College Football Scheduling

[Huckleberry]

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/bohls/entries/2006/03/22/texas_schedules.html

Texas schedules football series against UCLA (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/bohls/entries/2006/03/22/texas_schedules.html)

By Kirk Bohls (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/bohls/entries/2006/03/22/texas_schedules.html#postcomment) | Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 03:30 PM
ATLANTA — Texas finally scheduled somebody besides Sam Houston State in football.

It’s hello, UCLA. But goodbye, Boston College.

Butch Worley, Texas’ associate athletic director, confirmed Wednesday that the Longhorns will play a home-and-home schedule with UCLA. The Bruins will come to Austin in 2010 — we trust it will be a better game than the last time they came around; we’ve almost forgotten that 66-3 trouncing — and Texas will reciprocate with a West Coast trip in 2011.
BC, however, has turned down Texas’ repeated requests for a game, citing the difficult Atlantic Coast Conference schedule it plays. Texas still has openings for 2007.

Asked how many vacancies, Worley said, “A bunch. We’ve got Rice and a bunch.”

Scheduling is only getting harder.

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Too bad Boston College didn't want to play. I would have liked a tie-in to the ACC when it comes to computer rankings for those seasons.

[Poli]

Texas had Ohio State on their schedule IIRC.

[Huckleberry]

Of course you're correct. But that was scheduled a long time ago and there were rumblings that Mack Brown was upset about it and wouldn't have minded the series being canceled in his pre-Vince Young wussified days.

I think he scheduled it right after he got here. 1998 or so? When Ohio State was Top 5 every year. But then he got cold feet.

[Ksyrup]

This is another of the overlooked reasons for a college football playoff. If teams could afford to be less than perfect, perhaps we'd see more great intra-conference matchups. Instead, everyone is balancing the need to show they've played someone with minimizing the risk of adding another possible loss to the schedule.

[Vegas Vic]

Of course you're correct. But that was scheduled a long time ago and there were rumblings that Mack Brown was upset about it and wouldn't have minded the series being canceled in his pre-Vince Young wussified days.

Well, now we're post-Vince Young, and we can get back to business as usual.

[Young Drachma]

Wyoming scheduled a home and home with Syracuse starting next year. I guess the 'cuse figures we're a step up from a 1-AA team.

[ice4277]

My alma mater, Central Michigan, actually managed to snag BC for a home game this coming fall. Biggest opponent we will have ever had make the trip to Mt. Pleasant.

[JeeberD]

I can't wait until the Miners blast Texas Blech in the Sun Bowl this September... :cool: