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Please, how many of those are due to the conference you're in and how many are due to you actually going out and scheduling someone?

UCF should schedule like the big schools... Georgia's 2019 home opener: Murray State 2018: Austin Peay 2017: Appalachian State 2016: Nicholls 2015: Louisiana-Monroe

Here's what "Power 5" home schedules look like... UGA's non-conference home schedule in 2018: Austin Peay Middle Tennessee University of Massachuesetts In 2017: Appalachian State Samford In 2016: Nicholls UL Lafayette Georgia Tech In 2015: Louisiana-Monroe Southern University Georgia Southern

The revenue that comes from your own stadium is quite different from the revenue that comes at a neutral site. But you probably knew that already...

How did the last bowl game go where Georgia faced UCF?

Slippery slope is a dumb argument. March Madness is a beloved college tournament because there's more participation and upsets. The conference you belong to shouldn't predetermine your worth. Only half of Division I football schools are eligible to ever compete for the championship under the Power 5 model, the other half shouldn't even bother playing.

Read that UF example again. SEC schools CAN'T do a home and home, their schedules don't have room for it. The system is heavily slanted to certain conferences and the scheduling argument is just an easy way to keep other people out. "They don't have the schedule but we won't play them because we have our schedule and there's no room."

There's a difference between conspiracy and "a broken system that favors only the large conferences". UCF doesn't get credit because they're not in a big conference like the SEC. But they don't get to just say who they want to play. Colleges have to come to agreements with the home team paying the visiting team. Let's look at UF's away schedule: 4 SEC schools and FSU. So UF is not coming to visit any non-SEC school. Let's look at their non-conference home schedule: Charleston Southern, Colorado State and Idaho. UF could schedule UCF, but you know they don't want to, because that puts them at risk of a loss and they prefer to get near guaranteed wins to make the minimum 6 wins to make a bowl game (and get that bowl money). So what is UCF supposed to do? They're told they can't be taken seriously because they don't have the schedule of a big conference, but they can't get the schedule of a big conference because those teams don't want to schedule games against them. That's why the system is broken. Danny White did the smartest thing you can do in this situation - bring so much attention to the school that people pay attention even though you're not in one of the main conferences. Show recruits that they'll get national exposure even if they're not ever in the running for the championship.

Everyone seems to think college teams can make whatever schedule they want. Most of your schedule is determined by your conference and then the remaining schedule has to be negotiated with the home team usually paying the visiting team to come. Kentucky has Middle Tennessee and Murray State on their home schedule. Florida has Colorado State, Charleston and Idaho on their home schedule. You think UCF doesn't want to go play Kentucky and Florida? Those teams would rather get an easy home win than pay UCF to come in and potentially beat them.