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Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 4:56 pm
by BJWilliams
We are just past the halfway point in the 2015 schedule but no doubt JB and the boys have been hard at work on 2016. As of this moment it looks like this:

Home
Jacksonville
Robert Morris
Monmouth
Gardner-Webb
Charleston Southern

Away
Virginia Tech (2016 opener)
North Texas
Kennesaw State
Presbyterian
Coastal Carolina (?)

Ideally my guess is they are going to want that 6th home game after only having 5 this season. My hope is that one of these teams pops up on September 24:

CAA
Delaware
Villanova
Towson
Elon
Stony Brook
William and Mary

Ivy League
Harvard
Cornell
Dartmouth

MEAC
Florida A&M
Bethune Cookman
Hampton

Ohio Valley
Jacksonville State
Eastern Kentucky

Patriot League
Lehigh
Bucknell
Fordham

SoCon
Furman
UT-Chattanooga
Mercer (shout out to FFG even though he is now at GT)
The Citadel

Southland
McNeese State
Sam Houston State
Southeastern Louisiana

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 5:01 pm
by SuperJon
Did you just name schools you think would make a good game or do those schools actually have an opening?

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 5:22 pm
by BJWilliams
The former. I'd need to do some digging to see who of that group has a complete schedule at this juncture

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 5:56 pm
by jcmanson
SuperJon wrote:Did you just name schools you think would make a good game or do those schools actually have an opening?
I think we go through this every year

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 6:02 pm
by alabama24
Beej - You left Alabama off that list. lol

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 6:38 pm
by BJWilliams
Haha...manson is right in that we go through this every year though...Ive said it before but we are in an unusual place in that regard. We could get a low level FCS just to ensure an all D1 schedule but with the kind of non-conference schedule we have, a WTF loss like we seem to have every year could eliminate us from at-large consideration, especially with CCU likely not factoring into the equation outside of their games counting for everyone else. We could get a high ranking FCS, but a loss there basically forces us to have to get the autobid.

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 6:41 pm
by SuperJon
You missed his point, Beej.

Re: Last opening on 2016 schedule?

Posted: October 12th, 2015, 6:43 pm
by BJWilliams
I probably did...wouldn't be the first time...Anyway, I hope we don't end up with only 5 home games again