(09-26-2016 05:58 PM)ericsaid Wrote: (09-26-2016 05:50 PM)ThaGinga Wrote: (09-26-2016 02:29 PM)ericsaid Wrote: (09-26-2016 02:26 PM)slycat Wrote: (09-26-2016 01:53 PM)ericsaid Wrote: ULL 42 - NMSU 23
Auburn 52 - ULM 3
SDSU 45 - USA 6
App State 48 - GSU 27
Texas State 22 - Incarnate Word 26
Troy 41 - Idado 39
Georgia Southern 27 - Arkansas State 25
What the heck?
They are a good FCS program and the Sun Belt is finally regaining Sun Belt form, playing close FCS games.
Incarnate has a solid team this year, with their losses being by 1 score, so I expect this game to be close.
You do realize they lost to D2 Texas A&M-Kingsville right? Oh and they lost that game by 9. Which, unless the rules have changed, is still two scores.
They also only lost to Nichols by one score who took USA to overtime. Transitive property doesn't work in football. I only know that it's starting to look like the Ohio win was Texas State playing out of their mind and that Incarnate Word has a good enough football team to win that game. Lets call it the upset special.
You might want to rethink this logic if you're basing it on USA. Here are some superlatives from that game:
-- USA ( errantly ) went for a long FG - Nicholls blocked it and returned it for a TD
-- One ball bounced off a USA receiver and was intercepted and returned for a TD
-- One Nicholls kickoff was recovered by Nicholls in USA's red zone leading to a TD
-- There were three additional USA turnovers, another one being a fortunate bounce that landed in Nicholls' hands
-- The SBC refs missed a call (go figure) where Nicholls fumbled going into the endzone and the ball went out the back of the endzone. They ruled that the ball in fact came out prior to the goal line, but they couldn't tell if it was recovered as it went out the back of the endzone. This SHOULD have been a touchback and Jag ball any way you slice it. But that wasn't what happened and Nicholls got the ball at the 0.5 yard line and scored a TD.
-- Nicholls only had 89 total yards at halftime, but had 23 points to show for it.
USA mistakes and weird bounces and plays that went in Nicholls' favor allowed them to stay in the game.
Final stats:
First downs:
USA - 25
NU - 12
Total yards:
USA - 510
NU - 230
Passing yards:
USA - 302
NU - 69
Rushing yards:
USA - 208
NU - 161
Texas State should beat IW. And nothing from our game with Nicholls will change my mind. We should have beaten them a bit more easily than we did, but sometimes the football bounces in a funny way. Eat em up, Bobcats.