OT - Baylor Football Schedules... Wait for It... University of the Incarnate Word in 2019
This is not an April Fool's joke. UIW is a school which has been playing football since '07. No, not 1907...2007. I think Baylor will be attempting to be the first team to score >100 in the past however many decades.
For those curious UIW plays in a stadium of 6000... in Texas. There are HS stadiums in Texas that seat 30K+.
Not sure what Baylor is doing if it wants to be a legitimate playoff contender, when strength of schedule is supposedly going to be a key component.
The University of the Incarnate Word announced Monday that it has scheduled a 2019 game against the Bears in Waco. The game will be played Aug. 31 in McLane Stadium, which is currently under construction. UIW founded its football program in 2007 and played at the Div. II level before moving up to the FCS in 2013.
Between 2014 and 2019, Baylor has just two non-conference games scheduled against programs from the five power conferences: a home-and-home with Duke in 2017 and 2018.
Word.
APRIL FOOLS! Although the joke would be much funnier if it was written "Michigan to schedule a rematch with Appalachian State to kick off the 20014 football season." HUH? Thats not a joke either, DAMN IT!
You never know, Appalachian St. might be a real powerhouse in 18,000 years.
we almost deserve to lose that game for scheduling it.
FWIW, Incarnate Word is in their first year of a transition TO Division I.
They will be a full Division I member in the 2017-18 year.
They are transitioning along with Nebraska-Omaha (2015), Northern Kentucky (2016), Abilene Christian, Grand Canyon and Massachusetts-Lowell (2017).
Forwarding those 5 school names to Baylor's AD for the 2020-2023 non conf schedules....
the sad part
2013 Sagarin Rank |
Team | W | L | Rating |
157 | Purdue | 1 | 11 | 51.65 |
165 | Abilene Christian | 6 | 5 | 48.28 |
222 | Incarnate Word | 6 | 5 | 35.54 |
Nebraska-Omaha, Northern Kentucky, Grand Canyon, and Massachusetts-Lowell aren't listed.
lol. Oh Big10....
Hey Akron was 137... who said they weren't Big 10 caliber!
Can't speak for the others, but Nebraska-Omaha and UMass-Lowell don't have football programs, so they're only ranked a couple spots ahead of Purdue.
Wait, a minute they moving up to FCS. Not FBS. Let's keep that straight. Both are considered "Division 1". But they are still FCS.
"For the 2012-13 school year, Division I contains 340 of the NCAA's 1,066 member institutions, with 126 in FBS, 122 in FCS, and 98 in NFS"
^Wikipedia: Division 1 football
I assumed people wouldn't think I meant Incarnate Word was going to be in the FBS.
No team has made the jump from D2 to FBS. Ever. It won't ever happen.
The University of South Dakota beat Minnesota two years after leaving D-2 for FCS though.
No team has made the jump from D2 to FBS. Ever. It won't ever happen.
Not true, several schools hanging out in the lower rungs of FBS football started off in Division II or even lower. When Division I-A was formed in the '70s, Louisiana-Monroe was playing in the NAIA.
You're overlapping sports in your list.
Only Incarnate Word and Abilene Christian are transitioning to the D1 (FCS) level in football. Nebraska-Omaha, Northern Kentucky, Grand Canyon, and UMASS-Lowell are currently moving to the D1 level in basketball. They do not have football teams.
This makes sense. UIW was incarnated, and now they're going to be disembodied.
This is fuckn ridiculous!!
They may not have the raw talent, but a few years of this staff and an early season game mean UIW has more than an infentismal shot.
Respect your insight and that they seem to be serious about football, but no, they don't have any shot whatsoever.
Whoa, whoa, whoa...You have GOT to be kidding me. Ricky F'ing Williams is a coach??? I know he was a hell of a RB when he wanted to be, and I don't doubt that he can teach a kid a thing or two, but he seems like he's got all the intensity of a 3 day old banana skin. I have a hard time seeing him motivating college kids.
I hope they don't test coaches for marijuana...
jdon
is sure to be a top university after the zombie apocalypse.
Yeah and Baylor is laughing about us playing Rutgers. Two can play this game.
In 2007, we opened up against defending FCS champ Appy State, which was ranked #53 by Sagarin in his final 2006 tally. Ahead of #55 Alabama.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/2006/team/
In spite of the FCS label, losing to a ~50ish team wasn't the mother of all upsets.
Now last year, we almost lost to #137 Akron at home and #121 UConn on the road. Appy St was ranked #175 last year.
This isn't the same FCS power coming to Ann Arbor, and I don't think there is any reason to worry about the Mountaineers playing up to their 2007 performance. What I can't rule out is Michigan playing down to its 2013 Akron performance, which would have been the mother-of-all upsets.
We sucked in 2008, ranked #95 by Sagarin, so while the loss to #134 Toledo was the worst team Michigan has lost to in my lifetime, I don't think it can be considered more than a run-of-the-mill, ~10 point underdog upset in hindsight.
I couldn't find any rankings relative to their current placement in FCS on NCAA.com as it looks as if it will be their first year in the FCS, but here are their 2013 stats if anyone is interested in a quick glance (LINK)
Some select notes - UIW averaged 359.9 yards per game of offense while giving up 388.9 yards on defense on average. They avarged 24.4 points per game while giving up 26.8 points. They were 34% on 3rd down conversions and 71% in the red zone. Not sure how they'll be in 2019, of course, but if Baylor played them this weekend....damn....
"while giving up 388.9 yards on defense on average"
That would be Baylor's first four drives... which should get them through the first quarter.
For reference the 3 non conf games for Baylor last year
- Wofford 69-3 (692 yards)
- Buffalo 70-13 (781 yards)
- UL Monroe 70-7 (uhh...781 yards again)
Iowa State is allegedly part of their conference and lost 71-7....and gave up 714 yards. And Baylor put up 873 yards on West Virginia when their starters probably actually played in the 3rd quarter since that was a tight game Baylor only won by 31 pts.
@Firefly
Not sure if you are sarcastic...
...which is the part that scares me.
Instead of cheering his team, the UIW mascot flagellates himself with knotted barb wire.
I guess Baylor couldn't fit the Little Sisters of the Poor into their schedule because Notre Dame already has them booked.
it does have to be considered that this game is probably going to make UIW enough money to cover their entire football budget for the year. Maybe not all, but a sizable chunk. Games like this are how schools like UIW are able to keep their football programs running.
Savannah State agrees.