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Lets_Talk:
Here is a list of the FCS teams playing 2 FBS opponents this season. Nicholls State plays 3 FBS teams. Thought it might be of interest to some of you:

*Indiana State(MVFC) - Lost 28-10 at Indiana in week 1...plays at Ball State(MAC) this week
*UNI(MVFC) - Lost 31-23 at Iowa(BIG) in Week 1 .... Play at Hawai'i(Mt West) this Saturday
*WIU(MVFC) - Lost 37-3 at Wisconsin(BIG) in Week 2 ... Play at Northwestern(BIG) on Sept 20th
*Idaho State(Big Sky) - Lost 56-14 to Utah(PAC 12) in week 1 and 40-20 at Utah State(Mt. West) in Week 2
*Portland State(Big Sky) - Lost 29-14 at Oregon St(PAC 12) in week 1 ... plays at Washington State(PAC 12) this week
*UC Davis(Big Sky)- Lost 45-0 at Stanford(PAC 12) in week 1... plays at Colorado St. (Mt West) this week
*Southern Utah(Big Sky) - Lost 28-19 at Nevada(Mt. West) in Week 1.... play at Fresno State(Mt West) Sept 20th
*Charleston Southern(Big South) - Oct 11 at Vanderbilt(SEC)... Nov 22 at Georgia)
*Liberty(Big South) - lost 56-29 at UNC(AAC)... plays at App State(Sun Belt) on Oct 11th
*Howard(MEAC) - Lost 41-0 at Akron(MAC) in Week 1 .... Lost 38-25 at Rutgers(BIG) in week 2
*Savannah St(MEAC) - Lost 83-9 at Ga Southern(Sun Belt)... Play at BYU(Independent) on Nov 22nd
*Bethune Cookman(MEAC) - Lost 14-12 at FIU(C-USA) in Week 1 ... at UCF(AAC) on Sept 20th
*Murray State(OVC) - Lost 66-21 at L'ville(ACC) in Week 2.... Play at WMU(MAC) on Sept 20th
*EKU(OVC) - Beat Miami,OH(MAC) 17-10 in Week 2 ... Play at Florida on Nov 22nd
*EIU(OVC) - Lost 42-20 at Minnesota(BIG)  in Week 1.... Play at OHIO(MAC) on Sept 27th
*VMI(Southern) - Lost 48-7 at BG(MAC) in Week 2 ... Play at Navy(Independent) on Oct 11
*W. Carolina(Southern) - Lost 36-31 at USF(AAC) in Week 1 .... Plays at Alabama(SEC) on Nov 22nd
*Samford(Southern) - Lost 48-14 at TCU(Big 12) in Week 1 ... Plays at Auburn(SEC) on Nov 22nd
*Chattanooga(Southern) - Lost 20-16 at CMU in Week 1 .... Plays at Tennessee(SEC) on Oct 11
*Northwestern St(Southland) - Lost 70-6 at Baylor(Big 12) in Week 2..... Plays at La Tech(C-USA) on Sept 20th
*Abilene Christian(Southland) - Lost 38-37 at Ga State(Sun Belt)... Play at Troy(Sun Belt) this week
*Nicholls St(Southland) - Lost 44-16 at Air Force(Mt West) in Week 1 .... Lost 73-6 at Arkansas(SEC) in Week 2 and plays at North Texas(C-USA) on Sept 20th. The other OOC game is at home against a Non D1 team

I noticed a few of these teams play 2 NON D1 teams at home, something I do not understand?
Murray State (2 non D1 home games)
Western Carolina (2 non D1 home games)
Samford (2 non D1 home games)
UC-Davis plays only 11 games. The 3rd OOC game is a Non D1 team
Charleston Southern plays 2 Non D1 games

Multiple schools play 1-2 of the other OOC games against teams in Pioneer or NEC, or 1 Non D1 team with the remaining OOC games

A few others play the remaining 2 OOC games against FCS teams from full scholarship conferences:
*Southern Utah played at SE Louisiana(Southland) and this week plays SDSU(MVFC).
*Northwestern State played Missouri State(MVFC) in Week 1, and plays at Southern(SWAC) this week
*UNI plays Northern Colorado(Big Sky) and Tenn Tech(OVC) at home for their 2 other OOC games
*EIU played and lost to SIU, and the other OOC game is at Illinois State
*Chattanooga - Lost to Jacksonville St(OVC) and plays at Austin Peay(OVC) this week
*Indiana State beat Tenn Tech at home last week, and plays Liberty(Big South) on Sept 27th

ysuguins4:
Come playoff time it will be interesting to see how these teams that lose two FBS games stand in the new power rankings that the committee started using last year.

ELPENGUIN:
Talk, great research.  I understand guarantee is anywhere from $ 50,00 to $100,000 per game.  Wow, is that state/sudent fee money subsidizing them?  If so our guarantee of $10,000 or so is way out of line.

HappyPenguin:
I'd like to review Talks post again after the selections...see how much it played into things.

guinpen:
So the article in the Vindy, Strollo explains that Playing these 3 home lower level games brings 200k per game. The cost of travel to a FCS non league game would be 100k. So in a nutshell for each of these three games we would drop and play away we lose 300k, money the ad dept cannot afford to lose.

So our options are simple, keep doing what we are doing and have people complain.

Have the complainers cough up 300k.

Play 2 fbs games and give up a home game every year.

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