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Follow the $$$ for scheduling

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Scheduling is not an art, and it certainly is not a science. It involves some skill, to be sure, but, c'mon, it's not exactly writing the algorithm for Google. A school has to find 12 opponents and has 14 weeks in which to play them. Not only that, but only the three independents -- Army, Navy and Notre Dame -- have to find all 12 opponents themselves. The other 117 schools have, depending on the conference, seven to nine predetermined opponents. So scheduling is like fitting a 12-letter ans ...

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