As Super Tuesday begins and the eve of LOI day commences we shall look through the looking glass at next years contests. Clearly we better fill some holes for we will have nothing short of an incredible gauntlet run to come through next season unscathed. Coach Stew and the boys will have a rather tough road to hoe this coming season. Any pendants that believe we don't have "strength of schedule" will have a tough time supporting the same. Nova appears to be the only "bad" team on the lot. Our road tests will be severe at times. We have to face the Pirates in North Carolina; the "big" Buffs in Boulder; the Cards at the Ville; an upstart UConn team in Storrs/Hartford; and a Panther team that beat us at our house in Pittsburgh. The home slate is looking rather appealing if not daunting as well: We start off with Nova and we get to play that other buffalo team from Huntington, a still beleaguered Cuse team but other than that a solid crop of teams including an out of conference blockbuster with Auburn clashes with the Scarlet nights and revenge time against the yet another cow team from South Florida and arguably our toughest test at home against Cincinnati late in the season.
Date: Time: Opponent: Site: TV:
08/30/2008* TBA Villanova Mountaineer Field
09/06/2008* TBA at East Carolina Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium
09/18/2008* 7:45pm at Colorado Folsom Field ESPN
09/27/2008* TBA Marshall Mountaineer Field ESPN/ESPN2
TBA TBA Syracuse Mountaineer Field
10/23/2008* 7:45pm Auburn Mountaineer Field ESPN
TBA TBA Rutgers Mountaineer Field
TBA TBA South Florida Mountaineer Field
TBA TBA Cincinnati Mountaineer Field
TBA TBA at Louisville Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
TBA TBA at Connecticut Rentschler Field
TBA TBA at Pittsburgh Heinz Field
*Non-Conference Game. All times are in Eastern Time.
2 comments:
What's Auburn suppose to have next year? Other than that, Stew should be able to porperly prepare for the altitude at Boulder from his AF days. Should be a manageable schedule.
Let's not forget. Next year's team probably isn't as talented from the top to bottom as last year. Certainly not as much experience returning on D or skill positions to solidify against an early season upset. ECU, Colorado, and Auburn could all be tough nonconference foes.
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