Value For Money

If you are a USC season-ticket holder, how do you feel with the following games added to the home schedule since 2013: Arkansas State., Idaho (2015), Utah State (2016), Western Michigan (2017), UNLV (2019), New Mexico (2020) and Rice (2022). And probably with a personal-seat license for the games after 2017.

Maybe Fox should contact Hostess Cupcakes about bidding for Coliseum naming rights.

68 thoughts on “Value For Money

  1. Looks like the next coach will have an easy time of it with that non conference schedule.

  2. Notre Dame is always gonna be on the schedule as a classic annual rivalry game. We also have Alabama next year in Texas. And I think the Texas Longhorns are on the schedule twice in 2017 and 2018. So at least the next coupe of seaeons should exciting.

  3. Scott, I’m not a fan of scheduling historically soft teams either….but given today’s College Football Playoff format, and the path to get there, what Top 20 teams in their right mind would want to schedule us, given their respective conference schedule? …This game gives Rice a nice little payday and some national exposure, and we get a little tune up game to the start the season… and have you seen the out of conference schedules lately for the SEC schools???

    • Wolf needs to think positive thoughts. By 2022, Rice might be DOMINATING.

      • Heck… Lane Kiffin might even be the head coach of Rice by then!

        • By 2022, due to climate change, the Rice campus will become beach-front property, Miami will be lost beneath the waves, and Rice will take its rightful place as “The U” of the 21st century.

          • Better check the science, they are now projectiing an Ice Age due to the sun’s diminished activity.

          • How about Scott’s diminished activity?…..it may explain his ever expanding waistline…….

  4. Why don’t we arrange an out of conference schedule to include Ohio State, Auburn and Notre Dame?….. would that make you happy, Scott?….our hopes for reaching the CFP would probably be gone by mid-season, but at least we can console ourselves by saying that we played the best!

  5. Puhahahahhahaaha… I don’t care what any of you say!! Scottie Wolf! That was funny. “Southern Cal Cup Cake Coliseum” or you can go by “Trojan Condom Coliseum”…

    • Trojan Rose Bowl. Everybody knows USC owns the place.

      They don’t even let ucla on the RB field in January because the little gutties strictly rent in regular season only. Hah, hah, hah.

  6. Why do people knock SC for doing things every other school in the country does or would do if they had the chance?

    • For example, how many FBS schools would claim an AP national title if they got screwed out of the BCS championship game? That’s right….all of them.

    • Exactly!

      Alabama plays Mid Tennessee, UL Monroe and Charleston South

      Arkansas plays UTEP, Toledo and UT Martin

      Auburn plays Jacksonville State, San Jose State and Idaho

      Georgia plays UL Monroe, Southern and Georgia Southern

      LSU plays McNeese State, Eastern Michigan and Western Kentucky

      • Let’s throw in Ohio St playing Hawaii, N. Illinois, and Western Michigan.

      • Let’s look at the powerhouse schedules of our Pac 12 brethren this year:
        Arizona – Texas-San Antonio, Nevada & Northern Arizona
        ASU – Cal Poly & New Mexico
        Cal – Grambling & Sand Diego St
        Stanford – Central Florida
        Oregon – Eastern Wash & Georgia State
        OSU – Weber St & San Jose St
        Washington – Sac St & Utah St
        WSU – Portland St & Wyoming
        Colorado – UMass, Colorado St & Nichols St
        Utah – Utah St
        UCLA – UNLV
        But yes Wolf – Arky St & Idaho certainly stand out as the cupcakes!

        • Nice for Oregon after they got E. Wash. starting QB to transfer to the Ducks. He may be the Ducks starter and can fill the defense in on E W’s offense (as if they need the help).

        • Thanks for proving my point….. no Power 5 school is immune to scheduling soft teams, including the entire Pac-12…where is the incentive to do otherwise?….It’s now about being conference champion and grab one of the 4 slots in the CFP…..you win the conference championship, get through to the CFP and people will forget about the cupcakes…..

          • Gimme an E; gimme an X; gimme a C; gimme a U; gimme S; gimme an E; gimme an S. Come on Rah-Rah, Klown U is King of the creampuff schedule.

      • Somethings don’t change do they Rah-Rah – Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses etc.

        • Excuses, excuses, excuses is also the fight song for the history of UCLA football, BUT, we won a few Rose Bowls….BUT, we’ve never been that good because our academic standards are to high….but…..but…. but

        • If reciting the actual football schedules of SEC teams is an excuse, then I’m guilty as charged……

    • Gooberhead, just because Klown U got caught cheating, and received well earned NCAA sanctions, doesn’t mean the rest of the Pac 12 should cheat and invite NCAA sanctions.

      Klown U invented the cupcake filled schedule. Klown U always does best against Tomato Can FB teams,

      • When did you officially give up trying to make factual points and go strictly into 2nd grader argument mode?

        • Fact: socal got caught cheating.

          Fact: socal suffered NCAA sanctions

          Fact: Gooberhead speak with forked tongue.

          • If we still scheduled like we did 15 years ago we wouldn’t have Idaho and Arkansas State on the schedule this season. It’s an embarrassment.

      • SC non-conference opponents during the last 15 seasons:

        Ohio St, Ohio St, Nebraska, Nebraska, Auburn,
        Auburn, Kansas St, Kansas St, Penn St, Virginia Tech, Arkansas, Arkansas, BYU, BYU, Boston College and Boston College.
        Go ahead and compare UCLA’s list or anyone else’s list to that? I can’t wait.
        Oops, I almost forgot…you also have to include Notre Dame 15 times.
        Good luck!

    • If you go to fbschedules . com and look around, you realize that pretty much every major school in the country schedules this way and SC is probably better than most. Wolf, being Wolf, just chose to ignore things like ND every year, Alabama and a home & home with Texas.

      UCLA’s future looks about the same, Oregon’s is even worse.

  7. I wish college football would go back to a 10 or even an 11 game season. Many of the early non-conference games do not add anything, so SC starts off with two, most likely, meaningless games this year. Thursday night games are also much more of a hassle for season ticket holders to attend. The Coliseum is historic, but it is also obsolete. Viewing angles are poor and the seats in my area have been breaking up for years and the University raises ticket prices. Season ticket holders are being ripped off. There are also several meaningless post-season bowl games, but they will continue as long as they are cheap programing for the networks. I have attended SC football games since the 1960s, but I have to admit that my interest level is much less than what it was based on its transformation from amateur sport to professional entertainment.

    • Hear, hear ’22.’ When high school kids started making announcements about where they were going to school, I knew the “amateur” thing was a thing of the past.

      I still like the college game better than the pros, although the pros play a prettier game, but the college game is not “must” viewing for me anymore (P.S. except I do not miss SC games).

    • So true 22. Its all about money anymore. The extra games are about money, all the new bowl games are about money, etc.

  8. Athlon sports has our schedule ranked #2 in the PAC12 nine spots ahead of our crosstown rivals. The NCAA has USC #21, 2nd in the PAC12, they have the school across town #82.

  9. Athlon sports has the USC schedule ranked #2 in the PAC12 nine spots ahead of our crosstown rivals. The NCAA has USC #21, 2nd in the PAC12, they have the school across town #82. ESPN has USC ranked #2 non conference SOS in the FBS over the next 5 years. Only Texas is ranked ahead of USC and they are scheduled to play twice. As a side note. The team we open against next season, Alabama, notorious for scheduling cupcakes late in the season. They play the Charleston Southern Buccaneers this November, is ranked #43, 39 spots ahead of the team from Westwood.

    • It rather amusing, and quite revealing, that Scott places more faith in the Bovada gambling line than either Phil Steele or Athlon sports…

  10. As usual, Scott fails to tell the whole story….USC’s home and home series with Tennessee fell through earlier this year, which would have taken place in 2021 and 2022, thus, we scheduled RIce…..

  11. Yeah southern cal should wish to play more cupcakes like boston college… Boston College is wishing for a “cupcake schedule” filled with southern cal!

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