(10-04-2019 06:45 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  The problem is that they need 5 home games, and only one of those can be against an FCS school. That's aside from the bowl eligibility rule. So they'd be paying FCS schools to come to their stadium for no reason (beyond the first), or they'd be going to FCS stadiums, which also has no point.

Well, it's a game, and if it's a home game, they sell tickets to the game, and if they win, people go home a little bit happy "even if its only an FCS school".

Having one or two FCS away games would be a budgeting move ... it would be an uneven schedule, 1-2 or 1-3, and so those two FCS schools would BE their "home buy game" for four to six years ... except they don't have to buy them, they played them to fill out their 2020 schedule when they were short of FBS games.

If they only PLAY 11 games, they need 7 FBS games, and need 5 to be home games, though one of the home games can be an FCS counter.

They already have 2 home FBS games and one away, plus a game against an FCS counter. Dropping Maine and adding an FCS counter at home that can play later in the season opens the door to an FBS buy game in that date. That would be 3 home FBS (or counter), 5 total FBS.

If they can buy their way into two H/A contracts of other schools (including using the money from the FBS buy game), they would be home free on meeting minimum requirements, with 5 home, 9 total FBS

But you normally use some of the money from your P5 buy game to BUY your FCS game. So only buy one more FCS game to have a 6 game home season, and sign 2-1's or 3-1's with two additional FCS schools and play the away side in 2020.

Then the money p5 body bag game money you'd be using in part in the out years to buy a home FCS school, you've already got that FCS game on a AHH or AHHH contract, so that helps to offset the extra money you had to spend in 2020.

(10-04-2019 08:50 AM)stever20 Wrote:  remember, only 1 FCS game counts towards bowl eligibility though. Only way you can be 6-6 with 2 FCS wins is if not enough teams are bowl eligible...

UConn has no more reason to worry about losing bowl eligibility in 2020 than I have to worry about one of the young ladies in the Babe of the Day section dumping me because she finds out I'm married.