Doubt we ever see WV or Navy on future schedules. I would love to play both but neither have OOC slots. WV plays 9 conference games and MD every year. They won't play another P5. And if they need a replacement for MD they would seek out Pitt. Navy has 8 conference games, ND, Army, and Air Force. They are booked forever (well at least until the next round of realignment).
I would like to see SU schedule as so:
1AA - a three year rotation of Colgate, Holy Cross, and X. We have a history with Colgate and Holy Cross so at least it gives the game some kind of meaning. If you play Colgate every 3-4 years then you can get some Colgate fans to actually show, even more so than some of our ACC foes. If you play them more often less people will come. The last team X can be anyone that isn't good from the Northeast. Fordham has been good the last few years so they might not be a good idea. Nova no way too good. Being a private school I prefer SU help out another private school. Plus a private school is less likely to be good. So Patriot league teams Lehigh, Lafayette, Georgetown, Bucknell.
Ohio MAC team - we need to be recruiting Ohio. It is a talent rich state and not too far away. There are plenty of kids who slip through the B1G grasp and end up at MAC schools. They are good football players but things like size get in the way. Those are the types of kids we can and should get. We already play near Ohio every year (Pitt/Louisville) so families have easy trips to see their sons play. If you add in a Ohio MAC team then these parents have 6 easy trips to see their kid. It helps. So we should have one team from Akron, Kent State, Miami, Ohio. I wouldn't include Bowling Green or Toledo as both are typically stronger and the HS talent isn't as good in that part of the state.
A team in our recruiting region - this will help get kids to SU and will be places where we can actually get some road support. FAU, FIU, GA Southern, GA State, ODU all suppliment regions where we don't play often enough in the ACC. Temple helps Eastern PA, Southern NJ, and MD places we no longer play. I wouldn't play Cincy, ECU, UCF, USF as those teams are too risky when it comes to Ws & Ls. UB, UConn, UMass add nothing so I wouldn't play them either.
Possible non P5 exceptions - Army and Tulane. Army is a nice trip for the fans but doesn't help much in recruiting. Same for Tulane (assuming we space it out with the LSU game).
P5 School - we play ND once every three years. Those other years can be anyone really. I prefer avoiding the B12 and P12 for travel reasons. Maybe play Stanford as they are a beatable name school and fellow private. However they have ND so it might be hard to get them. The SEC is really too difficult for us to play. I would only be interested in playing Vandy another private. That leaves the B1G. I would play Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn St, Rutgers. MD would be hard to schedule because of the WV series.
So my ideal OOC schedule would be:
Penn State, Temple, Akron, Colgate
That should keep us Bowl eligible. We have three traditional opponents. We have good road trips and it will help recruiting.
