Ranking OSU’s nonconference schedules of the last decade

The nonconference schedule for the OSU football team is about to take a major boost in the coming seasons.

The Cowboys have homeand-home series against Arkansas, Oregon and Alabama across six consecutive seasons, beginning in 2024. That’s some serious scheduling.

The last few years? Not so much. The Cowboys have faced a few recognizable brands lately but not consistently. Here’s a ranking of OSU’s previous 10 nonconference schedules.

1. 2013 – Mississippi State (Houston), @ UTSA, Lamar

Not an incredibly tough schedule, but very solid. The No. 13 Cowboys opened the season in a neutral site game in Houston against a decent MSU team, which finished 7-6. Tyler Russell started at quarterback for the Bulldogs, but Dak Prescott closed the game. OSU followed up the next week with a trip to the Alamodome against Larry Coker (coach of Miami’s 2001 national title team) and UTSA, which finished its third season of existence with a 7-5 record.

2. 2014 – Florida State (Ar- lington), Missouri State, UTSA

Florida State was the defending national champion, led by QB Jameis Winston. The Cowboys nearly pulled the upset against the top-ranked Seminoles in a neutral site season opener but fell 37-31. The Bears and Roadrunners were in down seasons but playing the No. 1 team makes up for it.

3. 2017 – Tulsa, @ South Alabama, @ Pittsburgh

Neither South Alabama nor Pittsburgh was great that season, but back-to-back road games in the nonconference is a tough ask, and both had upset potential. Tulsa went 2-10.

4. 2021 – Missouri State, Tulsa, @ Boise State Missouri State had one of its best seasons in recent memory, going 8-4, and Tulsa was a respectable 7-6. Not many teams brave a trip to Boise, so give the Cowboys props for scheduling that game. The Broncos finished 7-6.

Juneteenth

However, the document did not make the impact Lincoln expected.

Supreme Court upholds adoption law seeking to protect Native American children

Washington

— The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the landmark federal adoption law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families.

By a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected a constitutional challenge from a white Texas couple and Texas state attorneys who contended the federal law interfered with state adoption policies and gave preferences to tribal families that amounted to unconstitutional discrimination based on race.

“The bottom line is that we reject all of petitioners’ challenges to the statute, some on the merits and others for lack of standing,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said for the court.

Justices Thomas Clarence and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented.

children from them.” These children were being raised instead in boarding schools or by non-Native families. The law gave a role to tribal officials in arranging adoptions and called for placing Native children when possible with members of their extended family or their tribe or members of another tribe.

Tribal leaders described the law as the “gold standard in child welfare” and hailed the ruling upholding it.

“Today’s decision is a major victory for Native tribes, children, and the future of our culture and heritage. It is also a broad affirmation of the rule of law, and of the basic constitutional principles surrounding relationships between Congress and tribal nations,” said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., speaking for other tribal leaders.

Juneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the United States’ emancipation of slavery on June 19, 1865.

On Jan. 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued all over the U.S. by President Lincoln.

Since the Confederate states believed they were independent from the Union states, the Emancipation Proclamation was dismissed. Therefore, enslaved people residing in Southern states were not declared free. Due to the Emancipation Proclamation, Confederate states were forced to either free enslaved people or relocate. Those against the document decided to relocate to Texas.

After many long years of fighting to free all enslaved people, the Union army was able to force the Confederate army unit in Texas to surrender and free all remaining enslaved people.

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The law was defended by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary.

Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 after it found “an alarmingly high percentage of Indian families are broken up by the removal, often unwarranted, of their

Haaland called the decision “a welcome affirmation” of the 1978 law following an era when federal policies had “promoted the removal of Indian children from their families” and “inflicted trauma on children, families and communities that people continue to feel today.”