11-16-2017, 11:34 AM
(11-16-2017, 10:34 AM)stupac2 link Wrote:Also: every home game is a Saturday! Only one weekday game and it's the pseudo-bye Thursday game, and it's against a weaker team! Pretty good.
Yes, this is a fair and reasonable schedule. The biggest thing I did NOT want to see was a Friday night road game, especially not against UW. All three Pac-12 favorites took massive CFP blows as favorites in Friday night road games this year - U$C @ Wazzu, Wazzu @ ×ÉÉ, and UW @ STAN. (On the flip side, it might have been nice to get Wazzu in our house on a Friday night!)Â
I also like that we'll need to be battle-tested by SDSU before the U$C game. This year's opener vs. Rice obviously didn't help sharpen us.
Today in our opponents' scheduling, note the following:
- Wazzu has to travel to U$C on Friday, Sept. 21. Perhaps it will be payback time.
- UW travels to Auburn in week 2, so no more "cupcake" schedule for them. They play the Apple Cup on Friday, Nov. 23 at Wazzu, but they get to miss U$C again. On balance, they ought to be happy.