2019 football schedule is crazy..

[Xenomorph]

After September 21st against Kentucky we play at home once in the next 7 weeks before November 16th against Bama.

 

[engie]

It would be a great schedule if it was staggered normally. Love the teams we're playing. Hate how it's staggered. Also let's break up the OM/LSU/Bama home/away years. I do like the cupcake before the Rebs though.

The schedule:
Aug 31 - ULL @ Superdome
Sept 7 - USM
Sept 14 - Kansas St
Sept 21 - Kentucky
Sept 28 - @ Auburn
Oct 5 - OPEN
Oct 12 - @ Tennessee
Oct 19 - LSU
Oct 26 - @ aTm
Nov 2 - @ Arky
Nov 9 - OPEN
Nov 16 - Bama
Nov 23 - Abilene Christian
Nov 28 - OM

Swap Kansas St and @ Arky and it's an almost perfect schedule IMO

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Thanks, LT!

 

[dannyripms]

I like our schedule. I see 8 wins as the floor. I like the open week before bama.

 

[patdog]

The SEC office has done a piss pour job of scheduling ever since the leage expanded to 14 teams. It's ******** that we go almost 2 months in the middle of the season without a home game and have 3 straight home games in both Sept. and Nov. They've 17ed Mississippi with a similar schedule a few years ago too. It's not that hard. The SEC office is just lazy. And yeah, that does fall on LT since it's part of his job.

 

[engie]

I like our schedule. I see 8 wins as the floor. I like the open week before bama.

You drive up a couple hours for very many home games?

Every other week is ideal for me coming from Jackson. Two in a row once or twice a season isn’t bad. I’m probably not going 3 straight weeks unless there’s something really on the line

 

[patdog]

Exactly. Expect to see dozens of people in the stands for the Abeline Christian game. Maybe a couple thousand for the K-State game. Of course, this is a slight exaggeration for effect, but it's going to be pretty bad for those games.

 

[CookieMonster.sixpack]

It would be a great schedule if it was staggered normally. Love the teams we're playing. Hate how it's staggered. Also let's break up the OM/LSU/Bama home/away years. I do like the cupcake before the Rebs though.

The schedule:
Aug 31 - ULL @ Superdome W
Sept 7 - USM W
Sept 14 - Kansas St W
Sept 21 - Kentucky ?
Sept 28 - @ Auburn L
Oct 5 - OPEN
Oct 12 - @ Tennessee ?
Oct 19 - LSU L
Oct 26 - @ aTm L
Nov 2 - @ Arky ?
Nov 9 - OPEN
Nov 16 - Bama L
Nov 23 - Abilene Christian W
Nov 28 - OM W

Swap Kansas St and @ Arky and it's an almost perfect schedule IMO

Win those three toss ups and we get back to 8-4. Looks like 7-5 to me. Could be way worse if the offense doesn't take a quantum leap because the defense can't go anywhere but backwards.

 

[L4Dawg]

6-6

 

[ronpolk]

Exactly. Expect to see dozens of people in the stands for the Abeline Christian game. Maybe a couple thousand for the K-State game. Of course, this is a slight exaggeration for effect, but it's going to be pretty bad for those games.

I see people going to kstate game... the abeline Christian and southern miss games could be ugly. I want to go see the ULL game in the super dome, so I could easily see giving my tickets to someone for the USM game.

 

[ronpolk]

I like our schedule. I see 8 wins as the floor. I like the open week before bama.

Damn... I wish I was that confident. Hard for me to feel optimistic regardless of the opponent.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

I wouldn't count Kentucky as a give me... I'm thinking 7 is the floor. Hopefully we can beat Kentucky and LSU at home and take one on the road from Aubie or TAMU. Would sure like to have a winning record in the SEC at some point.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

The SEC office has done a piss pour job of scheduling ever since the leage expanded to 14 teams. It's ******** that we go almost 2 months in the middle of the season without a home game and have 3 straight home games in both Sept. and Nov. They've 17ed Mississippi with a similar schedule a few years ago too. It's not that hard. The SEC office is just lazy. And yeah, that does fall on LT since it's part of his job.

This isn't the SEC's fault. No SEC team has more than 3 consecutive weeks with an away game. We could reschedule one of our home games for the open date, but as it stands now I'd rather have that week open before Bama.

 

[msudawg12]

You drive up a couple hours for very many home games?

Every other week is ideal for me coming from Jackson. Two in a row once or twice a season isn’t bad. I’m probably not going 3 straight weeks unless there’s something really on the line

Same here. Just being honest, doing anything three weekends in a row sucks....

 

[Turd Ferguson.sixpack]

8-4

The schedule:
Aug 31 - ULL @ Superdome W
Sept 7 - USM W
Sept 14 - Kansas St W
Sept 21 - Kentucky W
Sept 28 - @ Auburn L
Oct 5 - OPEN
Oct 12 - @ Tennessee W
Oct 19 - LSU L
Oct 26 - @ aTm L
Nov 2 - @ Arky W
Nov 9 - OPEN
Nov 16 - Bama L
Nov 23 - Abilene Christian W
Nov 28 - OM W

 

[CookieMonster.sixpack]

8-4

The schedule:
Aug 31 - ULL @ Superdome W
Sept 7 - USM W
Sept 14 - Kansas St W
Sept 21 - Kentucky W
Sept 28 - @ Auburn L
Oct 5 - OPEN
Oct 12 - @ Tennessee W
Oct 19 - LSU L
Oct 26 - @ aTm L
Nov 2 - @ Arky W
Nov 9 - OPEN
Nov 16 - Bama L
Nov 23 - Abilene Christian W
Nov 28 - OM W

I'm not sure what you've seen that makes you think we are winning 2 conference road games. I know UT & ARK aren't good but we performed pretty terribly on the road in conference this season. I wish we could have one of our "best teams" in an odd year. It'd be nice to play Bama & LSU at home when we have a chance to compete.

 

[patdog]

It absolutely is the SEC's fault. They control all 8 SEC games and the open dates. The OOC home games were scheduled years ago based on dates the SEC told us would be available to us. We can't just reschedule those games on short notice because K-State, USM and Abeline Christian would then have to change their schedules.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

8-5**

 

[Turd Ferguson.sixpack]

I'm not sure what you've seen that makes you think we are winning 2 conference road games. I know UT & ARK aren't good but we performed pretty terribly on the road in conference this season. I wish we could have one of our "best teams" in an odd year. It'd be nice to play Bama & LSU at home when we have a chance to compete.

I don't think it's a huge stretch. We won 1 conference road game this year and should have won 2 others. We stomped Arky and I don't see that changing by much on their field. Tennessee is down and remains beatable, regardless of venue.

 

[WilCoDawg]

I wouldn’t count UT as a W at all. I’m sure that’ll be one of the 3 weekends they’ll show up and we won’t show out. I’ll go since it’s the second closest I’ll be to one of our games, but I’m not expecting a W one iota.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

After what I just witnessed, 8-4 would most definitely be the ceiling next year! In fact 8-4 may be the Penthouse!!

Anyone who “predicts” more than 6 wins next year, needs to get some help.

Expectations are NOT the same as Predictions, so if you “Expect” us to go 15-0, have at it.

The one thing we should be able to count on for next year is this:

SEC West

4 Auburn
5 MSU
6 Arkansas
7 Mississippi

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

5 to 9 wins. Ill go with 7-5 right now.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

8-4 to would have probably been the ceiling next year anyway in normal mullen offense with Key or mayden starting at qb, changing out OL, and losing a lot of NFL defensive guys.

with this team really having 0 identity and 0 veteran leadership on the offensive side of the ball next year, i'm guessing 6-6 is our ceiling. two SEC wins max. i'm not confident we can win two without some sort of identity and leadership on offense.

 

[Todd4State]

I don't like that we have to play Abeline Christian four days before the Egg Bowl while Ole Miss gets a bye weekend before the Egg Bowl. That doesn't seem right given the short week. Either make both play a FCS team the weekend before or give both the Saturday before the Egg Bowl off- either way is fine with me.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

I don't like that we have to play Abeline Christian four days before the Egg Bowl while Ole Miss gets a bye weekend before the Egg Bowl. That doesn't seem right given the short week. Either make both play a FCS team the weekend before or give both the Saturday before the Egg Bowl off- either way is fine with me.

We should be able to beat the 2019 Ole Miss squad with our backups.

 

[MSUDC11]

I don't like that we have to play Abeline Christian four days before the Egg Bowl while Ole Miss gets a bye weekend before the Egg Bowl. That doesn't seem right given the short week. Either make both play a FCS team the weekend before or give both the Saturday before the Egg Bowl off- either way is fine with me.

Abilene Christian lost to the same Stephen F. Austin team that looked like the worst college football team I’ve ever seen play at Davis Wade Stadium. That is basically another bye week for us.

 

[patdog]

We chose to play then. It really won't matter at all anyway.

 

[PineGroveBully]

The break before Bama is all well and good but if we didn't beat them with these two past teams then we aren't competing with them next year.

 

[Todd4State]

We chose to play then. It really won't matter at all anyway.

Did we know that Ole Miss had a bye that week? I'm not worried about losing the game or the Egg Bowl. I just think that the schedule situation should be the same for both the weekend before.

 

[DAWG61]

After September 21st against Kentucky we play at home once in the next 7 weeks before November 16th against Bama.

Two bye weeks mixed in makes it not that terrible

 

[patdog]

I suspect it was a joint MSU-UM deal and UM just chose to take their 2nd bye that week while we chose to play our I-AA game that week and take our 2nd bye the week before the Bama game. I do agree the schedule should be the same for both teams, and I think it is. Either we both have an SEC game the week before or we both don't. After that, it's just up to each school how they want to handle having that week open for SEC play. I do think both MSU and UM should insist that as long as the Egg Bowl is Thursday night we can't play an SEC game the weekend before.