

But I suppose that messes with the schedule, since it's not really an OOC game anymore, like it was scheduled.

But there's already 9 conf. games scheduled next year.

I'm sure some PAC official can explain this in the next few months.

10 conference games, maybe? But then again -- what if Oregon and Utah and a 3rd team tie for the best record? Kinda messes with the tiebreaker.

Confusing shit.

I've asked around, and no one seems to be able to answer the Oregon vs Utah question.

Since it's scheduled, it would seem to make sense to call it a PAC game, drop a game (since it hasn't been scheduled yet) against a team from the other PAC division, and give Oregon an extra OOC game -- which will be tough to schedule this late.