South Florida a possibility for 2012 FB schedule?

[Harry]

There are currently 13 FBS teams that have at least one spot on their 2012 schedule open, with seven of those teams being in the Big East. Those remaining six teams are:

Star-divide

- Florida State

- Louisiana-Lafayette

- Middle Tennessee

- Missouri

- Nebraska

- North Texas

How about the non-AQ schools? Well, they are all in the Sun Belt conference. Excited yet?

Louisiana-Lafayette has six home games scheduled. Normally, Sun Belt teams are fine with five home games, so they must be giddy to already have six. So the Ragin' Cajuns are definitely an option for a trip to Tampa.

Middle Tennessee already has games at Mississippi State and at Georgia Tech scheduled, and they only have five home games, so they aren't a likely opponent.

North Texas has, gulp, four home games, and games at LSU, at Kansas State, and at Houston. They are probably more desperate for a home game than USF is.

So the best likely FBS opponent for a USF home game is Louisiana-Lafayette. Not exactly inspiring, but better than the alternative: adding a second FCS opponent with Chattanooga already scheduled.

read more: http://www.voodoofive.com/2012/2/20/2810714/football-schedule-watch-whos-the-12th-opponent

[THOR]

so does texas southern not count as a home game??? it'd be cool to bring in the bulls...and beat them!

[UNTexas]

How many home games are we going to have next year?

[LongJim]

It's really amazing for me to see how far USF has come in the last decade or so. I lived right outside Tampa for 5 years, and USF has many similarities and parallels with UNT. (As does UCF, for that matter). For both of those programs to be where they are right now makes me even more certain that UNT can do the same thing with their football program.