That was...............Since 2000 Oregon State football has finished ranked five times and one of those finished #4 in the country-. Let me know when Chattanooga - Mercer and the Citadels of the world the SEC plays do that. Heck throw in Duke , Mississippi State, Kentucky and Vanderbilt.
Oregon State in this time had players like TJ Houshmandzadeh, Chad Johnson, Stephen Jackson, Derek Anderson, Nick Barnett, Brandon Cooks;
And you know this how? Hell RT, the transitive property is better than making a statement like this. Unless they play 100 times we'd never know. It could be 100-0, 50-50, 0-100...or any damn thing in between.
And yet Alabama year after year plays Chattanooga and Mercer and North Idaho State and miraculously hasnt gone on the road to play an out of conference game at that teams house in about seven years. Lol. Its just Sabans good luck.
Variables my ass. Lol.
LOL - ya he sat on the ball guess he wasn't use to playing against a mediocre PAC offense.Jesus Christ...if your going to use transitive property, you should at least try to stay away from games that feature historically epic fails. UCLA and Texas A&M could play 100 times and that would still be their only win. Sumlin got deservedly fired for losing that game. Who rushes for 300 yards in the first half, then rushed 13 times in the 2nd...up by 34...Kevin Sumlin, that's who.
2015 - 2016 Kansas would give 'em a close run. 2-22. Beat the might Rhode Island Rams and the rusty cows of Texas.
It's because home games are a huge payday for the program. Why schedule a home and home with a smaller (cup cake if you will) and give up a huge pay check. Schedule the small schools at home, give them a nice pay day for their program, and bank the money.
Texas A&M
@#1 Clemson
That's a whole lotta cupcakes
The old we play trucking schools because they need the money excuse. Lol
Depends on what you want to watch or go pay money to see. I hate it when UW plays the Portland State's of the world. When half of your home games are cupcakes, who want's to buy season tickets?Well, when you add in a conference schedule that includes
Alabama
@ Georgia
@ LSU
Texas A&M is playing 4 teams in the top 8 of the final coaches and AP poll. Should they have tried to fill out their OOC schedule 3 the other 4?
Spare me with the business decision excuse. How much more money would the area economy make on a weekend in Tuscaloosa if they played USC or Michigan or wisconsin rather than Mercer. Its not about how much money they make it's that theres no way in hell the can lose to The Citadel. But home and home is a different story.No, just saying that playing those schools is a business decision for the host schools.
Sorry, if the PAC sucks soo bad you have to try to schedule tough OOC to make your record look good.
Depends on what you want to watch or go pay money to see. I hate it when UW plays the Portland State's of the world. When half of your home games are cupcakes, who want's to buy season tickets?
Spare me with the business decision excuse. How much more money would the area economy make on a weekend in Tuscaloosa if they played USC or Michigan or wisconsin rather than Mercer. Its not about how much money they make it's that theres no way in hell the can lose to The Citadel. But home and home is a different story.
They have four games to schedule who they want and its been like eleven years since they did a home and home. Is Alabama football hurting for money? Hey it works . That's for sure. But don't try and say it's about economics.You are right, they would make more money buy scheduling a strong team, but only for that year. They would have to give up a home game the next year.
They have four games to schedule who they want and its been like eleven years since they did a home and home. Is Alabama football hurting for money? Hey it works . That's for sure. But don't try and say it's about economics.
The fact that you think they play those type of teams all at home because they make a little more money is adorable.How difficult is it to understand that the money generated from 4 OOC home games against cup cakes every year is going to be much more that doing home and homes with other teams and only getting 2 or even 3 OOC home games?
The old we play trucking schools because they need the money excuse. Lol
Go ahead an tell us how great Coastal Carolina and Florida A&M are.LOL. While you're at it tell us how great Mercer, the Citadel and Chattanooga are.
I love how you say they won three games or four games . Well no shit. They play an entire schedule of Troy and Texas State type teams. If Mercer plays Coastal Carolina one of them is going to win. Does that make them good? No.
When's the last time any of those teams were ranked over the majority of SEC teams like Oregon State has?
Here's a fun fact. Texas A&M has been in the SEC eight seasons and UCLA has played them more ( once) in that time span than Georgia who's in their conference. But then again they have also played teams like Prairie View-Lamar-Sam Houston State more times than Georgia who's in their conference
2015 - 2016 Kansas would give 'em a close run. 2-22. Beat the might Rhode Island Rams and the rusty cows of Texas.