What is your Rutgers football dream schedule?

[ScarletKid2008]

With all this conference movement and RU being matched up regularly against teams we would've never even dreamed about 12 years ago.

If you stripped away conferences in 2024 and RU had a competitive chance against any team in the country. You become the schedule maker for 2024. What is your dream 12 game schedule ??

Assume conferences don't exist anymore. Try to mix it up for fun rivalries + exciting new match-ups + some level of winnable games at teams current standing (but assume RU becomes at least mediocre and can compete with any given team but isn't going 12-0 unless you got all Bucknells, Delewares on there.

Here's my shot at it:

Opener: Away at Texas
Week 2: Home vs Syracuse
Week 3: Away at Michigan
Week 4: Home vs Maryland
Week 5: Home vs ND
Week 6: Away at Ole Miss
Week 7: Home vs Nebraska
Week 8: Away at LSU (night game)
Week 9: Home vs Louisville or WVU
Week 10: Away at Arizona St
Week 11: Away at UCLA
Week 12: Home vs Penn St (night game)

Conference Championship Game: in Miami vs Miami

 

[ScarletDave]

Wow that’s a great schedule, not sure what i would change. Easy to say @ Alabama but people say that’s actually a boring atmosphere. Maybe swap that with @Texas or @Michigan. Otherwise, great schedule!

 

[OJRutgers]

Rutgers at Army would be on my dream schedule.

 

[ruinac]

Rutgers at Army would be on my dream schedule.

Yes. Replace LSU and ASU with Army and UNC. Two away games I can drive to.

Like the rest of it a lot.

 

[RUPete]

Being charitable, that is a 4-8 season at best. What is the dream here? The travel locations?

 

[BeantownKnight]

I'd include @BC, so that I could take public transportation to a game.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

West Virginia
Sewercuse
Maryland
Pen St
Tennessee
UNC
Mish St
Purdue
Ole Miss
Pitt
Florida
Arkansas

 

[Plum Street]

NY-NJ metro league
Wagner
Princeton
FIT
Kean
Iona
NYU
Colombia
Manhattan
Monmouth
NY-NJ state championship game vs. Syracuse - alternating sites between Red Bulls Stadium Harrison and minor league stadium in Staten Island
Signed - Greg Schiano

*All games shown exclusively on peacock tape delayed

 

[RUHotTrumpetMonkeyLove]

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[DJ Spanky]

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[mdk01]

Rutgers at Army would be on my dream schedule.

And it should always be early to mid-October when it's played at Michie.

 

[mdk01]

Being charitable, that is a 4-8 season at best. What is the dream here? The travel locations?

At best. All of the Top 5 schedule a few breathers during the season to heal. And they're usually easier than Syracuse. Rutgers doesn't have the depth for that schedule. Few do.

 

[ScarletKid2008]

At best. All of the Top 5 schedule a few breathers during the season to heal. And they're usually easier than Syracuse. Rutgers doesn't have the depth for that schedule. Few do.

It’s a fantasy schedule. And one of the assumptions is that Rutgers is a #20-46 type program. Which is its own fantasy at the moment lol

 

[RUScrew85]

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Hell I'll take 6-6

 

[RUScrew85]

West Virginia
Sewercuse
Maryland
Pen St
Tennessee
UNC
Mish St
Purdue
Ole Miss
Pitt
Florida
Arkansas

I like that except for Penn State

 

[brgRC90]

One where the team is competitive or at least entertaining.

 

[RUDiddy777]

Dream season is one where we go 15-0.

 

[huskersalways]

For NU:
H-Oregon
A-North Carolina
A-USC
H-Penn St
A-Clemson
H-LSU
H-Ohio St
A-Miami
A-Texas A&M
H-Alabama
A-Washington
H-Oklahoma

All games at 1:30pm CST and no TV. Either be there or listen on radio like the old days.

 

[vic_torre42]

It would be neat to play at Death Valley Clemson or Norman Oklahoma.

Great suggestions guys.

 

[MADHAT1]

teams / every other year

Miami/FSU

Arkansas/LSU

WV

Pitt/Syracuse

USC/UCLA

UNLV

ASU

Texas/Oklahoma

Northwestern

Virginia

Michigan/Ohio St

Temple/UConn

 

[mdk01]

For NU:
H-Oregon
A-North Carolina
A-USC
H-Penn St
A-Clemson
H-LSU
H-Ohio St
A-Miami
A-Texas A&M
H-Alabama
A-Washington
H-Oklahoma

All games at 1:30pm CST and no TV. Either be there or listen on radio like the old days.

No away games on TV?

 

[nutfromSEC117]

Past Dream ….06. Cuse game was after Louisville then @ Cinn. That cuse team sucked. We could’ve won a closer then wanted game then headed to Cincinnati.
We were up 31-0 before cuse scored

 

[RUBigFrank]

Navy
At Navy

 

[Rutgers25]

Syracuse
BC
WVU
Penn State
Maryland
V tech
Miami
Pitt
Army (OCC)
Temple. (OCC)
Michigan (OCC)
UNC (OCC)

 

[RUPete]

Past Dream ….06. Cuse game was after Louisville then @ Cinn. That cuse team sucked. We could’ve won a closer then wanted game then headed to Cincinnati.
We were up 31-0 before cuse scored

Cuse game was after that but before WVU. WVU lost to USF at home that day giving us an excellent opportunity.

 

[huskersalways]

No away games on TV?

Don’t care, I would be attending them. Ha

Note the away games except for Washington sets up some wonderful golf trips. 😊

 

[RUaMoose]

Middle TN State (Home)
@Oregon
USC (Home)
Pitt (Home)
@Vanderbilt
@UCLA

(Then the rest of the usual Big Ten suspects)

 

[ScarletKid2008]

Middle TN State (Home)
@Oregon
USC (Home)
Pitt (Home)
@Vanderbilt
@UCLA

(Then the rest of the usual Big Ten suspects)

@ Vanderbilt is a good one. Close to Nashville and a very winnable SEC game.
Did anyone go there when we played there back in the early 2000s?

 

[koleszar]

Rutgers at Army would be on my dream schedule.

West Point was such a fun trip (except the nonstop rain game) that we still head up for one game a year during a Rutgers bye or away game. Started with 4 of us Rutgers fans for a couple years, slowly grew to 14.

 

[koleszar]

For NU:
H-Oregon
A-North Carolina
A-USC
H-Penn St
A-Clemson
H-LSU
H-Ohio St
A-Miami
A-Texas A&M
H-Alabama
A-Washington
H-Oklahoma

All games at 1:30pm CST and no TV. Either be there or listen on radio like the old days.

NO COLORADO? Blasphemy, you two had such a good thing going there for a while. Attended a few of those games back in the 90's and that was college football at its purest.

 

[RUaMoose]

@ Vanderbilt is a good one. Close to Nashville and a very winnable SEC game.
Did anyone go there when we played there back in the early 2000s?

Big come from behind win if I recall correctly. Circa 2003/2004

 

[vic_torre42]

Big come from behind win if I recall correctly. Circa 2003/2004

Ryan Hart days

 

[huskersalways]

NO COLORADO? Blasphemy, you two had such a good thing going there for a while. Attended a few of those games back in the 90's and that was college football at its purest.

Ehhh, Oklahoma was/is the big one. Any other teams we played might be a “rivalry” but not a big enough one to have on a dream schedule.

 

[Brisket and Bourbon]

Ehhh, Oklahoma was/is the big one. Any other teams we played might be a “rivalry” but not a big enough one to have on a dream schedule.

NU OU is INFINITELY better than NU CU…that’s the original big rivalry realignment ****ed up!

NU OU was right up there with Bama AU, OSU UM…

 

[RUPete]

Big come from behind win if I recall correctly. Circa 2003/2004

I checked on that because I remember it being a big comeback too. We were down 34-16 and came back to win 37-34. I thought we were down by even more than that for some reason. Anyway, Brian Leonard had 4 TDs and Ryan Hart and Tres Moses had big games too. Jay Cutler was the starting QB for Vanderbilt.

 

[mdk01]

Ehhh, Oklahoma was/is the big one. Any other teams we played might be a “rivalry” but not a big enough one to have on a dream schedule.

OU-Colorado never reached the level of OU-Nebraska. Anyone who watched the '71 game can tell you that.

 

[RUScrew85]

West Point was such a fun trip (except the nonstop rain game) that we still head up for one game a year during a Rutgers bye or away game. Started with 4 of us Rutgers fans for a couple years, slowly grew to 14.

I think I had hypothermia at the rain game.

 

[RUforJERSEY]

I checked on that because I remember it being a big comeback too. We were down 34-16 and came back to win 37-34. I thought we were down by even more than that for some reason. Anyway, Brian Leonard had 4 TDs and Ryan Hart and Tres Moses had big games too. Jay Cutler was the starting QB for Vanderbilt.

Yep. I remember there was a somewhat controversial call on the last play of the game involving Cutler. Can't remember exactly what it was though. I'm almost sure it was Cutler completing a long pass play that was nullified for some reason. Maybe it was that he was called for being past the LOS or something.

 

[RUaMoose]

Ryan Hart days

Breath of fresh air after Cubit(sp?) who was horrible

 

[RUPete]

Breath of fresh air after Cubit(sp?) who was horrible

Considered a little undersized by QB prototype standards, but a total gamer. Remember the game at UCONN in 2005 when he came in after the half to rally the team? Huge win to help us break the bowl drought.