Scheduling Question- Who is going to want to play us?

[BoozedUpBull]

Very, very good strategy mentioned there.  I'd like to pick those suckers off one by one and be very public about why we're scheduling them.  Sort of like a HIT LIST and then you can have signs at the games with the list and their names being crossed off.

Here's a list of teams that I would love to see us play again to avenge our loss! 

I hate knowing there are teams out there that we've played, but never beaten.  Especially  IAA teams!

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School[/td][td]Won[/td][td]Lost[/td][td]Last Meeting[/td][/tr]

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Alabama[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2003 Lost 40-17 (Birmingham)[/td][/tr]

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Arkansas[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2002 Lost 42-3 (Little Rock)[/td][/tr]

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Baylor[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2000 Lost 28-13 (Waco)[/td][/tr]

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Drake (IAA)[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]1997 Lost 23-22 (Tampa)[/td][/tr]

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Georgia Southern (IAA)[/td][td]0[/td][td]2[/td][td]1998 Lost 28-23 (Statesboro)[/td][/tr]

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Hofstra (IAA)[/td][td]0[/td][td]2[/td][td]1999 Lost 42-23 (Tampa)[/td][/tr]

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Kansas[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2006 Lost 13-7 (Lawrence)[/td][/tr]

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Kentucky[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2000 Lost 27-9 (Lexington)[/td][/tr]

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Miami[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2005 Lost 27-7 (Miami)[/td][/tr]

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Middle Tennessee State[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2000 Lost 45-9 (Murfeesboro)[/td][/tr]

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North Carolina State[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2005 Lost 14-0 (Charlotte)[/td][/tr]

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Oklahoma[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2002 Lost 31-14 (Norman)[/td][/tr]

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Penn Sate[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2005 Lost 23-13 (University Pk)[/td][/tr]

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San Diego State[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]1999 Lost 41-12 (San Diego)[/td][/tr]

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South Carolina[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2004 Lost 34-3 (Columbia)[/td][/tr]

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Utah[/td][td]0[/td][td]1[/td][td]2001 Lost 52-21 (Salt Lake City)[/td][/tr]

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(stats taken from http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/8121/dabucsdb/usfvs.htm)

The three IAA teams on this list should be on our future schedule as opening games!

We play Kansas and NC State next year, and then Miami the following year, so this list should start getting shorter soon!

We should forward this list to Woolard.

[dabull80]

You need a crystal ball when scheduling.  Who is going to be good 4 years from now ?  Miami had a bad year last year but could win the ACC this year.  Illinios has been bad for years but this year they are looking strong.  I want to see us strong for our conference run and putting to many highly ranked teams on our OOC schedule could be suicide.  You get beat up to bad.

[FAUFB]

Go to this link to see USF's future schedules:

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/future_schedules/southflorida_future.htm

SOUTH FLORIDA

BULLS 

SOUTH FLORIDA FOOTBALL FUTURE SCHEDULES

2008

8-30 Tennessee-Martin

9-6 @ UCF

9-13 Kansas

9-20 @ Florida International

9-27 @ North Carolina State

2009

9-5 Wofford

9-19 Florida International

9-26 Miami FL

10-9 @ Indiana

2010

9-4 Samford

9-11 @ Florida

10-2 Florida Atlantic

10-27 @ Miami FL

2011

9-10 @ Florida

10-26 Miami FL

2012

9-8 Michigan State

11-24 @ Miami FL

2013

9-7 @ Michigan State

9-14 Florida Atlantic

11-30 Miami FL

2014

9-13 North Carolina State

2015

TBA @ Florida

2016

TBA Indiana

 

[SRQ]

In Woolard I trust.

[Guest]

From the Macon Telegraph...

University Of Georgia

GOOD CALL

The rise of South Florida from unknown to No. 6 in this week's Associated Press rankings has caught many people off guard, but Richt saw it coming several years ago. The Boca Raton, Fla., native was so sure of it that he asked his athletics director Damon Evans not to schedule the Bulls several years ago.

"The administration came to me and was like, 'How would you like to play South Florida?' I said, 'No. They are too fast. They are too talented. They are well-coached, and they are a team that would just love to make a reputation by playing us and beating us,' " he said. "I'd rather play a perennial top-10 team than to play them."

Link

[BoozedUpBull]

I know Alabama doesn't want to play us, because of our "recruiting advantage".

[JoeB]

I see 3 games on that list @ Florida.  When do they come to Tampa?  Those will be tough tickets in Gainesville.

[Guest]

I see 3 games on that list @ Florida.  When do they come to Tampa?  Those will be tough tickets in Gainesville.

They don't.  And the site has it wrong... when USF signed the extended deal with Miami, the 2011 game was pushed back to 2015...

[crambone]

Yes Jim, that is old.

[FAUFB]

IMO the NCAA should look at creating a rotating schedule, where every conference would play at least one game against one another. That way, it would create some parity as it progresses in CFB. Example BE v. Big 12, CUSA v. PAC 10, SBelt v. ACC & so on. The next year then, change it up. It doesn't have to be the powerhouses against the lower teams, but the powerhouses would have to travel to the lower teams, just to make it better for the lower teams.