BYU already chasing marquee matchup?

Revenge is a dish best served cold... Play the games late in the season.

Would this be considered a "marquee game" for Texas as well? I wouldn't think so.

Better than playing Georgia State or FIU, however

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and in other news the CUSA is talking merger with MWC.

Shirley, you're not serious...

BYU has played CFB for 100 years now. Can't FN get a second picture for a second BYU article? Even the preview mags have more than one picture for each team...

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Originally posted 09:29 AM ET  08.20 by Gator97

Would this be considered a "marquee game" for Texas as well? I wouldn't think so.

Well, OU should have thought of it as a marquee game last year.

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Originally posted 09:07 AM ET  08.20 by JRM74

Is there any way the sorry-**** decade between DKR and Mack could just freakin' disappear from CFB history? Could it just go 1983, 1984, 1996, 1997............. ?

I'll sign up for erasing 85-90, but you've got to join us in trying to erase '02-'05.

(largely erasing 1906-1980 would be cool, too)

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Originally posted 09:39 AM ET  08.20 by Tin Man

Shirley, you're not serious...

He's serious, and don't ca.......

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Originally posted 09:29 AM ET  08.20 by Gator97

Better than playing Georgia State or FIU, however

Yeah, but when you play a tough conference schedule it's ok to play a couple of creampuffs ... or so I've heard.

SC fan here whose grandpa played for BYU and over 3/4 of my family at least attended BYU, including my wife, and myself having attended a school with those initials in it, BYU-Idaho, I can say that it would be a good move I think. Many people outside of Mormondom, a term used to describe the culture that follows membership in the Mormon or LDS Church, just do not understand how faithful of a group the Cougar following is. I remember one time in Bakersfield, CA they had a big College tourney for soccer and I went because I had a good friend playing for Michigan who happened to be there, and there were a ton of BYu fans there rooting for the team.

So although I do not know how successful the independent role would be, I do think that it would be better than staying in the MWC for football. If they could make a jump to a BCS conference then I think that would be better over all, but I think that they saw the writing on the wall when they were passed over this last round. Independent status might just work for them.

But SC will forever be my team even if we have another Hackett era. Fight On! Sorry I had to say something for my team.

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Originally posted 10:06 AM ET  08.20 by Dr. B-f-G

Yeah, but when you play a tough conference schedule it's ok to play a couple of creampuffs ... or so I've heard.

Oklahoma is not afraid of scheduling a strong OOC team, however Texas would never schedule tough OOC games. Mack Brown said on EspnU, "Here at Texas, we want to win Championships, and playing tough OOC games decreases your chances of going to the NC game". Thats why Texas and Florida beat up on these teams that are so much physically smaller.

Every good program has its ups and downs. For every legendary coach I think we could all point to two or bad ones that we wish would not have been at our schools. In our case I can think of one coach that at one point was a great coach and then was not.

I think Texas does schedule some tough OCC from time to time. I remember Texas having a home and home with Ohio State. Ok that is all I can remember. What can I say?

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Originally posted 10:19 AM ET  08.20 by fightonforlife

SC fan here whose grandpa played for BYU and over 3/4 of my family at least attended BYU, including my wife, and myself having attended a school with those initials in it, BYU-Idaho, I can say that it would be a good move I think. Many people outside of Mormondom, a term used to describe the culture that follows membership in the Mormon or LDS Church, just do not understand how faithful of a group the Cougar following is. I remember one time in Bakersfield, CA they had a big College tourney for soccer and I went because I had a good friend playing for Michigan who happened to be there, and there were a ton of BYu fans there rooting for the team.So although I do not know how successful the independent role would be, I do think that it would be better than staying in the MWC for football. If they could make a jump to a BCS conference then I think that would be better over all, but I think that they saw the writing on the wall when they were passed over this last round. Independent status might just work for them. But SC will forever be my team even if we have another Hackett era. Fight On! Sorry I had to say something for my team.

Good post but if BYU stays in the MWC it may well become a BCS conference.

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Originally posted 10:27 AM ET  08.20 by fightonforlife

Every good program has its ups and downs. For every legendary coach I think we could all point to two or bad ones that we wish would not have been at our schools. In our case I can think of one coach that at one point was a great coach and then was not.

As a Bama fan I can point to 4 bad coaches and thats just in the past 12 years :-(

I really doubt it. I think if Utah would have stayed then it might have happened. Even with Fresno and Nevada, it is still a weak conference at the bottom. I just think that the big guys will raid the conference before they let that happen. I might be wrong, but I would be surprised if the MWC ever got that status.