In the spirit of bye week, I decided to undertake a theoretical project and scheme up what BC's perfect schedule would look like if they were an independent like they once were for so long. A few parameters to bear in mind:
1. I'm looking at this over the course of a 5 year span, because it order to schedule realistically, you need to take into account home-and-homes as well as 2 for 1s.
2. In this theoretical model, BC will be playing in Week 0 every week in order to schedule more P5 opponents. As CFB moves towards 9 game conference seasons, this allows us to theoretically schedule about 4-6 P5s (Including Notre Dame) per year over the course of 14 available weeks. I think this is a realistic goal for BC, especially if we're still counting the future PAC as P5.
Playing 5 12 game seasons, we have 60 total games to fill up. Without further ado, let's get to it.
TOTALS:
1. I'm looking at this over the course of a 5 year span, because it order to schedule realistically, you need to take into account home-and-homes as well as 2 for 1s.
2. In this theoretical model, BC will be playing in Week 0 every week in order to schedule more P5 opponents. As CFB moves towards 9 game conference seasons, this allows us to theoretically schedule about 4-6 P5s (Including Notre Dame) per year over the course of 14 available weeks. I think this is a realistic goal for BC, especially if we're still counting the future PAC as P5.
Playing 5 12 game seasons, we have 60 total games to fill up. Without further ado, let's get to it.
- 5 games vs Northeast FCS (Non Holy Cross)
- 5 games vs UMass (3 home, 2 away)
- 5 games vs UConn (3 home, 2 away)
- 5 games vs Army (3 home, 2 away)
- 3 games vs Notre Dame (1 home, 2 away)
- 4 games vs Syracuse (2 home, 2 away)
- 3 games vs Penn State (1 home, 2 away)
- 2 games vs Pitt (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs West Virginia (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Cincinatti (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Rutgers (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Maryland (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Stanford (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Cal (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Oregon State (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Missouri (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games vs Virginia (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games against SMU (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games against North Texas (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games against FIU (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games against USF (1 home, 1 away)
- 2 games against Temple (1 home, 1 away)
TOTALS:
- 8 games vs ACC
- 7 games vs Big 10
- 6 games vs PAC
- 4 games vs Big 12
- 3 games vs Notre Dame
- 2 games vs SEC
- 25 games vs G5/G5 Indy
- 5 games vs FCS
- 32 home games
- 28 road games