Drew
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Every time I think I'm over where conference realignment dumped us, someone posts something like this and a little part of me dies inside.
We actually play Tulane twice more before we play Tulsa - once at home and once on the road. It's an oddity in the schedule. But 2015 starts a new rotation, where we play half of the West division home and home over two years, then the other half home and home over two years. It just so happens that Tulane is in the first half and Tulsa is in the second half. It would be hard to make it perfect for everyone. You could move Tulsa into the first half and switch them with Tulane, but that would probably cause the same for someone else. Barring further realignment, we're in a stable rotation starting in 2015. The transition years were just weird but there's nothing they can do about that.Not sure I understand a) that we play Tulane a second time before we play Tulsa for the first time or b) why Tulane is again the home team but a trip to New Orleans (if it can be worked out) is always a plus!
Looking at the full composite on the AAC's website, it appears that all the teams in the East Division travel to Florida every year and Texas every two years, and the reverse is true for teams in the West Division.
2015 Home: East Carolina, Houston, Navy, USF. 2015 Away: UCF, Cincinnati, Temple, Tulane. Does not play: Memphis, SMU, Tulsa
2016 Home: UCF, Cincinnati, Temple, Tulane. 2016 Away: East Carolina, Houston, Navy, USF. Does not play: Memphis, SMU, Tulsa
2017 Home: East Carolina, Memphis, USF, Tulsa 2017 Away: UCF, Cincinnati, SMU, Temple. Does not play: Houston, Navy, Tulane
2018 Home: UCF, Cincinnati, SMU, Temple. 2018 Away: East Carolina, Memphis, USF, Tulsa. Does not play: Houston, Navy, Tulane
As a Cincy fan I can't wait to play you guys next year. I know that your football team will be vastly improved as Bob Diaco will continue to implement his plan to restore the roar to the Husky football program. UConn always gives Cincy fits especially in Cincinnati so it'll be a rough and tough battle in 2015!
F. Just win 10 games a year. In this league we need to fret who we play? Maybe Nelson is right.
So we can play them home and away. If they had done it the other way and switched the 2017 matchups with the 2016 matchups, we would have alternated who we were playing in the crossover matchups, but then it would have been harder to make sure we go to Texas every other year instead of two years in a row and then not at all for the next two years. If we rotated the crossover opponents from year to year instead of every two years, it's likely either UConn or someone else in our division would be forced to play at SMU one year, at Houston the next, and then make no trip to Texas for the next two years. Which technically still amounts to Texas every other year on average but isn't as lucrative since you're basically missing a whole recruiting cycle.I don't quite understand why we won't play the same teams in 2015 and 2016. We play the same AAC slate in 2015 and 2016 and the same slate in 2017 and 2018. I'm taking this from the Hartford Courant article: http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...ll-schedule-rotation-1219-20141218-story.html
I get why we play our division mates but why do the cross over games need to be identical two straight years?? That to me doesn't make sense.