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2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - BostonCard - 12-15-2015
http://pac-12.com/article/2015/12/15/pac-12-networks-unveil-2016-pac-12-football-schedule-inside-pac-12-football
Will be announced on the Pac-12 network at 5 PM (Pacific).
BC
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - French Rage - 12-15-2015
I predict there will be moaning about the placement of the USC game.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - stupac2 - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 02:55 PM)French Rage link Wrote:I predict there will be moaning about the placement of the Unbelievably Spoiled Children game.
Well it's going to be week 2, right? Is there another Pac-12 team that could take the early slot?
Incidentally, holy crap, if it is week 2 USC will start the season on the road at a neutral-site game against Alabama, and then on the road against us. Maybe it won't be just because that would be too brutal.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - Spiny_Norman - 12-15-2015
Questions that may only interest me (but maybe others too):
Which conference opponent will Stanford play in week 2?
Stanford plays 6 home games next season. How many will take place before the students arrive?
Where on the schedule is/are the bye week(s)?
Which opponents get a bye week before playing Stanford?
Stanford will probably play a Thursday or Friday conference game. Which one?
Is Big Game in its traditional slot on the 3rd weekend of November?
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - BostonCard - 12-15-2015
Our schedule as it stands right now has:
September 2 (Friday) home against Kansas State
October 15 at Notre Dame
November 26 home against Rice
Hopefully, we will play at Cal November 19th, which would leave 9 dates for 8 games. I would guess there is a good chance we have a Thursday night game, so our bye would be before then. With any luck, if we have a Thursday game, it will be the week before Notre Dame to give us a couple extra days for that game.
September 26th is the first day of school; if the pattern holds new undergrads would arrive the 20th and housing for returning students would open the 22nd, which means that we will probably be scheduled for home games on both the 10th and 17th. In all seriousness, it would be nice if at least one of those were a road game.
Among our Pac-12 opponents (save Cal):
USC has an open date the 17th.
Arizona has an open date the 10th.
OSU has an open date the 10th.
None of the other Pac-12 schools we would play have open dates in the second or third week of the season.
That means it will likely be USC at Stanford on the 17th.
We might have a bye on the 10th (if the Pac-12 pairs OSU and Arizona) or we might play at UofA or host OSU.
My preference would be for the season to start:
Sept. 2: Kansas
Sept. 10: at Arizona
Sept. 17: USC (not my preference, but there is little getting around the fact that they are the only opponent available, so we either both take byes or play each other).
Hosting OSU might be a better warm up for USC, but that would mean that we would have only 3 home games in our last 9 and that we'd play half our home games before students arrived. Either way, I predict there will be a lot of complaining about the schedule, because as usual, we will likely have at least two home games before students arrive, and as is typical for even years, we will have a brutal back end road stretch.
BC
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - 76lsjumb - 12-15-2015
My only question is which home game they will schedule for 12 midnight in order to lock up that coveted 3 am Sunday viewing slot on the East Coast...?
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - BostonCard - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 02:57 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=French Rage link=topic=14076.msg148455#msg148455 date=1450216545]
I predict there will be moaning about the placement of the Unbelievably Spoiled Children game.
Well it's going to be week 2, right? Is there another Pac-12 team that could take the early slot?
Incidentally, holy crap, if it is week 2 Unbelievably Spoiled Children will start the season on the road at a neutral-site game against Alabama, and then on the road against us. Maybe it won't be just because that would be too brutal.
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Nope, would be week three if they play us early. They are already scheduled to play Utah State on 9/10, so they will catch a little break between Alabama and us.
BC
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - Rally - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 04:23 PM)76lsjumb link Wrote:My only question is which home game they will schedule for 12 midnight in order to lock up that coveted 3 am Sunday viewing slot on the East Coast...?
One outrage at a time, please. The TV time outrage comes much later.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - Spiny_Norman - 12-15-2015
All questions answered:
Sept 2 (Friday) - vs. K State
Sept 10 - bye
Sept 17 - vs. U.SC
Sept 24 - at UCLA
Sept 30 (Friday) - at Washington
Oct 8 - vs. WSU
Oct 15 - at Notre Dame
Oct 22 - vs. Colorado
Oct 29 - at Arizona
Nov 5 - vs. Oregon State
Nov 12 - at Oregon
Nov 19 - at C.al
Nov 26 - vs. Rice
http://pac-12.com/stanford-football/schedule/20160801-20170801
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - 82 Card - 12-15-2015
Not happy about the early bye. No chance to recover when injuries pile up later in the season.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - Hank 91 - 12-15-2015
Here's my thought -- that stretch of games Week 2 through Week 6 is formidable.
U.SC probably has more young talent than anyone in the conference.
UCLA loses a lot, but they'll still be good.
Washington has a great defense and a young quarterback who should be better.
Washington State is going in the right direction and should've beaten us this year.
N.otre Dame is still N.otre Dame.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - Rally - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 06:14 PM)82 Card link Wrote:Not happy about the early bye. No chance to recover when injuries pile up later in the season.
Better, unless we're in the CCG, than what they gave one of the Az schools this year:Â bye after final game.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - stupac2 - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 06:14 PM)82 Card link Wrote:Not happy about the early bye. No chance to recover when injuries pile up later in the season.
Ugh, seriously, not great. At least it means only 1/3 of home games are before students arrive, which is something...
Although, really what jumps out to me is @UCLA then @Washington on a Friday. Winning both of those will be hard.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - TrumpCard - 12-15-2015
The schedule is tough, but keep in mind that UCLA's home field advantage will be minimal because Stanford will have so much experience playing in the Rose Bowl.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - washingtonismoney - 12-15-2015
Rice on Nov. 26? What a dud to end the season. We should be blaming...the AD's office, right?
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - dabigv13 - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 06:32 PM)TrumpCard link Wrote:The schedule is tough, but keep in mind that UCLA's home field advantage will be minimal because Stanford will have so much experience playing in the Rose Bowl.
Phenomenal
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - 2 for 2028 - 12-15-2015
It could be worse.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - stupac2 - 12-15-2015
(12-15-2015, 06:37 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:Rice on Nov. 26? What a dud to end the season. We should be blaming...the AD's office, right?
We have to schedule someone there.
Honestly I would not be very sad if we just stopped playing ND. Causes a lot of scheduling headaches.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - OutsiderFan - 12-15-2015
Well, on the bright side, there is only one time on the schedule with back-to-back road games, and even that is at Oregon and at Ca.l, which is pretty much a home game.
Playing Rice can be thought of as a bye of sorts before the conference championship game.
Re: 2016 football schedule to be announced tonight - terry - 12-15-2015
I'm getting really tired of playing U*S*C so early in the season.