(05-13-2013 09:24 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 08:44 PM)HCJag Wrote:  None qualify as football rivals yet, but the closest FBS schools to USA:

USM - 95 miles
Tulane - 143 miles
Troy - 170 miles
LSU - 201 miles
Auburn - 223 miles
Alabama - 226 miles
MSU - 230 miles
FSU - 242 miles
UL - 256 miles
UAB - 258 miles (surprising they are this far down)

Not too shabby of drive time really. With stops, you are at these sites in 3 to 4 hours. I am surprised with UAB distance too. Thanks. getting my road map out tonight to check the sites.

Are you planning to make some SBC away games?

Decided to go back and put up the TX 12 plus UTA (what I got)
Closest FBS stadiums to TXST
UT - 31 miles
UTSA - 51.4 miles
TX A&M - 120 miles (missed this one before)
Baylor - 131 miles
Rice - 166
Houston - 169
TCU - 217
UTA - 226
SMU - 229
UNT - 252
TX Tech - 410
UTEP - 591


closest SBC school seems to be Louisiana @ 379

It's 89.5 miles from Kidd Brewer Stadium to BB&T Field at Wake Forest. Wake used to be a big game for us, back in the day. We haven't played since 2001. We're 7-14-1 all-time, and our fans often outnumbered theirs.

Would love nothing more than to restart that series 85 on 85.

Georgia Southern is fairly isolated geographically from other FCS schools (at least by East Coast standards).
Distance from stadiums in the same region of the country:
USC--133
UGA--168
Clemson--193
GA State/GT--210
Charlotte--227
FSU--233
Florida--242
Auburn--246
Troy--290
Wake--308
UCF--315
App. St.--344
NC State--346
UAB--356
UNC/Duke--366
USF--373
Bama--408
Tenn--422
MTSU-427
Vandy--458
USA--464
FAU--480

Now, from my house (just for fun)

UT - 16.7 miles
TXST - 46.5
UTSA - 96.2 miles
Baylor - 93.4 miles
TX A&M - 107 miles
Rice - 166 miles
Houston - 168 miles
TCU - 180 miles
UTA - 189 miles
SMU - 192 miles
UNT - 214 miles
TX Tech - 365 niles
UTEP - 585 miles

All in state but I rarely get to go to away games when we do have them in TX. Can't get the time off from work without pissing people off because I want the Saturdays in the Fall.

New Mexico State's Aggie Memorial Stadium is 41 miles from UTEP's Sun Bowl. NMSU has also played UTEP in football a total of 90 times. I don't think anyone can beat that.

(05-14-2013 12:53 AM)nmsuaggies Wrote:  New Mexico State's Aggie Memorial Stadium is 41 miles from UTEP's Sun Bowl. NMSU has also played UTEP in football a total of 90 times. I don't think anyone can beat that.

Our closest to that would be
Sam Houston 86
Stephen F Austin 85
Unless we play as our FCS games, those totals will stand for a while.

(05-14-2013 12:53 AM)nmsuaggies Wrote:  New Mexico State's Aggie Memorial Stadium is 41 miles from UTEP's Sun Bowl. NMSU has also played UTEP in football a total of 90 times. I don't think anyone can beat that.

92nd meeting on Sept. 21st 2013. Idaho at WSU. Campus and towns are 8 miles apart. Stadiums are 7 miles apart. Straighten 'er out and as a crow flies it goes to 4 miles. Go Aggies. Beat those Miners.

(05-13-2013 09:29 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 09:24 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 08:44 PM)HCJag Wrote:  None qualify as football rivals yet, but the closest FBS schools to USA:

USM - 95 miles
Tulane - 143 miles
Troy - 170 miles
LSU - 201 miles
Auburn - 223 miles
Alabama - 226 miles
MSU - 230 miles
FSU - 242 miles
UL - 256 miles
UAB - 258 miles (surprising they are this far down)

Not too shabby of drive time really. With stops, you are at these sites in 3 to 4 hours. I am surprised with UAB distance too. Thanks. getting my road map out tonight to check the sites.

Are you planning to make some SBC away games?

AT, my group will travel out of Boise for the Arkansas State game this fall and, even though they took off on the SB, the N Tex St game. As far as 2014? I know the Boise area Vandals will be quite involved. When the Trojans play in Boise, we will have your back! Other games this year with no Vandal involvement(?), well, maybe --- we have two open dates, so will have to check out what Troy is doing and other SB teams.

(05-14-2013 05:56 AM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 12:53 AM)nmsuaggies Wrote:  New Mexico State's Aggie Memorial Stadium is 41 miles from UTEP's Sun Bowl. NMSU has also played UTEP in football a total of 90 times. I don't think anyone can beat that.

92nd meeting on Sept. 21st 2013. Idaho at WSU. Campus and towns are 8 miles apart. Stadiums are 7 miles apart. Straighten 'er out and as a crow flies it goes to 4 miles. Go Aggies. Beat those Miners.

92nd meeting. That's a long time game.
You probably had some World War 1 veterans playing in that game.

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

(05-14-2013 10:34 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

Everyone knows that you can't give yourself a nickname. I suggest we call him the "The Slippery Eel"

(05-14-2013 11:35 AM)chrisattsu Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 10:34 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

Everyone knows that you can't give yourself a nickname. I suggest we call him the "The Slippery Eel"

There was a radio interview locally with Chris Petersen, and best I can recall he either recruited Harsin out of high school or was told by someone who did that Harsin gave himself that moniker in high school in order to best Jake "The Snake" Plummer.

Kent State being a MAC school has a lot of history with some very close schools.

Akron- 12 miles
Bowling Green State- 136
Toledo-141
Ohio-172
Eastern Michigan-189
Buffalo-219
Miami U- 255
Ball State- 261
Western Michigan-288

And for the only non-conference foe that is in Kent's top ten most played opponents.

Marshal-250

Central Michigan is around 320 miles away and NIU is over 400. Umass is a little over 500.

(05-14-2013 10:34 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

I can't recall "The Mongoose" nickname during high school. I am now retired from teaching/coaching and his old HC is retired and lives in the subdivision. I can ask him about "The Mongoose" nickname. I will try to get back with you. I do know if ASU could land a H and H with BSU --- wow! You would have a good crowd of fans here for the local kid, done good, in "Welcome Back Mongoose". Hope your AD can get with BSU's AD. Troy and La-Laf have signed on to H and H with BSU. ASU would be a great draw with Harsin bringing the Red Wolves into Bronco Stadium.

(05-14-2013 07:56 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 10:34 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

I can't recall "The Mongoose" nickname during high school. I am now retired from teaching/coaching and his old HC is retired and lives in the subdivision. I can ask him about "The Mongoose" nickname. I will try to get back with you. I do know if ASU could land a H and H with BSU --- wow! You would have a good crowd of fans here for the local kid, done good, in "Welcome Back Mongoose". Hope your AD can get with BSU's AD. Troy and La-Laf have signed on to H and H with BSU. ASU would be a great draw with Harsin bringing the RedHawks into Bronco Stadium.

RED WOLVES

(05-14-2013 09:39 PM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 07:56 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-14-2013 10:34 AM)WinstonTheWolf Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 02:28 PM)VandalinBoise Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 10:10 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Stadium to Stadium, the closest FBS to Arkansas State is Memphis. All-time series is 24-27-5 in favor of Memphis with ASU winning four of the last five. The series is known as the Paint Bucket Bowl because students would paint their school colors at the other's campus leading up to the game. Finally the administrators at each school agreed to set aside a portion of campus for the opposing students to paint if their team won. That tradition ended when the series ended in 1957 and was not renewed when they began playing again in 1975. During the period when ASU was I-AA, Memphis led the series 4-2-2. No games are scheduled after this season's meeting at Memphis.

Second closest FBS is Ole Miss at 152 miles but it has been played much less frequently. Rebels lead the series 20-1-2. No games currently scheduled and who knows if there will be any with Freeze as coach.

Third closest FBS is Arkansas at 253 miles but there have been no meetings and none are scheduled.

Great report. Thanks. I taught and coached at Capital High School in Boise when your new HC, Brian Harsin, was a student and QB. Brian was a back up his soph year to Jake Plummer (later AZ St. and the NFL). Then Hars QB'd us and went onto BSU. He was a great kid. You have a great HC. Good luck. And I hope to be at your stadium this fall when the Vandals play. Go ASU, go Harsin and go UI. Looking forward to us on your campus and in your stadium again. Great conference.

Can you confirm the story about Harsin's self proclaimed nickname - "The Mongoose" ?

I can't recall "The Mongoose" nickname during high school. I am now retired from teaching/coaching and his old HC is retired and lives in the subdivision. I can ask him about "The Mongoose" nickname. I will try to get back with you. I do know if ASU could land a H and H with BSU --- wow! You would have a good crowd of fans here for the local kid, done good, in "Welcome Back Mongoose". Hope your AD can get with BSU's AD. Troy and La-Laf have signed on to H and H with BSU. ASU would be a great draw with Harsin bringing the RedHawks into Bronco Stadium.

RED WOLVES

Red Wolves. Hawks? Dah. Senior moment, plus living next to our minor league baseball team's (Cubs) ball park, the Boise Hawks. I apologize to the ASU Red Wolves. I did almost go with your old nickname, which I liked by the way.

As far as rivalries go, it's WKU and then everybody else.

I wish we were going to be conference mates with Memphis. I'd really like to see that rivalry continue, but I'm not sure I want it to continue badly enough for them to take an OOC spot in football permanently.

The only rivalry I could see eclipsing WKU is Vandy and even that is a looooong shot, not because we don't hate them, but I don't see them committing to playing us annually in any sport least of all football, having said that, we do play in baseball nearly every year, we play them in MBB semi regularly, they won't play us in WBB(and that one could be HUGE) and we finally have them back on the football schedule and finally have them in Murfreesboro after beating them the last three times in Nashville(2001, 2002, 2005) the series is Murfreesboro(2015, 2017) Nashville(2016, 2018).

WKU could take a backseat to Vandy if and only if we get to playing them annually in football or at bare minimum get at least a 2-2 every 4-5 years. I don't see that happening without us having some fairly substantial growth in the coming years.

(05-13-2013 09:19 PM)chrisattsu Wrote:  

(05-13-2013 06:07 PM)CatMom Wrote:  We don't have an FBS Rival....yet
We sort of had a rivalry with SHSU in FCS

Closest FBS stadiums to TXST
UT - 31 miles
UTSA - 51.4 miles
Baylor - 131 miles
Rice - 166
Houston - 169

Sort of? Sam was our sister school in the Texas State system. We've played them nearly 90 times in our history. From what the alumni have told me, we didn't hate them nearly as much as Texas A&I, but more than UTSA.

Yeah, before y'all moved up it was the oldest FCS rivalry game in Texas. 89 times is nothing to sneeze at.

It's interesting to see some of the these rivalry games be so close to each other. If I were a healthy guy, I could literally jog between some of these stadiums. Crazy!