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(08-14-2019 12:57 PM)odu09 Wrote:  Anyway, here's an arbitrary prediction. I don't know anything about our team other than we have a lot of unknowns, and I don't know much about NSU. Do they have a QB with experience?

I think it will be ODU 35, NSU 20

I daresay we may even be down at halftime. You have my permission to save this post and make fun of me on Sept 1.

If we are down at halftime, and win by only 15, we will not win another game.

Recent history has shown that our first game is fairly predictive of our season in general; exposing weakness in the offense, defense, or both.

In 2016, we destroyed a Hampton team that was probably better than this 2019 NSU team. We went on to a bowl game that year.
Consider the lethargic 31-17 win vs Albany in 2017. That Albany team, while not great, was still likely very much better than the NSU team we will face this year. We went on to disappointingly under-achieve that year.
the Liberty game as did our entire 2018 season, speaks for itself.

Our schedules in 2017 and 2018, while demanding, were not at the level of what will likely be the most demanding in our short history in 2019.