Ill flame wrote: ↑July 22nd, 2022, 9:22 pm
I don't think there is much debating that the 2023 scheme is trash but that was expected. The 2024 schedule looks like it'll be a little better but not by much. Where the schedule starts to improve again is 2025. One of those two P5s will likely come off the schedule along with the fcs school. That would hopefully leave us with wake forest/duke, army, old dominion, uconn/umass which is solid imo.
With the way our future schedules are laid out it makes the most sense to me to continue to schedule 2 for 1 deals with lower tier P5s and have the other 3 nonconference games be home and homes with regional G5s. This way we almost always have 2 home and 2 away nonconference games with no fcs schools.
Here is what I see as being possible in 2024-2026 based on things I've heard. I have an inkling Marshall series is canceled because MTSU announced they are playing Marshall in 2026 and a future year, and this fits the pattern of us giving good opponents we can't play to other CUSA teams. 2026 Marshall game would have been 3rd road game out of 4 non conferences, also problematic. Here is what I see:
2024 - Coastal Carolina, Ball State, at App. State, at UMass
2025 - Wake Forest, at Army, at Old Dominion, ETSU
2026 - at Wake Forest, at Ball State, Army, James Madison
Someone at UMass said something that makes me think we only keep 2023-2024 UMass, not the rest. Anyhow, 2024 had two of the best G5's and local, despite no Power 5. 2025 you get a P5 home game and two kind of tough road games in ODU and Army. 2026 you still get Wake on the road and JMU/Army is not a bad home slate.
Two things could mess this up:
1. Cancelling Coastal in 2024 for an FCS team
2. Cancelling JMU in 2026 for an FCS team