MSU v. NC State in 2020-2021

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Originally Posted by BulldogBear

Never did weigh in on this. I think this a good matchup, although of course they're likely to win the ACC when we play them. I am wondering though, as are others, what about the nearer future? I'm glad to see NCSU and Arizona on schedule but that really seems like a long way off. I knew an announcement was coming but I really thought it would address the schedule much sooner. So, this is okay, but it still leaves me kind of "mah" because of the distance of time.

Personally, I'd rather play 9 SEC games than 8 and an ACC team. It's amazing that LT can still manage to be a pain in my ass.

I don't know about the near future, but I suspect we are going to end up in at least one and maybe (probably?) two Kickoff Classics. And then we'll probably have someone like a Washington State do a home/home with us.

My opinion on how to schedule these teams is to go with a buy high/sell low method. NC State was 3-9 this past season, so odds are good that if they don't turn it around, they're going to have a coaching change. That or the coach there now is going to have things pretty well settled in when we play them. If we're going to schedule a team 8 years out, we probably should find someone that has a coach that is doing pretty well, but is likely going to leave by the time we get around to playing them. We kind of accidentally did that with USM- we scheduled them when they were still winning 8-10 consistently but now we're getting them coming off of a 1-23 stretch.

So, if it were me, I'd shoot for someone like Oregon State or Georgia Tech.