12-15-2015, 03:13 PM
Our schedule as it stands right now has:
September 2 (Friday) home against Kansas State
October 15 at Notre Dame
November 26 home against Rice
Hopefully, we will play at Cal November 19th, which would leave 9 dates for 8 games. I would guess there is a good chance we have a Thursday night game, so our bye would be before then. With any luck, if we have a Thursday game, it will be the week before Notre Dame to give us a couple extra days for that game.
September 26th is the first day of school; if the pattern holds new undergrads would arrive the 20th and housing for returning students would open the 22nd, which means that we will probably be scheduled for home games on both the 10th and 17th. In all seriousness, it would be nice if at least one of those were a road game.
Among our Pac-12 opponents (save Cal):
USC has an open date the 17th.
Arizona has an open date the 10th.
OSU has an open date the 10th.
None of the other Pac-12 schools we would play have open dates in the second or third week of the season.
That means it will likely be USC at Stanford on the 17th.
We might have a bye on the 10th (if the Pac-12 pairs OSU and Arizona) or we might play at UofA or host OSU.
My preference would be for the season to start:
Sept. 2: Kansas
Sept. 10: at Arizona
Sept. 17: USC (not my preference, but there is little getting around the fact that they are the only opponent available, so we either both take byes or play each other).
Hosting OSU might be a better warm up for USC, but that would mean that we would have only 3 home games in our last 9 and that we'd play half our home games before students arrived. Either way, I predict there will be a lot of complaining about the schedule, because as usual, we will likely have at least two home games before students arrive, and as is typical for even years, we will have a brutal back end road stretch.
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September 2 (Friday) home against Kansas State
October 15 at Notre Dame
November 26 home against Rice
Hopefully, we will play at Cal November 19th, which would leave 9 dates for 8 games. I would guess there is a good chance we have a Thursday night game, so our bye would be before then. With any luck, if we have a Thursday game, it will be the week before Notre Dame to give us a couple extra days for that game.
September 26th is the first day of school; if the pattern holds new undergrads would arrive the 20th and housing for returning students would open the 22nd, which means that we will probably be scheduled for home games on both the 10th and 17th. In all seriousness, it would be nice if at least one of those were a road game.
Among our Pac-12 opponents (save Cal):
USC has an open date the 17th.
Arizona has an open date the 10th.
OSU has an open date the 10th.
None of the other Pac-12 schools we would play have open dates in the second or third week of the season.
That means it will likely be USC at Stanford on the 17th.
We might have a bye on the 10th (if the Pac-12 pairs OSU and Arizona) or we might play at UofA or host OSU.
My preference would be for the season to start:
Sept. 2: Kansas
Sept. 10: at Arizona
Sept. 17: USC (not my preference, but there is little getting around the fact that they are the only opponent available, so we either both take byes or play each other).
Hosting OSU might be a better warm up for USC, but that would mean that we would have only 3 home games in our last 9 and that we'd play half our home games before students arrived. Either way, I predict there will be a lot of complaining about the schedule, because as usual, we will likely have at least two home games before students arrive, and as is typical for even years, we will have a brutal back end road stretch.
BC