Nebraska/Wyoming Series

[huskerswrkhavoc]

another great scheduling coup!!

another sure W for three years.

now if NU can get nms signed for a five year deal...

then maybe Army.

yea... wyoming, fresno, tennessee.. thats an easy OOC schedule for a season, huh?

how about wyoming, southern miss, UCLA? yea. easy for a season.

jesus. give me a break.

Not to mention, how do you know where wyoming is going to be by the time these games come around?

Yeah. Just because Fresno is down this year doesn't erase ten years of them playing solid football. Them and Southern Miss both could be capable of putting a scare into us. And Wyoming DID beat Tennessee (albeit a very far-down TN) in their own house this year.

But I like that. We need out noncon games to keep the players on their toes for conference play. What good is snoozing through the noncon games going to do if you get three top twenty teams in a row when conference play begins?

no i agree completely.. i'm just saying you can't really schedule MUCH tougher than that.. BCS conference school, good mid-major and a decent bad team... so clone saying it's another great scheduling coup is kinda bs in my mind, b/c schedules are made up of more than one game...

 

[Army Husker]

JMO--- NU shouldn't schedule the wyomings, nms etc of college football. Leave the creampuffs to isu and ksu. You can't predict the future, so play traditionally competitive schools.
opinions vary.

I think that the teams we're scheduling now, the Wyomings, Southern Miss, Fresnos, etc., are much less creampuffesque than the Florida Atlantic, Arkansas State, and Lousiana-Lafayette that we get to play next season.

These are good schools that could make for some good games (Fresno St.), but I would prefer games against teams like BYU, Utah, TCU, that have been playing at a high level for a couple of years now. JMO

Nebraska is supposedly talking to BYU about a possible matchup in the future, but I agree, those would be some interesting teams to toss into our non-conf.

 

[Ohio Pete]

These are good schools that could make for some good games (Fresno St.), but I would prefer games against teams like BYU, Utah, TCU, that have been playing at a high level for a couple of years now. JMO

Nebraska is supposedly talking to BYU about a possible matchup in the future, but I agree, those would be some interesting teams to toss into our non-conf.

It takes 2 to tango. High level non-BCS teams are in demand. Low-level BCS teams are not interested and both would require a reciprocal game at their place. The reality is Nebraska will want to have 3 of 4 non-con games to be at home for the revenue. (And since they make more money on PPV, the lack of national coverage when playing "cupcakes" doesn't matter -- money-wise.) So you schedule 2 weaker teams that will not require reciprocation and 2 teams you expect to be good that you can alternate home and away.

Of course, this all done years in advance so who knows what will happen. USC thought it was going to get a great match up when they put Nebraska on their schedule years ago only to end up playing a mediocre team the last 2 seasons. When Washington was added to the Nebraska schedule for 2010, they weren't the lauching stock they are now and they might have things on an upswing by that time.