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This is partly because ND has been good lately (annoyingly) and partly because they get a ton of home cooking.
3) I am really rather quite extremely bothered by the love they continue to get despite having gotten worse results in the last decade than some G5 programs.

That's a lot of adverbs.

2) We're more likely to lose it than pretty much any other OOC home-and-home we could schedule.
3) I am ... bothered by the love they continue to get despite having gotten worse results in the last decade than some G5 programs.

Isn't there some contradiction here?

4) I really hate it when we play and people pretend like the universities are on the same level academically. They're not, and the football programs especially aren't.

There is a matter of degree here. Significant difference in admissions, but still und is more like Stanford than probably any other D1 program in having some admissions standards and in making some effort to have their players be part of the student body.

There is a reason und is repeatedly our main recruiting rival, particularly outside of CA. I have heard our players quoted to the effect that they feel more affinity for und than any other opponent, i.e. that they feel the two places offered the most similar experience.

I don't care but do people want to play Big Game on Thanksgiving week end?

BC

At least as of 2012, Stanford and Cal both refused to play Big Game on Thanksgiving weekend.
[Reportedly they were given the option of either Thanksgiving weekend or the October weekend when it was played. Both institutions thought that many of the surrounding events during the preceding week were not practical during Thanksgiving. And of course many Stanford students take off for homes far away.]

Unless that changes, Big Game as the final game of the season is over regardless of whether we play und.

I think for Stanford to be a viable contender, we need to follow the A-B-C strategy of scheduling non-conference opponents

Stanford already is a viable contender. This year they came within a few different single plays of making the playoff.

As far as I can tell, to maximize chances of making the playoff, one should probably follow the A-,C,C strategy for non-conference opponents. But that depends on how things break in a given year, and there's other issues in determining schedule.

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This is partly because ND has been good lately (annoyingly) and partly because they get a ton of home cooking.
3) I am really rather quite extremely bothered by the love they continue to get despite having gotten worse results in the last decade than some G5 programs.

That's a lot of adverbs.

2) We're more likely to lose it than pretty much any other OOC home-and-home we could schedule.
3) I am ... bothered by the love they continue to get despite having gotten worse results in the last decade than some G5 programs.

Isn't there some contradiction here?

4) I really hate it when we play and people pretend like the universities are on the same level academically. They're not, and the football programs especially aren't.

There is a matter of degree here. Significant difference in admissions, but still und is more like Stanford than probably any other D1 program in having some admissions standards and in making some effort to have their players be part of the student body.

There is a reason und is repeatedly our main recruiting rival, particularly outside of CA. I have heard our players quoted to the effect that they feel more affinity for und than any other opponent, i.e. that they feel the two places offered the most similar experience.

I don't care but do people want to play Big Game on Thanksgiving week end?

BC

At least as of 2012, Stanford and Cal both refused to play Big Game on Thanksgiving weekend.
[Reportedly they were given the option of either Thanksgiving weekend or the October weekend when it was played. Both institutions thought that many of the surrounding events during the preceding week were not practical during Thanksgiving. And of course many Stanford students take off for homes far away.]

Unless that changes, Big Game as the final game of the season is over regardless of whether we play und.

I think for Stanford to be a viable contender, we need to follow the A-B-C strategy of scheduling non-conference opponents

Stanford already is a viable contender. This year they came within a few different single plays of making the playoff.

As far as I can tell, to maximize chances of making the playoff, one should probably follow the A-,C,C strategy for non-conference opponents. But that depends on how things break in a given year, and there's other issues in determining schedule.