New Mexico State and Texas State

[WVAppsfan]

Am I missing something? Why are we not playing Texas State and New Mexico State this season? I know that there is an unbalanced alignment in the conference until Coastal comes in, but why are we not playing them?

[BUTCH1991]

Schedule rotates every two years in the conference. We'll pick them up next year and lose 2 other teams from the schedule for 2 years.

[biggie]

Yep, just how GS gets out of playing ULL and stAte last year and this year.

[WVAppsfan]

Ah, and that is hard to put a finger on. Last year we did not play Texas State or New Mexico State; so we pick them up next season? What if they were both undefeated in the conference with us how would they determine who wins the conference?

[WVAppsfan]

Yep, just how GS gets out of playing ULL and stAte last year and this year.

Not quite fair is it?

[EastHallApp]

Ah, and that is hard to put a finger on. Last year we did not play Texas State or New Mexico State; so we pick them up next season? What if they were both undefeated in the conference with us how would they determine who wins the conference?

Co-champions. Would have happened last year if we hadn't beaten ULL for Southern.

I believe any teams that tie for first are co-champions anyway, whether they played head-to-head or not.

[WVAppsfan]

I am hopeful that this all gets sorted out, Coastal Carolina.

[bigdaddyg]

Once Coastal comes on is the SB going to be split into two divisions for football? I'm sure this has been answered but I didn't know.

[Appalachman]

Coastal gets SB to 12 for now. Should be east stretching to Alabama and west really stretching to idaho. I assume we will get TXST and NMST in year 1 and GS will get ULL and ARKST, etc. I am not sure if they will do two year schedules again with playing 3/6 other division home and way then switch to other 3 or if they will go with a permanent partner and rotating the other 5. That works in the mode of getting 5 division foes + 1 permanent partner to have 3H/3away. If they skip this 6th partner the schedule gets more cumbersome to keep 4home/4away games.

[EastHallApp]

Yeah it's kind of up in the air, as Coastal won't join for football for a couple years, and who knows if Idaho and/or NMSU will still be members by then.

[AppScott89]

I'm sure when Coastal joins, we will play 8 conference games. 5 in our division and 3 from the other. I would prefer we 3 of the 6 one year and the other 3 the next year. I realize we would only get a team at home every 4 years, but we would play everybody in 2 years. The way other conferences do it you may not play an opponent for several years. That's one of the reasons Wake is playing UNC in a non-conference series.