Things college football teams should NEVER do

Technically the TCU game was a neutral site game. They played at Jerryworld.

 

Technically the TCU game was a neutral site game. They played at Jerryworld.

Technically, yes. Realistically, no.

 

I didn't mean to sound like I thought no one else could say that. But it's pretty pathetic that people drag Alabama into every conversation about what's WRONG WITH COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!!

 

I only went back to 2007, but in games vs. ranked OOC opponents, Oregon State was 0-7.

Edit: Until this year.

 

Money

 

No Big Ten supporter should be criticizing any other conference for its scheduling practices. There's a reason Wisconsin had won 33 non-con games in a row, and it isn't because they stepped it up against great competition.

 

MAC>Sun Belt?

 

I'd also offer that it's easier for Oregon State to schedule those kinds of games because Oregon State doesn't scare anybody. In some cases, it's not that the Beavers scheduled those teams, but that those teams scheduled the Beavers.

 

True, but they did have a home-and-home with a team from a BCS conference in most seasons. Arizona comes to mind, North Carolina comes to mind. Hardly powerhouses, but better than tiny directional schools.

 

Playing small schools is one thing, but playing I-AA (or FCS) schools is something that no school from a BCS conference ever should do.

You can find a cupcake game without dipping into the I-AA pot. It is funny when it explodes in the faces of the teams that are stupid enough to do it, (See Colorado, Michigan, etc...).

 

Yep, and of those seven games, six were on the road, five were against teams that went to BCS bowls, and a sixth (Boise, 2009) was against a team that probably should have. Nobody wins those games very often.

 

It's hit-or-miss. In 2009 it was Northern Illinois, Fresno, Wofford and Hawaii. In 2008 it was Akron, Marshall, Fresno and Cal Poly. They will occasionally schedule a BCS opponent, but it's usually as you said an Arizona or a North Carolina, not somebody you're ever going to envision being an upper-tier program as Wisconsin likes to think it is. Would love to know the last time Wisconsin went into a non-con game as an underdog.

A lot of other Big Ten schools schedule the games but lose them. Seems like that's going to continue for a while, either the Big Ten avoids tough games or eliminates itself from the BCS equation by playing them. Urban Meyer is the great hope.