One thing that bodes well for Stanford as it faces the toughest nonconference schedule in program history — including a nine - day stretch in December with consecutive games against Duke, Tennessee and Connecticut — is that nobody on the team cares how that scoring gets divvied up. (si.com)
It will mean consciously scheduling nonconference games against teams that play a variety of styles, just to prepare for March. (si.com)
USC just won the Pac - 12 and went 11 - 2 with a schedule that featured no regular - season byes and whose worst nonconference opponent was in the Cotton Bowl last year. (sbnation.com)