Future Schedules

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Future schedule in the 1st post has been updated.

[9YRPLAN]

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Per delanys comments, sounds like we are done playing Iowa after the current contracts expire.

[JayJ79]

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and if UNI manages to win the opener, I'm sure Iowa will do everything possible to get out of the 2018 contract.

[achrist70]

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I will say that a game like UNI v. Iowa or NDSU v. Minnesota might have a chance of surviving because the interest in the game is higher than vs. a low level FBS team, and we tend to have better computer rankings than some of those teams.

[9YRPLAN]

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i figured it all boiled down to how they will compute SOS, but if they a formula similar to RPI then I understand why they dont want FCS team. UNI and NDSU are the exceptions but you cant write a rule based on that.

[1988]

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i figured it all boiled down to how they will compute SOS, but if they a formula similar to RPI then I understand why they dont want FCS team. UNI and NDSU are the exceptions but you cant write a rule based on that.

I hope somebody around you called 911 because it seems you were having a stroke when you typed this message.

[lakesbison]

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Big 10 is afraid, very afraid.

[JayJ79]

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a tidbit that I learned from today's "#TroysTake":
UNI will not be playing football against Illinois State in 2016 or 2017
(they are the next MVFC team to rotate off our schedule, similar to Indiana State in '12/'13 and YSU in '14/'15)

[06panther10]

TD announces home/home series with Cal Poly. At SLO in '15 and in CF in '17.

Next years sched is complete now with ISU, EWU, and Cal Poly.

[jegbomb52]

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TD announces home/home series with Cal Poly. At SLO in '15 and in CF in '17.

Next years sched is complete now with ISU, EWU, and Cal Poly.

thats a pretty aggressive schedule next year. I'm not sure why the need, 9-2 with that schedule will not guarantee us a 3 or 4 seed anymore than replacing those two teams with Savannah State and Drake. But, an 8-3 record with that schedule knocks us right out of the seeding conversation. I would personally rather have the guaranteed wins. To the casual fan (the ones we need to start coming to the dome) Cal Poly and Eastern Washington are still just a couple of casual directional school no names....

[JayJ79]

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thats a pretty aggressive schedule next year. I'm not sure why the need, 9-2 with that schedule will not guarantee us a 3 or 4 seed anymore than replacing those two teams with Savannah State and Drake. But, an 8-3 record with that schedule knocks us right out of the seeding conversation. I would personally rather have the guaranteed wins. To the casual fan (the ones we need to start coming to the dome) Cal Poly and Eastern Washington are still just a couple of casual directional school no names....

Cal Poly doesn't even have a direction in their name. And EWU has been one of the top 5 FCS schools of late. These "casual fans" don't know anything if that is how they see it, and they would likely see any team that we could possibly get to come to the Dome as "casual directional schools"

Granted, looking at the '15 home schedule, there are only two games that jump out at me as exciting: EWU and SIU, with the other three potentially being rather blah (USD, InSU, WIU), but that's still a ways off and things could change (USD has been getting better).

The road slate will definitely be challenging, with the Dakota States, IlSU, and Iowa State, plus MSU has been improving and Cal Poly is often decent.

But we still have an exciting (and possibly historic) 2014 season to look forward to between now and then.

[panther-state]

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Cal Poly might have a little less bite after this: http://calcoastnews.com/2014/08/cal-...ob-frat-house/

[djb]

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that brings to mind that there have been zero police reports out of Cedar Falls that I have heard about for a long time and that's a good thing. Knock on wood. The knucklehead factor on the current team must be down.

[lakesbison]

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that brings to mind that there have been zero police reports out of Cedar Falls that I have heard about for a long time and that's a good thing. Knock on wood. The knucklehead factor on the current team must be down.

Djb same here in fargo shhhhh

[UNIdad]

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Cal Poly doesn't even have a direction in their name. And EWU has been one of the top 5 FCS schools of late. These "casual fans" don't know anything if that is how they see it, and they would likely see any team that we could possibly get to come to the Dome as "casual directional schools"

Granted, looking at the '15 home schedule, there are only two games that jump out at me as exciting: EWU and SIU, with the other three potentially being rather blah (USD, InSU, WIU), but that's still a ways off and things could change (USD has been getting better).

The road slate will definitely be challenging, with the Dakota States, IlSU, and Iowa State, plus MSU has been improving and Cal Poly is often decent.

But we still have an exciting (and possibly historic) 2014 season to look forward to between now and then.

Not that it is relevant to football, but didn't Cal Poly come within a hair in OT of making the NCAA basketball tournament last year?