It’s here sort of but not entirely! Ah, the NCAA special! Hurrah and hurrah!

Now that a whopping 65% of next season’s NCAA schedules have been released, we have at least some semblance of an idea of how our 2017 lives will look. Enough to put together a composite schedule that isn’t just a wasteland made of tumbleweeds.

As always, the winner of Being Good at Schedules is the University of Wisconsin system, while the loser remains the Ivy League (brought to you by A Random Times New Roman Page of Fictional Maybe-Meets).

The new fun trend, and by fun I mean terrible, is for teams to put up a schedule that includes only home meets. Oh, thank you so much for this helpful and complete information…

As with last season, the full schedule with all 82 teams will sit in the bar at the top throughout the season and will be updated as the remaining schools get their lives together. And also it’s right here.

2017 NCAA SCHEDULE

But because that thing is a behemoth, here is a summary schedule featuring only the meets I think might be mildly interesting and whatnot. Meets between two (or more) of last year’s Super Six teams are in bold. 

2017 NCAA SCHEDULE

Meet Week 1

Friday, January 6

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Oregon State @ Auburn

TBA – Alabama @ Oklahoma

TBA – Georgia @ LSU

Saturday, January 7

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Michigan @ Utah

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Arkansas @ UCLA

7:30 ET/4:30 PT – Denver @ Minnesota

Meet Week 2

Monday, January 9

10:00 ET/7:00 PT – Stanford, San Jose State, UC Davis, Sacramento State @ Cal

Friday, January 13

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Georgia @ Auburn

TBA – LSU @ Alabama

10:00 ET/7:00 PT – Stanford, Boise State, Yale @ UC Davis

Saturday, January 14

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Michigan, Washington, Kent State @ Ohio State

Sunday, January 15

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Penn State @ Nebraska

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – UCLA @ Oklahoma

Meet Week 3

Friday, January 20

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Arkansas @ Georgia

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Denver, Boise State, Illinois-Chicago @ Utah

Saturday, January 21

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Washington @ Cal

Meet Week 4

Friday, January 27

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Auburn @ Florida

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Missouri @ Georgia

Saturday, January 28

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Nebraska @ Michigan

4:30 ET/1:30 PT – Utah @ Washington

4:30 ET/1:30 PT – UCLA @ Oregon State

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Ohio State @ Minnesota

Sunday, January 29

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Arizona @ Stanford

TBA – Alabama v. Auburn (@ Birmingham, AL)

Meet Week 5

Friday, February 3

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Nebraska, Denver, TWU @ Oklahoma

TBA – Missouri @ LSU

TBA – Arkansas @ Auburn

8:30 ET/5:30 PT – Florida @ Alabama

Saturday, February 4

3:30 ET/12:30 PT – Cal @ Utah

TBA – Minnesota @ Illinois

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Oregon State @ Arizona

Sunday, February 5

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Iowa @ Nebraska

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Washington @ Stanford

Meet Week 6

Friday, February 10

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Georgia @ Florida

TBA – LSU @ Arkansas

TBA – The Bart and Nadia Clam Bake (Oklahoma, Auburn)

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Cal @ Arizona

Saturday, February 11

2:00 EY/11:00 PT – Michigan @ Michigan State

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Stanford @ UCLA

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Utah @ Oregon State

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Nebraska @ Minnesota

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Ohio State @ Penn State

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Boise State @ Denver

Meet Week 7

Friday, February 17

TBA – Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia, Missouri (@ St. Charles, MO)

TBA – Florida @ Arkansas

8:30 ET/5:30 PT – Auburn @ Alabama

Saturday, February 18

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Oregon State @ Cal

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Minnesota @ Denver

10:00 ET/7:00 PT – UCLA @ Utah

Sunday, February 19

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Arizona @ Washington

TBA – George Washington, Iowa @ LSU

Meet Week 8

Friday, February 24

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Missouri @ Florida

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Boise State @ Alabama

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Denver @ Ohio State

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Washington, Illinois, Northern Illinois @ Kentucky

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Georgia @ Oklahoma

8:30 ET/5:30 PT – LSU @ Auburn

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Oregon State @ Stanford

Saturday, February 25

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Arizona @ UCLA

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Cal, Utah State, SEMO @ Nebraska

Sunday, February 26

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Illinois, Illinois State @ Denver

Meet Week 9

Friday, March 3

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Alabama @ Georgia

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Arkansas @ Kentucky

TBA – Florida @ LSU

TBA – Auburn @ Missouri

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Stanford @ Utah

Saturday, March 4

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Ohio State @ Denver

Sunday, March 5

3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Washington @ Oregon State

3:00 ET/12:00 PT – Arizona State @ Arizona

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Cal @ UCLA

Meet Week 10

Friday, March 10

TBA – New Hampshire @ LSU

TBA – Kentucky @ Missouri

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Denver @ Boise State

Saturday, March 11

TBA – Big Ten Qualifier: Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Iowa, Rutgers (@ Iowa City, IA)

TBA – Big Ten Qualifier: Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan State, Ohio State, Maryland (@ Champaign, IL)

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Utah @ Georgia

Sunday, March 12

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Stanford, NC State, Yale @ George Washington

5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Oklahoma @ Cal

Meet Week 11

Saturday, March 18

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Big Ten Championship Session 1 (New Brunswick, NJ)

2:00 ET/11:00 PT – EAGL Championship (Raleigh, NC)

TBA – Big Ten Championship Session 2 (New Brunswick, NJ)

TBA – SEC Championship Session 1 (Jacksonville, FL)

TBA – SEC Championship Session 2 (Jacksonville, FL)

TBA – Big-12 Championship (Frisco, TX)

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – Pac-12 Championship Session 1 (Stanford, CA)

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Mountain Rim Championship (Logan, UT)

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Pac-12 Championship Session 2 (Stanford, CA)

Meet Week 13

Saturday, April 1

4:00 ET/1:00 PT – West Virginia Regional

TBA – Florida Regional

TBA – Arkansas Regional

TBA – Illinois Regional

TBA – Nebraska Regional

7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Washington Regional

Meet Week 15

Friday, April 14

1:00 ET/10:00 PT – National Semifinal #1 (St. Louis, MO)

8:00 ET/5:00 PT – National Semifinal #2 (St. Louis, MO)

Saturday, April 15

9:00 ET/6:00 PT – Super Six (St. Louis, MO)

• Oh no! Did I spoil Oklahoma’s one-per-day Twitter reveal of it’s home meets? (BECAUSE I WONDER WHAT’S COMING NEXT??)

• Thankfully, we’re not starting with a dud this year. The opening day of the season features Georgia heading to LSU along with Alabama heading to Oklahoma. Get mildly enlivened about it. Alright, that’s enough.

• The Pac-12 Network has decided to play this game where all the early-season conference meets, including most UCLA and Utah meets, are at the same time as each other. I guess they’ve been really impressed with my multitasking skills and definitely focused attention span…

• March 3rd stands out as the marquee day of the season, featuring Alabama @ Georgia, Florida @ LSU, and Stanford @ Utah. February 11th is also a big day for simultaneous and relatively competitive Pac-12 and Big Ten action.

• The GymQuarters Invitational in Missouri on February 17th is totally trying to be the new Metroplex. It got the big-draw teams this year. Oklahoma is still going to Metroplex (because ALL THE NEUTRAL PODIUM MEETS), but the Sooners are the only big-name team attending this year. That’s rather unusual because TEXAS.

• The top SEC teams always have difficult built-in conference schedules, but Oklahoma is really not skimping on the difficult out-of-conference opponents this season, setting up against Alabama, LSU, UCLA, Georgia (twice), Nebraska, and Auburn this year.