You schedule 3 FCS warm up games. Play no one of any significance the rest of the way, except conference games. You end up playing one or two tough games the entire year. The polls and the committee see a 12-0 or 11-1 record at the end of the season and figure you have to be one of the best teams in the country. USC, like everyone else, has to see how successful that formula can be. Tough out of conference games will go away unless the way teams are ranked changes.
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That's unfortunately, the way to schedule now.
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- Added @BYU next year……. home in 2027 [NT]
- DonMiller - 12:12pm 12/22/25
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- NBC is losing its best ND prime time offering. - NDblues - 3:58pm 12/22/25
- Did we want to keep the same setup? - NDWisconsin - 3:26pm 12/22/25
- It sounds like USC wanted it early in the season, i haven't seen any response from ND [NT]
- holybull101 - 3:35pm 12/22/25
- May be unpopular opinion, but I would say if SC wanted too… - NDWisconsin - 3:54pm 12/22/25
- It sounds like USC wanted it early in the season, i haven't seen any response from ND [NT]
- holybull101 - 3:35pm 12/22/25
- Rivalry aside, BYU better opponent at least in the short term - NDNEIL - 3:14pm 12/22/25
- Best we could do with SC taking a pass. [NT] - sweetbobbyg - 1:25pm 12/22/25
- But apparently, at the same time, lost the little chance of playing USC [NT] - Irish_Demon - 12:20pm 12/22/25
- ....because USC series just died [NT]
- Nigel Tufnel - 12:20pm 12/22/25
- Thanks to SC. - AlbanyIRISH - 12:52pm 12/22/25
- Disappointing but not surprising - Nigel Tufnel - 1:12pm 12/22/25
- That's unfortunately, the way to schedule now. - Irish_Demon - 1:05pm 12/22/25
- Thanks to SC. - AlbanyIRISH - 12:52pm 12/22/25
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