Future Football Schedules

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Ransom Stoddard
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redwingillini11
This is a good step. We should of course hope to be a competitive program at this time, and there are few teams I want to beat more than Miz-noz. But even if we are still bad, losing to Mizzou is less bad than losing to USF, Louisiana Tech, Fresno State, & Western Michigan.

P.s. As a fan, I still really wish the B1G took Mizzou rather than Rutgers or Maryland. Would have been a great fit and worthy team to hate in the conference rather than these schools I couldn't care less about out in the mid-atlantic. Hopefully Jim Delaney was able to buy a nice 2nd or 3rd house so that someone benefited from this stupid NY and DC / B1G expansion...
 
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Whitman: Rebirth of Mizzou series, know it's anticlamatic due to 2026 start but that's the reality of college football world today.

Whitman: Right now scheduled to be home and home. If opportunity to play in StL, we will evaluate. Hard to predict future of dome 9 years down road. Busch Stadium presents challenges with Cardinals schedule.

Whitman: First talked with this with Mizzou AD Jim Sterk last year at Braggin' Rights game. Grateful to them for the partnership.

Whitman on future nonconference schedule: We'll continue to look at one power-five opponent, one Group of Five opponent, one FCS opponent in the future.

Whitman: Only have a few geographic rivalries. I think of Mizzou as a peer, visibility, state university. Series of 2000s had a bunch of fan interest. Two great conferences come together.

Whitman: "Not impossible" to play football game at Busch Stadium. "It's challenging" due to game being in September.

Whitman: It'd be fun to play at Busch. But hard with September.

https://twitter.com/JWerner247
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Glory Days
The part about continuing to play an FCS opponent every year is literally the first thing Josh Whitman has said publicly the the Illini AD that I disagree with.

2 Group of 5 opponents, yes. FCS, no.

I would prefer the Illini to be strong enough to play 2 power 5 OOC and one Group of 5 every year. Long row to hoe, however....
 
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FT35
I lived in the St. Louis area for a few years and have no desire to see these games played in the Edward Jones Dome or Busch Stadium. Hopefully these games remain on campus.

We're still stuck playing USF in Solder Field next year because we backed out of neutral site games with Northwestern.
 
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FT35 said:
I lived in the St. Louis area for a few years and have no desire to see these games played in the Edward Jones Dome or Busch Stadium. Hopefully these games remain on campus.

We're still stuck playing USF in Solder Field next year because we backed out of neutral site games with Northwestern.
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Well it wasn’t a neutral site game with Northwestern, it was us giving up our home game. If Northwestern was willing to give up their home games as well I’d be all for it.
 
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I'd like to see us play Kentucky on occasion. They're the only border state school we don't play. They're not a powerhouse, but come from a high major conference. Seems like a good match up.
 
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rbachhuber said:
I'd like to see us play Kentucky on occasion. They're the only border state school we don't play. They're not a powerhouse, but come from a high major conference. Seems like a good match up.
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I think this is a great idea.
 
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Glory Days said:
The part about continuing to play an FCS opponent every year is literally the first thing Josh Whitman has said publicly the the Illini AD that I disagree with.

2 Group of 5 opponents, yes. FCS, no.

I would prefer the Illini to be strong enough to play 2 power 5 OOC and one Group of 5 every year. Long row to hoe, however....
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The way I understand it, the revised Big 10 policy allows an FCS opponent to be scheduled only every other year: the years a team has only four home conference games.
 
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I would like a Kentucky series too.

Overall, it is better to play schools that are closer to take advantage of natural rivalries.
 
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the Castle on Daniel
SKane said:
I would like a Kentucky series too.

Overall, it is better to play schools that are closer to take advantage of natural rivalries.
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I think the Kentucky rivalry never took off because there are maybe 4 people that live within 100 miles of the Illinois/Kentucky border on either side :D. Most of Kentucky's population is in the east and most of Illinois' population is in the north. It's weird to think the two border. Would be a fun basketball rivalry game. Excited to get Mizzou on the football schedule as well.
 
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the Castle on Daniel said:
I think the Kentucky rivalry never took off because there are maybe 4 people that live within 100 miles of the Illinois/Kentucky border on either side :D. Most of Kentucky's population is in the east and most of Illinois' population is in the north. It's weird to think the two border. Would be a fun basketball rivalry game. Excited to get Mizzou on the football schedule as well.
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The Paducah metro area has a population of almost 100,000. But, yeah, not much else around.
 
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BIG Ten
SEC
ACC
Big 12
Pac12

Edit: sorr, that's the Power 5

I believe group of five is:

MAC
Mountain West
AAC
Big East
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Big East doesn't have football any more. The AAC schools have the former football Big East schools.

The other two are Conference USA and the Sun Belt.
 
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