10-13-2021, 03:40 PM
If Stanford wants to recruit nationally, it (thinks it) needs to play a national schedule. Notre Dame is not enough, so we have to schedule teams in the South, Northeast and Midwest as well.
Since 2008, we have always played at least one nonconference game outside of the Pac-12 footprint--in 2016 we played Rice in Australia! Looking forward we have:
2022--at Notre Dame
2023--at Hawaii
2024--at Notre Dame
2025--at Hawaii
2026--Two home nonconference games, away nonconference game unknown
2027--at TCU
2028--at Boston College
Since 2008, we have always played at least one nonconference game outside of the Pac-12 footprint--in 2016 we played Rice in Australia! Looking forward we have:
2022--at Notre Dame
2023--at Hawaii
2024--at Notre Dame
2025--at Hawaii
2026--Two home nonconference games, away nonconference game unknown
2027--at TCU
2028--at Boston College
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)