After this season, most kids won’t even know who Oregon State is…. Like Portland State and Willamette and Western Oregon U.
As I previously said, it was almost a certainty this would pick back up. Might be even quicker than I anticipated. It just makes too much sense.
Shouldn’t be hard to convince BSU to get out of Ducks games. They don’t want to face any team that has more than a 25% chance of beating them.
That's wild to me. You're against Oregon scheduling games against mid-tier conference opponents? Reducing travel? Having a near guaranteed sellout? Are you against them scheduling Boise St?
And reduced travel. And what is likely to be a good (but very beatable) non-conference opponent. Oregon shouldn't need to schedule a premier non-conference opponent moving forward. Oregon St should be the best opponent the play in my opinion.
I'm against them scheduling games with Boise State every fucking year, year after year, in a reciprocal home-and-home arrangement. That would be stupid and it's something other Big-10 teams WILL NOT be doing Boise State was coming to Autzen next year along with Texas Tech and Idaho. Will OSU agree to playing 2 years in a row in Eugene; and will OSU agree to playing twice in Eugene and once in Corvallis because Boise State agreed to the 2-for-1 arrangement. If OSU won't agree, and I can't see them doing so, Oregon should tell them to pound sand in 2025-26 Oregon has a home-and-home scheduled with Oklahoma State. In 2027-28 they have a home-and-home scheduled with Baylor. Adding OSU to those OOC schedules is nuts. There is no upside, only downside, at least not if you want to compete for championships look at Ohio State's OOC scehdules 2024: Southern Miss; Western Michigan; Marshall 2025: Texas; Ohio Bobcats; UConn 2026: Ball State; @Texas; Kent State 2027: Bowling Green; New Hampshire; Alabama 2028: Bufflao; @Alabama; Northern Illinois this is typical of what elite programs do. They schedule at least two cupcakes OOC; the SEC schedules at least 3. And they schedule, maybe, one significant challenge. Enough of a challenge that an early season OOC loss to another top program won't be hurting them much in November as the playoffs approach. And notice that out of 15 OOC games over the next 5 years, tOSU only plays 2 on the road. Over the last 10 non-covid years, Alabama has played 40 OOC games; 38 of those games have been at home; one road game every 5 years. And like all SEC teams, their OOC schedules are heavy with cupcakes. I like the idea of a home-and-home with Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, and Baylor. Those teams add variety and would be the typical one challenging game in the OOC schedule. Frankly, I hated the home-and-home with Boise State, and the reasons are obvious: just like it would be with OSU, playing Oregon will be Boise State's super bowl. They will spend all summer preparing for the Oregon game, while Oregon is spending all summer preparing for the Big-10 schedule. If Oregon wins they don't get credit for a significant win. If they get upset, they will have that black mark hanging over their heads the rest of the season. Losing to a MWC team is enough to keep a team out of the playoffs, even with a 12 team playoff, because going thru the Big-10 season without a loss seems unlikely. now I don't know what it is the schools are supposedly talking about. If it's just the next 2 years or if it's idiotically continuing the series for decades. But what I see is Oregon straddling a fence, trying to keep tradition alive when tradition is an anachronism. OSU fans sure as hell don't want to keep the series going. I think Oregon should cooperate
LOL...absolutely fuck that noise as I said above, Oregon already has a home-and-home scheduled with Oklahoma State and Baylor. And they have the 2nd half of the Texas Tech series scheduled next year. Given the choice of 5 games with Texas Tech, Ok. State, and Baylor or 5 games with the Beavers, anybody who would chose 5 games with the Beavers is 100% chucklehead
Correct. The schedule the next few years is wonky because of how quick this change happened and how far out teams typically schedule. Mullens might be a chucklehead for trying so hard to schedule OSU for no good reason. Or maybe he has a good reason... Same with Washington scheduling Washington St.
You seem to be assuming OSU isn't going to be a cupcake in the coming years? You think they'll be able to thread the needle and maintain recruiting/coaching staff despite being relegated? I think they'll be much closer to Western Michigan, UConn, Ball St, Bowling Green, and Northern Illinois, who Ohio St has scheduled.
Correct me if I get any of these wrong, but here are some notable annual non-conference rivalry games: Florida vs Florida St Notre Dame vs USC Notre Dame vs Stanford Utah vs BYU Iowa vs Iowa St Colorado vs Colorado St (had a small break) Georgia vs Georgia Tech Clemson vs S Carolina West Virgina vs Pitt Missouri vs Kansas
