9/3/2016

ALA2262 said:

– USC vs. Alabama (at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas)
– Notre Dame at Texas
– UCLA at Texas A&M
– LSU vs. Wisconsin (at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin)
– Georgia vs. North Carolina (at Georgia Dome, Atlanta)
– Clemson at Auburn
– Oklahoma vs. Houston (at NRG Stadium, Houston)
– Missouri at West Virginia
– BYU vs. Arizona (at University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.)
-- BC vs. GT (at Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland)

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All of those look like great games EXCEPT Georgia vs NC. Hopefully, the NCAA will take care of NC.

One of the more outstanding opening weekends that I can remember in a looong time.

Since I live in Knoxville and my wife is a UT fan, we are considering going to the Tennessee-Va Tech game for the unique experience. But with it being at the Bristol race track, I'm thinking the seats will be so far from the field that you wont be able to see well at all.

ALA2262 said:

SEC teams in 8 of the 12 games. Which conference is it that is bad mouthed for not playing top notch OOC games?

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That would be us, and the conference doing the bad-mouthing would be the one with only one team on the list...

scrodz said:

That would be us, and the conference doing the bad-mouthing would be the one with only one team on the list...

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Ohio State plays Oklahoma in Norman the third week of the season and Michigan has UCF the 2nd week if that is any consolation. I think the PAC 12 fans are the worst about bad mouthing SEC scheduling. Ive been around alot of USC and Oregon fans and that ridicule us for playing WCU but they say teams like Portland State are worthy because they are ranked higher in the FCS. The Big 10 is put in that category just because of Delany's comments about the 2011 BCS championship game otherwise the Big 10 fans are more concerned about trashing on each other more than the national spotlight. But when they win it they let you know it, but so do we.

And you can thank the four-team playoff for this because with the ole BCS you'd have teams highly touted to start the year who scraped by often inferior competition but just so long as they won, nobody was going to drop them in the polls.

At the same time, this was never all that much of a problem for the SEC anyway. LSU, Tennessee, and Alabama in particular have been aggressive trying to schedule tough games in September the last decade or more.

The USC game already worries me. They seem to be returning to full strength at the worst possible time. Thankfully, it is our first game and I am completely confident Nick will have the team ready, assuming he's still here, of course.

CrimsonPassion said:

The USC game already worries me. They seem to be returning to full strength at the worst possible time. Thankfully, it is our first game and I am completely confident Nick will have the team ready, assuming he's still here, of course.

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Whoever starts at QB for USC will be a first time starter, so that should make a difference. My USC grad father hopes it'll be a positive difference like Matt Leinart's first start as a QB against Auburn in 2003. I hope whoever is QB doesn't have that good of a day.

CaliforniaTide said:

Whoever starts at QB for USC will be a first time starter, so that should make a difference. My USC grad father hopes it'll be a positive difference like Matt Leinart's first start as a QB against Auburn in 2003. I hope whoever is QB doesn't have that good of a day.

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I don't mean to argue, but what about Max Browne? If he wins the job this season, he will have a full year of experience when we play them. Is that not right?

CrimsonPassion said:

I don't mean to argue, but what about Max Browne? If he wins the job this season, he will have a full year of experience when we play them. Is that not right?

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It is right, but I don't get the impression from my dad that he'll end up being the starter. He's hearing that it'll more likely be someone that they recruit to come in and immediately start.

ALA2262 said:

– USC vs. Alabama (at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas)
– Notre Dame at Texas
– UCLA at Texas A&M
– LSU vs. Wisconsin (at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin)
– Georgia vs. North Carolina (at Georgia Dome, Atlanta)
– Clemson at Auburn
– Oklahoma vs. Houston (at NRG Stadium, Houston)
– Missouri at West Virginia
– BYU vs. Arizona (at University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.)
-- BC vs. GT (at Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland)

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I think I will take that day off work!

Oklahoma vs. Houston (at NRG Stadium, Houston)

Not a Power Five but still an interesting matchup. One of those games where Oklahoma has a lot to lose and little to gain.

Wow what a weekend!

scrodz said:

That would be us, and the conference doing the bad-mouthing would be the one with only one team on the list...

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The argument now is we won't go play a home and home. They are even talking about Florida never leaving the state for an oc game, forgetting the fact that Florida State is a tough game every year right in their state.