Rutgers Adds Arkansas to Schedule for a Home and Home Series
Scarletknights.com has posted a press release announcing that Rutgers football will be heading to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to take on the Razorbacks on September 22. Next year, Arkansas will head north to visit Rutgers on September 21, 2013.
It's exciting to see that some more big-time competition will be heading to the banks, and you have to commend the ADs for both schools for putting this match-up together on such short notice.
One of the things that hurts the Big East schools each year is a lack of top-flight competition in the out-of-conference schedules. This is a step in the right direction. Ideally, I'd like to see RU take on an ACC, Big Ten, and SEC opponent each year and a Pac-10 opponent every couple of years. Beating some of those schools is the only way to put the reconfigured Big East in the same conversation with the more high profile football conferences.
It's exciting to see that some more big-time competition will be heading to the banks, and you have to commend the ADs for both schools for putting this match-up together on such short notice.
One of the things that hurts the Big East schools each year is a lack of top-flight competition in the out-of-conference schedules. This is a step in the right direction. Ideally, I'd like to see RU take on an ACC, Big Ten, and SEC opponent each year and a Pac-10 opponent every couple of years. Beating some of those schools is the only way to put the reconfigured Big East in the same conversation with the more high profile football conferences.
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