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Welp, this might be the end of the CFA Kickoff Game - 2025 will match Syracuse and VOLS
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:21 am
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:21 am
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Ralph D. Russo
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Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game announces Syracuse and Tennessee will play at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2025.
Everybody is moving away from neutral site games and the two best teams you can find are a combined 53-67 the last 5 seasons and went a combined 4-17 last year. Yikes.
2021 - Alabama vs Miami; Ole Miss vs Louisville
2022 - Georgia vs Oregon; Georgia Tech vs Clemson
2023 - Georgia Tech vs Louisville
2024 - Georgia vs Clemson
2025 - South Carolina vs Virginia Tech; Tennessee vs Syracuse
This post was edited on 7/15/21 at 10:24 am
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Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:25 am to SummerOfGeorge
Good
IMO, neutral site games should be reserved for teams that have a significant history between the two and want to play somewhere somewhat close for both schools
IMO, neutral site games should be reserved for teams that have a significant history between the two and want to play somewhere somewhat close for both schools
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:25 am to rockiee
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Good
IMO, neutral site games should be reserved for teams that have a significant history between the two and want to play somewhere somewhat close for both schools
So glad we are out of the neutral site game business after this season.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:26 am to SummerOfGeorge
Stop being dramatic.
UGA and Clemson play in the CFA kickoff game the year before.
UGA and Clemson play in the CFA kickoff game the year before.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:31 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Tennessee vs Syracuse
Yikes. If UT doesnt have some positive momentum, there might be 20,000 people in the stands
Similarly, Kansas-State-Stanford is the Cowboys Kickoff game this year and no future matchups have been announced.
This post was edited on 7/15/21 at 10:35 am
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:32 am to diddlydawg7
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Stop being dramatic.
UGA and Clemson play in the CFA kickoff game the year before.
If you slowed down and looked at future schedules before trying to get a pot shot in at ole SOG you'd realize that I'm 100% correct. None of the big SEC schools are going to want to schedule a neutral game in 2026+. Everyone has 1-3 P5 home and homes lined up already from 2026-2030.
2026
Alabama - @ WVU, Florida State
Georgia - UCLA, @ Louisville, Georgia Tech
Auburn - Baylor
LSU - Clemson
Texas A&M - Arizona State
Florida - @ NC State, Cal, @ Florida State
2027
Alabama - WVU, @ Ohio State
Georgia - @ Florida State, Louisville, Georgia Tech
Auburn - @ UCLA
LSU - @ Oklahoma
Texas A&M - @ Arizona State
Florida - @ Cal, Florida State
2028
Alabama - Ohio State, @ Oklahoma State
Georgia - @ Texas, Florida State, Georgia Tech
Auburn - UCLA
LSU - Oklahoma
Texas A&M - Louisville
Florida - Colorado, @ Arizona State, @ Florida State
2029
Alabama - @ Notre Dame, Oklahoma State
Georgia - Texas, @ Clemson, @ Georgia Tech
Auburn - @ Miami
LSU - Arizona State
Texas A&M - @ Louisville
Florida - @ Colorado, Florida State
2030
Alabama - @ Georgia Tech, Notre Dame
Georgia - Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia Tech
Auburn - Miami
LSU - @ Arizona State
Florida - Texas, @ Florida State
Teams started scheduling all the home and homes a few years ago and the bulk of them were scheduled starting in 2022+. Everyone's schedule is full past 2025.
Neutral site regular season games are dust in the expanded playoff era.
This post was edited on 7/15/21 at 10:36 am
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:36 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Everybody is moving away from neutral site games and the two best teams you can find are a combined 53-67 the last 5 seasons and went a combined 4-17 last year. Yikes.
Tennessee played NC State in that game in 2012. Tennessee was coming off a 5-7 season and were 23-27 the previous 4 seasons. NC State was coming off an 8-5 season and had been 28-23 the previous 4 seasons. Shitty matchups in this game have been happening for a minute now. I do agree, though, these nuetral site early season matchups have jumped the shark. They were "OK" when there were only a couple of them and paired top 25 teams against each other, sometimes top 10 teams. But they over-saturated those games and they're wothless now IMO. Fans are tired of them too at this point now that the novelty of them has worn off.
This post was edited on 7/15/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:37 am to lsufball19
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Tennessee played NC State in that game in 2012. Tennessee was coming off a 5-7 season and were 23-27 the previous 4 seasons. NC State was coming off an 8-5 season and had been 28-23 the previous 4 seasons. Shitty matchups in this game have been happening for a minute now. I do agree, though, these nuetrals season matchups have jumped the shark. They were "OK" when there were only a couple of them and paired top 25 teams against each other, sometimes top 10 teams. But they over-saturated those games and they're wothless now IMO. Fans are tired of them too at this point now that the novelty of them has worn off.
They were fun for a while but with the expanded playoff adding another game to the schedule and everyone getting back into the home/home scheduling game, these are going the way of the dodo.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:37 am to diddlydawg7
Some of these kickoff games are going to have to die off with all the major intersectional games scheduled for the next 15 years. Such is the cycle. Neural site games were big in the 80s and 90s before tailing off at the turn of the century. They were awesome when they were being brought back in the 2010s. But it’s run Its course once more.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:38 am to SummerOfGeorge
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If you slowed down and looked at future schedules before trying to get a pot shot in at ole SOG you'd realize that I'm 100% correct.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, don’t be so defensive.
Plenty of room on those schedules for a CFA kickoff game. Might not be Bama, Georgia, or Florida for a while, but Auburn, LSU, and Texas A&M can easily pick one up.
It’s just classic Bama fan to say, “No more neutral site games for Bama, sounds like they’re dying out.”
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:38 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Some of these kickoff games are going to have to die off with all the major intersectional games scheduled for the next 15 years. Such is the cycle. Neural site games were big in the 80s and 90s before tailing off at the turn of the century. They were awesome when they were being brought back in the 2010s. But it’s run Its course once more.
Ought to play one of them in Week 0 like they used to with the Kickoff Classic. It was always awesome to have that one game the last weekend of August the week before all the others.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:38 am to SummerOfGeorge
Well tenner, you have a few more years to turn things around at least.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:39 am to diddlydawg7
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It’s just classic Bama fan to say, “No more neutral site games for Bama, sounds like they’re dying out.”
Oh for Christ’s sake.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:41 am to diddlydawg7
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It’s just classic Bama fan to say, “No more neutral site games for Bama, sounds like they’re dying out.”
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:42 am to SummerOfGeorge
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They were fun for a while but with the expanded playoff adding another game to the schedule and everyone getting back into the home/home scheduling game, these are going the way of the dodo.
I think a lot of it is also why do fans want to keep going to play a game in Atlanta, Houston, etc when they've already had that experience? They'd rather go somewhere new and different. I also think most have realized going to a true away game is a better experience than a nuetral site game at an NFL stadium, especially at another P5 school's campus you may never get to see your team play again in your lifetime. LSU playing in Green Bay was cool I guess, but I'd have much rather them have played at Camp Randall. I can almost guarantee that opportunity won't happen again the rest of my life.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:43 am to lsufball19
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I think a lot of it is also why do fans want to keep going to play a game in Atlanta, Houston, etc when they've already had that experience? They'd rather go somewhere new and different. I also think most have realized going to a true away game is a better experience than a nuetral site game at an NFL stadium, especially at another P5 school's campus you may never get to see your team play again in your lifetime. LSU playing in Green Bay was cool I guess, but I'd have much rather them have played at Camp Randall. I can almost guarantee that opportunity won't happen again the rest of my life.
Absolutely - especially when it's the same teams over and over. And then sure, a new fanbase might be excited (say South Carolina or Kentucky), but they aren't going to schedule many years of Kentucky vs NC State before they realize the money making is drying up.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:44 am to SummerOfGeorge
One thing to add is that some of those neutral site games over the last 5-10 years were originally scheduled as home and homes, but then became neutral site games as they drew closer to the year they would actually be played.
We'll see if that trend continues or they are truly dying out.
We'll see if that trend continues or they are truly dying out.
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:45 am to DallasTiger45
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One thing to add is that some of those neutral site games over the last 5-10 years were originally scheduled as home and homes, but then became neutral site games as they drew closer to the year they would actually be played.
We'll see if that trend continues or they are truly dying out.
The FSU/LSU one is kind of strange - why are they doing New Orleans/Orlando instead of home and home? I assume money, but I wonder what the details of that are.
This post was edited on 7/15/21 at 10:45 am
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:45 am to SummerOfGeorge
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2022 - Georgia vs Oregon
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2024 - Georgia vs Clemson
Y'all are welcome for us sending them out with a bang and a half
Posted on 7/15/21 at 10:46 am to DirtyDawg
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Y'all are welcome for us sending them out with a bang and a half
This is true - those are 2 dynamite matchups to say goodbye to big time neutrals with.
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