An exciting team with an RPI North of 100 based on this schedule....

Agree.

Fuss just tweeted that the schedule is done, and that the average RPI is about 25 spots higher than last year. 

https://twitter.com/aaronfuss 

False OU! FauxU!

This is more like it. I'm happy. One more game of this caliber would be perfect.

<----Prays we get the return game next year in Athens.

Huge huge huge. Love it. Agree, just need one more like this.

Lon Kruger goes down.

There we go boys!  Big name team that looks good on resume.  Also appears beatable as they finished last year at 15-16 overall, 5-13 in Big 12. 

Now get me one surprise eye catcher on the home slate and we head into the weekend happy!

OU vs UO, I like it.

Arkley's latest tweet made it sound like we get 1 more big name (at home?)...

I believe Jeff is correct in that the home schedule is done. I heard a couple of weeks ago that Ohio was trying to fill two more games with opponents similar to Memphis. Oklahoma would make one.

It still will come down to how we do in conference.  If we don't win the MAC regular season we don't get an at-large.  And if we had beaten Toledo and EMU last year and lost to Akron we would have gotten an at large. Even with almost no recognizable names on the schedule last year our RPI would have been in great shape.  Our schedule this year is fine and in no way will keep us out of the at large talk as long as we win. It's that simple.

It's not logical since this year's team is not the team of prior years, but I gotta (really, I do) think that the selection committee has to give us some cred for our recent winning history in the tourney when they consider us.

Oh.  Wait.  This year's team is the team of last year and more!

Agree though that this is all just talk.  The solution is three letters.  w i n

Word I heard tonight was that schedule is finished and while it was stated here that there may be one more potential "name" opponent forthcoming, there is not another.  Oklahoma is the only nice surprise we haven't heard about. 

OHIO was in fact calling all around the country trying to find 1-2 more marquee schools to play.  So despite the contentment with the status quo communicated by some on this thread,  it appears OHIO was in fact looking for a few more.  The end results was that "nobody wanted to play us, because we're too good this year."  We were willing to go to their place and not get a return game--we just wanted a few more showcase type games.  One example provided was that Oregon was looking for a game the same date we were looking for a game.  Seemed like a perfect partnership until they turned down the game because "we were too good."

One final thought was that the Bracketbuster game is potentially a marquee matchup some of us haven't considered.  It's a road game for us this year and we anticipate a Creighton'ish type matchup.

So while the administration does appear happy with the end result of the schedule, it does make me happy to know that they too desired a couple more marquee games.  They wanted them like many of us did.  They tried.  They simply couldn't find any more.  And I share this information realizing it probably wasn't confidential (as if it was I wouldn't have been told) and that for many of us it's nice to hear that  our thinking was on the same page of the braintrust within the Convo and that they were trying.