You misread the post. Next year refers to the 2024 schedule, UC is the Big 12 opponent. I was using “next year” in a fairly common usage of “next year” meaning “next season”. Maybe that was confusing.
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I just can’t read. A post or schedule apparently 
UC is a mid-major.
If so, that takes a P5 win off our list of victories.
Got an email this morning about two Notre Dame packages - one for $1,199 (Chicago hotel, Friday night welcome event, train ride/coach with food/open bar to ND Stadium), another for $399 (no hotel or welcome event). Neither includes the game ticket, the second offer isn’t a very good value since a typical South Shore Line ticket is $14.25 one-way but I do like the effort.
College Sports would be more sustainable if schools could pick how many/what sports they offer, rather than operate under the shackles of Title IX and arbitrary numbers set by conferences
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Missouri wont ever come it always getting pushed back
Missouri has a G5 road game on their schedule in 7 of the next 10 seasons, including this year at UMASS (which is a straight up home and home). They seem totally fine with these games. Plus, if they wanted to buy us out, they would have likely done it by now.
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Plus Sayler is on record saying that they will play us in 2025 or pay us.
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Be careful what you ask for. It’s coming and the day of schools with 20+ sport programs will most likely end soon. You’re about to see 6-8 sports per school I’m afraid. This will dramatically change the US sporting ecosystem in (I believe) a negative manner.
Nah. It will be more regionalized for schools like MU. We have ten schools that are D1 within a short drive of us. We will be fine. Schools spending a fortune to fly non revenue teams all over ‘Murica are gonna be screwed.
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Maybe - depends on how the economic, employment and Title IX issues all work out.
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I’ve seen an EPL-like type of table for the P5, and maybe 1-2 G5 teams.
So, think of a season of match-ups with the teams below:
Ohio State
Michigan
Penn State
Alabama
Clemson
Auburn
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
Oregon
USC
Notre Dame
(4 other good-at-the-moment P5 schools)
2 G5 teams
Then, the rest of everybody plays mostly regional. Every year, the list gets re-evaluated and the powerhouse schools (overall winners) stay in, those who are at the bottom of the table get dropped and replaced by conference winners, etc.
Seemed to be an interesting proposal, better than the 2nd thing I’ve read, which is a LIV-type thing where a table exists as it does above, but nobody gets dropped and a big corporate interest pays a metric boatload of money to the powerhouse programs to be the minor league NFL.
And UMass is FCS.
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Toledo has announced we’ll be their Homecoming opponent on October 5.