Eastern Michigan (2017 RU Opponent) Considering Dropping Football

[Doctor Worm]

Has Tennessee ever played at Rutgers? Maybe they can step in for Eastern Michigan and we can see our favorite legacy player standing on the sidelines. It would be sweeter than seeing Phil Simms' son not getting into the game when Rutgers did their Louisville beat down. Tennessee's 2017 schedule includes Indiana State and UMass. I'm sure the Vols could buyout one of those dates.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-17/2017-tennessee-volunteers-football-schedule.php

What? Do you have any idea how much we'd have to guarantee Tennessee to get them to give up a home game, and play a one and done at Rutgers?

I don't either, but I'm sure it's more than we can afford. Actually, I doubt Tennessee would agree to that regardless of the price tag.

 

[John Otterstedt]

Looking at it just with P5 programs:

Highest population/P5 school:
1. New York - 19.8M (1 school)
2. Ohio - 11.6M (1 school)
3. California - 9.8M (4 schools)
4. New Jersey - 9.0M (1 school)
5. Massachusetts - 6.8M (1 school)
6. Florida - 6.8M (3 schools)
7. Illinois - 6.4M (2 schools)
8. Pennsylvania - 6.4M (2 schools)
9. Missouri - 6.1M (1 school)
10. Maryland - 6.0M (1 school)

Looking at it just with P5 programs:

Highest population/P5 school:
1. New York - 19.8M (1 school)
2. Ohio - 11.6M (1 school)
3. California - 9.8M (4 schools)
4. New Jersey - 9.0M (1 school)
5. Massachusetts - 6.8M (1 school)
6. Florida - 6.8M (3 schools)
7. Illinois - 6.4M (2 schools)
8. Pennsylvania - 6.4M (2 schools)
9. Missouri - 6.1M (1 school)
10. Maryland - 6.0M (1 school)

You should start this as its own thread.

 

[John Otterstedt]

This was really interesting to me, so I broke it down with number of FBS schools vs. population (2015 estimate from wikipedia).

Highest population / school
1. New Jersey - 9.0M (1 school)
2. New York - 6.6M (3 school)
3. Missouri - 6.1M (1 school)
4. Wisconsin - 5.8M (1 school)
5. California - 5.6M (7 schools)
6. Minnesota - 5.5M (1 school)
7. Illinois - 4.3M (1 school)
8. Pennsylvania - 4.3M (3 schools)
9. Connecticut - 3.6M (1 school)
10. Washington - 3.6M (2 schools)

Interesting that 5 of the top 10 are Big Ten states, and 10 of 11 Big Ten states were in the top half of states.

Lowest population / school
1. Wyoming - 0.6M (1 school)
2. Idaho - 0.8M (2 schools)
3. West Virginia - 0.9M (2 schools)
4. Louisiana - 0.9M (5 schools)
5. Mississippi - 1.0M (3 schools)
6. Utah - 1.0M (3 schools)
7. New Mexico - 1.0M (2 schools)
8. Alabama - 1.2M (4 schools)
9. Oklahoma - 1.3M (3 schools)
10. Hawaii - 1.4M (1 school)

Highest number of schools
12 - Texas (2.3M/school)
8 - Ohio (1.5M/school)
7 - California (5.6M/school)
7 - Florida (2.9M/school)
7 - North Carolina (1.4M/school)
5 - Michigan (2.0M/school)
5 - Louisiana (0.9M/school)
4 - Georgia (2.6M/school)
4 - Indiana (1.7M/school)
4 - Tennessee (1.7M/school)
4 - Alabama (1.2M/school)

Overall averages:
- 41 states with 128 FBS programs (3.1 schools per state)
- 312M people in those 41 states (2.4M per school, per state, on average)

Definitely needs it's own thread.

 

[koleszar]

Has Tennessee ever played at Rutgers? Maybe they can step in for Eastern Michigan and we can see our favorite legacy player standing on the sidelines. It would be sweeter than seeing Phil Simms' son not getting into the game when Rutgers did their Louisville beat down. Tennessee's 2017 schedule includes Indiana State and UMass. I'm sure the Vols could buyout one of those dates.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-17/2017-tennessee-volunteers-football-schedule.php

Yes we have played them twice before:

1979 RU 13/ UT 7 I believe this was the infamous. "What's a Rutger's?" game

2002 UT 35/ RU14

 

[Mr_Twister]

Yes we have played them twice before:

1979 RU 13/ UT 7 I believe this was the infamous. "What's a Rutger's?" game

2002 UT 35/ RU14

Where were the games played? Maybe Tennessee owes us a visit.

 

[Tango Two]

Couldn't we apply for a waiver from the NCAA and pound Morgan State in back to back weeks,hopefully turning them into Cumberland by the end of the second game?

Just whatever need two AAs

 

[MikeR0102]

Per capita 8 in Ohio (11.6 million population) and 5 in Michigan (9.9 million) is really not all that different than 4 in Alabama (4.8 million) or 2 in Arkansas and Kansas (2.9 million). New Mexico (2 million) has 2. Mississippi (2.9 million) has 3. Idaho (1.8 million) has 2.

Alabama also has 4 FCS teams. Mississippi also has 3 FCS teams. Tennessee has 4 FBS teams and 6 FCS teams. North Carolina has 7 FBS teams and 7 FCS teams.