Potential teams available to fill the 2010 remaining slots

by Chris, Raleigh, NC, Friday, May 22, 2009, 09:36 (6277 days ago)
edited by Chris, Friday, May 22, 2009, 10:07

Here's what I extracted from nationalchamps.net.
It factors in Big East teams with available 5th slot(7 league games), Pac-10 available 3rd slot(9 league games), teams that are already on the schedule & the WAC which lists it's non league games with some of it's league games and is hard to decipher so I listed most of them.
I didn't remove teams that don't have the proper open dates (actually I didn't look at that yet) and this would probably reduce the list greatly but here's what I have so far. Update: Tubes over at NDN gave me 5 teams who play on the weeks we have open games, October 30th, November 6th & 20th.
Keeping the 30th open would give us a break after playing 8 straight.
The 20th would give us two weeks to prepare for USC.

Air Force
Akron
Alabama-They play Penn State already and a neutral site game against Duke
Arkansas
Arkansas St
Ball State
BYU
Cal
Central Michigan
Cincinnati-Big East has 5 games-They play NCSU & Oklahoma
Duke
Florida Intl
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Kansas St
Kentucky
Louisiana Lafayette
Louisiana Monroe
LSU
Maryland
Middle Tennessee
Minnesota
Mississippi State
Nevada
New Mexico
New Mexico State
NC State
Northern Illinois
Oklahoma State
San Diego State
Syracuse-Again BE has 5 games but they play UW, VaTech & BC
TCU
Tulane
Tulsa
UCF
UNLV
Utah State
UTEP
Virginia
Washington State
Western Michigan
Wisconsin

There are a fair number of usual suspects on that list

by Jeff (BGS) @, A starter home in suburban Tempe, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 07:39 (6273 days ago) @ Chris
edited by Jeff (BGS), Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 05:57

It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Air Force, BYU, Duke, Georgia Tech, Hawaii, or even Washington State fill those last two spots.

Without getting into an other "my ideal schedule" post, we'd better start re-evaluating a lot of our "traditionally" home-and-home series (Purdue, MSU, Pitt, Stanford, etc.), or this 7-4-1 is not going to have a chance. We can sign home-and-home deals with Southern Cal and Michigan, but nearly everyone else had better be in 2-1 deals or the match simply won't work.

7-4-1 doesn't have a chance, regardless.

by KGB, Belly o. the Beast, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 10:42 (6273 days ago) @ Jeff (BGS)

If NBC is that hard up to fill time on Saturday afternoons, maybe they should talk to Leno. He's going to be responsible for about 30% of their programming before long, anyway.

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