Not me. They can all pound sand, as far as I’m concerned.
Schedulla Oblongata
- Thread starter Hunchback Johnny
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The school was Houston Baptist until 2022... everybody knows, dancing leads to football.
You seem to be hung up on the idea that Nebraska is schedulng games based with a W before the ink dries. Nebraska replaced Tennessee on its football schedule for 2026 and 2027 due to impending stadium renovations at Memorial Stadium that will temporarily reduce seating capacity and the perceived diminishing value of playing a tough out-of-conference schedule under the expanded College Football Playoff format. The team wants to maximize revenue by scheduling more home games in 2027 to offset losses from reduced capacity, making a series with a strong opponent like Tennessee undesirable. In 28, Nebraska has scheduled a game with Arizona, not zactly a puffy opponent. You have got to figure in $$$$$$$ these days because that is what college football has become.
Nebraska is not scheduling "more" home games. They are scheduling all home games, for 3 straight years. I'm not sure I understand why Tennessee was not feasible because of stadium renovations but all the Sisters of the Poor programs were welcome to play in Memorial Stadium. While Nebraska feared playing one tough OOC game, all the Big Dawgs Nebraska aspires to be have two game series with one another...Ohio St/Texas, Alabama/Florida St, Ohio St/Alabama, Oklahoma/Michigan, Clemson/LSU, ND/Texas A&M...the list goes on and on. Apparently for financial reasons Nebraska is the only program that cannot leave the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium for an OOC game.
Anywhays...Yaaayyy!!! Nebraska has one P4 OOC opponent....in 3 years.
One last thing, you seem to forget we added the cream of the Pac 12 to our conference making it that much tougher to win in the conference season which it would seem to be the basis for getting into the playoffs, which I despise. Your opposition is duly noted
Challenge Accepted...
Auburn's Out Of Conference Schedule
2025
Baylor ~ = to Cincinnati
Ball State
South Alabama
Mercer
2024
Alabama A&M
Califfornia ~ = Cincinnati
New Mexico
UL Monroe
2023
Massachusettes
California
Samford
New Mexico State
2022
Mercer
San Jose St
Penn State -- The one serious P4 school.
Western Kentucky
That's 12 cream puffs over a 4 year period. Checkmate.
Oh, I saw this movie!!! It stars Bevin Kacon as a big city hotshot who shows a small town preacher that the real sin is apathy.
The problem with this is Nebraska only played Cincinnati once. You compare Baylor to Cincinnati, and Cal to Cincinnati twice. Oh, and then there's Penn St. Nebraska will be playing two straight seasons without a P4 Opponent. Auburn plays one every single year. Checkmate? LOL I don't think so. Back to the drawing board.
Your challenge was: Find a team that has scheduled 12 vastly inferior opponents over a four-year period the way Nebraska has from 2025-28.
I did that. You're moving the goalposts. 2nd and final CHECKMATE.
That would depend on what you consider vastly inferior. Cal and Baylor are both in P4 Conferences, making them a peer financially and otherwise to Nebraska. How is Penn State vastly inferior? PSU is much much much much much better than any OOC school Nebraska plays in this 4-year span.
2026
Bowling Green
Ohio
Northern Dakota
2027
Northern Illinois
Norther Iowa
Northern Miami
Not one of these teams are in the P4, nor can they compete financially with Nebraska.
Dammit, I just realized what has happened here. The SEC was only playing 8 conference games.
I will concede Auburn's schedule does indeed have 12 weaklings because they only play 8 conference games. You accepted the challenge and succeeded in proving me wrong. Tip of the cap. Now, I challenge you to find another.
They had the option to play 16 though and instead chose a P4 opponent each season. Nebraska chose to not to. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
I don't want to change the argument. But most of Nebraska's non-conference opponents over the next 4 years, have better win / loss records than NU over the last 5 years. The point being, "does that make them inferior" to us. Like it or not, NU had faded into the cream puff category.
Seems to me like the schedulers were maybe trying to schedule NU back into winning football.
Seems to me like the schedulers were maybe trying to schedule NU back into winning football.
I will concede Auburn's schedule does indeed have 12 weaklings because they only play 8 conference games. You accepted the challenge and succeeded in proving me wrong. Tip of the cap. Now, I challenge you to find another.
For the record, I agree with you that Nebraska SHOULD play at least one premiere team in their OOC each season. I think pretty much all SEC and B1G schools play the likes of Mercer, Ball State, Middle Tennessee State, etc in their OOC.
And just for kicks and giggles, I'm gonna take a look at other SEC and B1G OOC schedules for 2022-2025...will put that in another, separate post.
I hate the fact that Nebraska did unfortunately become the cream puff other team's would schedule.
The part in purple: I agree. As an athletic department, you can very much schedule yourself into a losing season if you make the OOC too tough.
Not necessary, 99. I conceded. It took two rebuttals before I snapped that Auburn was playing 4 OOC games. I kept thinking how does she not see California, Baylor, and Penn St in each of those seasons?? And then it hit me. Game, Set, Match. I hate Auburn.
For the record, I agree with you that Nebraska SHOULD play at least one premiere team in their OOC each season. I think pretty much all SEC and B1G schools play the likes of Mercer, Ball State, Middle Tennessee State, etc in their OOC.
And just for kicks and giggles, I'm gonna take a look at other SEC and B1G OOC schedules for 2022-2025...will put that in another, separate post.
Still a little pissed that you think the Mighty New Mexico Lobos are inferior to anyone though.
We're in a day and age where we play a nine-game conference schedule that will include many ranked opponents. So I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is with our OOC schedule. Our last OOC opponent is this Saturday in mid-September.
From then on out, it's the Big Boys. When you are in a league where it's a slobberknocker grind each and every week, the real travesty is when you schedule yourself a breather with a Mercer-type team in November, especially now that we've got playoff games. (IMO, there should be a conference rule against playing ANY OOC games after September.)
Damn, this is very interesting. Pardon me if I feel sick to my stomach that the likes of Northern Illinois and Ohio were in a conference room thinking "Maybe we can get Nebraska on the schedule! Make a cool mill for the athletic department and we stand a very good chance of coming out victorious!"
Hunchback Johnny said:
Challenge Accepted
NOTE: I just did some SEC teams because that proves my point and answers your challenge to find other examples. Which I did--easily.
Alabama
2025 Florida State, UL Monroe, Wisconsin, Easteern Illinois <-- That's a respectable OOC with 2 P4 teams.
2024 Western Kentucky, USF, Wisconsin, Mercer -- 3 puff teams/
2023 Middle Tennessee, Texas, USF, Chattanooga (When did Texas and Oklahoma move into the SEC again????)
2022 Utah State, Texas, UL Monroe, Austin Peay
Arkansas
2025 Alabama A&M, Arkansas St, Memphis
2024 Arkansas Pine Bluff, Oklahoma St, UAB, LA Tech
2023 Western Carolina, Kent State, BYU, Florida International
2022 Cincinnati, Missouri St, BYU, Liberty
Kentucky
2025 Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Tennesse Tech, Louisville
2024 Southern Miss, Ohio, Murray State, Louisville
2023 Ball State, Eastern Kentucky, Akron, Louisville
2022 Miami Ohio, Youngstown State, Northern Illinois, Louisville
LSU
2025 Clemson, La Tech, SE Louisiana, Western Kentucky
2024 USC, Nichols, UCLA, South Alabama
2023 Florida State, Grambling, Army, Georgia State
2022 Florida State, Southern, New Mexico, UAB
Do I need to go on?
Whether we like it or not, Nebraska's OOC from 2025-2028 is very comparable to what pretty much all the SEC teams have scheduled from 2022-2025.
Now a few of these schedules are skewed a bit with the SEC only playing 8 conference games and teams like Florida playing in-state rivals Florida State and Miami and Georgia playing Georgia Tech on a yearly basis. But the premise holds true: SEC teams routinely schedule 3 cream puff teams on a yearly basis.
But yeah, as a general rule, SEC teams play primarily cupcake/cream puff teams in their OOC.
It used to be that teams did not want to schedule NU because they would get beat up physically. Not only would they lose to NU, but they would lose other games due to being beat up.
Now good teams do not want to schedule NU because NU will not give them a home and away contract. Today's football is all about money. If you want to compete, you need a lot of money. That means playing as many home games as possible.
Many people do not like the cream puff non-conference schedule, however that is the reality of today's game. I am sure people in Alabama and Texas are saying they should fire whoever scheduled those games. It will make getting into the playoffs a much tougher process. They stand a good chance of being on the outside looking in, while a team with a cream puff non-conference schedule is playing. The committee is probably going to take a one-loss Indiana over a two-loss team.
People like watching competitive football. However, it looks like at NU that will have to wait until the Conference schedule. That is the way it is with most teams, and it gets more that way every year.
Now good teams do not want to schedule NU because NU will not give them a home and away contract. Today's football is all about money. If you want to compete, you need a lot of money. That means playing as many home games as possible.
Many people do not like the cream puff non-conference schedule, however that is the reality of today's game. I am sure people in Alabama and Texas are saying they should fire whoever scheduled those games. It will make getting into the playoffs a much tougher process. They stand a good chance of being on the outside looking in, while a team with a cream puff non-conference schedule is playing. The committee is probably going to take a one-loss Indiana over a two-loss team.
People like watching competitive football. However, it looks like at NU that will have to wait until the Conference schedule. That is the way it is with most teams, and it gets more that way every year.
