Wisconsin to play...LSU?!
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DESTIN, Fla. -- The new working plan for Wisconsin and LSU: To play in Houston's Reliant Stadium in 2014, Green Bay's Lambeau Field some time between 2016-18, according to LSU athletics director Joe Alleva.
Nothing is finalized but a deal is close, per Alleva. The likeliest year for the Lambeau game is 2017.
No game against Austin Peay State?
For real though, I'd like to see another neutral site game in a Michigan-alumni city. Maybe Meadowlands II or the Chick-fil-A kickoff in Atlanta. Just because my trip to Atlanta was so fun for the Final Four.
Arkansas would have been better.
I don't know if it's a bigger shock that Wisconsin is playing an SEC team, or the fact that LSU is playing a football game north of the Mason Dixon Line.
LSU played at WVU a couple of years ago.
Mason Dixon was one of the best heavyweight champions of our time.
Between going to Oregon in 2003 and Alabama last year, I think the only time UM left the state of Michigan to play a non-conference game was when they went to ND.
Have fun, Gary Andersen.
FWIW, I think Andersen is an upgrade over Bielema.
Edit: Double post.
That's a pretty scary thought considering how successful Wisconsin was under Bielema.
He has a good résumé, but I can't help thinking this might be another RR-type situation. I'm not sure UW can get the kind of athletes he wants to run his offense.
Whereas Utah State could?
Utah State doesn't compete in a big-time conference. They can get athletes to compete against their lesser opposition, but I wouldn't like their chances in a major conference.
Wisconsin has been very successful using a traditional ground-based attack, but that's not Andersen's comfort zone. Actually, when I look again at his record, he looks like more of a gamble in general than I was thinking - he's basically had one very good season in his career and bolted immediately afterward.
When Gary Andersen went to Utah State in 2009, they were one of the worst teams in FBS. Within four years, he built them into a team that routinely beat decent teams. Last year they beat Utah, Louisiana Tech, and Toledo (all of whom were ranked at some point during the year), and their only two losses were by a combined 5 points to Wisconsin and BYU. This isn't a situation like one of the MAC flash-in-the-pan coaches who wins 10 games without playing anyone.
I have a feeling he's going to shoehorn Wisconsin into a spread Rich Rod-style.
Just play at your own respective stadiums
I thought you were talking about someone else.
Honestly I'm just confused why this acticle was written in Destin. It's just down the road and they seem a lot more interested in Alabama down here.
but I'll be really impressed when they're playing good non-conference teams in their home stadium. LSU's done it before, so I have to believe Wisconsin is the school that wanted to keep it neutral.
Tiger Stadium on a hot and muggy August where the fans are loud in that stadium.
Houston isn't hot and muggy in August?
LSU would have the roof open for that game.
I don't think they'd make fans miserable when they had a viable option not to.
How do you explain the Cardinals play for decades?
/rimshot.
Lions fans think WC Ford is an awful owner but Bill Bidwell is 1000x worse. Ford spends money poorly, Bidwell doesn't spend. At least Ford is trying....
Good. It's about time that there are some more games worth watching before conference play.
I'm sure the game at Wisky will be played in Aug/Sept. Like to see any of those SEC chickens play at Wisky or AA in November. That's why to this day I don't buy into the superiority of the ESS EEE SEE.
It's like the DH rule in baseball, when Tiger's are on the road, pitcher has to hit, when NL team comes to town, they get to use a DH while that's normal for us.
for so many reasons and N'Western too for that vaunted west division.
but after all the muttering in both conferences about maybe the non-conference schedules suck and it's affecting attendance, they step on their dicks and move these games off-campus. I'm starting to think these geniuses aren't any brighter than the morons who do the venue scheduling for NCAA hockey post-season.
Word up.
Before we give Wisconsin too much credit, here's their 2014 schedule.
Western Illinois
Bowling Green
USF
@ Northwestern
Illinois
Maryland
@ Rutgers
@ Purdue
Nebraska
@ Iowa
Minnesota
That literally could be the worst schedule I've ever seen for a Big Ten team.