2018 California Golden Bears Football Schedule**TENTATIVE** |
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| Saturday Sep. 1 |
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North Carolina Tar Heels California Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, CA |
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| Saturday Sep. 8 |
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at BYU Cougars LaVell Edwards Stadium, Provo, UT |
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Idaho State Bengals California Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, CA |
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| Saturday Sep. 29 |
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| Saturday Oct. 13 |
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| Saturday Oct. 20 |
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| Saturday Oct. 27 |
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| Saturday Nov. 3 |
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| Saturday Nov. 10 |
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| Saturday Nov. 17 |
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| Saturday Nov. 24 |
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| Saturday Dec. 1 |
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Pac-12 Championship Game Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA |
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| 2018 Games with dates TBA | ||||
| * Pac-12 home games: TBA | ||||
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Cal Headlines
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Day
August 9, 2016 at 11:40 am
This is a cute article, I would’ve kept out A&M vs UTSA since this is their 1st ever meeting.
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Hail Southern!
August 9, 2016 at 6:19 pm
If you watched the 2014 Georgia Southern @ Georgia Tech game or better yet, if you attended the game, then you would know the ACC referees took the game out of the players hands with a terrible reversal of an ON THE FIELD call (requires indisputable evidence…it’s still being disputed). Georgia Southern was the better team that day and still has the more dynamic roster. Thank you Paul Johnson and the Tech AD for not being scared (UGAg) and rescheduling the Eagles…GS won’t leave it in question this go around. It would be great for the state if GS and Tech continued to schedule a game (maybe a H&H once Paulson Stadium is expanded to 30k) every other year. Athletically, as of late, the two schools are closer to peers than big brother-little brother.
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Kevin Kelley
August 9, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Georgia has played Georgia Southern six times since 1992, Georgia Tech only once. I don’t think Georgia is scared of GS.
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Hail Southern!
August 10, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Interesting that 5 of those 6 times were when Georgia Southern had 63 scholarships. The 6th game was a carry over from GS’s FCS days and Georgia elected to move the game from 2016 to 2015 probably because they didn’t want an additional year of FBS recruiting for GS. Georgia was gifted that win last year and every dawg fan knows it. For both parties, it is understood that Georgia no longer wants any part in scheduling GS and frankly that’s fine by me.
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Atlanta_Mafia
August 11, 2016 at 10:23 am
Don’t worry Kevin Kelly, that’s just GS non-sense talk. They told GSU that they’d never beat GS – but in the just the second meeting (last year) GSU gave them their worst defeat in the history of Paulson High School County Stadium, The glory days of GS are behind them. The newsflash to GS is that they are the #4 team in the state of Georgia and they think that they are #1.
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William Satterwhite
August 11, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Georgia Tech got up big in that game and then let up and allowed Georgia Southern back in, the Eagles were far from the better team that day.
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H
August 11, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Georgia Southern’s coach was on his way out and focused on a million dollar salary…way to go. How’d that bowl game work out for the mighty Panthers? Let’s compare some numbers for a minute…17-53 (129th in FBS) vs. 375-200-10 (14th in FBS)…0 D1 National Championships vs. 6 D1 National Championships (most all-time)…0 D1 Conference Titles vs. 11 D1 Conference Titles. WHEW! I can certainly understand why a Panther fan (those exist?) would cling like hell to that win against Georgia Southern! Run along now, let us men get back to it.
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Atlanta_Mafia
August 12, 2016 at 7:11 pm
GS has never beat UGA – GS has never beat GT – GS is 50/50 against GSU.
So your excuse is that GS got pounded at home by GSU cause your coach was dreaming about a real job? Really? That’s all it took for the mighty Beagles to lose at home? A coach’s daydream? All that tripe that GS spews about GSU and you got pounded in just the second effing year by a five year old football team? Fact is that Richt got fired because he almost lost to GS so that should tell you about how little respect there is for the GS product. So maybe GS needs to realize that they may start to fall behind KSU or Mercer. You guys have such an incredible false sense of entitlement from all those Pee-Wee league trophies. Probably ought to go on back to FCS Pee-Wee league! How about that Capt GAyTAy? -
Hail Southern!
August 13, 2016 at 1:11 pm
The Real GSU has played UGA and GT once with equal scholarships. Do you understand that having 22 less scholarships is a disadvantage? Once the playing field was made even, the Real GSU lost by a combined 10 points in their first outings with 85 scholarships. Again, I appreciate GT rescheduling the Real GSU unlike UGAg (I bet you’re a UGAg fan before a GAy St fan). Do you understand that when a head coach does not prep their team for a game that the team is unprepared? Big concepts here. Do you have any facts or just opinions? Richt was on the hot seat at the start of that season and the season before that…try to keep up. The fact that you recognize KSU and Mercer says a lot about where you view GAy St. Pee-Wee trophies…you’re talking about Division 1 National Championships. Do you understand that prior to the College Football Playoff, the FCS Playoff was the highest form of a college football playoff in existence? Oh but computers picking two teams worked out every time. The Real GSU should go back to FCS? You mean the Real GSU with the 18-7 FBS record (.720)? How about GAy St with the 7-30 FBS record (.189). This is too easy man, c’mon. (A) Why would GAy St field a football team and (B) why would ANYONE be a fan???? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!
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Matt Rigby
August 9, 2016 at 9:20 pm
what about the Brigham Young-Utah State game or the Notre Dame-Navy game?
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David
August 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Neither BYU nor USU are a Power 5. And Notre Dame and Navy aren’t in the same state.
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Adam
August 10, 2016 at 11:47 am
Matt probably meant to say the BYU-Utah game. Utah is a P5, but BYU is not. The summary would read something like this:
Utah-Brigham Young
When: Saturday, Sept. 10, 5:30pm MT
Where: Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT
All-Time Series Leader: Utah, 58-34-4 (62.5%)
Last-Five: Utah, 5-0 (100%)Utah has dominated its little brother, BYU, over the last 13 meetings (10-3, 77%). And they will certainly do so again this fall.
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Mark S
August 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm
Someone asked that on Twitter, FBSchedules replied “BYU generally considered P5 so not included.”
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Matt
August 11, 2016 at 4:54 pm
BYU fits the P5 requirement for scheduling for most if not all conferences. The SEC looks at BYU as a P5…last time I checked the SEC is the premier program in College Football.
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Bill
August 10, 2016 at 3:32 pm
good article ….but i would say Georgia Southern has a much better chance of beating Georgia Tech than many of the games you have ranked as more likely. I don’t think very many people would be surprised is Georgia Southern wins that game.
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KF Baxter
August 11, 2016 at 3:25 pm
Utah had to be invited to a conference to be considered P5. BYU did it on their own.
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Wade
August 12, 2016 at 7:54 am
BYU is considered by some to be a P5 “for scheduling purposes.” But we’re not actually a P5, since we don’t belong to a P5 conference. That’s why it’s so important for us to get into the Big XII…the fate and viability of our football program rests on it. If we don’t get in and become an actual P5, our future looks no better than that of New Mexico State.
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Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm
By that thinking, Toledo would also be considered a Power 5 Power Team, since it can beat 1/2 or more of teams from Power 5 Conferences…
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zerome4sooners
August 12, 2016 at 8:23 am
Little brother = going on every web site possible to talk about how Utah should really be a big brother
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Mike
August 22, 2016 at 8:28 pm
ECU has not only won 3 out of 5, but 9 out of the last 15.
Go Pirates! Argh!
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Craig
August 23, 2016 at 1:11 am
I don’t think many Ohio State fans see any MAC schools as “little brother.” The only school that would make sense to have that designation would be U of Cincinnati.
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Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Toledo, Ohio and BGSU, Ohio are both vastly better than Cincinnati, Ohio !!! As is Ohio Bobcats
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Aussie_Math
November 28, 2015 at 11:20 pm
Awesome, great to see a college football game come over to Oz. Just hope they sell out the stadium to make the trip worth it. A bad look for Sydney if they have a lot of empty seats. IMO great to see but maybe wrong choice of cities.
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Shep
November 28, 2015 at 11:45 pm
Wrong choice of cities? More like wrong choice of teams. I wouldn’t blame anybody for not wanting to waste their time and money on that garbage team Hawaii fields.
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BoiseDownUnder
November 29, 2015 at 6:18 am
I’m a Boise State fan living in Adelaide Australia, and I follow college football more intently than just about anyone in Australia I feel. I’m not even contemplating going to this game. Would rather spend $2,000 to go to America to watch something like San Jose State vs Fresno State, than spend $500 to go to Sydney to watch Cal vs Hawai’i. If it were an attractive program like say USC, or UCLA, or Oregon at Cal’s expense. I probably go, or if it’s a semi-respectable school like San Diego State, or Air Force, or Nevada (even if I hate them) at Hawai’i expense. I probably go as it’d be a good game. But I’m not going to go watch a game you know will be a Cal 4+ TD win.
If we’re going to get a game, do it right! There’s talk still for a bowl game in Melbourne. At least there we’re getting average teams at worst depending on who’s selected. Much better proposal than this.
In Australia the NFL has a niche following. And a pre-season game in 1999 only got 74k (ANZ Stadium had a capacity of 110k back then pre-olympics). For every 10 NFL fans. Only 1 would even look at college football. If this is even 50% full (40k) I’ll be in shock.
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MJB (@mjbx101)
November 30, 2015 at 1:29 pm
If you don’t like the matchup, blame Baylor.
The game in Australia was supposed to be Cal vs. Baylor, but Baylor backed out for unknown reasons.
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Jeff B.
December 1, 2015 at 10:56 am
Yeah the unknown reason is the would rather play FCS teams and group 5 teams! They need to man up and play a power 5 team in non conference play!!!
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FearTheSpear
December 2, 2015 at 1:06 am
Sold 20,000 tickets yesterday in pre-sales, enjoy sitting at home in Adelaide!
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nickp91
November 29, 2015 at 12:32 pm
NSW Premier Mike Baird said it took the State Government about 12 months to secure the match
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ZiaLobo
November 30, 2015 at 8:07 pm
Would love to see my New Mexico Lobos play in Australia! We love our Aussie connections with Luc Longley and Hugh Greenwood/Cameron Bairstow in college basketball! Maybe we can get some young Australian studs to come play American football for the Lobos as well!
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Kimo
May 13, 2016 at 2:32 pm
There maybe a number of aussies who will be the BIG losers when these two teams meet. Sorry to say Aussies lack the ability to love a team win or lose.
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Gamer
March 25, 2015 at 7:15 pm
P12, BigX, B1G are quickly getting scheduled up, while the SEC scheduling languishes.
SEC still needs five non-FCS games in 2016, 11-13 non-FCS games in 2017, and 27 non-FCS games in 2018.
Need non-FCS OOC games:
SEC – 2016 (5) / 2017 (11-13) / 2018 (27) / 2019 (24-25)
ACC – 2016 (5) / 2017 (9-11) / 2018 (12) / 2019 (12-13)
B1G – 2016 (0) / 2017 (8) / 2018 (9) / 2019 (17)
P12 – 2016 (2) / 2017 (2) / 2018 (7) / 2019 (7)
B12 – 2016 (2) / 2017 (2) / 2018 (2) / 2019 (6)AAC – 2016 (1) / 2017 (7) / 2018 (13) / 2019 (10)
MWC – 2016 (2-3) / 2017 (6-9) / 2018 (9-12) / 2019 (13+)
CUSA – 2016 (1) / 2017 (6) / 2018 (14) / 2019 (19)
MAC – 2016 (1) / 2017 (6) / 2018 (8) / 2019 (20)
SunB – 2016 (1) / 2017 (9) / 2018 (12) / 2019 (21)ND – 2016 (0) / 2017 (0) / 2018 (2) / 2019 (2)
BYU – 2016 (0-1) / 2017 (0-1) / 2018 (1-2) / 2019 (2-3)
Army – 2016 (1) / 2017 (1) / 2018 (1) / 2019 (2-3)
Mass – 2016 (3-4) / 2017 (1) / 2018 (4) / 2019 (8) -
Joe
March 29, 2015 at 2:20 pm
If this were an SEC team doing this, the comments would be full of hate. Instead, this was posted four days ago and there is one comment. All teams schedule cupcakes. ALL teams.
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Billy
March 30, 2015 at 11:27 pm
Joe, your argument is a little incomplete. Yes, all P5 Schools play “cupcakes”, but the problem is the SEC loads up on a higher percentage of “cupcakes”. You may need to take off your sun glasses or blinders or whatever it is that impairing your vision and try to see the whole picture. I really don’t thing there’s as much hate as you would want, just more frustration.
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Joe
April 1, 2015 at 4:53 pm
The SEC doesn’t ‘load up’ on a higher percentage of cupcakes. That’s absurd. The SEC follows the basic formula everyone has followed for the last thirty years. One power five, two other Division I-A schools that they should beat, and one FCS school. Sure, there are exceptions, but that’s pretty much the way most everyone has done it for a good while now.
Oh, and then the SEC goes and plays eight teams from the best conference in football.
But don’t take my word for it. Take the NFL’s word for it. The SEC has more players drafted than any other league… That’s a pretty good measuring stick that is completely unbiased. In fact, it’s probably the best measuring stick because the NFL has a lot to loose when a draft pick doesn’t work out.
But hate on, haters… The SEC is still best and you know it.
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MJB (@mjbx101)
September 9, 2015 at 1:03 pm
Almost all teams, but not all. UCLA, USC, and Notre Dame have never played an FCS (former I-AA) team in football.
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Scott
March 16, 2015 at 10:13 pm
Please don’t start writing articles like this. Stick to scheduling.
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@dbrunstheworld
March 17, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Whenever there is scheduling news, Kevin, Amy and the gang cover it. This is reasonable content for a slow week.
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Bill (the one that's commenting for years; not the newbie)
March 16, 2015 at 11:57 pm
Thanks for the great article Amy,
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mrvandy212
March 17, 2015 at 12:47 pm
They used the US News Rankings and took the Top 10 FBS-playing Universities. The next few would have been: Wake Forest, Michigan, North Carolina, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Wisconsin, Penn St., Florida, Miami (FL), and Washington.
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chrisnd
September 2, 2015 at 4:29 pm
Because Georgia Tech is not ranked among the Top 25 schools according to USN. Therefore, they do not qualify for this list despite fielding an FBS school.
Re-read the intro again to see the qualifications for being included in this list.
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PeteF3
March 17, 2015 at 11:53 pm
US News doesn’t really rank top-to-bottom. After the top schools, they have Tier 2 and Tier 3, and those aren’t ranked, they’re just all in a bunch.
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jhasting
March 20, 2015 at 10:26 am
If you have another slow week, could you expand this to a top 25 list?
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Eric the Wildcat
March 26, 2015 at 11:45 am
Great article and thanks for taking notice of the rivalries between some of the best schools in the country. Northwestern is deliberately scheduling more games against peer schools that share this academic commitment. Our students want to compete both in class and on the field.
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Dave
April 5, 2015 at 11:32 am
No Boston College, No Georgia Tech. I like the premise of the article just don’t agree with all the schools in the article
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chrisnd
September 2, 2015 at 4:27 pm
Apparently you didn’t read the intro to the chart:
“Of the Top 25 schools in the USN National University Rankings, 10 of them field FBS football teams.”
Neither Boston College nor Georgia Tech are ranked in the top 25 school listing, and therefore are not included on this list.
Read the article again, and follow the link to USN to find out where BC and GT rank.
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Someone Who Actually Knows Something About Football
October 23, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Great concept but completely bogus rankings after the obvious top two, ND and USC. Vanderbilt, Duke and Virginia all have historically weak teams but enjoy high rankings here because they only play each other. Next to Rice, they are clearly the three worst teams on this list by any plausible measure. Only the most ignorant fool would say that Vandy has had a better football team over the years than UCLA! If these two schools had played each other for the past 50 years, I guarantee you that UCLA would have won at least 48 of the 50 games (and the Bruins would have been favored to win all 50, but I’m assuming a couple of upsets).
Here is the correct list, with the schools also divided into three very obvious tiers:
1. ND
2. USC
3. UCLA
[Big gap here]
4. Stanford
5. Northwestern
6. Cal
[Another gap here]
7. Vanderbilt
8-9. Duke-Virginia (take your pick)
10. RiceAs Eric the Wildcat pointed out, Northwestern deserves credit for going out of its way to schedule these games. Since 2012, NU has won five of six (with two other games cancelled), beating Notre Dame, Stanford, Cal, Duke and Vanderbilt while losing the return match vs. Cal. Sadly, after losing to NU in both 2010 and 2012, the cowardly Commodores bought their way out of rematches in 2013 and 2014, in order to play football weaklings Austin Peay and UMass instead.
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Richard Manso
November 16, 2015 at 8:03 pm
you need to re-read the article, they didn’t start with fb rankings they started with USN rankings of top 25 schools from academic perspectives, then identified those with an FBS fb team, of which there was only 10, then ranked those 10 by the records against each other.
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Hugh
November 15, 2015 at 11:59 am
No Michigan? NU is my favorite as my alma mater, but didn’t beat Michigan a top 20 school.
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NU mom
November 22, 2015 at 3:08 pm
Michigan is ranked (USNWR) 29 – not in the top 25, as per the stated qualifications
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Grady
November 23, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Hard to believe neither West Point, Navy, nor Air Force are included in this list of top “brain schools”
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James O'Rourke
March 16, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Actually, Grady has a point. It’s clear that these rankings are derived from a set of National University Rankings that do not include the federal academies, I think Grady’s observation makes sense. Just because the Air Force Academy, West Point, and Annapolis choose not to participate in those ranking systems doesn’t mean they’re not among the very best of collegiate institutions in this country.
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Gabrownfam
March 18, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Grady makes a good point, but the academies didn’t choose to not be ranked by USN, USN excludes the academies because of their political nomination and appointment criteria. They would certainly be top 25 otherwise as they are in other publications
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Oski55
March 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm
In what world is Cal a #20 ranked university? It is the #1 public university in the country. Are all of the rest of these private?
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Jane Webster
May 18, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Oh, please. The only one of those schools that belongs in a “Brain Bowl” is Stanford.
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L. Roy Hershey
July 1, 2016 at 11:31 pm
Great article! How about a Brain Bowl All Star team based on 1st team, 2nd, etc. All-Americans?? Hope to see it here!
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FB1
September 21, 2016 at 4:03 pm
So does this mean we will see FCS schedules in the near future?
Kevin Kelley
September 21, 2016 at 4:09 pm
No, sorry.
Shep
September 21, 2016 at 5:03 pm
#fcsschedulesmatter
RangerRick
September 21, 2016 at 6:04 pm
Can you at least include North Dakota State schedules. They are better than half of the FBS.
Vegas
September 22, 2016 at 3:03 pm
but does anyone really want to take the time to keep up with the schedules for ALL of the FCS teams and build a site for the 5 people who would give a rat’s a$$ about any teams beyond the one that they follow.
Clinton
September 21, 2016 at 8:55 pm
I’d like to see FCS schedules too!
bwburke94
September 22, 2016 at 2:56 am
This fills up Idaho’s 2017 schedule,by the way.
Vegas
September 22, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Is Idaho dropping back to FCS? When?
Kevin Kelley
September 23, 2016 at 10:11 pm
After the 2017 season.