This is the common misconception of this game, usually mentioned by CSU fans. Name another regional/in-state "rivalry" that is played on an annual basis between a P5 and G5 team. If you can think of one (I can't), is it played at a neutral site?
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Rocky Mountain Showdown extended
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They absolutely do help us. We get two home games for one road game and put an easier win on the schedule while we have 10 P5 games.
You get your exposure from your marquee P5 opponent, schedule one fcs team per season (unless those totally go away) and then have a bunch of 2 for 1s with G5 teams that are local so you limit travel costs, travel times and get a good amount of opposing fans to come to Folsom.
Delusional.
Not really but good response. If G5 teams don’t want to sign 2 for 1’s then just schedule two P5 teams a year. There is no benefit to signing a home and home with a G5 team when you can sign the same thing with a power conference team.
Mike Bohn approves. "Aim for the mediocrity!"
It’s the norm for most teams with 9 game conference schedules but okay.
BerkeleyBuff
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I'd really like this approach. College football is really all about regional foes in my mind. Playing Montana, Wyoming, etc - those fans would have an absolute blast in Folsom, even when they lose, and a lot of CU fans could probably enjoy a short trip to see the Buffs play in those towns if we reciprocated a visit.
BerkeleyBuff
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Great insight.
I could go in depth, but you lost me when you said Montana was a regional foe. There's really nothing left to say after that. If you just want CU to play a bunch of nobody teams in the rocky mountains, just say so, but don't dress it up as more than that.
The one P5 team better be amazing. Every single year.
Otherwise, playing Minnesota, Wyoming, and some FCS school is silly. When CU waters down the schedule, bad things tend to happen.
Just want to ask a question. What did CU's schedule look like when they were one of the better programs in the country? 
Yeah but I said that’s fine to schedule another P5 team to a home and home, I just think it’s dumb to schedule a home and home with those G5 teams if they demand it. So basically either plan has an FCS team, you either have a big time P5 opponent and a lower tier G5 team (2-1) or you have two mid/lower tier P5 teams.
BerkeleyBuff
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They are regional - rocky mountains. If we played them, they would be a foe. Pretty straight forward. I'm not calling them a rival or anything, nor a team we should care about, I'm simply saying they're a potential team to play that's semi-nearby and if we did some 2 for 1 deal with them, that would be fine. Lots of fans could travel. Missoula (as the example) is a fun mountain town in a gorgeous setting. Etc. I'm not dressing it up. Untwist your panties.
Sykobuff
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ahoelsken
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Wyoming plays a fair amount of one-offs as well-Iowa last year, Clemson in a few years, they've played two one-offs at Folsom that I can remember as well.
Since when does football have anything to do with a mountain town? No one goes to mountain towns to watch football. As for how close Missoula is, I am going to point out how asinine that makes your argument.
Missoula is a 13 hour drive away. St. Louis is closer. Dallas is just as far. If your range is a 13 hour drive for a "region," that opens up a third of the country.
If you don't want to watch good football, go cheer for a mountain west team.
Yes and there was no reason to cave to the pressure by CSU to sign a home and home. They are playing a one off at Iowa and originally planned a one off at Arkansas so if they don’t want to sign a 2-1 with us then they can, as sackman says, eat a bag of dicks.
ahoelsken
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To Missoula? LOL what?
probably what I should have responded with.
LSU v LA Tech and Utah v Utah State off the top of my head
You’re not a fan of Missoula?
BerkeleyBuff
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We're chatting about ideas for watching football games. I said earlier I'd like to see a game against Nebraska every year. I expect at least one big P5 OOC every year. I ain't saying I want a slate of Idaho State all year long, I'm saying if we assume we're going to have one easy win each year in the OOC, I'd be cool with those being other rocky mountain teams. And it's a meaningless opinion anyways. I repeat: untwist thine panties.
FIFY. The Midwest is dying. 50% of the country's population lives in the eastern time zone. Boston, NYC and DC all have very large and active alumni associations.
Put a school like Maryland, UVA, VTech, Rutgers, etc on the schedule at least once a decade.
Football in the Midwest definitely isn’t dying though and that’s what really matters.
This year is the first time LSU has played LA Tech since 2009, it's in Baton Rouge, and they don't have them on the schedule next year, so that's definitely not an example. It also looks like Utah did a home and home vs Utah State in 2012 and 2013 and then played them at home in the 2015, but don't play them for at least the next 3 seasons.
Vatech would be AWESOME. Now that's a regional mountain school I could get behind!
<rhetorical>if Oregon can get a 2:1 with a G5 school the caliper of BSU, why in the hell can't CU do better than a 1:1 with a school like CSU?!?!?!"</rhetorical>
He is not a fan of traveling to play a FCS school, like any same person.