Some of the list makes sense… I mean, I expected Florida to be in there since they’re the popular ones to bring up… But I’m kind of boggled by Penn State given the home-home with us. And then you have place like Arizona and Kansas St., who really don’t need to add any more punishment to their schedule than they’re already going to get.

football is all about the money. If you are big time program and you are going to sell 100,000 tickets to every game you want to have as many home games as possible. But, if you go after good out of conference games you are giving up home games.

This year Bama goes to Duke. Ok, that is not a big game for us but by playing Duke away and not FIU at home it cost us 4-5 million dollars or perhaps even more. Not to mention what it cost the city of Tuscaloosa.

In reality you can not afford to play more than one of your 4 non conference games away. And in some ways you may not wish to even play one game away.

In general Bama is playing one tough non conference team a year and that is about all we can afford to play from a financial point of view. The days of playing Nebraska, Missouri, Southern Cal, and Washington all in the same season (see 78) are gone forever.

because i refuse to click slide-shows unless there is going to be hot chicks involved.

…is like a magnet for horseshit .

This guy wants to dump on the SEC, but chooses Tennessee to make his point? The team that has played a pac-10 school each of the last four years?

Or Rutgers? Who on earth would play rutgers. They’ve been playing good football, but everyone expects you to beat them. All of the expectations of a cupcake, with none of the benefits of a marquee matchup.

This list should be titled “10 Teams Whose Schedules You Might Bitch About If You Have No Idea How College Football Works.”