West Virginia's Schedule

I will preface this by saying that I feel that UGA will be one of the 5 best teams in the country next year based on talent, coaching and expectations.  Whether that will translate into a SEC and BCS championship, one won't know until January of 2009.

When comparing one teams schedule to another when they are in seperate conferences, you really have to look at one area and only one area.  The teams have no control over who is on their in-conference schedule.  Good or bad, those teams are there.  Since WVU has 5 ooc games and UGA has 4, I will throw out the Marshall game since WVU is mandated to play that game as well.  So let's compare the 4 ooc games that each team could control within their schedule.

WVU v/s Villianova and UGA v/s Ga. Southern.  push....neither of these games should be played.

WVU v/s East Carolina and UGA v/s Central Michigan.  again....push...ECU is a quality mid-major and Central Michigan is a quality mid-major.

WVU v/s Colorado and UGA v/s Georgia Tech.  again...push...BCS conference foes for both.  Colorado is on its way back and that game is at Boulder on Thursday night.  GT will be in transition but it is an in-state rivalry game.

WVU v/s Auburn and UGA v/s Arizona St. again...push...quality BCS game against a team from the top portion of their respective BCS conferences

The out of conference games are extremely comparable.

I think that you can pretty much say the same thing about just about every major program.  They play a couple quality OOC games, a medium ooc game and a cupcake ooc game.  That is just the way the majority of teams schedule.

Remember that scheduling is an inexact science, who knows what a team will be like in 10 years when you are scheduling the game.  When OSU scheduled Washington, UW was good, then they fell off.  When ND originally scheduled Rutgers, RU was terrible, now they are much better and ND got out of that deal.  The point is that some years your ooc schedule will be tough and some years it won't be.  Some schedules that look good on paper aren't as good as you would think because a name team is mediocre at best.

I will take your word forit..you know them much better than I do...All I can see is a loss of a ton of experience..

Truly...outside of Notre Dame on certain years...I can't ever remember seeing a schedule like that...

MDAWG10...I have enjoyed the banter!!..I have added you to the favs..

Slaton, stay in the closet dude.  Please say it isnt so.  There is only one other team more dispicable, more slimy than Pitt and that is UGA.  Go ahead and tell them that you were just kidding...

I didnt read all of the 5 pages of posts but it seems to me as if the SOS debate has already started.  UGA fans are banking on a 1 loss season and have already begun the campainging...7 months before the big game.  Dont worry, Richt wont be far behind...

Psst, Slaton, dont tell them Dawg fans, but I spent 5 years in the heart of Dawg country and every one of the was down right convinced that WVU nor Mizzou had no business in NC game(this was before we both lost our last game).  Even though they couldnt win their division, let alone their conference, WVU plays in the Big East and has no right to even be considered.  That is what every(EVERY), and I mean every UGA fan feels.  Again, dont tell them I told you this!!!!

Rutgers-never been relavent and never will,

Yeah, well at least we don't make excuses like little girls when WVU beats us.