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MEGA 2026 CFB SZN Thread, Nationwide; Non-Miami Specific

skyman said:
Where is penn st ranked? lol.. This **** is jokes fr
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So they're really going to try and claim that Arkansas is a top 60? They're going to have 1 win this season because it's not likely they'll beat Tulsa.
 
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Central Michigan with a top ten pass defense. Nice.

I’m praying we quit playing FCS teams. Really, the whole p4 should adopt that. I’d rather have 11 p4 games than 10, but if it is 10, we’re going to smoke g6 and FCS teams anyways, but the g6 teams at least make it interesting & have some internal belief they can win.

Football without real resistance is just pointless
 

Three months after the NCAA approved the permanent installation of a 14-week football regular season starting next year, schools and leagues are scrambling to make changes to their 2027 schedules.
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The 2027 season, originally spread out over a 13-week schedule, including one open date for each team, will start the weekend before Labor Day weekend, with most teams kicking off on what was previously known as Week 0 (Saturday, Aug. 28) instead of Saturday, Sept. 4. The ripple effects of every move are felt by both programs involved, their other opponents and other schools down the line. Nobody wants to sit at home in early September.
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One variable affects Big Ten nonconference scheduling more than the other conferences: CFP expansion. Should Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and SEC counterpart Greg Sankey agree to expand the Playoff, the Big Ten has said it will join the ACC and SEC in requiring each member play a nonconference game against a Power 4 opponent.
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Currently, there are five Big Ten schools without a power-conference team on their 2027 schedules: Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, USC and Washington. The Huskies do play in-state rival Washington State, which was in a power conference until the original Pac-12 broke up in 2024.
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cookies said:
Central Michigan with a top ten pass defense. Nice.

I’m praying we quit playing FCS teams. Really, the whole p4 should adopt that. I’d rather have 11 p4 games than 10, but if it is 10, we’re going to smoke g6 and FCS teams anyways, but the g6 teams at least make it interesting & have some internal belief they can win.

Football without real resistance is just pointless
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I’d honestly rather play all conference games because it’s the simplest way to build a schedule. You don’t have to worry about paying a lesser opponent to come to your stadium, and there’s much less risk of having a non-conference game fall through or get canceled.

Trying to schedule home-and-homes with other P4 programs makes things much more complicated. Both schools have to balance where the game is played, how many home games each team gets, and how that fits into their conference schedule. One home-and-home series can affect your scheduling for multiple seasons.

If you’re already playing a full conference schedule, there’s a lot of logic to just filling the remaining spots with whatever format the conference requires rather than trying to coordinate additional P4 home-and-homes.
 
OBLIVION said:
I’d honestly rather play all conference games because it’s the simplest way to build a schedule. You don’t have to worry about paying a lesser opponent to come to your stadium, and there’s much less risk of having a non-conference game fall through or get canceled.

Trying to schedule home-and-homes with other P4 programs makes things much more complicated. Both schools have to balance where the game is played, how many home games each team gets, and how that fits into their conference schedule. One home-and-home series can affect your scheduling for multiple seasons.

If you’re already playing a full conference schedule, there’s a lot of logic to just filling the remaining spots with whatever format the conference requires rather than trying to coordinate additional P4 home-and-homes.
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Yeah the article touches on how ACC teams used to schedule each other as non conference matchups to avoid the payouts & other issues when they were at 8 intra conference games.

Because UVA’s loss to NC State not counting as a conference game became so important to the tiebreakers; and Duke vs UVA was a rematch from two weeks prior. So now that practice is over.

It’s really only football that has this absurd scheduling problem. Basketball does just fine, Jai scheduled a matchup with UF for the same year right after getting the job.

I think OOC games are needed because narratives take hold rather easily. The acc going 8-6 against the SEC last year is a pushback against narratives; as is the ACC being 4-1 against the B1G this year.

I love the 9 game conference schedule tho. Just wish OOC teams weren’t so scared to play each other, but I’ll settle for discarding these routine fcs beatdowns. We should be a trendsetter, I think what Louisville is doing with 11 p4 games is dope

ND games out their schedule more than anyone, hilariously added a ‘32 & ‘33 Nebraska home and home for when Trae Taylor will be in the NFL, & try to have their cake and eat it too, but I do respect that they only play FBS teams.

I think the scheduling ebbs and flows, in and outta conference, is part of the cool randomness of CFB that the nfl can not ever capture
 
When @DMoney make the call, you answer first ring.. Should have took the bag.. Now you in a ***** situation and draft stock dropping..

 
skyman said:
When @DMoney make the call, you answer first ring.. Should have took the bag.. Now you in a ***** situation and draft stock dropping..

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He should have left to a better team. That NC State team is built around him and he’s not proven capable of carrying a team right now.
 
DMoney said:
He should have left to a better team. That NC State team is built around him and he’s not proven capable of carrying a team right now.
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They lost a lot of talent last couple years, like most acc teams.. straight talent drain this conference has become.. I don't understand why he stayed but he got to live with that tough L now forever
 
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