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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3067033, member: 9403"] It's striking that close to a third of that entire list is comprised of just three PAC-12 schools: Stanford, Oregon, and Cal (6/19). (And add in Louisville and almost half the list (8/19) is just 4 P5 schools). All things considered, your list actually seems to prove Alydar's point. Out of 65 P5 schools, only 15 scheduled an away game at a mid-major. That's less than 1/4th of P5 schools. Even if you assume all of those are home and aways, and you double it to count the P5 home games this year that either were a mid-major home game last year or will be next year, that's still less than half of the P5's scheduling an away game at a mid-major over a two-year cycle. And of all mid-majors, only a total of 13 mid-majors got to host a P5 school, because a number of them (mostly the notable ones) got two or three home games. (Neutral sites are almost always multi-team tournaments, so those don't really count for the purposes of measuring the willingness of a P5 school to play away games at a mid-major. Schools commit to those tournaments often without knowing the full lineup, and almost always without knowing which schools they'll end up playing. And even if you include the neutral court games, note that that only adds Rice, Quinnipiac and FGC to the list of mid-majors that got non-away games at P5 schools. So 16 total teams this year.) [/QUOTE]