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Topic: RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Topic: RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

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TWT
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 10/16/2022 12:16:15 PM

No FCS opponent in 2025. I also notice at least 2 P5 opponents out until 2026. I was thinking about it this morning how the schedule is definitely stronger than it was in the middle of the Solich era.

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Andrew Ruck
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 10/17/2022 12:25:05 PM

I can't believe I won't see the Thundering Turd in Athens until 2027. Hopefully my current 8th & 10th graders will be a freshman and a junior in Athens!

Andrew Ruck
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Trevor Stephens
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 11/21/2022 5:52:30 PM

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights have replaced the Ohio Bobcats with the Wagner Seahawks on their 2023 football schedule.

Rutgers was previously scheduled to host the Ohio Bobcats on Sept. 30, 2023. However, the game was not listed on Rutgers� 2023 schedule that was officially announced today.

The Scarlet Knights and Bobcats signed a contract for their football contest in 2023 back in November of 2016. Rutgers was slated to pay Ohio an $850,000 guarantee for the game, per the copy of the contract.

Rutgers is, however now, contracted to host Ohio on Aug 30, 2025

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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 9/19/2023 5:24:20 PM

The Ohio Bobcats will play at the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2025, FBSchedules.com has learned.

Ohio will make the short 80-mile trek from Athens to Columbus, Ohio, to take on Ohio State at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. The Bobcats will receive a $1.9 million guarantee for playing the game, according to a copy of the contract obtained from Ohio University via a state open records request.

colobobcat66
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 9/21/2023 7:11:26 PM

Now will play Marshall in 2028 and 2029 and Texas state in 2027
Wow

colobobcat66
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 9/21/2023 7:19:01 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

I can't believe I won't see the Thundering Turd in Athens until 2027. Hopefully my current 8th & 10th graders will be a freshman and a junior in Athens!

Now 2028 and 2029

Victory
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 9/21/2023 8:25:27 PM

It looks like the 2027 game is still there. It is a new home and home series in 2028 and 2029.

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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 9/21/2023 9:35:35 PM

Victory wrote:

It looks like the 2027 game is still there. It is a new home and home series in 2028 and 2029.

Sorry I missed that

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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 2/21/2025 4:32:05 PM

Kent State 2025 Schedule
08/30 - Merrimack
09/06 - at Texas Tech
09/20 - at Florida State
10/04 - at Oklahoma

Bobcat1996
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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 3/1/2025 10:28:18 PM

The schedule Kent is playing is worse than Ohio. Absolutely ridiculous!!

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RE: Future Non-Conference Opponents

Posted: 3/8/2025 12:50:08 PM

I would hope that we get more than $500K from UC. When they cancelled with WKU at the same time it came out that UC paid WKU a $500K cancellation fee. Some newspaper or website assumed that our cancellation fee was in that ballpark. But the key difference is that we had already played at UC while WKU had not played a game yet on their contract. The UC game effectively is now a buy game. They SHOULD owe us more than $500K if that's the case. It should be approximately a cancellation fee plus the cost of a buy game. But I have no idea. If we get the same as WKU I actually have to say that's a "breach of fiduciary responsibility".

Ohio's non-conference schedule for decades has almost always been a pay-out game (P5), a pay-in game (FCS), the home end of a home-and-home, and the road end of a home-and-home. We essentially played two buy games when we played UC and didn't know that at the time.

We raised season ticket prices and Ohio season ticket holders are used to 6 home games. But now at some point we either need to play 5 home games, with a second buy game where these might be getting harder to find when P4 play 9 conference games, or use the UC fee to buy a second home game, which probably means two FCS opponents which is something FBS teams almost never do.

We can kick that decision down the road a few times if every year we add a new home-and-home series and always get the home game first. But that extra future road game is always hanging out there further in the future if we do that and we'll have to deal with it someway at some point.

Last Edited: 3/8/2025 12:52:54 PM by Victory

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