TexasTerror
April 12th, 2011, 06:23 PM
As long as Notre Dame games are nationally-televised on NBC when in South Bend, Ind. - it is going to be really difficult for them to 'bend' for a FCS game..
Cost of doing business with the FBS schools just has continued to rise where they want $1M to give up a home game and play on the road at other FBS schools, where FCS schools are just the cheaper option...
A tiny fraternity of college football teams will dwindle to three next fall, as Washington lines up to play, for the first time, a program in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Notre Dame, UCLA and USC still never have soiled their schedules with a team in The Division Formerly Known as I-AA. But hordes of the nation's 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams have made such matchups as common as texting in traffic, with the nation's most prominent conferences leading the way.
Games between FBS and FCS teams have spiked 70 percent since a 2005 NCAA rule change made the games more attractive, according to analysis by The Oregonian. The matchups have increased nearly 600 percent in the Pacific-10 Conference and 358 percent in the Big Ten, even adjusting for conference expansion.
http://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/index.ssf/2011/04/notre_dame_usc_and_ucla_last_h.html
Cost of doing business with the FBS schools just has continued to rise where they want $1M to give up a home game and play on the road at other FBS schools, where FCS schools are just the cheaper option...
A tiny fraternity of college football teams will dwindle to three next fall, as Washington lines up to play, for the first time, a program in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Notre Dame, UCLA and USC still never have soiled their schedules with a team in The Division Formerly Known as I-AA. But hordes of the nation's 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams have made such matchups as common as texting in traffic, with the nation's most prominent conferences leading the way.
Games between FBS and FCS teams have spiked 70 percent since a 2005 NCAA rule change made the games more attractive, according to analysis by The Oregonian. The matchups have increased nearly 600 percent in the Pacific-10 Conference and 358 percent in the Big Ten, even adjusting for conference expansion.
http://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/index.ssf/2011/04/notre_dame_usc_and_ucla_last_h.html