Nebraska and Tennessee Cancel Upcoming Games

[MaxyJR1]

 

[MaxyJR1]

 

[Gophers1992]

That's too bad. I fear that this age of mega conferences will only provide less incentive for these type of marquee non-conference games.

 

[Zeppelin Gopher]

WEAK!!!

 

[fmlizard]

It was because neither stadium was big enough to handle all that sexy from the head coaches

 

[Panthadad2]

This will be the trend with several teams with weak schedules making the CFP. Indiana, SMU, Notre Dame and Boise showed the way.

 

[MaxyJR1]

$500,000 paid by Nebraska to get out of the games.

 

[Word]

$500,000 paid by Nebraska to get out of the games.

Between that and (maybe?) canceling the spring game, Nebraska is down about $1.5 million.

 

[Ope3]

As part of the cancellation the Huskers will now have 8 Home games in 2027. What a joke.

https://www.thetelegraph.com/sports/article/tennessee-ad-disappointed-nebraska-cancels-20179839.php

 

[GopherPD]

Profile in courage

 

[Panthadad2]

Anyone remember how much Kill and Co. paid to get out of the North Carolina series?

 

[MaxyJR1]

I'll be curious on the how this plays out. Their B1G schedule is manageable in both seasons. They play Oregon and tOSU, but no Penn State or USC.

2026 North Dakota, Bowling Green and Ohio
2027 Northern Illinois, Miami (Ohio) and Northern Iowa

Reading that they got out of Tennessee to minimize the lost revenue during renovation of the stadium. They wanted an extra home game.

 

[MaxyJR1]

Anyone remember how much Kill and Co. paid to get out of the North Carolina series?

$700,000 I believe

 

[Ope3]

I'll be curious on the how this plays out. Their B1G schedule is manageable in both seasons. They play Oregon and tOSU, but no Penn State or USC.

2026 North Dakota, Bowling Green and Ohio
2027 Northern Illinois, Miami (Ohio) and Northern Iowa

Reading that they got out of Tennessee to minimize the lost revenue during renovation of the stadium. They wanted an extra home game.

The cynic in me says they are trying to duplicate the 2024 Indiana Hoosiers path to the CFP.

 

[STPGopher]

It was because neither stadium was big enough to handle all that sexy from the head coaches

DTS? Dang They Sexy...

 

[howeda7]

$500,000 paid by Nebraska to get out of the games.

Will the Omaha paper run 27 articles about that over the next month?

 

[mngg11]

The cynic in me says they are trying to duplicate the 2024 Indiana Hoosiers path to the CFP.

100%

 

[Some guy]

This will be the trend with several teams with weak schedules making the CFP. Indiana, SMU, Notre Dame and Boise showed the way.

Indiana ranked behind a Tennessee team with more losses and few quality wins. Indiana was ranked behind 5 two loss teams.
Boise got an automatic bid
SMU had two more wins than bama and the debate was over which of those two got in.

Notre dame had one loss and was ranked behind 3 two loss teams


The rankings being what they were proved that SOS does matter (I would argue that it more proved perception of SOS did matter)

 

[Panthadad2]

$700,000 I believe

Whoah. The Nebby buyout seems like a good deal!

 

[mggoph]

Tennessee is not happy

 

[StudentSectionMenace]

Amazing how far Nebraska has fallen off. Its gonna be sad in 7 years when Alabama cancels its series with Minnesota for similar reasons :/

 

[Stuff]

Anyone remember how much Kill and Co. paid to get out of the North Carolina series?

U Makes Money on Carolina-TCU Swap

I was looking it up & found this article from Shama.

 

[Panthadad2]

U Makes Money on Carolina-TCU Swap

I was looking it up & found this article from Shama.

Lol. It took $800,000 to buy out UNC.

 

[Stuff]

Lol. It took $800,000 to buy out UNC.

And ended up with a tougher opponent in TCU

 

[mggoph]

U Makes Money on Carolina-TCU Swap

I was looking it up & found this article from Shama.

I wonder if we really made an extra 400k? It was fun to watch tho

 

[Unregistered User]

 

[fmlizard]

Plus they have to pay Bowling Green or whichever of those mid-majors they are paying to beat them in a couple years

 

[mggoph]

Plus they have to pay Bowling Green or whichever of those mid-majors they are paying to beat them in a couple years

If true, they (unfortunately) have plenty of money to do so.

 

[PMWinSTP]

That program is seriously delusional.

 

[GopherGrit]

That's too bad. I fear that this age of mega conferences will only provide less incentive for these type of marquee non-conference games.

Once the SEC gets to 9 conf games, then they could start looking doing a scheduled series of matchups for a 10th P5 game.