Athlon had us first in west, street and smith picked us 4th in west. I think lindys has us 2nd in west.

Athlon shows us with 8 returning starters on offense. They list craft and dorceus as non starters.

Thank you for the info.

How could Street&Smith pick us 4th in the West??? Shame on them for being lazy and not doing their research.

(05-28-2017 02:59 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  Athlon had us first in west, street and smith picked us 4th in west. I think lindys has us 2nd in west.

Athlon shows us with 8 returning starters on offense. They list craft and dorceus as non starters.

I guess there isn't much research/effort put in on the non-P5 leagues. It is what it is. Cool thing is, they will all be "shocked" when we out perform and we will get a lot of publicity!


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(05-28-2017 07:58 PM)TigersTigers Wrote:  How could Street&Smith pick us 4th in the West??? Shame on them for being lazy and not doing their research.

(05-28-2017 02:59 PM)Tiger5 Wrote:  Athlon had us first in west, street and smith picked us 4th in west. I think lindys has us 2nd in west.

Athlon shows us with 8 returning starters on offense. They list craft and dorceus as non starters.

Sometimes that's the way the dice roll.

Usually a beat writer from that conference handles the predictions for these mags. Who wrote the one for Street and Smith?

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Not sure why Dorceus and Craft were not listed as returning starters.

Who was our starting running back if it wasn't Dorceus?

Athlon did their homework. Had us as 9-4 first in the west. They did rank us 51st overall second behind South Florida who they had at preseason #24. I think we are going to end up somewhere in the 30s. They had Ferguson 2nd team all conf and Avery first team along with Miller first team. Smith first team punter and Pollard first team return.
Interesting Note: They listed the top 10 incoming recruits and we had 3 of them.

Athlon has us playing Toledo in the Miami Beach bowl game. Wont be called that or in Miami but the conference still has an affiliation with the bowl when they choose the new venue. ESPN owns the bowl game now and will move it.

(05-29-2017 02:15 PM)msu65 Wrote:  Athlon has us playing Toledo in the Miami Beach bowl game. Wont be called that or in Miami but the conference still has an affiliation with the bowl when they choose the new venue. ESPN owns the bowl game now and will move it.

That should be the new Frisco Bowl in TX. If things break correctly, we should be in a much better bowl than that.

(05-30-2017 08:42 AM)airric2255 Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 02:15 PM)msu65 Wrote:  Athlon has us playing Toledo in the Miami Beach bowl game. Wont be called that or in Miami but the conference still has an affiliation with the bowl when they choose the new venue. ESPN owns the bowl game now and will move it.

That should be the new Frisco Bowl in TX. If things break correctly, we should be in a much better bowl than that.

Agree.

(05-29-2017 10:03 AM)T-County Tiger Wrote:  I guess there isn't much research/effort put in on the non-P5 leagues. It is what it is. Cool thing is, they will all be "shocked" when we out perform and we will get a lot of publicity!


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Yeah, not going to get riled up over that. Has zero bearing on what will happen on the field.