Arkansas State Will Open 2017 Season

[Saunders]

And here are Nebraska's non-conference schedules through 2019:

2015- BYU, South Alabama, at Miami, Southern Miss

2016- Fresno State, Wyoming, Oregon

2017- Arkansas State, at Oregon, Northern Illinois

2018- Akron, Colorado, Troy

2019- South Alabama, at Colorado, Northern Illinois

LJS

2018 and 2019 are a joke, because Colorado sucks and will still suck in 4-5 years. Need to drop either Akron or Troy in 2018 and South Alabama in 2019 for another Power 5 team(s). It won't happen, but it should.

Why? We're already playing 9 conference games. There's absolutely no benefit to it when the SEC and ACC are playing 8 conference games and November cupcakes. That's 1 more P5 than those 2 leagues, no reason to do 2.

Quit talking like Granny Snyder.

Ask 11-1 TCU how not playing a P5 school worked for them in the playoffs last year

Oh, wait Colorado IS considered a P5 school?

Never mind

Uh, TCU pounded Minnesota.

 

[Redux]

And here are Nebraska's non-conference schedules through 2019:

2015- BYU, South Alabama, at Miami, Southern Miss

2016- Fresno State, Wyoming, Oregon

2017- Arkansas State, at Oregon, Northern Illinois

2018- Akron, Colorado, Troy

2019- South Alabama, at Colorado, Northern Illinois

LJS

2018 and 2019 are a joke, because Colorado sucks and will still suck in 4-5 years. Need to drop either Akron or Troy in 2018 and South Alabama in 2019 for another Power 5 team(s). It won't happen, but it should.

Why? We're already playing 9 conference games. There's absolutely no benefit to it when the SEC and ACC are playing 8 conference games and November cupcakes. That's 1 more P5 than those 2 leagues, no reason to do 2.

Quit talking like Granny Snyder.
Ask 11-1 TCU how not playing a P5 school worked for them in the playoffs last year

Oh, wait Colorado IS considered a P5 school?

Never mind

Uh, TCU pounded Minnesota.

They also played 9 confernce games last season when they beat Minnysoda.

Know what the difference is?

We play a title game to win the conference. They split the title with a team they beat.

 

[RunMickeyRun02]

I don't mind Arkansas State at all.

I always find the non-conference scheduling interesting. Seems like in my teens and through college we played S.Miss all the time. Now we're playing them again, now we will have played Arkansas State a couple times, played FAU a couple times.

Makes me wonder why certain schools are willing to play us, what the relationship between ADs is etc etc.

I sense more research spewing forth from my chat hole.