This Apple Cup will be weird, but don't give up on it yet
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What's an interesting non-conference game in the future?
My list is:
Miami
Texas
Oklahoma
Alabama
LSU
Georgia
Auburn
Tennessee
Florida, maybe
I don't really care about FSU or Clemson. We have no history with either of those schools. The rest of the ACC is meh, though I would find a game against Pitt interesting (the centennial of our 1930s Rose Bowl matchups are starting to be not that far away). Cal/Furd?
Which of the Big 12? Utah/Colorado? Fuck the Arizona schools.
A 5 year deal with Cuog while we get used to the new world is fine. It guarantees we always have 1 close road trip (Oregon or WSU) out of our 5 trips per year.
We either don't play Cuog or we play 6 road games if we add a big time non-con.
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the apple cup needs to die
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With the super conferences and expanded playoffs I wonder if interesting non-conference games die and we really just see basically true preseason games with teams playing three cupcakes. It sucks to me because big non-conference games were one of my favorite things about college football.
I'm not into playing lose-lose games in any way shape or form. Including like Boise and BYU. By that I mean games where if you win it's expected and you get nothing for it but if you lose you look bad. It's different than cupcakes games where you 99% of the time should sleepwalk to a win. I'm talking about these programs that can beat you 10-25% of the time. Northern Illinois is a good example.
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it’s like a whole new world out there, groz
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UW should play a team from the new Mtn West every season. It doesn't have to be the cuog.
Nobody cares. The AC was a rivalry game before. Now it's not. It's a big game for WSU still but is nothing to most UW fans.
Check the admission gate totals. They won't lie.
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Playing it in September is unnatural. Maybe it'll turn into a decent CU/CSU or Cyclone/Hawkeye rivalry. Right now, it feels off, and in a move that surprises nobody, they gouged fans for ridiculous amounts of money.
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I prefer this time to listening to cougs be insufferable while I'm trying to eat thanksgiving food and chug way too much ABV holiday beers.
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That will be replaced by Duckies this year.
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Any AD of a team in a P2 conference that would schedule anything other than 3/4 body bag games in non conference should be fired by their school for incompetence.
Our schedule this year is perfect example. Michigan, SC, Oregon, Iowa, Penn State. You go 3-2 take care of business rest of games you are better than coin flip of getting in 12 team playoff and shoe-in when it goes to 16 an a couple years.
4-1 and tcb your playing in CCG for a chance at a current 1st round bye.
Risk not remotely close to reward.
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With Pac2 creating varsity version of MWC, along with overall complete apathy by both schools fan bases, the life expectancy of this game is 2 years tops. One game in Pullman 2025, home in 2026 and then this series goes extinct.
