https://ohiobobcats.com/sports/fball/2020-21/releases/202... The conference home games will be Central, Kent, Miami, and Toledo. The rest of the East division plus Eastern will be the road games.
We've also dropped Gardner Webb and added Duquesne. There was no way the GW game was going to work around the conference schedule without having a straight up bye in week two of the season.
Duquesne????? Was the Parkersburg YMCA booked?
Hey, the Dukes aren't all that bad. In 2019 they finished 6-5, including a road win vs Dayton, which finished 8-3. GW was 3-9, so this is really a step up.
Do you realize that your are touting the Dukes "BIG" win over Dayton, that Dayton is a NON-Scholarship football school?????
So what? The quality of a team isn't determined by whether they're on schollies. It's how they do on the field. There are some really piss-poor teams that hand out 85 schollies every year.
If scholarships don’t matter, then why do we give outb85 of them?
Go ask the athletics dept. My guess is it's because we can and we believe we need to use them as a means to lure players to come to Ohio instead of going somewhere else. Dayton, without handing out schollies, had a better record than about 100 other 1AA (aka FCS) teams, most of which do give out schollies. So, simply handing out schollies is no indication of the quality of the team on the field.
YOU do realize that Dayton did not play any fully funded FCS scholarship schools. The best is Robert Morris who gives about 30 equivalency scholarships. Dayton competes against for the most part like minded schools and their conference is FCS non-scholarhip. So just touting the record in FCS disingenuous. There is a reason they do not (rarely) go to the FCS playoffs. Like in 1996 when Dayton went 11-0 in FCS play and did NOT make the playoffs. FCS is NOT even within it's own realm not Apples to Apples! They made the FCS play-offs in 2015 and lost in the first round to Western Illinois.
So what you're saying is that teams that don't offer scholarships are inferior because they play other teams that don't offer scholarships. Nice piece of circular logic but it still doesn't prove your point that Dayton is somehow an inferior team because it doesn't offer scholarships.
As for losing in the first round of the playoffs in 2015, at least they MADE the playoffs, which is better than more than 100 1AA teams (most of whom offered scholarships) did that season. Three other teams lost in the first round that year -- Duquesne (yes, Duquesne) New Hampshire and Southern Utah, all of which offer scholarships. The fact that a non-scholarship team lost to a team that offers scholarships proves only that they were outplayed and/or out-coached that day.
And as for why Dayton didn't receive a playoff bid in 1996, it's because the NCAA didn't offer automatic or at-large bids to non-scholarship 1AA conferences back then. The NCAA got over its bias in 2012.