UCLA Football adds New Mexico State home game for 2013

The Bruins will play home games against Nevada and New Mexico State and a road game at Nebraska. Given the current scheduling rotation, there should be 4 home Pac-12 games and 5 road Pac-12 games, giving the Bruins 6 home games and 6 road games. The Bruins should also be playing Oregon and Washington in 2013 and missing WSU and OSU.

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It's on the offical site now

too

by Odysseus on Jan 30, 2012 12:02 PM PST reply actions

I like this addition

by Nestor on Jan 30, 2012 12:03 PM PST reply actions

Agreed, but only 6 home games

in 2013; 2014 is brutal and we need to add a home game just to get 6; and again only 6 home games in 2015 and 2016.

I hope Mora starts putting pressure on the scheduling. I’m hopeful that this addition is partly his doing and he will be pressing for other very winnable games (Idaho, UMass, UTSA, Texas State) in the future. I don’t want our schedule to be a joke, but we need to stop giving ourselves brutal schedules.

by Odysseus on Jan 30, 2012 12:09 PM PST up reply actions

Pac-12 teams will always have 6 or 7 home games

The combinations are:
2 OOC home games + 4 Pac-12 games
2 OOC home games + 5 Pac-12 games
1 OOC home game + 5 Pac-12 games

We have 5 home pac-12 games this year, so 7 home games.

The problem is 2014, when idiot Chianti Dan scheduled us to go play Texas in Dallas. Dumb ass. We should have had 7 home games that year (which could be a huge year for UCLA if this year’s recruits pan out).

The smart Pac-12 teams could have 7 home games every other year, essentially, if they schedule properly. We have Chianti Dan, so we get screwed.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jan 30, 2012 12:25 PM PST up reply actions

As I have posted before, we should have 7 home games every season.

All OOC games should be home games when we play only 4 home Pac 12 games. Play the tough OOC opponent in years where UCLA has 5 Pac 12 home games. At least that gets us a little closer to the SEC type schedule where there are 7 or sometimes 8 home games every season.

by orlandobruin on Jan 30, 2012 1:52 PM PST up reply actions

That would be ideal

but in practicality harder to implement.

The SEC teams you mention are the top teams, and the reason they can get away with 3 home games is simply that they have the muscle to offer a home only game to nearly any other team. UCLA doesn’t have that kind of sway, and almost any other team aside from the likes of SJSU will request a home and home series. So then you’d have to schedule 2 games with those types of teams, which is definitely doable but not very exciting or helpful.

Also, I don’t know how far in advance teams get the Pac-12 schedule, and if it is indeed a consistent 4-5 cycle. As far as I know they only provide it one year in advance, while OOC games get scheduled as much as 4 years in advance.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jan 30, 2012 2:03 PM PST up reply actions

Harder but not impossible.

Ever since the (then Pac 10) went to 9 conference games, the seasons have switched back and forth between 5 home conference games and 4 home conference games. I can’t imagine them switching it where you would play 4 conference homes games in consecutive seasons.

Hopefully the Bruins can get the “sway” you mention and get to a point where 7 homes games per season is the norm.

by orlandobruin on Jan 30, 2012 2:40 PM PST up reply actions

That makes it easier

if it’s a regular cycle. Take away the Chianti Dan effect and UCLA should set up a better schedule.

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Jan 30, 2012 3:25 PM PST up reply actions

I've mentioned this before

Florida has not played a nonconference game outside the state of Florida since 1981 (or something like that – a long time ago.) There is no reason we could not schedule lower tier teams who would be happy to come to LA to get a larger payoff than they would get staying at home.

If only we had someone who could find out about things like that. We might call him an athletic director. Unfortunately, we’ve haven’t had anyone filling that slot for a decade.

by Fox 71 on Jan 31, 2012 9:02 AM PST up reply actions

especially since...

…many SEC teams have 8 home games. We should have 7 home games every year, no exceptions.

by hicalliber on Jan 30, 2012 2:47 PM PST up reply actions

Was Alcorn State booked?

by charnaw on Jan 30, 2012 12:08 PM PST reply actions

charnaw

We’re already playing Nebraska, would you have us schedule Texas in a “neutral” site game, and a road game against an ACC team like Chianti has for 2014? The Morgan Center has really been setting the team up to fail. We’ve posted before about the need for intelligent scheduling.

by Odysseus on Jan 30, 2012 12:10 PM PST up reply actions