This is going to be as brutal to write as it will be for you to read. Lord have mercy ...

1. North Texas (1 last week)
Speaking of Lord and mercy, the Mean Green showed little of the latter to a team representing the former, thrashing Incarnate Word. Good news: That's the best performance of the week. Bad news: They're going to Hell. Good news: They won't have to leave CUSA.
2. Florida Atlantic (4)
Chris Robison threw for a school-record 471 yards against Air Force. That's great for an Owls team that needed a pick me up after the Oklahoma wipeout, though not so great for our national defense.
3. Louisiana Tech (2)
A ton of yardage and an easy win for the Bulldogs. This was a good week for northern Louisiana ... oh, right ... too soon?
4. Marshall (2)
Hatfields 32, McCoys 16. Maybe they can play next year's game in Pigeon Forge!
5. FIU (7)
The Golden Panthers hold the distinction of being one of two CUSA teams to beat an FBS opponent this week, such as it was. Too bad by the end the only people awake and able to see it were in American Samoa and Bahrain.
6. Middle Tennessee (10)
Funny thing about how this game came to pass: Rick Stockstill was talking to his AD about what FCS team to schedule when the quarterback of Tennessee's national championship team suddenly appeared in his doorway out of nowhere. Stockstill, stunned, pointed to his visitor and exclaimed YOU! TEE MARTIN!, at which point the AD thanked him for his input, hung up and promptly signed a deal with the Skyhawks.
(oh shut up, this wasn't even the worst CUSA joke you've seen this weekend)
7. Rice (11)
It's tempting to give the Owls the West Division title on the strength of covering the spread against a respectable MWC team.
8. Southern Miss (6)
Thus begins the Sun Belted Trilogy, an increasingly painful series of games against our kiddie-table neighbors. That "almost not losing at home to a school that gave us Duck Dynasty and probably shouldn't even be FBS" somehow is the least worst of the three really says something. Something that the word filter here won't allow.
9. UTSA (12)
Even after the halftime bombshell that nearly everyone in the Baylor administration had been keeping slaves for the past seven years, the Roadrunners couldn't take advantage of the distraction and lost.
10. Old Dominion (13)
The Monarchs' MVP appeared to be the heavy thunderstorm that threatened to give them a weather-shortened victory. But as is typical for an ODU star, it fell apart in the second half.
11. Charlotte (8)
A humiliating home beatdown at the hands of a neighborhood rival, but somehow even this wasn't the worst loss to a Sun Belt team this weekend. The good news is that the ODU sissy slapfight may not happen thanks to Ultimate Killstorm Extreme Florence. Hey, is there any precedent for a Charlotte-ODU game getting cancelled?
12. UAB (5)
For the finest in implosions against Sun Belt competition, we turn our attention to Myrtle Beach and the home of the Tealcocks, where the Blazers melted down in the second half like an ice sculpture dropped in a lava pit. What was the halftime speech? Ray Watts shutting down the program again?
13. UTEP (14)
The Rebels wanted an easy win, so to the Miners they said, in the words of the city's unofficial mayor, Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
14. WKU (9)
Losing to an FCS team is bad enough, but losing to a team that had to adjust to four downs, no 55-yard line and goalposts in the back of the end zone is something else entirely. Perhaps the Hilltoppers can get their revenge in January's Skiing While Wearing L.L. Bean and Eating Blueberries Throwdown.

(09-09-2018 01:59 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  This is going to be as brutal to write as it will be for you to read. Lord have mercy ...

1. North Texas (1 last week)
Speaking of Lord and mercy, the Mean Green showed little of the latter to a team representing the former, thrashing Incarnate Word. Good news: That's the best performance of the week. Bad news: They're going to Hell. Good news: They won't have to leave CUSA.
2. Florida Atlantic (4)
Chris Robison threw for a school-record 471 yards against Air Force. That's great for an Owls team that needed a pick me up after the Oklahoma wipeout, though not so great for our national defense.
3. Louisiana Tech (2)
A ton of yardage and an easy win for the Bulldogs. This was a good week for northern Louisiana ... oh, right ... too soon?
4. Marshall (2)
Hatfields 32, McCoys 16. Maybe they can play next year's game in Pigeon Forge!
5. FIU (7)
The Golden Panthers hold the distinction of being the only CUSA team to beat an FBS opponent this week, such as it was. Too bad by the end the only people awake and able to see it were in American Samoa and Bahrain.
6. Middle Tennessee (10)
Funny thing about how this game came to pass: Rick Stockstill was talking to his AD about what FCS team to schedule when the quarterback of Tennessee's national championship team suddenly appeared in his doorway out of nowhere. Stockstill, stunned, pointed to his visitor and exclaimed YOU! TEE MARTIN!, at which point the AD thanked him for his input, hung up and promptly signed a deal with the Skyhawks.
(oh shut up, this wasn't even the worst CUSA joke you've seen this weekend)
7. Rice (11)
It's tempting to give the Owls the West Division title on the strength of covering the spread against a respectable MWC team.
8. Southern Miss (6)
Thus begins the Sun Belted Trilogy, an increasingly painful series of games against our kiddie-table neighbors. That "almost not losing at home to a school that gave us Duck Dynasty and probably shouldn't even be FBS" somehow is the least worst of the three really says something. Something that the word filter here won't allow.
9. UTSA (12)
Even after the halftime bombshell that nearly everyone in the Baylor administration had been keeping slaves for the past seven years, the Roadrunners couldn't take advantage of the distraction and lost.
10. Old Dominion (13)
The Monarchs' MVP appeared to be the heavy thunderstorm that threatened to give them a weather-shortened victory. But as is typical for an ODU star, it fell apart in the second half.
11. Charlotte (8)
A humiliating home beatdown at the hands of a neighborhood rival, but somehow even this wasn't the worst loss to a Sun Belt team this weekend. The good news is that the ODU sissy slapfight may not happen thanks to Ultimate Killstorm Extreme Florence. Hey, is there any precedent for a Charlotte-ODU game getting cancelled?
12. UAB (5)
For the finest in implosions against Sun Belt competition, we turn our attention to Myrtle Beach and the home of the Tealcocks, where the Blazers melted down in the second half like an ice sculpture dropped in a lava pit. What was the halftime speech? Ray Watts shutting down the program again?
13. UTEP (14)
The Rebels wanted an easy win, so to the Miners they said, in the words of the city's unofficial mayor, Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
14. WKU (9)
Losing to an FCS team is bad enough, but losing to a team that had to adjust to four downs, no 55-yard line and goalposts in the back of the end zone is something else entirely. Perhaps the Hilltoppers can get their revenge in January's Skiing While Wearing L.L. Bean and Eating Blueberries Throwdown.

Who did the team #2 beat?

"Weak 2"? Freudian slip?

(09-09-2018 02:01 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  Who did the team #2 beat?

Oopsie, will fix.

(09-09-2018 01:59 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  This is going to be as brutal to write as it will be for you to read. Lord have mercy ...

1. North Texas (1 last week)
Speaking of Lord and mercy, the Mean Green showed little of the latter to a team representing the former, thrashing Incarnate Word. Good news: That's the best performance of the week. Bad news: They're going to Hell. Good news: They won't have to leave CUSA.
2. Florida Atlantic (4)
Chris Robison threw for a school-record 471 yards against Air Force. That's great for an Owls team that needed a pick me up after the Oklahoma wipeout, though not so great for our national defense.
3. Louisiana Tech (2)
A ton of yardage and an easy win for the Bulldogs. This was a good week for northern Louisiana ... oh, right ... too soon?
4. Marshall (2)
Hatfields 32, McCoys 16. Maybe they can play next year's game in Pigeon Forge!
5. FIU (7)
The Golden Panthers hold the distinction of being the only CUSA team to beat an FBS opponent this week, such as it was. Too bad by the end the only people awake and able to see it were in American Samoa and Bahrain.
6. Middle Tennessee (10)
Funny thing about how this game came to pass: Rick Stockstill was talking to his AD about what FCS team to schedule when the quarterback of Tennessee's national championship team suddenly appeared in his doorway out of nowhere. Stockstill, stunned, pointed to his visitor and exclaimed YOU! TEE MARTIN!, at which point the AD thanked him for his input, hung up and promptly signed a deal with the Skyhawks.
(oh shut up, this wasn't even the worst CUSA joke you've seen this weekend)
7. Rice (11)
It's tempting to give the Owls the West Division title on the strength of covering the spread against a respectable MWC team.
8. Southern Miss (6)
Thus begins the Sun Belted Trilogy, an increasingly painful series of games against our kiddie-table neighbors. That "almost not losing at home to a school that gave us Duck Dynasty and probably shouldn't even be FBS" somehow is the least worst of the three really says something. Something that the word filter here won't allow.
9. UTSA (12)
Even after the halftime bombshell that nearly everyone in the Baylor administration had been keeping slaves for the past seven years, the Roadrunners couldn't take advantage of the distraction and lost.
10. Old Dominion (13)
The Monarchs' MVP appeared to be the heavy thunderstorm that threatened to give them a weather-shortened victory. But as is typical for an ODU star, it fell apart in the second half.
11. Charlotte (8)
A humiliating home beatdown at the hands of a neighborhood rival, but somehow even this wasn't the worst loss to a Sun Belt team this weekend. The good news is that the ODU sissy slapfight may not happen thanks to Ultimate Killstorm Extreme Florence. Hey, is there any precedent for a Charlotte-ODU game getting cancelled?
12. UAB (5)
For the finest in implosions against Sun Belt competition, we turn our attention to Myrtle Beach and the home of the Tealcocks, where the Blazers melted down in the second half like an ice sculpture dropped in a lava pit. What was the halftime speech? Ray Watts shutting down the program again?
13. UTEP (14)
The Rebels wanted an easy win, so to the Miners they said, in the words of the city's unofficial mayor, Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
14. WKU (9)
Losing to an FCS team is bad enough, but losing to a team that had to adjust to four downs, no 55-yard line and goalposts in the back of the end zone is something else entirely. Perhaps the Hilltoppers can get their revenge in January's Skiing While Wearing L.L. Bean and Eating Blueberries Throwdown.

That was funny. Can tell you know your Maine. I will say the LL bean main store is really neat.

(09-09-2018 02:02 PM)goliath74 Wrote:  "Weak 2"? Freudian slip?

Very Freudian

(09-09-2018 01:59 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  This is going to be as brutal to write as it will be for you to read. Lord have mercy ...

1. North Texas (1 last week)
Speaking of Lord and mercy, the Mean Green showed little of the latter to a team representing the former, thrashing Incarnate Word. Good news: That's the best performance of the week. Bad news: They're going to Hell. Good news: They won't have to leave CUSA.
2. Florida Atlantic (4)
Chris Robison threw for a school-record 471 yards against Air Force. That's great for an Owls team that needed a pick me up after the Oklahoma wipeout, though not so great for our national defense.
3. Louisiana Tech (2)
A ton of yardage and an easy win for the Bulldogs. This was a good week for northern Louisiana ... oh, right ... too soon?
4. Marshall (2)
Hatfields 32, McCoys 16. Maybe they can play next year's game in Pigeon Forge!
5. FIU (7)
The Golden Panthers hold the distinction of being one of two CUSA teams to beat an FBS opponent this week, such as it was. Too bad by the end the only people awake and able to see it were in American Samoa and Bahrain.
6. Middle Tennessee (10)
Funny thing about how this game came to pass: Rick Stockstill was talking to his AD about what FCS team to schedule when the quarterback of Tennessee's national championship team suddenly appeared in his doorway out of nowhere. Stockstill, stunned, pointed to his visitor and exclaimed YOU! TEE MARTIN!, at which point the AD thanked him for his input, hung up and promptly signed a deal with the Skyhawks.
(oh shut up, this wasn't even the worst CUSA joke you've seen this weekend)
7. Rice (11)
It's tempting to give the Owls the West Division title on the strength of covering the spread against a respectable MWC team.
8. Southern Miss (6)
Thus begins the Sun Belted Trilogy, an increasingly painful series of games against our kiddie-table neighbors. That "almost not losing at home to a school that gave us Duck Dynasty and probably shouldn't even be FBS" somehow is the least worst of the three really says something. Something that the word filter here won't allow.
9. UTSA (12)
Even after the halftime bombshell that nearly everyone in the Baylor administration had been keeping slaves for the past seven years, the Roadrunners couldn't take advantage of the distraction and lost.
10. Old Dominion (13)
The Monarchs' MVP appeared to be the heavy thunderstorm that threatened to give them a weather-shortened victory. But as is typical for an ODU star, it fell apart in the second half.
11. Charlotte (8)
A humiliating home beatdown at the hands of a neighborhood rival, but somehow even this wasn't the worst loss to a Sun Belt team this weekend. The good news is that the ODU sissy slapfight may not happen thanks to Ultimate Killstorm Extreme Florence. Hey, is there any precedent for a Charlotte-ODU game getting cancelled?
12. UAB (5)
For the finest in implosions against Sun Belt competition, we turn our attention to Myrtle Beach and the home of the Tealcocks, where the Blazers melted down in the second half like an ice sculpture dropped in a lava pit. What was the halftime speech? Ray Watts shutting down the program again?
13. UTEP (14)
The Rebels wanted an easy win, so to the Miners they said, in the words of the city's unofficial mayor, Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
14. WKU (9)
Losing to an FCS team is bad enough, but losing to a team that had to adjust to four downs, no 55-yard line and goalposts in the back of the end zone is something else entirely. Perhaps the Hilltoppers can get their revenge in January's Skiing While Wearing L.L. Bean and Eating Blueberries Throwdown.

Actually Tech gave the world Duck Dynasty...

(09-09-2018 02:21 PM)RonBurgundy Wrote:  

(09-09-2018 01:59 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  This is going to be as brutal to write as it will be for you to read. Lord have mercy ...

1. North Texas (1 last week)
Speaking of Lord and mercy, the Mean Green showed little of the latter to a team representing the former, thrashing Incarnate Word. Good news: That's the best performance of the week. Bad news: They're going to Hell. Good news: They won't have to leave CUSA.
2. Florida Atlantic (4)
Chris Robison threw for a school-record 471 yards against Air Force. That's great for an Owls team that needed a pick me up after the Oklahoma wipeout, though not so great for our national defense.
3. Louisiana Tech (2)
A ton of yardage and an easy win for the Bulldogs. This was a good week for northern Louisiana ... oh, right ... too soon?
4. Marshall (2)
Hatfields 32, McCoys 16. Maybe they can play next year's game in Pigeon Forge!
5. FIU (7)
The Golden Panthers hold the distinction of being one of two CUSA teams to beat an FBS opponent this week, such as it was. Too bad by the end the only people awake and able to see it were in American Samoa and Bahrain.
6. Middle Tennessee (10)
Funny thing about how this game came to pass: Rick Stockstill was talking to his AD about what FCS team to schedule when the quarterback of Tennessee's national championship team suddenly appeared in his doorway out of nowhere. Stockstill, stunned, pointed to his visitor and exclaimed YOU! TEE MARTIN!, at which point the AD thanked him for his input, hung up and promptly signed a deal with the Skyhawks.
(oh shut up, this wasn't even the worst CUSA joke you've seen this weekend)
7. Rice (11)
It's tempting to give the Owls the West Division title on the strength of covering the spread against a respectable MWC team.
8. Southern Miss (6)
Thus begins the Sun Belted Trilogy, an increasingly painful series of games against our kiddie-table neighbors. That "almost not losing at home to a school that gave us Duck Dynasty and probably shouldn't even be FBS" somehow is the least worst of the three really says something. Something that the word filter here won't allow.
9. UTSA (12)
Even after the halftime bombshell that nearly everyone in the Baylor administration had been keeping slaves for the past seven years, the Roadrunners couldn't take advantage of the distraction and lost.
10. Old Dominion (13)
The Monarchs' MVP appeared to be the heavy thunderstorm that threatened to give them a weather-shortened victory. But as is typical for an ODU star, it fell apart in the second half.
11. Charlotte (8)
A humiliating home beatdown at the hands of a neighborhood rival, but somehow even this wasn't the worst loss to a Sun Belt team this weekend. The good news is that the ODU sissy slapfight may not happen thanks to Ultimate Killstorm Extreme Florence. Hey, is there any precedent for a Charlotte-ODU game getting cancelled?
12. UAB (5)
For the finest in implosions against Sun Belt competition, we turn our attention to Myrtle Beach and the home of the Tealcocks, where the Blazers melted down in the second half like an ice sculpture dropped in a lava pit. What was the halftime speech? Ray Watts shutting down the program again?
13. UTEP (14)
The Rebels wanted an easy win, so to the Miners they said, in the words of the city's unofficial mayor, Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
14. WKU (9)
Losing to an FCS team is bad enough, but losing to a team that had to adjust to four downs, no 55-yard line and goalposts in the back of the end zone is something else entirely. Perhaps the Hilltoppers can get their revenge in January's Skiing While Wearing L.L. Bean and Eating Blueberries Throwdown.

Actually Tech gave the world Duck Dynasty...

Didn't one of them QB at ULM? I know I saw at one episode was set there when one of the kids was looking at going to school there.

Only Phil played football, started in front of TB, he quit his senior year and TB took over QB.
Phil has Bachelor and Masters from Tech, I think Willie went to ULM

Good stuff Cyniclone

I agree with most of this, but I'd change a few in the middle. I expected for Charlotte to lose to Appy. But, for a once proud flagship of C-USA to lose to ULM, is a really bad for C-USA. Coastal beating UAB was a shocker too, but at least Coastal can fall back on that whole back from death argument.

7. UTSA
8. Rice
9. Southern Miss

Not one of the best weeks for CUSA

1. NT (1) Name the score game against Incarnate Word, still lots to work on
2. FAU (4) Has win over highest rated opponent, Air Force at Massey composite 86
3. La Tech (3) Clubbed Southern as expected
4. Marshall (5) 2-0 is 2-0
5. FIU (7) Leading the conference standings
6. USM (8) Sign of Conference woes, loss to ULM moves USM up in rankings
7. MTSU (11) Put it on, the Martins of Tennessee
8. Rice (9) Had a great trip to Hawaii, then there was the game
9. UTSA (10) Congrats on winning big in the attendance bowl, but lost to Baylor
10. WKU (2) At least lost to a better FCS team, but Maine scored almost as many as Wisconsin
11 UAB (6) Supposed to challenge in West, going to have to get a lot better
12. Charlotte (12) Blown out by probably the best Belt team
13. ODU (13) Officially now in last place in conference standings
14. UTEP (14) Please get out of every FBS poll's last place

I think Tech and Marshall should fight for the number 4 spot. Pretty sure Tech belongs at 4 and Marshall at 3. Their fanbase seems to think they are more worthy of #4 (based on their comments). Only one way to settle this.

(09-10-2018 09:28 AM)DETLTU Wrote:  I think Tech and Marshall should fight for the number 4 spot. Pretty sure Tech belongs at 4 and Marshall at 3. Their fanbase seems to think they are more worthy of #4 (based on their comments). Only one way to settle this.

2014 rematch.

(09-10-2018 09:28 AM)DETLTU Wrote:  I think Tech and Marshall should fight for the number 4 spot. Pretty sure Tech belongs at 4 and Marshall at 3. Their fanbase seems to think they are more worthy of #4 (based on their comments). Only one way to settle this.

We'll settle it on the field when we have our first regular season meeting, sometime around 2034.

(09-10-2018 09:41 AM)banker Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 09:28 AM)DETLTU Wrote:  I think Tech and Marshall should fight for the number 4 spot. Pretty sure Tech belongs at 4 and Marshall at 3. Their fanbase seems to think they are more worthy of #4 (based on their comments). Only one way to settle this.

We'll settle it on the field when we have our first regular season meeting, sometime around 2034.

Actually 2034 is no good for me. We have WKU and FAU every year until 2035. Can we do 2036?

FAU had the best win this week and it’s not even close.

(09-10-2018 07:53 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  FAU had the best win this week and it’s not even close.

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Considering they played the only FBS program of teams that won, besides the ODU/FIU matchup, who else would it be?

(09-10-2018 08:05 PM)Franko Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 07:53 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  FAU had the best win this week and it’s not even close.

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Considering they played the only FBS program of teams that won, besides the ODU/FIU matchup, who else would it be?

Exactly. That’s why I don’t get UNT at #1.

(09-10-2018 08:40 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 08:05 PM)Franko Wrote:  

(09-10-2018 07:53 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote:  FAU had the best win this week and it’s not even close.

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Considering they played the only FBS program of teams that won, besides the ODU/FIU matchup, who else would it be?

Exactly. That’s why I don’t get UNT at #1.

Because the ranking isnt based only on this week and they are 2-0.