Texas A&M Drops Home-and-Home Series With USC
By Josh Sanchez
UPDATE: Texas A&M is still expected to face Oregon down the road. What dropping USC could mean is that a nine-game conference schedule is coming sooner than we thought.
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The Texas A&M Aggies had some exciting non-conference home-and-home series’ scheduled with the Oregon Ducks (2018-19) and USC Trojans (2015-16) when they were in the Big XII, but those are no longer a part of their plans after making the switch to the Southeastern Conference. Because of the automatic increase in their strength of schedule, Texas A&M thinks it is in their best interest to drop the series’.
It’s a shame for football fans, but it’s something that I guess must be done.
On the outside, it looks like the Aggies could be avoiding a potentially epic schedule, but it looks like there is a much more complicated issue on the table rather than Texas A&M just ducking more quality opponents.
"Those games are no longer part of A&M’s plans, [A&M AD Eric] Hyman said, because “having switched from the Big 12 to the SEC, we’ve had to scrub our whole schedule – throw it almost out. Going forward, we’ve had conversations with people, but we really can’t be contractually (obligated) until the conference says you’ve got the green light.”Slive said this week, moving forward, he intends for SEC schools to first receive their league game dates and then schedule non-conference contests around those.“When we know what we’ve got and we know where the holes are and what we have to work with,” Hyman said in regard to when scheduling can be tackled."
It’s unfortunate that college fans won’t get to see those exciting games down the road, but it is only a matter of time until we all forget they were even supposed to exist.
Once we get a college football playoff, that will be all that everyone is paying attention to.