Available bye week opponents
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Since 4 other Big 12 teams have a bye on Oct 20 is there any chance we could move our game with one of those teams to Oct 20 to open up more options for getting in a 12th game? Obviously the other team would need to agree and TV would need to be considered (although with half the Big 12 on buy that week TV may like an extra game).
One option could be to move the Texas game from Nov 17 to Oct 20. Since that game is scheduled for LHN the TV considerations would be less of an issue. That would open up Nov 17 for a game with a potential game with Southern (one of the FCS schools that currently only has 10 games scheduled).
Probably not a real option due to the logistics of moving a game.
One option could be to move the Texas game from Nov 17 to Oct 20. Since that game is scheduled for LHN the TV considerations would be less of an issue. That would open up Nov 17 for a game with a potential game with Southern (one of the FCS schools that currently only has 10 games scheduled).
Probably not a real option due to the logistics of moving a game.
that's because there were more bowl spots than available bowl teams. There's no guarantee that happens this year.
I’d rather try to find an FCS free win than play Nebraska
1) I don’t want to play Nebraska because they tried to kill the Big 12
2) I want a win I don’t want a toss up that could end in a loss.
3) who would be the home team? Nebby won’t play in Ames and we shouldn’t play in Lincoln.
1) I don’t want to play Nebraska because they tried to kill the Big 12
2) I want a win I don’t want a toss up that could end in a loss.
3) who would be the home team? Nebby won’t play in Ames and we shouldn’t play in Lincoln.
Hypothetical, what if we have another cancellation with a big 12 team with a night game. You would have to make it up somewhere.
We now have the opportunity to schedule like an SEC team, we should take advantage of it.
If they can, just schedule a scrub FCS team. Schedule is already tough enough, just get the easy win since most power 5's have a game like this.
I remember that was an extraordinary year when some bowl qualifiers were ineligible for various reasons. As I recall, the 5-7 teams won most of their bowl games, too. Didn't watch any of those, but it was testimony that losing teams should not necessarily be punished mercilessly by being banned from even practicing during that time. One on Johnny Major's ISU teams went to a bowl with only 5 wins back in the early 70s when there were only a small number of bowls. I guess the must have passed the "eye test" of the day, but the point is that bowl invites should not be gated by X number of wins alone.
That was when bowl invites were handed out in mid-November, before the regular season was over. ISU accepted an invite with a record of 5-3-1, then lost the last two and the bowl game to finish 5-6-1.
I'm too young to remember that year, but what I've gleaned over the years, bowls were allowed to extend bids prior to the end of the season, and Iowa State got a slot when record was something like 5-2-1 (I think right after the tie w/ Nebraska), but finished regular season 5-5-1. ISU sports historians can elaborate or correct me on that one.
I've read that we shouldn't pay another team like we are paying South Dakota State as we don't have the money to pay another team. I would easily think the food and drink revenues from the game plus game tickets easily pays any FCS team we bring in. Also, I am sure the local restaurants and businesses would pitch in some donation bucks to get this game played. Plus, a 9-3 ISU record looks a lot more appealing for the Alamo Bowl reps than 8-3 so any lost revenue should pay for itself with a better bowl.
OU was still on that pace mid to late 3rd quarter yesterday haha.
But with a hurricane you have several days warning, and relatively high confidence in the severity and locations impacted. This is midwest thunderstorms which can change in an hour.
But what if da hurricane was named Hurricane Campbell? (superfans voice)
You can’t change the rules for a specific game. Some of the ideas I’ve seen thrown around about how last night “should have” been handled are so dumb
The winner is Hampton. They have a bye on 10/20 and they also need more games because they are an FCS independent. Right now they have nine games scheduled.
Somewhere else on this thread it said these teams have a bye that week
The FCS schools with a bye 10/20 are
Maybe we could run up the score to get back at them for beating us at basketball.
Somewhere else on this thread it said these teams have a bye that week
- Georgia
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Virginia Tech
- West Virginia
- Texas
- Oklahoma State
- South Carolina
- Florida
- Texas A&M
- Kansas State
- Boston College
- Louisville
- Northern Illinois
The FCS schools with a bye 10/20 are
- Austin Peay
- Chattanooga
- Colgate
- Eastern Washington
- Florida A&M
- Gardner-Webb
- Hampton
- Holy Cross
- James Madison
- Kennesaw State
- Montana
- Nicholls State
- Pennsylvania
- Portland State
- Prairie View A&M
- Savannah State
- Villanova
- Wagner
- Yale
Maybe we could run up the score to get back at them for beating us at basketball.