It takes two to tango, and doubt that very many elite teams are lining up to play us, either at a neutral site or home-and-home. You'll get the second-tier programs like West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, or Wisconsin who want the exposure, and occasionally a Pac 12 team willing come east to play in east coast prime time, but these kinds of matchups have been the rule for us, rather than the exception. Maybe Duke is a step backward but, again, perhaps there was no better option (plus we owed them a game).
Louisville isn't going to turn down the exposure they'll get playing us. And the same people who'll trash our schedule as it is, would trash it even more if we traded away our only Power 5 non-con game and had an all non-P5 non-conference schedule.
The SEC will be stronger next year.
Louisville isn't going to turn down the exposure they'll get playing us. And the same people who'll trash our schedule as it is, would trash it even more if we traded away our only Power 5 non-con game and had an all non-P5 non-conference schedule.
The SEC will be stronger next year.