Hey Look:  It's Rutgers Schedule!

The Houston Chronicle blog is reporting that Rutgers University will fill out its non-conference schedule with the Southwestern Athletic Conference's Texas Southern.

The game is reportedly going to take place on September 19th at Rutgers Stadium, though an official statement is not expected to be made until tomorrow.  Rutgers already has a game against Florida International scheduled for that day. 

This is absolutey embarrassing for Rutgers.  First of all, it took until 3 days before the Scarlet-White game to complete the schedule.  Secondly, the out-of-conference schedule is an absolute joke:  Howard, Texas Southern, FIU, Army, and Maryland.  That's two D-1A schools, and a perpetually bad service academy.  Yes, FIU and Maryland did go to bowl games last year, but I would hardly consider them worldbeaters, or even "high-quality" opponents.  Rutgers isn't known for playing the most taxing OOC schedules, but this is terrible.  I can't wait to see how they try to spin this one, especially after raising the prices to this seasons games.