BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

If anybody saw the Middle Tennessee game, they'd probably agree with that statement. They got dumptrucked by a Sun Belt school by three touchdowns, in Atlanta no less.

 

A Sun Belt school that opened the season with a loss to McNeese State, no less.

 

One of my favorite goofy stats is that Rice has won 16 straight conference baseball championships (either regular season or tournament).
In three different leagues.
They won the old Southwest Conference title in 1996, the WAC title from 1997-2005, and have been C-USA champs every year since.

 

yep. Honestly, is a move from a good FCS league to the Sun Belt or WAC anything special?

 

It probably matters to their readers.

 

Speaking of Georgia State, it just signed to play at Oregon in 2015. For all the grief I give some SEC schools for cupecake scheduling, Oregon's just as guilty. The Ducks have played just one home OOC game against a BCS-AQ opponent in the past six years, mighty Purdue. Kelly has never played a BCS-AQ OOC opponent at home in four years.

 

True. At least Oregon played LSU at a neutral site.

I don't know how much Oregon pays in guarantees for home games, but if it's not real good I wouldn't want to go out there. Long trip, very hostile environment. If I'm a Sun Belt school, there are quite a few better options for road trips.

 

I think Arkansas State got $850K, or something in that neighborhood.

Autzen can be pretty loud for Pac-12 games and big OOC games (of which there haven'tg been any lately) but for Georgia State it will be pretty tame. Stadium alterations and changes in their fan demographics as costs rise have significantly changed the dynamic.

I think Tennessee plays there next year unless they buy it out.

 

Georgia State is also lining up a home game with Air Force in 2014 with a return trip in 2016.

http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-state-sports/2012/10/10/georgia-state-football-will-play-at-alabama-and-west-virginia-next-year-and-oregon-in-2015/

Give them credit for scheduling aggressively in their transition/early FBS years, but they're going to have to recruit their proverbial and possibly literal asses off. This year's team is one of the worst in FCS, and even with a year more experience and more players, they're probably going to have a hell of a time competing even in the Sun Belt for a long time. And the AJC can say that Chattanooga and Jax State will draw more fans than a CAA schedule, but it's not like they were turning them away for the South Carolina State game, and I've been told SC State has a pretty good presence in the ATL. Maybe they can skip the middleman for their next home game and just offer all fans $20 for showing up and staying until the final whistle.

 

More exposure, chances for bowl games, etc. Plus, it looks better for universities like Texas State and UTSA being in a football-crazed state like Texas, where FCS teams get looked over.

 

Yeah, I watched some of that S.C. State game and Georgia State looked outmatched. Them versus Oregon could look like Savannah State-Oklahoma State Part II.

 

The students have voted to increase the stadium capacity to what, 20,700? Watch out UGA. This is a school that ill be scheduling bigger schools for the payday, dreaming about going 7-5 and being invited to some bowl nobody cares about.

I think that FCS schools should stay there rather than try to move up. I can think of one financial success, Boise State.