re: Can we petition to replace the Duke kickoff game with UCF?

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I hate that we have Duke as our neutral site game, but UCF would be way worse. 2 years ago they went winless, this is not a long term stable program.

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Yep. I'm pretty sure that this Duke game was scheduled right after the year that they somehow ended up in the ACC championship game. The point is, that game looked a little better then, but by now they are a terrible program again. UCF would be the same way. If we scheduled them for 2020, it would hurt our SOS once we got there. These games are scheduled too far out. There's no way to know how good of a matchup it will be, and when we end up getting a good matchup, we steal their soul, causing their team to go off the rails. Look at FSU this year. That was called the biggest opening game in CFB history, but by the end of the season it was being used to show how weak our OOC schedule is. It's a lose-lose situation for us.