ESPN.com’s Chris Low was critical of several SEC teams for scheduling pasties in November.
I admit, it is easier to get up for a cruddy game in September than middle November, as a fan. You want to see the third team wide recievers going at it in September. Not as much on November 6.
But I don’t see why this is a critical thing? Every school gets at least one FCS team on its schedule…If you are Ole Miss you get multiple. Why not have them late in the season? The Idaho State and Chattanooga games were effectively bye weeks for UGA and Auburn before they played each other.
Auburn is the perfect example…they scheduled an out of conference game with Clemson on September 18. Now, they could have flip flopped the Chatanooga games and Clemson, getting the FCS school out of the way early on. But now, Auburn got a glorified scrimmage
the week before its second biggest rival game and has bascially two bye weeks in the three weeks leading up to the Iron Bowl. UGA has 2 bye weeks in the three leading up to the Tech game, and the Auburn game each year is always an important game late in the season (this year is no exception). Why not want a “bye” week or scrimmage game before you play them?
Georgia fans know the season results when you open up with a more “difficult” team. It is not embarrassing to save these money FCS games until November…it is shrewd scheduling.
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