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Not sure I see the good in this. This puts limits on your flexibility to schedule necessary buy games. While it is neat to have seven home games in some years, if you're a school like Kent that needs those guarantees to pay the bills, sometimes you may only get four home games. Back to Top Kinggeorge4 General User Member Since: 12/22/2004 Location: Guysville, OH Post Count: 1,100 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 10:38:35 AM  ESPN article on it: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49949319... GO BOBCATS GEORGE Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 15,917 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 10:43:20 AM  Kinggeorge4 wrote: ESPN article on it: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49949319... The more important story is just below this one. The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top Victory General User Member Since: 3/10/2012 Post Count: 2,578 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 11:12:56 AM  I wonder if this means that we will have only 5 home games in some years. Working to carefully keep things where there was one payout game, one payin game, and one side each of a home and home was hard enough. Now, we have to match the year with a road game in the home and home with the year with 5 conference home games and vice versa. I hope the MAC can tell us that 8 or 10 years in advance. It strikes me that having an odd number of teams all play an odd number of conference games is mathematically impossible. 13*9 is 117 game outcomes. A game always was two outcomes - one win & one loss. You draw the conclusion. This just gives more weight to the South Dakota State for four years starting next year theory that I threw out there earlier. I understand why huge conferences these days want to do this, however, if you are someone on the committee you already have far more data to assess teams within a conference against each other than you do with teams in different conferences. For instance, we have only 9 non-conference games with only 7 against D1 in men's basketball. You have to find out where the MAC stands as a whole against 30 other conferences to have a hope of being fair on the committee. It this enough data? Is only 3 games enough data to assess 11 conferences? Hardly. EDIT: I also wonder, as we already have two G5s scheduled, one side each of a home and away, if we will be looking to push one of these back depending on if we start in 2028 with 5 conference home games or 5 away games. I think we have to keep getting payouts against P4s and we'll need FCS games to keep a balance. The most likely solution to keep 6 home and 6 away games is to only play one side of a home and home series each year. The other is to only get a payout game in years with 5 conference home games and only play an FCS in years with 5 conference road games. I don't think that the latter will happen for budget reasons. Unfortunately, these days, it is playing G5s that provide the good matchups. Trying to win on the road against a P4 is very difficult in the NIL era. Last Edited: 9/15/2026 12:48:14 PM by Victory Back to Top Deciduous Forest Cat General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Ohio Post Count: 4,577 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 12:15:04 PM  OhioCatFan wrote: Kinggeorge4 wrote: ESPN article on it: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49949319... The more important story is just below this one. I don't know if this was what you were referring to, but... "STILLWATER, Okla. -- First-year Oklahoma State coach Eric Morris stepped away from celebrating in his office packed with family and friends, walked outside with a Coors Banquet in hand and sat down in a seat overlooking Boone Pickens Stadium." That kinda s*it gets you fired at Ohio. Back to Top bobcatsquared General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 5,900 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 5:15:14 PM  Any chance that ESPN, with its deal with the MAC expiring at the end of this season, has something to do with this? It has its hands in just about everything else related to CFB. Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 15,917 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/15/2026 6:54:18 PM  Deciduous Forest Cat wrote: OhioCatFan wrote: Kinggeorge4 wrote: ESPN article on it: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49949319... The more important story is just below this one. I don't know if this was what you were referring to, but... "STILLWATER, Okla. -- First-year Oklahoma State coach Eric Morris stepped away from celebrating in his office packed with family and friends, walked outside with a Coors Banquet in hand and sat down in a seat overlooking Boone Pickens Stadium." That kinda s*it gets you fired at Ohio. No, try again. You have two more tries, and then you strike out. The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 7,857 Status: Offline     RE: MAC moving to nine-game conference schedule in 2028    Posted: 9/16/2026 4:01:37 PM  bobcatsquared wrote: Any chance that ESPN, with its deal with the MAC expiring at the end of this season, has something to do with this? It has its hands in just about everything else related to CFB. They're gonna milk that MACtion cow until it's completely dry. 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