2026/2027 Tennessee-Nebraska Series Cancelled

[Ripping Lips]

Thinking we’re still a blue blood is what’s held us back since we fired Frank. We’re not a blue blood anymore, we’re a laughing stock and will continue to be until we prove otherwise.

 

[Stan Raymond]

ESPN already owns the home SEC games. So, their inventory includes something like an extra 7 games vs what a 9th conference game would deliver. Effectively, a 9th conference game would eat into ESPN’s profits and is in no way valuable to them to pay more to incentivize the SEC.

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On this thread… I don’t know why we’d cancel it knowing that it’s likely we’ll have to play a road OOC game in 26 or 27 anyways when the agreement between the conferences is done.

That's why it hasn't happened. ESPN doesn't value it enough to pay and the SEC won't do it until they do, the SEC isn't going to give away better games for free. It will happen in their next media deal as the SEC will leverage the 9th game to get the biggest deal possible.

 

[ShortSideOption]

Smart move by us

Agreed here... like it or not, Nebraska scheduled this before NIL/revenue-sharing, the expansion of the CFP, and the expansion of the B1G conference. With us playing 9 conference games, a marquee non-conference situation almost makes zero sense. Nebraska used to have 4 non-conference games where you would schedule the 3 cupcakes then the marquee game. We don't have that anymore. Think of it this way, with Nebraska having only 3 non-conference games this year, we got lucky it was Colorado but we added USC in our conference schedule. A team we used to have to schedule a home-home series with is now being put into an automatic schedule within conference.

Another way to look at this is for this century, here are our marquee non-conference games that everyone was so excited about:

2000/2001 - Notre Dame not in anyone's conference
2002/2003 - Penn State now in conference
2004/2005 - Pitt
2006/2007 - USC now in conference
2008/2009 - Virginia Tech
2010/2011 - Washington now in conference
2012/2013 - UCLA now in conference
2014/2015 - Miami (FL)
2016/2017 - Oregon now in conference
2018/2019 - Colorado
2020 - RONA
2021/2022 - Oklahoma
2023/2024 - Colorado

Nearly 50% of the "Marquee non-conf games" were scheduled against teams now in a conference we are a part of. We got rid of Tennessee for 2026 and 2027 but we already added at Oregon and at Washington for those two seasons with the B1G expansion which are two of the "marquee non-conf games" we didn't want to lose cancelling this Tennessee game. We will still get the helmet games. Quite frankly i'm just looking at these 4 teams we added as our marquee game we wouldn't have had otherwise.

 

[Stan Raymond]

Agreed here... like it or not, Nebraska scheduled this before NIL/revenue-sharing, the expansion of the CFP, and the expansion of the B1G conference. With us playing 9 conference games, a marquee non-conference situation almost makes zero sense. Nebraska used to have 4 non-conference games where you would schedule the 3 cupcakes then the marquee game. We don't have that anymore. Think of it this way, with Nebraska having only 3 non-conference games this year, we got lucky it was Colorado but we added USC in our conference schedule. A team we used to have to schedule a home-home series with is now being put into an automatic schedule within conference.

Another way to look at this is for this century, here are our marquee non-conference games that everyone was so excited about:

2000/2001 - Notre Dame not in anyone's conference
2002/2003 - Penn State now in conference
2004/2005 - Pitt
2006/2007 - USC now in conference
2008/2009 - Virginia Tech
2010/2011 - Washington now in conference
2012/2013 - UCLA now in conference
2014/2015 - Miami (FL)
2016/2017 - Oregon now in conference
2018/2019 - Colorado
2020 - RONA
2021/2022 - Oklahoma
2023/2024 - Colorado

Nearly 50% of the "Marquee non-conf games" were scheduled against teams now in a conference we are a part of. We got rid of Tennessee for 2026 and 2027 but we already added at Oregon and at Washington for those two seasons with the B1G expansion which are two of the "marquee non-conf games" we didn't want to lose cancelling this Tennessee game. We will still get the helmet games. Quite frankly i'm just looking at these 4 teams we added as our marquee game we wouldn't have had otherwise.

That is a fair way to look at it.

 

[Jim14510]

That is a fair way to look at it.

Canceling was still super duper gay.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Canceling was still super duper gay.