Are We Back in the WAC? Putrid 2024 Home Schedule...

[TopFrog]

TCU's home schedule next year is Arizona, TxTech, Houston, OkState, and Central Florida. No doubt a home game will be added against some horrible team.

 

[82 Frog Fever]

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Wow, 11 Power conference teams. I wonder how many other schools have 11+ Power conference teams on their schedule. ….6 being road games. That’s a tough schedule!

 

[An-Cap Frog]

Can we play Baylor during rivalry week? Or was that the intention of the protected match-ups?

 

[An-Cap Frog]

I like the conference schedule. I could see a really good TCU team running the table. Or an average TCU team fighting for bowl eligibility.

 

[Planks]

I think our 2024 schedule is actually pretty solid.

2025 is pretty weak though. I wish we could switch the two years, as it feels like we will still be a year away in 2024, but could be hitting our stride in 2025 as Hoover becomes an upperclassman.

 

[Limey Frog]

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These games are all winnable for a very good team, but I wouldn't anticipate any of them being easy, either. Obviously some teams will have terrible years and will turn out to be easy, but all of these programs are likely to field a tough team in any given year. That's the definition of a good schedule to me: 11 competitive games against decent programs.

 

[Fred Garvin]

Wow, 11 Power conference teams. I wonder how many other schools have 11+ Power conference teams on their schedule. ….6 being road games. That’s a tough schedule!

Other than the FCS school game we start the season with 5 P5 road games in a row. Who does that?

 

[Bizarro Frog]

Other than the FCS school game we start the season with 5 P5 road games in a row. Who does that?

There are only 2 dates attached to that chart.

 

[Big Frog II]

Looks like a pretty tough schedule to me.

 

[TopFrog]

I like it.

 

[vicarfrog]

Not to sound like a geek, but I don’t live too terribly far from Cincinnati. I’m totally going to the creation museum, Ark encounter, and then watch TCU whip the snot out of the bearcats.

That’s going to be an epic vacay.

 

[Froglaw]

TCU's home schedule next year is Arizona, TxTech, Houston, OkState, and Central Florida. No doubt a home game will be added against some horrible team.

By contrast, SMU's home schedule includes Florida State, TCU, BYU, Pitt, Cal Berk and BC.

What just happened?

My how the turns tables...

Arizona
Okie state
TxTech
And Houston will be sellouts

Away - SMU is a sellout despite 110 degree kickoff

 

[More Frogs the Better]

It would not be a huge shock to me if TCU and SMU end up deciding over the next couple of months to not play that game. We'll see.

 

[82 Frog Fever]

TCU's home schedule next year is Arizona, TxTech, Houston, OkState, and Central Florida. No doubt a home game will be added against some horrible team.

By contrast, SMU's home schedule includes Florida State, TCU, BYU, Pitt, Cal Berk and BC.

What just happened?

My how the turns tables...

Just for grins, these are the real facts.

TCU’s home schedule has a season record of 34-26 .567 with 4 out of 5 bowl eligible.

SMU‘s home schedule has a season record of 37-35 .514 with 3 out of 6 bowl eligible.
Without FSU, the combined records are 25-35 for the other 5 teams.

There’s also a very high probability that 2024 will be the one and only season FSU ever appears on SMU’s home schedule.
That makes it more of an anomaly than a turning of the tables.

 

[HFrog1999]

Tarleton plays at Baylor next year. I’m gonna take my son to that game. If we pull off the upset I’m going to start screaming Good Job Big 12 at their strength coach

 

[Double V]

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So we are starting 0-5 based on how we play defense (or don't) on the road?...awesome

 

[Bizarro Frog]

I love this schedule because it has no road games at Tech, Iowa St, K St, or W Vir. Those home fields are worth about 2-3 touchdowns it feels like. Glad we are doing away with the SMU games so we can get 7-8 home games a year in the future.

The coaches need to get their stuff figured out because the 2024 schedule is extremely favorable and it would disastrous to waste this opportunity.

 

[bc puckett]

So we are starting 0-5 based on how we play defense (or don't) on the road?...awesome

Except for Stanford and My Little Pony there are no dates for those games just list of conference games. Did you think the Frogs were going to play 5 straight home games? Also doesn’t include the home FCS game against a team still TBA. Merely a placeholder

 

[Wexahu]

I love this schedule because it has no road games at Tech, Iowa St, K St, or W Vir. Those home fields are worth about 2-3 touchdowns it feels like. Glad we are doing away with the SMU games so we can get 7-8 home games a year in the future.

The coaches need to get their stuff figured out because the 2024 schedule is extremely favorable and it would disastrous to waste this opportunity.

In reality those homes field aren't worth much at all. I think through the first 7 or 8 Big 12 seasons (of the 10-team league) Tech and WVU had better road records than home records.

You'd be really surprised how little home field matters. It does matter, but maybe by a FG or so. Nowhere close to a even 1 TD.

 

[Bizarro Frog]

In reality those homes field aren't worth much at all. I think through the first 7 or 8 Big 12 seasons (of the 10-team league) Tech and WVU had better road records than home records.

You'd be really surprised how little home field matters. It does matter, but maybe by a FG or so. Nowhere close to a even 1 TD.

I completely disagree. Playing K St, Iowa St and Tech at Amon Carter is a completely different game than on the road. I leave off W Virginia because they seem to beat us home and away lately.

As GP once said those stadiums are black holes where good seasons go to die.