2023 Home Opponent

[CajunNation]

Nice out of conference slate to be honest with you.

Define nice.

[NewsCopy]

Cajun Nation rejoices as Louisiana Football has finalized their schedule by agreeing to a home-and-home with the University at Buffalo out of the MAC.

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[Big Poppa]

Define nice.

We will always have an FCS just like our peers. Home game against a G5 opponent from the MAC a peer conference, picked up at the last minute, to say the least. A winnable road game against an AAC team in UAB. A Big 10 game against a team that is not Ohio st or Michigan, where we will have a chance at Minnesota. Looks like a pretty good OOC schedule to me.

[Turbine]

Kudos to Dr. Maggard and Old Dominion.

Lots of moving pieces makes it all the more impressive.

[ragin50]

We will always have an FCS just like our peers. Home game against a G5 opponent from the MAC a peer conference, picked up at the last minute, to say the least. A winnable road game against an AAC team in UAB. A Big 10 game against a team that is not Ohio st or Michigan, where we will have a chance at Minnesota. Looks like a pretty good OOC schedule to me.

I thought UAB was in CUSA

[Jacob81]

So did ODU already start selling season tickets with Buffalo on the schedule and now it’s tam commerce?? That would be interesting news.

[Big Buds]

I thought UAB was in CUSA

Next year is their first year in the American Athletic Conference.

[CajunVic]

Next year is their first year in the American Athletic Conference.

. . . some here will not let you accentuate a positive about Louisiana without interrogation . . . good lawd almighty . . . it would nice if success in scheduling would be recognized once, just once . . .

[Turbine]

Next year is their first year in the American Athletic Conference.

Thanks for the clarification.

So many moving parts.

[ZoomZoom]

I saw Alabama at Cajun
field. I stood 4’5” at the time.

Was sitting outside our camper at Cajun Field the Friday night when a fleet of Alabama motor homes came rolling in. Our little ole Winnebago and they roll up in a few Bluebird custom rigs. There was less than five USL folks with rigs there. Now it’s more common, not a novelty.

[Duckster]

All things considered, getting Buffalo Bulls at Cajun Field this September is far better than another FCS game or flipping a home game into a road game.

Looking ahead at future home schedule years, we certainly need schedule upgrades for home games. Is it asking too much to get a P5 team in Cajun Field every third season? Is it feasible to reduce FCS games to every other year and still retain 6 home games? I do appreciate we have Tulane, Rice, and Tulsa at Cajun Field in near future so good job for that!

[Crawfish]

Not that I want it to happen, but it would be ironic (poetic justice?) if CDOA would implode this year and then NMSU would be begging for other schools to schedule them.