🏈 Utah State to play at Alabama in 2022

[PhillyGirl]

Golly, Bama and Utah State? That's the matchup we've all been hoping for!

 

[252BAMA]

Have a question for all of youse guys, and girlz, complaining. If you are the AD at a major school would you schedule Bama? Hell, I wouldn't even take his call. The sumbitch might talk me into playing them.

 

[sportsdame]

I wonder....is Bama really having such a hard time getting games.....wow...
Agree with @bradenob .....home n home with Hawaii....Ms50+ is ready to go back...
Was really cool...Bama fans everywhere.... dropped 6K$.....but was fun...

I went to both of those games in Hawai'i....fun times and totally worth it...

 

[OldPlayer]

I wonder....is Bama really having such a hard time getting games.....wow...
Agree with @bradenob .....home n home with Hawaii....Ms50+ is ready to go back...
Was really cool...Bama fans everywhere.... dropped 6K$.....but was fun...

Playing Hawaii in Hawaii is one of the worst games to have. It takes too long to get there and too long to come back. You lose a day on the return trip. That's why the NCAA allows a school to play 13 games IF they play Hawaii in Hawaii. It may be great for a fan, but for the team it is horrible.

That does make sense - did we do that at the end of the year when we went? Wasn't there probation (unfair) so we thumbed our noses at the NCAA and played Hawaii to give the players a type of bowl game since we couldn't go? Maybe it wasn't so bad under those circumstances because it was the last game - IF my recollection is correct.

Would still be cool if we could go a week EARLY

If I remember (and there's no guarantee that I do), it was scheduled late (for scheduling). We weren't going to a bowl game, so it was a way of going to a bowl game without going to a bowl game. Going there isn't the problem. It's coming back. If you leave in the morning from Hawaii (~8 a.m.), you get back late in the evening (~midnight) and you have jet lag. If you leave in the evening (~5 p.m.), you land in the early morning (~7 a.m.) and you have jet lag. Traveling immediately after a game is uncomfortable and something you don't want to do for 9+ hours.

Lol! In 2016, Hawaii played California in Australia on Friday, August 26 (Saturday, August 27 in Hawaii) and played at Michigan on Saturday, September 3!! Was back in Hawaii on September 10 against ut-Martin, and played at Arizona on September 17!!! California took the second week (actually the first week) off rather than play the 13th game.

2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Football Schedule

2016 California Golden Bears Football Schedule

The time difference in Hawaii is 20 hours behind Sydney, not ahead. Therefore, depending on what time the game was played, it would have been Thursday in Hawaii when it was Friday in Australia.

 

[252BAMA]

I wonder....is Bama really having such a hard time getting games.....wow...
Agree with @bradenob .....home n home with Hawaii....Ms50+ is ready to go back...
Was really cool...Bama fans everywhere.... dropped 6K$.....but was fun...

Playing Hawaii in Hawaii is one of the worst games to have. It takes too long to get there and too long to come back. You lose a day on the return trip. That's why the NCAA allows a school to play 13 games IF they play Hawaii in Hawaii. It may be great for a fan, but for the team it is horrible.

That does make sense - did we do that at the end of the year when we went? Wasn't there probation (unfair) so we thumbed our noses at the NCAA and played Hawaii to give the players a type of bowl game since we couldn't go? Maybe it wasn't so bad under those circumstances because it was the last game - IF my recollection is correct.

Would still be cool if we could go a week EARLY

If I remember (and there's no guarantee that I do), it was scheduled late (for scheduling). We weren't going to a bowl game, so it was a way of going to a bowl game without going to a bowl game. Going there isn't the problem. It's coming back. If you leave in the morning from Hawaii (~8 a.m.), you get back late in the evening (~midnight) and you have jet lag. If you leave in the evening (~5 p.m.), you land in the early morning (~7 a.m.) and you have jet lag. Traveling immediately after a game is uncomfortable and something you don't want to do for 9+ hours.

Lol! In 2016, Hawaii played California in Australia on Friday, August 26 (Saturday, August 27 in Hawaii) and played at Michigan on Saturday, September 3!! Was back in Hawaii on September 10 against ut-Martin, and played at Arizona on September 17!!! California took the second week (actually the first week) off rather than play the 13th game.

2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Football Schedule

2016 California Golden Bears Football Schedule

The time difference in Hawaii is 20 hours behind Sydney, not ahead. Therefore, depending on what time the game was played, it would have been Thursday in Hawaii when it was Friday in Australia.

Better recheck that.

 

[OldPlayer]

I wonder....is Bama really having such a hard time getting games.....wow...
Agree with @bradenob .....home n home with Hawaii....Ms50+ is ready to go back...
Was really cool...Bama fans everywhere.... dropped 6K$.....but was fun...

Playing Hawaii in Hawaii is one of the worst games to have. It takes too long to get there and too long to come back. You lose a day on the return trip. That's why the NCAA allows a school to play 13 games IF they play Hawaii in Hawaii. It may be great for a fan, but for the team it is horrible.

That does make sense - did we do that at the end of the year when we went? Wasn't there probation (unfair) so we thumbed our noses at the NCAA and played Hawaii to give the players a type of bowl game since we couldn't go? Maybe it wasn't so bad under those circumstances because it was the last game - IF my recollection is correct.

Would still be cool if we could go a week EARLY

If I remember (and there's no guarantee that I do), it was scheduled late (for scheduling). We weren't going to a bowl game, so it was a way of going to a bowl game without going to a bowl game. Going there isn't the problem. It's coming back. If you leave in the morning from Hawaii (~8 a.m.), you get back late in the evening (~midnight) and you have jet lag. If you leave in the evening (~5 p.m.), you land in the early morning (~7 a.m.) and you have jet lag. Traveling immediately after a game is uncomfortable and something you don't want to do for 9+ hours.

Lol! In 2016, Hawaii played California in Australia on Friday, August 26 (Saturday, August 27 in Hawaii) and played at Michigan on Saturday, September 3!! Was back in Hawaii on September 10 against ut-Martin, and played at Arizona on September 17!!! California took the second week (actually the first week) off rather than play the 13th game.

2016 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Football Schedule

2016 California Golden Bears Football Schedule

The time difference in Hawaii is 20 hours behind Sydney, not ahead. Therefore, depending on what time the game was played, it would have been Thursday in Hawaii when it was Friday in Australia.

Better recheck that.

Check for yourself: Time Zone Calculator

 

[planomateo]

I'm just happy Utah State is an FBS opponent :bolt: