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UGA said to be in talks with Texas about a series.  Have a neutral site game with Oregon in a few years now.

Their OOC slate this year is pathetic, but they appear to be trying for two P5 opponents in most years.

good work

Wisconsin?!?!?!

hah!

My off stated rule is that every P5 team has to schedule ten P5 level teams each year.

They get two pastries if they choose.

Agreed, but the cupcakes should at least be FBS.  10 P5 teams, and 2 Go5 teams, I'm good with.

I'd like the cupcakes to be FBS, but I fear that would deprive FCS teams of needed revenue.  We'd have even more Georgia States trying to get to FBS to get revenue for beatdowns.

Maybe you could schedule an FCS once every other year.

In reality, a top team is going to demolish an FCS team slightly more than a bad FBS team, if that.

I can't keep count of how many teams in Georgia now are FBS.  It was two forever.

I think the scholarship limitations make it a player safety issue, particularly the growing trend of those Week 12 games once rosters are already worn down.  Week 1, I agree, the difference might be minimal.  Week 12, it's a huge issue.

A top team, other than perhaps Michigan, would beat Akron just as easily as Appy State (when they were FCS), beginning, end, middle.

If they don't, they aren't a top team.

UGA struggled a couple years ago with somebody, they almost lost in fact, at home.  I saw that offensive line and realized they would have a tough year and they did.  Whether that team was FBS or FCS made no difference other than being 51-10 versus 55-6 or something.  Good teams won't struggle with lower third FBS teams any more than FCS teams.

Nichols State it was, horrible showing.

It's not a matter of how easy the opponent is, I agree, that matters less, it's a matter of player safety when you have 20 fewer scholarship players, and you are meeting in late November after normal attrition.  

There's an aTm kid who is using allegations against Jimbo and Co. to try tio get a transfer waiver to Arizona (to be with Sumlin). The allegations are about mandatory workouts during the summer, some being monitored by coaches. Not earth shattering, but against the rules.

The most interesting thing IMO is the potential here for a dramatic new precedent: players spilling the beans on their program to get their way with the NCAA. 

It's kind of an ugly idea, and I don't like the pettiness (or the difficulty to corroborate the players' accounts), but I always love the separate ideas of (a) giving the players more power and (b) weeding out as much rule-breaking as possible. I have no clue what a reasonable balance there is. I'm just doubting that we are there already.

Who cares about player safety when the school can get a million bucks?
I admire those FCS kids out there playing football, while thinking they are perhaps not making a good choice in life.

Exactly,echoes my sentiments.Big payout for the school/admn's kid ends up feeling like a gaggle of Gladiators just had their way with him.Not sure admire is the word - respect perhaps