Tag: future schedules

‘It’s good for college football;’ Dan Lanning reacts to news that Civil War will continue

Oregon head coach Dan Lanning says he’s happy the rivalry with the Beavers will continue for the foreseeable future.

An Oregon Duck football schedule without the Oregon State Beavers on it would just be too much for most fans, on either side, to handle.

With the move to the Big Ten, the Ducks’ Civil War rivalry with Oregon State was very much in doubt, but thanks to some scheduling changes, the two teams will indeed meet up for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.

The game not occurring as the last regular season game will be strange enough, but it will occur nonetheless, and Oregon head coach Dan Lanning is thrilled the two schools could work something out.

“I think it’s good for college football,” Lanning said. “It’s a rivalry that certainly means something to us here, and I think it means something to them. So it’s good to see games like that still exist.”

While the Ducks will be moving to the Big Ten, the Beavers weren’t so lucky. They’ve had a difficult time, with Washington State, finding a new conference to compete in with the Pac-12 dissolving. Both the Beavers and Cougars have entered into a scheduling agreement with the Mountain West Conference for the 2024 season, but that’s a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

Oregon will travel to Corvallis and play OSU Sept. 14 and the Beavers will come to Eugene sometime during the 2025 season.

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Notre Dame football future schedules and opponents

Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime.

-An updated look-ahead.

Notre Dame has long prided its football program on the fact they’re willing to abide by the “Three A’s”:

Anybody.

Anywhere.

Anytime.

The future schedules Notre Dame have fall in line with that philosophy.  Here is what the Irish have cooking in the next decade.

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Auburn Football future schedules and opponents

Auburn Football will face several fascinating nonconference opponents in addition to a strong SEC slate in the coming seasons.

The [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] era has officially begun on the Plains, which means it is time to take a look at what the future holds for the Auburn Tigers.

The 2023 schedule was officially released last fall and features two opponents that Auburn has never faced in its history, UMass and Cal.

Auburn’s game with Cal will be the first time since 2017 that the Tigers have met a team from the Pac-12. Last time out, Auburn defeated Oregon, 27-21 in 2019 at the Advocare Classic in Arlington, Texas. Auburn’s last visit to a Pac-12 stadium was in 2002 when Auburn lost to USC, 24-17 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Auburn holds an overall record of 10-3 over current Pac-12 teams.

Over the next seven years, Auburn will face four opponents from Power Five conferences, including two that they have never faced. Also, beginning in 2025, Oklahoma and Texas will join the SEC, which will be sure to add merit to an already impressive conference gauntlet.

Here’s a look at Auburn’s future schedules, ranging from 2023 through 2030.

Looking at LSU’s future non-conference opponents in football

Some of these games are years away, but the Tigers have some exciting non-conference matchups on the slate in the future.

Non-conference contests provide us with some of the more interesting games in college football.

It’s always fun to see teams that rarely see each other get a chance to face-off. Since these games take place early in the year, they don’t always have the weight of a later season contest, but they still give teams a chance to make a statement on a national stage, while also being a chance for new fanbases to come together.

LSU has a big non-conference game to open 2022 as the Tigers are slated to face Florida State in New Orleans. They also face the Seminoles to open the season in 2023 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.

We’ll be looking even further ahead, where the team has some neutral site games but also a few intriguing home-and-home series.

With the SEC set to undergo massive change when Texas and Oklahoma join, schedules are always subject to change. LSU has the Sooners on the schedule in 2027 and 2028. By then, OU will have taken its place in the SEC, so the status of those games remains unknown.

They could still be played, they just likely wouldn’t be official SEC games. It’s been done before with North Carolina and Wake Forrest playing what was technically an out-of-conference game that didn’t count against the conference record.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at what LSU has on tap in the coming years.

Report: LSU and USC to open the 2024 season in Las Vegas

According to a report from Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated, the LSU Tigers and USC Trojans agree to a showdown in 2024.

On Tuesday the Pac-12 Conference announced an alliance with the Big Ten and ACC Conferences for scheduling purposes and more. Just a day later it was announced that the USC Trojans would play a team from the SEC in the 2024 season opener.

According to Ross Dellener of Sports Illustrated, the LSU Tigers and USC Trojans have agreed to play in Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. This marks the first time these two teams have met since 1984, the year LSU defeated USC 23-3 in Los Angeles. They have only played twice with the road team winning each time. The rubber match comes on neutral grounds.

Plenty of storylines could come of this matchup including Ed Orgeron playing the team he once led as the interim head coach. They opted to hire Lane Kiffin over Orgeron during the 2013 season. Provided Orgeron is still in charge of the Tigers in 2024, no doubt that redemption could be on his mind. However, I don’t think anyone would admit to it.

Both times that these teams have met it occurred on Sept. 29 in 1979 and 1984. Both were low-scoring affairs. With the way offenses are exploding on the football field, they could light up the scoreboard in Vegas.

LSU is set to open this season against UCLA in Pasadena, the next two seasons will be against Florida State on neutral sites and then UCLA once again in late August. According to the future schedules. If that holds true, the Tigers will play both UCLA and USC on back-to-back weekends in 2024.

Oklahoma’s future schedules, opponents coming down the road

After the college football season completes it becomes a time to look forward. Who is on the Oklahoma Sooners future football schedules?

There are exciting times ahead for the Oklahoma Sooners football program. They are coming off their sixth-consecutive Big 12 Championship and looking to chase that elusive eighth National Championship. When it comes to the Big 12 Conference, the Sooners seem like the closest team to joining the fray. In fact, OU is the only team from the conference to play in the College Football Playoffs.

They haven’t had the success that many have hoped for. With the trajectory of the program since Lincoln Riley took over for the Hall of Fame head coach Bob Stoops, are they closer than we think?

The 2021 season should have high hopes, in fact, most media outlets have the Sooners as a top-three program in their early rankings for next season. Alex Grinch’s is continuing to improve, plus the return of Spencer Rattler and Kennedy Brooks to go with young receivers, they have the talent.

Provided Riley and company can avoid the early pitfalls of the last couple of seasons, they should be primed to make a run. That starts in 2021 with a very manageable nonconference schedule.

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Sooners Wire takes a look down the road at the upcoming nonconference schedule over the next several years.