Last in a five-game series looking ahead to the 2021 ODU football season
By Harry Minium
Old Dominion will face a challenging schedule in coach Ricky Rahne's first football season as ODU's head coach.
Not only do the Monarchs play in the toughest division of Conference USA – the East, with Marshall, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, Florida Atlantic, Florida International and Charlotte – they also have a challenging non-conference schedule.
The Monarchs open at Wake Forest of the ACC and two weeks later play at Liberty, which is 9-1 and hoping for a bowl bid, and then hosts Buffalo, the best mid-major program that hasn't gotten a lot of national acclaim.