The Sisters of the Poor are insisting on a home and home series, but LSU seems to never play a road game in their non-conference schedule.:lol: Upcoming Non conference games with LSU: 2008-North Texas, Troy, Tulane, TBD 2009-Appalachian State, Houston, Tulane, S Miss 2010-TBA, UL-Lafayette, Tulane, TBA 2011-N Illinois, Houston, Colorado, Tulane The only decent team on the list might be Colorado, but it looks like zero non-conference road games for the Tigers in the next 4 years.
I think the Vtech game this year was the deciding factor for LSU to make it to the NC game. If they don't crush Vtech then its Vtech against tOSU for the NC. Anyone disagree? I belive this is why teams need to schedule big time ooc games. Yes we all know the Big 10 is down this year and may be for a few more but I will never fault a team for playing its conference games no matter who they are against as teams have no control over these games. Thats why this year tOSU nonconfernce games really hurt peoples perception of them.
We should play one major ooc opponent each year, but no more than that due to our tough conference schedule.
Here's my take on it. I think LSU should schedule one OOC game a year against a team from a BCS conference. We did it this year, and it worked out great. OSU did it this year, too...although Washington didn't pan out so well for them. Still in all, they can at least say they made an effort. However, I don't think we should have to schedule big time OOC powers all the time to prove our worth. We play UF, AU, GA, UT, Bama, Arky, et al...and that is enough to boost our BCS ranking without having to schedule OOC games against USC, tOSU, OU, et al all the time. The SEC schedule is brutal enough...we don't need to play the 3 or 4 good teams outside of the SEC to prove we're a good team. (I said what I said):wave:
We played 9 bowl eligible teams this year, if we played in the Big 10, it would be a lot easier to schedule tough out of conference games.
