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Texas/Southern Cal home-and-home
It's official Discuss below. It seems like we are toughening up the schedule to the point where we view football independence as a possibility but not a certainty. We now have Notre Dame and USC lined up for six consecutive seasons, although never both in the same year.
Texas-Notre Dame Football Series Is On
Great move for all parties. Dare I say win-win? Both schools get an opponent that will excite fans and draw national attention. Pencil in College Gameday now. From the Longhorn perspective, if Brian Kelly has Notre Dame turned around by then, it's a marquee game with national implications that...
September 18, 2010 at Texas Tech
So Texas Tech released their 2010 football schedule yesterday, and typically no one cares outside of the American Legion post in Lamesa. But then there was this: One of the highest viewer-rated games in ABC history, the 2008 home game against Texas is continuing to pay dividends. The game was moved...
BCS Conference Watch
With a full month of football in the books, we have a deep enough database of non-conference games to take a look at how inter-league play has gone so far among the BCS conferences. First a couple of generalities. HOME SWEET HOME Obviously the six BCS conferences know they are working from a...
Big Football Scheduling News
Home and homes have been added with Cal and Minnesota in 2015, 2016. Cal represents an important recruiting possibility (we should be looking West, not East) and is certainly a media and fan friendly BIG NATIONAL GAME prospect. Great roadtrip too. I'm more ambivalent about Minnesota, but it's a...
Looking at Ticket Prices for the 2012 Virginia Tech-Cincinnati Game
Virginia Tech fans can expect to pay more than they're used to for this year's game against Cincinnati, but not any more than most college games played at the Redskins' home stadium. The Hokies will play their third neutral site game at FedEx Field in suburban Washington, DC, on Sept. 29 in what is...
New ACC Football Divisions Could be Decided Next Week
From the one and only David Teel of the Newport News Daily Press: First, a glance forward to next week's ACC winter meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In between poolside margaritas - on the rocks, with salt, barkeep! - league and school officials could well finalize football divisions for the...
Virginia Tech's NIT Season Tip-Off Bracket Announced
Virginia Tech received its road to Madison Square Garden Wednesday as the bracket for the 2011 NIT Season Tip-Off was released (H/T SBN Bay Area for the bracket linked below). The Hokies will host the first and second rounds of the tournament at Cassell Coliseum Nov. 14-16. Tech will square off...
Bold Scheduling Doing Virginia Tech More Harm Than Good
Virginia Tech appears ready for another crack at Alabama. As the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot's Kyle Tucker reports, the Hokies have all but made it official that they'll open what would be quarterback Logan Thomas' senior season with the Crimson Tide: Tech athletic director Jim Weaver confirmed Friday...
Virginia Tech to Play Maryland in Baltimore in 2014
Maryland has moved its 2014 home game against Virginia Tech to Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium, home of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens (and Tyrod Taylor). There is, of course, no telling what the Hokies and Terps will look like in 2014 since only redshirt freshmen and incoming freshmen from the current...
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