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The Sporting News believes that Penn State’s schedule is second only to Mississippi State with the nation’s worst non-conference schedule for 2009.
The 10 worst:
1. Mississippi: at Memphis, Southeastern Louisiana, Alabama-Birmingham, Northern Arizona
2. Penn State: Akron, Syracuse, Temple, Eastern Illinois
3. Rutgers: Howard, Florida International, at Maryland, Texas Southern, at Army
4. Kansas State: Massachusetts, at Louisiana-Lafayette, at UCLA, Tennessee Tech
5. Indiana: Eastern Kentucky, Western Michigan, at Akron, at Virginia
6. Duke: Richmond, at Army, at Kansas, North Carolina Central
7. Kansas: Northern Colorado, at UTEP, Duke, Southern Miss
8. Arizona State: Idaho State, Louisiana-Monroe, at Georgia
9. Arkansas: Missouri State, Texas A&M, Eastern Michigan, Troy
10. Kentucky: at Miami (Ohio), Louisville, Louisiana-Monroe, Eastern Kentucky
The Sporting News’ Matthew Hayes also offers this insightful research regarding the non-conference schedules of BCS conference teams for 2009:
Games against I-AA teams: ACC (29 percent), Big East (25 percent), SEC (23 percent), Big Ten (21 percent), Big 12 (19 percent), Pac-10 (13 percent).
Games against non-BCS, I-A teams: Big 12 (58 percent), Big Ten (48 percent), SEC (48 percent), Pac-10 (37 percent), Big East (35 percent), ACC (29 percent).
Games against BCS teams: Pac-10 (50 percent), ACC (42 percent), Big East (40 percent), Big Ten (32 percent), SEC (29 percent), Big 12 (23 percent).
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