BYU Schedules Northern Iowa

[SLCBengal]

BYU has scheduled Northern Iowa for August 30th (replacing the game with Nevada). Boise State and BYU will also start a 4 game series, beginning in 2012...

BYU football: Cougs will face Northern Iowa

 

[snake]

Didn't the MWC whine about the WAC scheduling cream puff teams in order to go undefeated and ultimately go to a big BCS bowl game? It seems like the WAC has discovered the map to BSC bowl games and now other conferences will follow it.

 

[skippy57]

Northern Iowa is no cream puff. If BYU wanted a gimme, they would have scheduled another Big Sky team. (They pounded Eastern Washington last year).

 

[tuffgong]

Eastern Washington will be better than NIU next year, and were better this year as well...

 

[skippy57]

Gotta disagree with you there, Tuff. Northern Iowa was 12-1 and beat Iowa State in Ames last year. EWU was a good team, but certainly not in the same league as Northern Iowa. The Big Sky is usually in the middle of the 1-AA leagues, with Montana occasionally good enough to compete on a national level. EWU was a developing team last year and probably will be picked to win the Big Sky this coming year, although they will be breaking in a new coaching staff and have to replace four of their five starters on the offensive line.

For my money, the best 1-AA team I saw last year was Cal Poly, and they will have most everyone back next year.