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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Thomallister1291 on 2025-07-26 00:35:37+00:00.
This is a yearly post I like to make once every off-season, and I hope today I learn more about the beauty of non-conference scheduling.
There’s been a lot of cases of OOC games that were rumored or even scheduled but never materialized, for example:
- Alabama was looking to play Texas Tech at Cowboys Stadium in 2012 prior to the plans being scrapped, and Bama scheduled Michigan in the same stadium instead.
- Houston and Washington were looking to play in 2024-25 following the cancellation of the Huskies’ home and home series against Ohio State, but it obviously never happened.
- Oregon had scheduled a home and home series against Georgia in 2015-16 which actually did get it’s contracts signed, but it got cancelled in 2010 following a very questionable “mutual agreement”.
- In 2013, Washington State’s AD mentioned the school had handshake agreements to play TCU, Michigan State, Florida State and two other mysterious opponents in home and home series’, albeit none materialized.
- Alabama was having mutual discussions to play the Portland State Vikings for their cupcake game in 2019, which would have made them the first Oregon-based team to play the Crimson Tide, however, plans were cancelled after PSU wanted a grand total of 2 million dollars to be given to them.
- And as the title says, the Glasnost Bowl that was going to be played in the USSR and that wildly infamous and mysterious Penn State vs. LSU kickoff game are also two examples.
If anyone has more examples, I’d love to hear them.