[NU Sports] NU announces 2010 and 2011 FB schedules

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Thanks for the info on the 2009 sked switch - no big deal, I guess, just curious as to why. And yeah, 'Cuse and Miami kind of hurt our SOS there -- missing Michigan and OSU in league play won't help that either. But you gotta win the games before you and that's all we can do.

And we certainly take it up a level the following two years, adding BC and Vandy -- bowl teams and natural NC games for us academics-wise. Good to see Rice and some Texas exposure on there, too (though I agree that the Thanksgiving home game is a bad idea for attendance :) ).

We've talked before about how there's really no incentive to toughen up the NC slate (and until we consistently roll through at 4-0, we can't really talk tougher anyway :) ) -- but nice to get some national exposure games against similar teams. My only complaint would be that we need to add some more trips out west -- Stanford seems natural, but maybe Washington or Arizona (ASU was too painful :) )?

And the league schedule giveth and taketh away -- with a 2012 road trip of Penn State, Wisconsin and Michigan, plus home dates with OSU, Purdue, Minny and Illinois. Ouch!

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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