These teams control their own destinies in the race for the 2014 C-USA Football Championship:

Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Louisiana Tech
Marshall
Middle Tennessee
Old Dominion
Rice
Southern Miss
UAB
UTEP
UTSA
Western Kentucky


These teams need help:

North Texas

Just delete us

Way to early to start this thread wait until each team has at least played a conference game.

USM should have some hope that it will click and they start playing better. We will loan you DC Manny Diaz during our open week. He has our D playing outstanding.

I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UAB

(09-12-2014 08:44 AM)Cscollis Wrote:  Way to early to start this thread wait until each team has at least played a conference game.

'tisn't.

(09-12-2014 09:14 AM)Stick4489 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:44 AM)Cscollis Wrote:  Way to early to start this thread wait until each team has at least played a conference game.

'tisn't.

Agree. This is a fun thread. Thanks for starting it.

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UAB

Agree here. After the AAC has another OOC beatdown week, their posters should start to worry less about the Access Bowl and more about how many of their bowl slots they will leave open for extra C-USA bowl qualifiers to claim.

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UAB

Man UAB going to 2 bowls this year, I bet nobody predicted that in the preseason!

If you looked at UAB objectively last year we had a horrible coach and staff yet lost three games on the last play. A whisker away from 5 wins. The team quit on McGoof in the USM game. Last year's team had the talent to win 6 and this year received a significant upgrade with some key guys. 6-6 was a realistic prediction this season with a good shot at 7 wins with troy the swing game.

Looking at them from afar I can see how people are surprised. That said a lot of work to do.

Marshall is still the team to beat and yea I think UAB will play spoiler.

(09-12-2014 10:00 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UAB

Man UAB going to 2 bowls this year, I bet nobody predicted that in the preseason!

I noticed that too. UAB is in the east division and the west. I think UAB is good this year so maybe 4th in the west but 2nd in the east.

That's how I see it. Fourth and second all though I would not rule out third and second.

(09-12-2014 09:53 AM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:14 AM)Stick4489 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:44 AM)Cscollis Wrote:  Way to early to start this thread wait until each team has at least played a conference game.

'tisn't.

Agree. This is a fun thread. Thanks for starting it.

Thanks.

I started doing this back in our MAC days. I'll admit, the first time I posted it was to poke fun at somebody, although I don't remember who. But I kept doing it because it was interesting. It has demonstrated over the years how important early season divisional games are.

Of course, North Texas isn't eliminated so early in the season. But they will have a very difficult time getting back in the race. The same is true for the loser of tomorrow's game between Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee.

(09-12-2014 10:00 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UTEP

Man UAB going to 2 bowls this year, I bet nobody predicted that in the preseason!

oops, fixed! Meant UTEP

(09-12-2014 08:19 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Just delete us

Don't delete us just because we suck.
Go ahead and put us in the 'need help' group because we sure as hell do.
Life is good!

(09-12-2014 11:25 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 10:00 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UTEP

Man UAB going to 2 bowls this year, I bet nobody predicted that in the preseason!

oops, fixed! Meant UTEP

How dare you!

(09-12-2014 11:25 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 10:00 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 08:53 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I know its early but after looking at schedules rest of the way and results so far it seems to me CUSA East is still Marshall's to lose, 2nd place I think will be winner of WKU at MTSU Saturday with UAB potential to play spoiler against the loser for 3rd.....I think ODU, FAU and FIU round out the bottom of CUSA East....

In the west I think its between UTSA and La. TEch with RIce and UTEP as potential spoilers for 3rd and 4th....With North Texas and Southern MIss rounding out the bottom

I think we are going to have several 6 and 6 teams this season with 8 teams being bowl eligible:

East
Marshall
WKU
MTSU
UAB

West
UTSA
La Tech
Rice
UTEP

Man UAB going to 2 bowls this year, I bet nobody predicted that in the preseason!

oops, fixed! Meant UTEP

Our teams look similar... Wait... maybe the uniforms...

Um... I'm confused... HOW?????????

Go Marshall (and USM if you guys get it together)

(09-12-2014 04:19 PM)TheEastisPurple Wrote:  Go Marshall (and USM if you guys get it together)

GO...away

(09-12-2014 08:44 AM)Cscollis Wrote:  Way to early to start this thread wait until each team has at least played a conference game.

USM should have some hope that it will click and they start playing better. We will loan you DC Manny Diaz during our open week. He has our D playing outstanding.

How about you learn the ropes around here first newbie. This is a classic thread that is around every year.

(09-12-2014 11:06 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  That's how I see it. Fourth and second all though I would not rule out third and second.

I think UAB is a dark horse in both division races. It's not unthinkable that UAB could be playing with themselves in the championship game.

" Alright guys, I'm not gonna lie to you. This is gonna get kinda weird... Two dragons." - Big Earl from Starskey & Hutch