2024 OOC schedules ...

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Does LSU keep both B1G opponents on its 2024 schedule? SoCal AND UCLA?

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Why not?

OM always hangs their hat on cupcakes. Sad they cant beat Arky

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Auburn: California, New Mexico, ULM

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That's a nice AF OOC schedule in all reality

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in state FCS game required by state congressional mandate to-be-played in order to generate big payday for FCS schools in state. (Not sure how many states have this mandate other than South Carolina. Clemson has to abide by the same rule.)

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There is no such "mandate" and both schools have had years where they didn't play in-state FCS schools.
Most years they do though.

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Auburn: California

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Two old mules fighting over a turnip.

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Two old mules fighting over a turnip.

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not true. USUC skipped out a couple years ago.

Usc game is in Vegas
Would not be shocked if UCLA doesn’t return game depending on how their big 10 schedule shakes out
If Texas and ou come to sec in 24 than lsu schedule could change as well

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This is a myth

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There is no such "mandate" and both schools have had years where they didn't play in-state FCS schools. Most years they do though.

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Well, if it's no longer mandated then something changed because I was there when Hyman said he was told "either play an in-state FCC program every year or we'll make it law."

That's as mandated as mandated gets. That was straight from the horse's mouth and McGee told me in an interview, in not so many words and about as politically correct as he could do it, that yes, one in state FCS school would be scheduled each year with a $500k payout. (It was later changed to $800k.)

(I know for an absolute fact that SC State reps were the ones pushing it hard behind closed doors.)

I know in 2015, or maybe it was 2016, something happened with a contractual dispute where Tanner was forced to appeal to be able to get out of the mandate ... but I think it was Coastal Carolina that caused the change, not SC. Prior to that the mandate had been in existence for a good 15-20 years because it happened near the end of Mike McGee's tenure and he was furious about it. It happened right around the time of the first big ESPN SEC Deal when CBS has just doubled what they were paying the conference as well and everyone was getting around 20 million a year.


And I know something happened in 2020 with Covid, and perhaps the mandate was lifted knowing expansion was coming and the legislative threat was not going-to fly any longer ... but there was, most certainly, a mandate in place for at least 15 or 20 years dating back to maybe 2002 or so. Right about the time McGee was retiring and Hyman was taking over so, let's say around 2004-2005 if I remember correctly.

I do know that congressmen, who were grads of SC and Clemson, had privately fought it for some time but the SC State reps were adamantly pushing it as some sort of equal opportunity distribution of the wealth thing.

That's an absolute undeniable fact. Maybe something has changed recently when I was out of pocket and out of the country but it is most definitely not, was not, a myth.

LSU and Florida have decent OOC schedule everyone else sucks