what cfb teams are looking for games in 07?

It's up there. Bears-Dolphins '85 was good. So was Bears-49ers (NFC title game at Solider Field in freezing conditions) '88.

I don't know if any of those are better than Vikings-Cardinals '03, though.

Rumor has it, there's an audio link somewhere around ...

http://cctvimedia.clearchannel.com/kfan/gm%20winning%20td.mp3

 

Oops, I bumped this back up.
My bad.

 

Wish we could get to the point where there was a crossover weekend each year for the BCS conferences, a la the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. Maybe ACC/Big XII and Big Ten/SEC (though one SEC school would be screwed). Base it off last year's standings.

Of course, fans wouldn't be able to make travel plans 10 years in advance, but it'd be far more interesting than those Michigan vs. whatever-directionally-named-stepcousin-school-they're-playing-this-year games.

 

You know, I never get tired of listening to that.

 

A bump because AJC is reporting a home-and-home with Oklahoma State for the Bulldogs. Athens next year, Stillwater in 2009.

 

saw that in the tulsa paper yesterday

so now they have home-and-home series scheduled with oklahoma state, colorado, louisville and oregon -- and have been turned down by notre dame and michigan, and a 2-for-1 series cancelled by UC, and a 1-for-1 turned down by oregon state

still, the sec never goes anywhere, you know? they just all play each other and never go anywhere (despite the fact they play regional rivals georgia tech every year a clemson occasionally)

but yeah, you know, those big 10 teams sure seem to play everywhere....

 

When Auburn plays Washington State (not a bad team), Buffalo, Tulane and Arkansas State, all at home, the argument does have some validity. Of course, Auburn and Alabama are playing 12 straight weeks, so it's hard to schedule a cross-country trip.

 

auburn's played at southern cal recently -- they've played at georgia tech recently (i know, it's in the south! it doesn't count!). they've got a home-and-home scheduled with west virginia. but yeah, they don't go anywhere.

 

There are 12 teams in the SEC, who played 36 non-league games. This year they played/will play a grand total of six non-league road games.

Kentucky at Louisville
Mississippi at Missouri
Mississippi State at UAB
South Carolina at Clemson
Tennessee at Memphis
Vanderbilt at Michigan


There are 10 teams in the Pacific-10 Conference, two fewer than the SEC. Yet they managed to play/will play 12 road non-league games.

Arizona at LSU
Arizona State at Colorado
Cal at Tennessee
Oregon at Fresno State
Oregon State at Boise State
Oregon State at Hawaii
Stanford at San Jose State
Stanford at Notre Dame
UCLA at Notre Dame
USC at Arkansas
Washington at Oklahoma
Washington State at Auburn
Washington State also played Baylor at a neutral site.

In 2005 Pac-10 teams played nine non-league road games, and two at neutral sites.

I realize things change year-to-year because of home-and-home arrangements, etc. But Georgia's scheduling philosophy is a very recent change, and generally speaking an upper-level SEC team doesn't leave home very often (and why should it, the money is too good),whereas every Pac-10 team leaves home at least once a year, often twice, in non-league games, and will play five road league games every other year.

 

and why should it, the money is too good... exactly... sec teams sell out. those pac 10 teams can get more money traveling

how many of those pac-10 teams have standing home-and-home series with non-conference foes? the sec has several -- uga and ga. tech, fla-fla. st., clemson-sc -- that means next year you'll have uga at ga. tech and uf at florida state. it's a whole 'nother ball of wax

and uga's change in philosophy has come with a new ad. yeah, it's a different approach, mainly because he replaced a guy who had been ad for nearly 30 years


and oh yeah, your pac 10 pussied out creating this problem (this problem being the one that was the original reason for the thread)

 

Not my Pac-10. Last I checked, Tom Hansen was the commish, not the Micro guy.

SC always plays ND. Every Pac-10 team always has at least one non-league road game.

Oregon State backed out of a 2-for-1 with Georgia in late September. That hardly explains Georgia's, and the SEC's, general unwillingness to play a true non-conference road game for the past 50 years. (getting on a bus and driving 60 miles to Atlanta doesn't count).

The Ga-GT and Clemson-SC series date back to when they were in the same conferences. Makes no sense to change what was working.

And kudos to Georgia for making the change in philosophy. It was only 30 years in the making.

 

why doesn't going 60 miles to atlanta not count? that's what i still don't understand