Originally Posted by
inudesu
It's bad enough that we have the month of shame now.
Couldn't they at least have kept the weeknight games restricted to that month? Thankfully the extra one is at least an away game.
Non-conference is as good as it's been for a long time. One G-5 (who we like to play, with some history, in a recruiting area) on the road, one G-5 (who we like to play, with some history, in a recruiting area) at home, probably best option (or close to it) for an FCS home game, and then the money game.
I assume WKU and LU will be the best couple of teams, and we split them home-and-away, so that's decent. You can't really complain about travel (because it almost all sucks) so that's fine - FIU comes to us, we go to El Paso (flipped this year, I wasn't sure they'd take that into account, but they seem to have). Late bye week might come in handy. Shame it didn't save us from a weeknight game even though it fell in October. Staggered trips to UTEP/NMSU - probably for the best.
Be interesting who we miss in '24 and how that rotation goes. My guess is pairs that never miss (rivals or at least "rivals" and ours will be SHSU). But I wonder who we'll miss first in the rotation. Almost no chance we'll make it all the way through a whole 8 team home-and-away rotation with this exact set of teams.