Let’s dissect the schedule one by one.
September 6 vs. Central Washington. Perfect opponent to open with. With how many new faces there’s bound to be on this team, this is a nice way to ease into the season. Get everyone up to speed, feeling good and confident about themselves, and then let’s roll.
September 13 vs. North Dakota. Revenge game. A chance to redeem ourselves against a team that we should’ve beat. We’ve faired quite well in revenge games. New head coach in Eric Schmidt. Will they be able to hang on to guys? So far it looks ok for them.
September 20 vs. Indiana State. The gutter ball of the Valley. These guys are really bad! Regardless of what our team looks like next year, it will be a long day for the Sycamores. Just like in 22.
September 27 vs. Idaho. Tough game to open league play with. The Vandys lost a lot of guys to the portal last year but I don’t see that being the case this year. They should have a pretty good team next year.
October 4 @ Idaho State. First road game of the year after four straight home games to open the year. Games are always tighter here and ISU is improving, but they got some serious work to do on defense.
October 11 vs. Cal Poly. Poly’s lost a couple players to the portal. They seem like they’re stuck in purgatory and can’t get out.
October 18 vs. Sacred Heart. Move this game to Week 0 right now. Call the AD at SHU and let’s get this game on August 23 so we can have a normal bye week. Idk why Haslam and Athletics didn’t consider doing that when they were filling out the schedule. Good news is there’s still time. Better late than never.
October 25 @ Sacramento State. Sac’s lost a bunch of good players to the portal already. Still on the hunt for a new head coach. We’ll see how that turns out.
November 1 @ Weber State. You think things are bad here? Get a look at Weber. Everyone’s leaving Weber. Literally every big name player including Munoz, Bankston, and everyone on defense is gone. Even their DC left to go to Idaho State. That’s when you know you’ve fallen on hard times.
November 8 vs. Eastern Washington. I can’t believe Best has 3 years left on his contract. Now today Visperas enters the portal and it’s likely another tough year for Eastern.
November 15 @ Portland State. Chachere is gone so PSU will regress next year.
November 22 vs. Montana State. Home team has been stellar in this game. Cats lose a lot of guys on both sides of the ball. Long time to go before this game.
I think there’s really only 2 games on this schedule that we could lose. Everything else looks ridiculously simple. We would have to have a catastrophic offseason to fuck up this schedule. We avoid Davis, we avoid NAU, and we get Idaho and the cats at home. That sounds like best case scenario for the Griz.