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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2013581, member: 628"]
...it is a cakewalk compared to how we used to schedule out of conference.

I was just looking up our 2001 season. This was our OOC slate:  Georgia Tech (at the Meadowlands on 8/26), at Tennessee, vs UCF, vs Auburn, vs East Carolina.  I mean, that is friggin' bonkers.  Not only did we purposefully schedule 2 SEC teams, but we then added an ACC team in the Kickoff Classic!

And that wasn't an aberration, that lunacy was the norm.  Consider...

1996: vs UNC, at Minnesota, at Tulane, vs Army
1997: Wisconsin (Meadowlands), vs NC State, at Oklahoma, vs Tulane, vs. East Carolina
1998: vs Tennessee, at Michigan, at NC State, vs Cincy

1999 and 2000 were sane

2002:  at BYU, vs UNC, vs URI, at Auburn, at UCF
2003: at UNC, vs Louisville, vs UCF, vs Toledo, vs Notre Dame
2004: at Purdue, at Buffalo, vs Cincy, at Virginia, vs Florida State

Season after season of crazy town.  And this was all done long after we were firmly in a Big East that featured Miami, VaTech and WVU.

This is why I'm not entirely sympathetic when people are kvetching about how this year's schedule cost us a bowl.  Colgate, USF, UConn and ND is not in the same stratosphere as what we put ourselves through once upon a time.  And Central Connecticut, Middle Tennessee State, Central Michigan, LSU next year is about as poised for 3 wins as we can get.  At the very least, it could be much, much, much, much worse.
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