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Was released by the league office to the ADs yesterday according to someone on the JMU board. Some of the CAA schools have released theirs. Should be more to soon follow.

UR:
Sat, Sep 01 Virginia at Charlottesville, Va. TBA
Sat, Sep 08 Gardner-Webb Richmond, Va. TBA
Sat, Sep 15 VMI at Lexington, Va. TBA
Sat, Sep 22 Georgia State * at Atlanta, Ga. TBA
Sat, Sep 29 Old Dominion (Family Weekend) * Richmond, Va. TBA
Sat, Oct 06 Villanova * at Philadelphia, Pa. TBA
Sat, Oct 13 New Hampshire * at Durham, N.H. TBA
Sat, Oct 20 James Madison * Richmond, Va. TBA
Sat, Nov 03 Rhode Island (Homecoming) * Richmond, Va. TBA
Sat, Nov 10 Delaware * Richmond, Va. TBA
Sat, Nov 17 William and Mary * at Williamsburg, Va. TBA
http://www.richmondspiders.com/SportSel ... EASON=2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODU (the no travel/no I-A game schedule with 9 of 11 games in VA + @ TU and GST):
Sept. 1 Duquesne Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Sept. 8 at Hampton Hampton, Va. - Armstrong Stadium
Sept. 15 Campbell Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Sept. 22 New Hampshire * Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Sept. 29 at Richmond * Richmond, Va. - Robins Stadium
Oct. 6 Bye Week
Oct. 13 Villanova* Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Oct. 20 at Towson* Towson, Md. - Unitas Stadium
Oct. 27 Delaware * Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Nov. 3 at Georgia State * Atlanta, Ga. - Georgia Dome
Nov. 10 William & Mary * Norfolk, Va. - Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
Nov. 17 at James Madison * Harrisonburg, Va. - Bridgeforth Stadium
http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footb ... 11aae.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Towson (2 I-A games: @ Kent State and @ LSU):
Sat. Sept. 1 at Kent State Dix Stadium, Kent, Ohio TBA
Sat. Sept. 15 WILLIAM & MARY * Unitas Stadium 7 p.m.
Sat. Sept. 22 St. FRANCIS (Pa.) Unitas Stadium 7 p.m.
Sat. Sept. 29 at Louisiana State Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, La. TBA
Sat. Oct. 6 at James Madison * Bridgeforth Stadium, Harrisonburg, Va. TBA
Sat. Oct. 13 MAINE * Unitas Stadium 7 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 20 OLD DOMINION * Unitas Stadium 7 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 27 at Villanova * Villanova Stadium, Villanova, Pa. TBA
Sat. Nov. 3 at Delaware * Tubby Raymond Stadium, Newark, Del. TBA
Sat. Nov. 10 RHODE ISLAND * Unitas Stadium 3:30 p.m.
Sat. Nov. 17 at New Hampshire * Cowell Stadium, Durham, N.H. TBA
http://www.towsontigers.com/ViewArticle ... M_ID=21300" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

URI:
9/8/12 – at Monmouth
9/15/12 – at Villanova*
9/22/12 – vs. James Madison*
9/29/12 – at Bowling Green
10/6/12 – vs. Brown
10/13/12 – vs. Georgia State*
10/20/12 – at Delaware*
10/27/12 – vs. New Hampshire*
11/3/12 – at Richmond*
11/10/12 – at Towson*
11/17/12 – vs. Maine*
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 12150y1gx8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So far, it looks like Georgia State will indeed just inherit UMass's conference schedule. Richmond, ODU and URI's games with GSU are home/away flips with last season's UMass games. UMass didn't play Towson last season, and neither will GSU, which makes sense if they're just going to flip home/away games from last season. The clincher will be if GSU plays UNH on the road and Maine at home. That would have been the case on UMass's schedule.

BDKJMU wrote:Was released by the league office to the ADs yesterday according to someone on the JMU board. Some of the CAA schools have released theirs. Should be more to soon follow.

UR:
http://www.richmondspiders.com/SportSel ... EASON=2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODU (the no travel/no I-A game schedule with 9 of 11 games in VA + @ TU and GST):
http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footb ... 11aae.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Towson (2 I-A games: @ Kent State and @ LSU):
http://www.towsontigers.com/ViewArticle ... M_ID=21300" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

URI:
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 12150y1gx8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODU has a very favorable schedule. No back-to-back road games. Nothing north of Towson. One air charter game in Atlanta. Good spot for the bye week. Can't complain about this one.

CAA Flagship wrote:

BDKJMU wrote:Was released by the league office to the ADs yesterday according to someone on the JMU board. Some of the CAA schools have released theirs. Should be more to soon follow.

UR:
http://www.richmondspiders.com/SportSel ... EASON=2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODU (the no travel/no I-A game schedule with 9 of 11 games in VA + @ TU and GST):
http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footb ... 11aae.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Towson (2 I-A games: @ Kent State and @ LSU):
http://www.towsontigers.com/ViewArticle ... M_ID=21300" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

URI:
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 12150y1gx8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ODU has a very favorable schedule. No back-to-back road games. Nothing north of Towson. One air charter game in Atlanta. Good spot for the bye week. Can't complain about this one.

Don't overlook that daunting trifecta of Duquesne, Hampton, and Campbell at the beginning of the year! That is hard core man. Hard core.

93henfan wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: ODU has a very favorable schedule. No back-to-back road games. Nothing north of Towson. One air charter game in Atlanta. Good spot for the bye week. Can't complain about this one.

Don't overlook that daunting trifecta of Duquesne, Hampton, and Campbell at the beginning of the year! That is hard core man. Hard core.

You playing West Chester this year?

CAA Flagship wrote:

93henfan wrote:
Don't overlook that daunting trifecta of Duquesne, Hampton, and Campbell at the beginning of the year! That is hard core man. Hard core.

You playing West Chester this year?

You playing any FBS? Had we had any of your OOC instead of Navy, we'd have been a playoff team.

I admit your scheduling is better. Loading up on FCS creampuffs is the way to go.

93henfan wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: You playing West Chester this year?

You playing any FBS? Had we had any of your OOC instead of Navy, we'd have been a playoff team.

I admit your scheduling is better. Loading up on FCS creampuffs is the way to go.

I'm glad you have seen the light.

CAA Flagship wrote: You playing West Chester this year?

Call it wishful thinking, but since the conference part of the schedule is done & UD hasn't released it yet, which they normally do pretty quickly there is speculation that they may be looking to dump WCUPA a year early after that being a good part of the reason 2011 wasn't a playoff year.

Again purely speculation.

UNH is done as well, not on their site, yet.

9/1 @Holy Cross
9/8 @Minnesota
9/15 Central Conn St
9/22 @ODU
9/29 Delaware
10/6 @Georgia St
10/13 Richmond
10/20 @Maine
10/27 @URI
11/3 Bill&Mary
11/17 Towson

Also, word on the street is Georgia State will end their season on 11/10 AT Maine. Might throw a wrench into the theory that they are inheriting UMass' schedule.

nwFL Griz wrote:UNH is done as well, not on their site, yet.

9/1 @Holy Cross
9/8 @Minnesota
9/15 Central Conn St
9/22 @ODU
9/29 Delaware
10/6 @Georgia St
10/13 Richmond
10/20 @Maine
10/27 @URI
11/3 Bill&Mary
11/17 Towson

Also, word on the street is Georgia State will end their season on 11/10 AT Maine. Might throw a wrench into the theory that they are inheriting UMass' schedule.

UNH official, as you listed it:
http://www.unhwildcats.com/sports/fball ... 1216jwcw69" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

W&M:
2012 Schedule
Sept. 1 at Maryland
Sept. 8 Lafayette
Sept. 15 at Towson *
Sept. 22 Delaware *
Sept. 29 Georgia State (Family Weekend) *
Oct. 6 at Penn
Oct. 13 at James Madison *
Oct. 27 Maine (Homecoming) *
Nov. 3 at New Hampshire *
Nov. 10 at Old Dominion *
Nov. 17 Richmond *
http://www.tribeathletics.com/ViewArtic ... =205348052" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

bluehenbillk wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: You playing West Chester this year?

Call it wishful thinking, but since the conference part of the schedule is done & UD hasn't released it yet, which they normally do pretty quickly there is speculation that they may be looking to dump WCUPA a year early after that being a good part of the reason 2011 wasn't a playoff year.

Again purely speculation.

Won't make much of a difference unless replaced it with a I-A. If UD replaced WCU with a patsy I-AA would still likely need to get to 8-3 to get in. Same with ODU.

7-4/4-4 with no I-A on the schedule isn't much different than 6-5/4-4 with a I-A. 7-4 with, no I-A game, with 4 I-AA losses from one of power conferences you ain't likely getting in. Just ask Ill State this yr.

Where you really screw yourself is if you schedule a I-A AND a Div II like UD and W&M did last season. Then you can get left out with only 3 I-AA losses.

ODU finishes first, Villanova loses to everyone except Ghetto State who finishes last, and in-between will be a total crapshoot.

Pwns wrote:ODU finishes first, Villanova loses to everyone except Ghetto State who finishes last, and in-between will be a total crapshoot.

You're clueless on Nova.....

Guess we might as well cancel the 2012 CS Poll, declare ODU the number 1 seed, and give them a ticket to Frisco.

BDKJMU wrote:

bluehenbillk wrote:
Call it wishful thinking, but since the conference part of the schedule is done & UD hasn't released it yet, which they normally do pretty quickly there is speculation that they may be looking to dump WCUPA a year early after that being a good part of the reason 2011 wasn't a playoff year.

Again purely speculation.

Won't make much of a difference unless replaced it with a I-A. If UD replaced WCU with a patsy I-AA would still likely need to get to 8-3 to get in. Same with ODU.

7-4/4-4 with no I-A on the schedule isn't much different than 6-5/4-4 with a I-A. 7-4 with, no I-A game, with 4 I-AA losses from one of power conferences you ain't likely getting in. Just ask Ill State this yr.

Where you really screw yourself is if you schedule a I-A AND a Div II like UD and W&M did last season. Then you can get left out with only 3 I-AA losses.

Nonsense - the extra DI game makes all the difference - look at Maine getting in over W&M a few years ago on the strength of a win over Iona. I've yet to see a playoff eligible UD, in a 16 team playoff or more, not make the playoffs. If UD had replaced West Chester with a patsy FCS win this year they would've been in the playoffs. Next year would be the same at 7-4 assuming they dump West Chester, as they should.

93henfan wrote:Don't overlook that daunting trifecta of Duquesne, Hampton, and Campbell at the beginning of the year! That is hard core man. Hard core.

I know right, Duquesne the NEC co-champ who was 9-2, Hampton was 7-4 and Campbell was 6-5. Their combined record 22-11. The best is they're all home games except one is 14 miles away.

GannonFan wrote:

BDKJMU wrote:
Won't make much of a difference unless replaced it with a I-A. If UD replaced WCU with a patsy I-AA would still likely need to get to 8-3 to get in. Same with ODU.

7-4/4-4 with no I-A on the schedule isn't much different than 6-5/4-4 with a I-A. 7-4 with, no I-A game, with 4 I-AA losses from one of power conferences you ain't likely getting in. Just ask Ill State this yr.

Where you really screw yourself is if you schedule a I-A AND a Div II like UD and W&M did last season. Then you can get left out with only 3 I-AA losses.

Nonsense - the extra DI game makes all the difference - look at Maine getting in over W&M a few years ago on the strength of a win over Iona. I've yet to see a playoff eligible UD, in a 16 team playoff or more, not make the playoffs. If UD had replaced West Chester with a patsy FCS win this year they would've been in the playoffs. Next year would be the same at 7-4 assuming they dump West Chester, as they should.

If you don't think there's any diffrerence between a 7-4 CAA team with 4 I-AA losses vs a 7-4 CAA with 3 I-AA losses you're kidding yourself. A (7 div 1 win) 7-4/4-4 wih no I-A will be behind all the other (7 div 1 win) 7-4/5-3 with a I-A from the power conferences. There has never been a CAA team, or any team period, that has gotten an At Large at 7-4 that didn't have a I-A on the schedule. As far as Maine making the playoffs in 08' they were 8-3 vs I-AA. If UD had replaced WCU with a patsy I-AA this year sure would have gotten in the playoffs. But would have had only 3 I-AA losses + IA loss to Navy. Next year would not be the same because a 7-4 UD would have 4 I-AA losses.

93henfan wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: You playing West Chester this year?

You playing any FBS? Had we had any of your OOC instead of Navy, we'd have been a playoff team.

I admit your scheduling is better. Loading up on FCS creampuffs is the way to go.

Not really. ODU was 9-2 and didn't get a first round bye and had a second round game at Georgia Southern. Both ODU and UD need to do a better job of scheduling. UD needs to drop West Chester, ODU needs at least 1 tough OOC game.

BlueHen86 wrote:

93henfan wrote:
You playing any FBS? Had we had any of your OOC instead of Navy, we'd have been a playoff team.

I admit your scheduling is better. Loading up on FCS creampuffs is the way to go.

Not really. ODU was 9-2 and didn't get a first round bye and had a second round game at Georgia Southern. Both ODU and UD need to do a better job of scheduling. UD needs to drop West Chester, ODU needs at least 1 tough OOC game.

Meh, we are still cleaning up from our initial/early agreements with Campbell and Hampton. We have one more game with Campbell but that will be replaced with Norfolk St, which may be only a slight improvement. But we will pick up the extra OOC game in 2013 so there are still opportunities to beef up the schedule.
In my mind, the first goal is to get to 7 D-1 wins no matter what. As proven with UD this year, 6 wins is automatic death.
ODU suffered from a couple of things this season (other than a weak defense). First was reputation. If the league picks us 10th, what will the rest of the country think of us? The early CAA loss (UD) didn't help either. Had the CAA wins and losses come at different times, we may have gotten that first round bye. Also, the CAA was not as strong this year as previous years, and on top of that, we didn't play two of the top teams in Maine and New Hampshire. That's just bad luck. But it all worked out in the end. We played NSU at home in front of a sellout crowd and made money on the game. GSU proved where we need to improve, but at the same time, the program got a lot of respect that will certainly be reflected is a much better position in the polls to start the next season.

I'd like to see a more exciting OOC schedule. This is boring. We don't need 3 warmup games to get ready for the conference schedule.

Sirloinburger wrote:I'd like to see a more exciting OOC schedule. This is boring. We don't need 3 warmup games to get ready for the conference schedule.

Really? We don't need style points for pollsters to put us in the top 2. We simply need wins to get in the top 10. It's all about making the playoffs.

CAA Flagship wrote:

Sirloinburger wrote:I'd like to see a more exciting OOC schedule. This is boring. We don't need 3 warmup games to get ready for the conference schedule.

Really? We don't need style points for pollsters to put us in the top 2. We simply need wins to get in the top 10. It's all about making the playoffs.

Completely agree, if we played in a lesser conference I would say lets schedule BCS opponents and the Montana's, Georgia Southern's, Sam Houstons' and North Dakota State's but ODU plays in a conference that's gonna have 4-5 teams ranked in the top 25 every year. ODU doesn't need 3 additional games to impress the selection committee when they already play 8 games in conference that will do that.

I'm learning to just tune out SB now because it seems like every post he writes its about how ODU NEEDS to move up to SEC status RIGHT AWAY.

CAA Flagship wrote:

Sirloinburger wrote:I'd like to see a more exciting OOC schedule. This is boring. We don't need 3 warmup games to get ready for the conference schedule.

Really? We don't need style points for pollsters to put us in the top 2. We simply need wins to get in the top 10. It's all about making the playoffs.

You guys will be top ten in the preseason I think. Certainly top fifteen.

CAA Flagship wrote:

Sirloinburger wrote:I'd like to see a more exciting OOC schedule. This is boring. We don't need 3 warmup games to get ready for the conference schedule.

Really? We don't need style points for pollsters to put us in the top 2. We simply need wins to get in the top 10. It's all about making the playoffs.

It's about SOS not style points. we'll get into the playoffs, it's getting a better seed. If we want to take trips to ND or Montana go ahead and schedule cream puffs.

ODUalum11 wrote: I'm learning to just tune out SB now because it seems like every post he writes its about how ODU NEEDS to move up to SEC status RIGHT AWAY.

lol, . So the selection committee is going to be impressed with those 3 OOC oppponents. You make me laugh. When did you become an expert at FCS football. You read what everyone else posts and adopt those opinions. What post did I say SEC? Dr. Selig is exploring a move to FBS. It's not me that's piloting the ship. You're an ODU graduate? I thought our graduates want to become more than just average. Do you want to stay in the same position all your life or do you want to move up? ODU is moving up.