The Toughest Schedules in College Football

GreenTexan13 · July 7, 2015

"30. Cross-divisional lottery losers: Georgia (draws Alabama and Auburn from SEC West); Minnesota (Ohio State and Michigan from Big Ten East); California (Utah, UCLA, USC and Arizona State from Pac-12 South); Georgia Tech and Miami (both play Florida State and Clemson from ACC Coastal); Tulsa (East Carolina, Central Florida and Cincinnati from AAC East); Hawaii (at Boise State, at New Mexico and Air Force from Mountain West Mountain); Ohio and Miami Ohio (Northern Illinois and Western Michigan from Mid-American West); North Texas (Western Kentucky, Marshall and Middle Tennessee from Conference USA East)".

"34. Rice leaves the state of Texas once all season: Oct. 10, at Florida Atlantic. It plays five road games in the state: at Texas, North Texas, Baylor, UTEP and UTSA."

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/40-schedule-observations-for-this-college-football-season-232440906-ncaaf.html

(Thought I would share, I saw this article on Yahoo talking about "The Toughest Schedules in College Football". No surprise that UNT is mentioned in the article.)

Edited July 7, 2015 by GreenTexan13

Harry · July 8, 2015

Nice find. Hey we had our shot on the schedule last year so I really think the conference has been pretty fair. It's going to be extremely tough no doubt.

untjim1995 · July 8, 2015

Nice find. Hey we had our shot on the schedule last year so I really think the conference has been pretty fair. It's going to be extremely tough no doubt.

Getting 5+ wins out of this schedule would be very impressive...VERY impressive, considering our developed talent deficiencies on defense, OL, and at QB.

UNT86 · July 8, 2015

Of course, some of the teams will not be as good as expected. Remember, many sites predicted us to win the conference. And, who would have predicted the collapse of Southern Miss.

We can win on this schedule. It's just impossible to predict who won't make the grade.

Ben Gooding · July 8, 2015

Marshall lost their best statistical QB ever in their history. WKU lost 5 or 6 games last year. UTSA will have a brand new team, practically. What does MTSU have or what do they do that scares us? Rice lost a slew a decent players last year from a decent team at best. SMU went 1-11 last year and they are unproven in virtually every position imaginable. Portland St...Ok. UTEP lost their QB which of who was their star player even in a run oriented offense. They also lost key offensive linemen.

The teams that will be significantly better this up coming year compared to last year are Southern Miss and La Tech. Southern Miss will still be a very winnable game. I personally believe La Tech should be the conference favorite and we won't beat them. We also will not beat Tennessee or Iowa for obvious reasons. So, to me, we have 9 "winnable" games on our schedule. The whole talk about this year being difficult because of the schedule may be true, but it's only because we have 2 opportunity games rather than 1 and preferably 0.

MeanGreenTexan · July 8, 2015

Marshall lost their best statistical QB ever in their history. WKU lost 5 or 6 games last year. UTSA will have a brand new team, practically. What does MTSU have or what do they do that scares us? Rice lost a slew a decent players last year from a decent team at best. SMU went 1-11 last year and they are unproven in virtually every position imaginable. Portland St...Ok. UTEP lost their QB which of who was their star player even in a run oriented offense. They also lost key offensive linemen.
The teams that will be significantly better this up coming year compared to last year are Southern Miss and La Tech. Southern Miss will still be a very winnable game. I personally believe La Tech should be the conference favorite and we won't beat them. We also will not beat Tennessee or Iowa for obvious reasons. So, to me, we have 9 "winnable" games on our schedule. The whole talk about this year being difficult because of the schedule may be true, but it's only because we have 2 opportunity games rather than 1 and preferably 0.

Did you see how WKU lost those games? Their defense let their offense down.

Do you think UNT's defense will be able to contain WKU's offense at all, and is our offense potent enough to keep up with WKU? Other than that, hey, I agree.