Alabama-West Virginia schedule home and home series
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A home-and-home to ‘Bama is one game in Birmingham, one game in Tuscaloosa.
Bet they scheduled the first one in Alabama so that Bama can buy out of the second one.
Yeah, but the SEC has no problem playing The Citadel, Liberty or Idaho in November.
Read the thread title outloud and my 14 year old daughter asked what that meant...my 16 year old son replied "it means Alabama is gonna kick the crap out of west virginia two years in a row."
And the two times in the past decade we've needed non-conf games during the B1G portion of the schedule, we've played Eastern Illinois and Temple. Why would anyone add a marquee non-conference game into the heart of their conference schedule (and this includes West Virginia, who I'm sure would also have no interest in it).
Alabama is in a unique situation. Outside of scheduling Clemson, they are going to be double digit favorites over everyone else. Does anyone really think going to Morgantown in November is going to hurt Alabama that much?
On the flip side, would people be satisfied with WVU as our marquee OOC game?
On the flip side, would people be satisfied with WVU as our marquee OOC game?
In order to schedule a game like that in November wouldn’t WVU also have to have open dates on their calendar?
And since Bama and WVU play in conferences -do the conference schedules have any bearing in this?
Or is it just Banas responsibility for scheduling?
2 EASY victories for the Tide!
Combined score: 122 - 37
What a waste.
WVU is heading for several losing seasons.
Exactly, thats when they usually schedule The Citadel, Liberty,...
Until the system changes and you get auto bids for winning your conference, there is no reason for a Big Ten East team to schedule a heavy OOC game unless the payoff is huge.
As well as with Auburn, Va Tech, and West Virginia. It's cute when posters forget to mention that.
Shayne Lyons, the WVU AD who replaced Oliver Luck, came to WVU from Alabama. Also Nick Saban grew up about 25 miles south of Morgantown, WV so I would think all of that came into play in arranging the 2 game series.
I don't care when they play it. Alabama slaughters em. Would have last year, which was WVUs best team since Pat White graduated, and it would not have been close.
Do I think it would be cool to see SEC teams play north in November? Sure. But it's not an end all be all for me. Usually, the big games are played in warm climates, some indoors so that weather isn't a swing.
If you need cold weather, precipitation, and wind to beat a team, you are looking for the wrong form of improvement.
Well, the Mountaineers played the invincible Crimson Tide to within only 10 points in 2014. Too hard to predict college football games so far into the future.
