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Sac St and Utah Tech in 2026

I think what they're gonna end up doing is playing conference games during week one (August 29) of the season. Think about it. FBS teams (with the exception of a few) won't start their season until the following week (September 5) so that cuts down on the inventory of games available for FCS teams. Plus several BSC teams (including the Griz @ OSU) already have non-conference games scheduled on 9/19 which in essence would be the de facto start of conference play. Meanwhile nobody has nonconference games scheduled yet on 8/29 and in this scenario they wouldn't be left scrambling to find games.

Is it ideal opening the season with a conference game? No it's not, but I think at least in the first year of this it's fine until we get to 2027 and teams have a little more runway to schedule games and get things lined out.
 
Griz til I die said:
I think what they're gonna end up doing is playing conference games during week one (August 29) of the season. Think about it. FBS teams (with the exception of a few) won't start their season until the following week (September 5) so that cuts down on the inventory of games available for FCS teams. Plus several BSC teams (including the Griz @ OSU) already have non-conference games scheduled on 9/19 which in essence would be the de facto start of conference play. Meanwhile nobody has nonconference games scheduled yet on 8/29 and in this scenario they wouldn't be left scrambling to find games.

Is it ideal opening the season with a conference game? No it's not, but I think at least in the first year of this it's fine until we get to 2027 and teams have a little more runway to schedule games and get things lined out.
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The 9/19 OSU game may ultimately have to be rescheduled/cancelled if the BSC can't figure this out and certainly '26 will be a challenge given what is already on the calendar...
 
GrizTexas said:
The 9/19 OSU game may ultimately have to be rescheduled/cancelled if the BSC can't figure this out and certainly '26 will be a challenge given what is already on the calendar...
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That's why I'm saying a week one conference game makes the most sense. The BSC won't make teams cancel money games.
 
Griz til I die said:
I think what they're gonna end up doing is playing conference games during week one (August 29) of the season. Think about it. FBS teams (with the exception of a few) won't start their season until the following week (September 5) so that cuts down on the inventory of games available for FCS teams. Plus several BSC teams (including the Griz @ OSU) already have non-conference games scheduled on 9/19 which in essence would be the de facto start of conference play. Meanwhile nobody has nonconference games scheduled yet on 8/29 and in this scenario they wouldn't be left scrambling to find games.

Is it ideal opening the season with a conference game? No it's not, but I think at least in the first year of this it's fine until we get to 2027 and teams have a little more runway to schedule games and get things lined out.
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I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on that. FBS teams play on what is now week 0 and in fact the Idaho St-UNLV game (it just means each of them have an extra open week this season) was moved to week 0 to accommodate a fight that is "important to tourism" somehow and needs to be at Allegiant Stadium. There will be adjustments made, just like the commission says in his state of the conference address, that when the new schedule comes out, they will work to ensure that the games already schedule for OOC will still happen.
In short, the season is starting, a week early and teams have the option to play 12 games. You will still have the first three weeks to get in those games and then 10 weeks to play 9 conference games, but you can still shit the open week and move that up some, like we did this year to play the independent team. Although conference games sometimes are set to start a season, that isn't really popular with most coaches, but they don't set any of the schedule either.
The reason I said earlier that I didn't want to see a bunch of D-II vs. FCS games is that most of the FBS teams have their 2026 schedules locked in.
 
Griz in Texas said:
I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on that. FBS teams play on what is now week 0 and in fact the Idaho St-UNLV game (it just means each of them have an extra open week this season) was moved to week 0 to accommodate a fight that is "important to tourism" somehow and needs to be at Allegiant Stadium. There will be adjustments made, just like the commission says in his state of the conference address, that when the new schedule comes out, they will work to ensure that the games already schedule for OOC will still happen.
In short, the season is starting, a week early and teams have the option to play 12 games. You will still have the first three weeks to get in those games and then 10 weeks to play 9 conference games, but you can still shit the open week and move that up some, like we did this year to play the independent team. Although conference games sometimes are set to start a season, that isn't really popular with most coaches, but they don't set any of the schedule either.
The reason I said earlier that I didn't want to see a bunch of D-II vs. FCS games is that most of the FBS teams have their 2026 schedules locked in.
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2 points to that

1. There's usually only about 10-15 FBS teams that play during week 0. Sometimes not even that many. And most of the teams that play that week have games that were scheduled years in advance. Unlikely that more of them will start playing week 0.

2. If the BSC doesn't do what I propose and they start league play on 9/19, then the Griz and many other teams are either going to have to convince their opponent (OSU) to move the game to 8/29 (which for them would be week 0) or cancel it. I'm willing to bet UM doesn't wanna cancel that game and I'm not sure how willing OSU would be to move that game to week 0 for them.

Hence why a week one conference game makes the most sense.
 
Griz in Texas said:
I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on that. FBS teams play on what is now week 0 and in fact the Idaho St-UNLV game (it just means each of them have an extra open week this season) was moved to week 0 to accommodate a fight that is "important to tourism" somehow and needs to be at Allegiant Stadium. There will be adjustments made, just like the commission says in his state of the conference address, that when the new schedule comes out, they will work to ensure that the games already schedule for OOC will still happen.
In short, the season is starting, a week early and teams have the option to play 12 games. You will still have the first three weeks to get in those games and then 10 weeks to play 9 conference games, but you can still shit the open week and move that up some, like we did this year to play the independent team. Although conference games sometimes are set to start a season, that isn't really popular with most coaches, but they don't set any of the schedule either.
The reason I said earlier that I didn't want to see a bunch of D-II vs. FCS games is that most of the FBS teams have their 2026 schedules locked in.
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Almost everyone has there 2026 schedule locked in. This is why the most likely scenario for 2026 is what gtid noted. Everyone adds an additional conference game and schools can manipulate existing schedules to accommodate. This may mean teams will play conference games to kickoff the season. Also, there is zero benefit from playing fewer than 12 games, and to do so in 2026, a school would have void an already scheduled OOC game.
 
HelenaHandBasket said:
Almost everyone has there 2026 schedule locked in. This is why the most likely scenario for 2026 is what gtid noted. Everyone adds an additional conference game and schools can manipulate existing schedules to accommodate. This may mean teams will play conference games to kickoff the season. Also, there is zero benefit from playing fewer than 12 games, and to do so in 2026, a school would have void an already scheduled OOC game.
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I get that, but it is also very likely that what will happen is that two FCS teams that have a game scheduled already move it to week 1 because literally no one has a game set for 8/29 yet. According to what the commish said in what you posted earlier, the Big Sky is going to accommodate games already on the schedule, which would indicate they should work around the OSU date. Hopefully, where we have games set all the way out to 2029, they can get all of that worked out in a year. I know we have opened with a conference game before, can't remember when it was last, but it's not good if it can be avoided.
 
Griz in Texas said:
I get that, but it is also very likely that what will happen is that two FCS teams that have a game scheduled already move it to week 1 because literally no one has a game set for 8/29 yet. According to what the commish said in what you posted earlier, the Big Sky is going to accommodate games already on the schedule, which would indicate they should work around the OSU date. Hopefully, where we have games set all the way out to 2029, they can get all of that worked out in a year. I know we have opened with a conference game before, can't remember when it was last, but it's not good if it can be avoided.
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Highly unlikely they will accommodate games past '26. They will need to set a conference schedule with all the new teams including some block out dates or its going to be more of a $hitshow then it already is!
 
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