Football Schedule Breakdown

The Big East (finally) released the 2008 football schedule today. Today is a bad day to be a hotel reservation agent in Morgantown and parts nearby, I would imagine. Keep this link handy for The Mountain Top’s very own rundown of the WVU schedule. We think it’s pretty cool. And if you want to see how the schedules for the rest of the Big East teams shape up, check here.

Just my few thoughts at first glance of the schedule. First off, we will know the fate of our season more or less before we get a chance to avenge the Pitt and USF losses as those are the last two games of the season. It would be a long way to go to 10-0 but if that happened, you couldn’t ask for a more dramatic build-up to the end of the season. I was at first a little upset about the Auburn game at home on a mid-October Thursday. I am still a little upset with it, also it and Colorado being our two biggest non-conference games and both showing up on Thursday nights. I am pleasantly pleased to see no other weeknight games on our conference slate (Thanksgiving Friday vs. Pitt is kind of a special case so I’m not counting that.)  We get a run of four consecutive home games in September/October, so we go well over a month without hitting the road, which probably isn’t optimal. Then we face a tough November facing maybe the three best teams in the conference on the road in that month. We get another huge home game on the first December weekend. I for one love that idea even though it didn’t turn out so well last season. All in all I think we have a nice balanced schedule with plenty of off-weeks and really, nothing too out of the ordinary. And we don’t get short-weeked going into our Thursday night games which has always been a concern of mine.