(08-10-2017 07:37 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(08-10-2017 07:28 PM)Policiious Wrote:  If the INdependent teams were smart they would form an Independent Conference for Bowl and All conference team purposes. With BYU, NM ST, Liberty UMASS & Army all you need is one more team to have the 6 required to form a conference. If Idaho wasn't dropping down they could make it a conference. Their home and home scheduling in the same sweason with relatively close by Liberty is genius.

UMASS plays aheck of schedule last year they had home games with Boston College and MS St, road games with Florida, South Carolina and BYU. This year road games with Temple, Tennesee, South Florida, MS St & BYU. Next year home games with BYU and USF, short travel road games with BC & UCONN and close out the season at Georgia,2019 they have home games with UCONN & BYU(again) plus road games with Rugers Northwestern and a close travel road game with Army. Have 7 games scheduled for 2020 including short travel road game with UCONN, 2 SEC road games at MS ST & Auburn and an Army home game

What non Power 5 team has a stronger or better schedule than that. No MAC team has had a home game with an SEC opponent and I doubt few G5 teams have either

Uh... Aren't "Independent" and "Conference" mutually exclusive terms? Wouldn't you just be saying: "If the Independent teams were smart they would form a Conference for Bowl and All conference team purposes."?

".…for Bowl and All conference team purposes"

So they would not play a conference schedule. They would be a mutual association to handle to things like bowls.

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