Regarding football scheduling....

[vhdawg]

...I realize that Florida State isn't really a blip on the national radar anymore, but I thought it was weird that we're in Week Three now, and I still hadn't heard anything about FSU, so I went and checked out their schedule to see where they've been.

Turns out they didn't open until this past Saturday, beating Western Carolina 69-0, and then I saw their next week's opponent: Chattanooga.

Not one, but TWO I-AA schools to open with? What's going on over there? The only school I've ever seen schedule multiple pattycake games like that was Bill Snyder's Kansas State squad.

 

[graddawg]

They seem to be more worried about Bowden having more wins than JoePa when it's all said and done than anything else.

 

[RebelBruiser]

We opened the season with Idaho State and VMI one year. Both were 1AA schools. It was either 1995 or 1996. That was before you could count a 1-AA school toward bowl eligibility every year. Of course, the reason we did that was because 1) we couldn't go to a bowl anyway, and 2) we were undermanned and just needed to put a few wins on the schedule.

I'm trying to remember, but I think I heard that someone else was playing two 1-AA schools this year. I'll have to check on that.