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(02-19-2020 09:05 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: I am going to be the first person to say this, but it's a hard schedule for the Tigers. Yes, I did say hard.
I fully expect Purdue to be the team in the Big 10 that will show the biggest improvement from the 2019 season to the 2020 season. The can be my dark-horse to represent the Big Ten West in Indianapolis. I think we will play hard, but could very well lose that game solely because it's a road game.
Not a very good time to be playing Houston in September. Yes, the Cougars tanked in 2019 with redshirting almost everyone on their team, so it's going to be tough playing that team because we don't know what to fully expect from them. However, I do believe we will win against the Coogs.
UTSA should be a win based solely on talent. We are much more talented than the Roadrunners, and I do hope the starters take care of business again UTSA for the first 3 quarters, and get that fourth quarter win.
SMU will be tricky. First, this is the game SMU will circled on their schedule. Thursday night doesn't help, and playing back to back road games in a 5 day stretch, won't help either.
UCF game sucks because it's on a Friday night. So, the attendance will be down. But UCF will do everything it takes to win and get back into the AAC championship game. They'll give us everything they have.
Cincinnati will be a loss to me. Another road game where the opposing team will have this game circled, so who knows. Halloween, that tells me it'll be a black out in Cincy, could be cold as well. Better brace yourself to be a road warrior.
Navy to me will be one of the two teams in the AAC championship game. They have the easiest schedule to me. They play Memphis at home, in November where it'll be cold, and their new QB will be experienced. A game where the boys better strap it up, or could get ugly.
Tulane could be a game where the maturity shows. Their QB is a Texas Tech grad transfer that's pretty good when healthy. Could be a tough game when the going gets tough.
2020 record: 8-4
Per bolded part. I know it's a Friday night game with high school football being played, but, I disagree, When UCF comes to town, regardless of the night the game is played, the Liberty Bowl will be packed and the place will be a rockin. IMHO
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(02-20-2020 12:18 PM)CKMcDan Wrote: (02-18-2020 04:59 PM)Stammers Wrote: (02-18-2020 04:18 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote: Weird schedule for us, but it's timed remarkably well.
In my opinion, the schedule is dumb. It doesn't give UCF and Cincinnati and us enough time to get ranked highly and if we beat them, our last 4 games are against nobodies, so we won't get to jump many teams. We will all start in the high teens to mid twenties and won't beat anyone good enough to get much higher before we play. We needed to play those teams at the end when they are both undefeated or only have one loss and are highly ranked.
It is completely ******* STUPID.
We're taking the UT approach to scheduling. Play the easy teams in November, so you finish with a string of wins. It's like playing Kentucky & Vanderbilt in November ever year.
I would imagine that the league set up the schedule. Typically, because of P5 bias, non P5 teams start out unranked or ranked lower than they should be. The only way they get ranked higher is by piling up a lot of wins. We will not get value by playing Cincinnati and UCF so early. I'm not worried about Houston being good, so that's a moot point. Navy is losing Perry and a lot of pieces, so it will be difficult for them to be very good. SMU also loses a lot.
Last year was the best. We played the best team last; the buildup was great.
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(02-20-2020 12:27 PM)wylioats Wrote: (02-19-2020 09:05 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: I am going to be the first person to say this, but it's a hard schedule for the Tigers. Yes, I did say hard.
I fully expect Purdue to be the team in the Big 10 that will show the biggest improvement from the 2019 season to the 2020 season. The can be my dark-horse to represent the Big Ten West in Indianapolis. I think we will play hard, but could very well lose that game solely because it's a road game.
Not a very good time to be playing Houston in September. Yes, the Cougars tanked in 2019 with redshirting almost everyone on their team, so it's going to be tough playing that team because we don't know what to fully expect from them. However, I do believe we will win against the Coogs.
UTSA should be a win based solely on talent. We are much more talented than the Roadrunners, and I do hope the starters take care of business again UTSA for the first 3 quarters, and get that fourth quarter win.
SMU will be tricky. First, this is the game SMU will circled on their schedule. Thursday night doesn't help, and playing back to back road games in a 5 day stretch, won't help either.
UCF game sucks because it's on a Friday night. So, the attendance will be down. But UCF will do everything it takes to win and get back into the AAC championship game. They'll give us everything they have.
Cincinnati will be a loss to me. Another road game where the opposing team will have this game circled, so who knows. Halloween, that tells me it'll be a black out in Cincy, could be cold as well. Better brace yourself to be a road warrior.
Navy to me will be one of the two teams in the AAC championship game. They have the easiest schedule to me. They play Memphis at home, in November where it'll be cold, and their new QB will be experienced. A game where the boys better strap it up, or could get ugly.
Tulane could be a game where the maturity shows. Their QB is a Texas Tech grad transfer that's pretty good when healthy. Could be a tough game when the going gets tough.
2020 record: 8-4
Per bolded part. I know it's a Friday night game with high school football being played, but, I disagree, When UCF comes to town, regardless of the night the game is played, the Liberty Bowl will be packed and the place will be a rockin. IMHO
Did you watch the AAC championship game?
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(02-20-2020 10:11 AM)uskjtc02 Wrote: Christmas has become way too commercialized. For the most part it’s not celebrated for its purpose.
Yes, they have really 'couged' Christmas.
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(02-20-2020 11:00 AM)UofMark Wrote: (02-20-2020 09:34 AM)neillis Wrote: (02-19-2020 11:22 AM)uskjtc02 Wrote: (02-19-2020 09:24 AM)neillis Wrote: (02-18-2020 02:09 PM)UofMark Wrote: I wanted to make that Tulane trip also. Maybe in 2022.
Just cancel Thanksgiving. It's more trouble now than it's worth anyways.
No, that’s Christmas.
Christmas is more trouble than it's worth now too. I'd imagine that UofMark would rather cancel Thanksgiving, though, because he's the one who has to host everyone for Thanksgiving and all the grandkids are at the point where they just like to make as much noise as possible for the sake of it.
Yes, we definitely need a new family member, one with a big new house with lot's of room, to step in and relieve us of the responsibility we've had since Clinton was President. We just might make that Tulane trip after all. I've heard a Cajun turkey is something amazing. Somebody else will step up for Thanksgiving...…….won't they? Maybe Grandma who passed it on to us will take it back. She's only 88.
Once you give it up it will slowly dissolve away.
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RE: AAC releases football schedules
(02-20-2020 01:33 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: (02-20-2020 12:27 PM)wylioats Wrote: (02-19-2020 09:05 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: I am going to be the first person to say this, but it's a hard schedule for the Tigers. Yes, I did say hard.
I fully expect Purdue to be the team in the Big 10 that will show the biggest improvement from the 2019 season to the 2020 season. The can be my dark-horse to represent the Big Ten West in Indianapolis. I think we will play hard, but could very well lose that game solely because it's a road game.
Not a very good time to be playing Houston in September. Yes, the Cougars tanked in 2019 with redshirting almost everyone on their team, so it's going to be tough playing that team because we don't know what to fully expect from them. However, I do believe we will win against the Coogs.
UTSA should be a win based solely on talent. We are much more talented than the Roadrunners, and I do hope the starters take care of business again UTSA for the first 3 quarters, and get that fourth quarter win.
SMU will be tricky. First, this is the game SMU will circled on their schedule. Thursday night doesn't help, and playing back to back road games in a 5 day stretch, won't help either.
UCF game sucks because it's on a Friday night. So, the attendance will be down. But UCF will do everything it takes to win and get back into the AAC championship game. They'll give us everything they have.
Cincinnati will be a loss to me. Another road game where the opposing team will have this game circled, so who knows. Halloween, that tells me it'll be a black out in Cincy, could be cold as well. Better brace yourself to be a road warrior.
Navy to me will be one of the two teams in the AAC championship game. They have the easiest schedule to me. They play Memphis at home, in November where it'll be cold, and their new QB will be experienced. A game where the boys better strap it up, or could get ugly.
Tulane could be a game where the maturity shows. Their QB is a Texas Tech grad transfer that's pretty good when healthy. Could be a tough game when the going gets tough.
2020 record: 8-4
Per bolded part. I know it's a Friday night game with high school football being played, but, I disagree, When UCF comes to town, regardless of the night the game is played, the Liberty Bowl will be packed and the place will be a rockin. IMHO
Did you watch the AAC championship game?
Yes I did, I was there, as I am for all Tiger home games. Like I said, just my honest opinion.
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(02-20-2020 01:23 PM)Stammers Wrote: I would imagine that the league set up the schedule. Typically, because of P5 bias, non P5 teams start out unranked or ranked lower than they should be. The only way they get ranked higher is by piling up a lot of wins. We will not get value by playing Cincinnati and UCF so early. I'm not worried about Houston being good, so that's a moot point. Navy is losing Perry and a lot of pieces, so it will be difficult for them to be very good. SMU also loses a lot.
Last year was the best. We played the best team last; the buildup was great.
Unbelievable.
Well, not really. Because the simple truth is, you just like to argue. And the more you lose, the more blustery you get.
You spent a lot of time and spewed a lot of anger arguing that there was no preseason P5 bias in this thread:
Stammers argues that there is no P5 bias in preseason polls
I guess I should take some satisfaction that my data did sink-in and you've changed your mind.
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2020 03:42 PM by Tiger87.)
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RE: AAC releases football schedules
(02-21-2020 09:51 AM)wylioats Wrote: (02-20-2020 01:33 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: (02-20-2020 12:27 PM)wylioats Wrote: (02-19-2020 09:05 PM)GoDownSwinging Wrote: I am going to be the first person to say this, but it's a hard schedule for the Tigers. Yes, I did say hard.
I fully expect Purdue to be the team in the Big 10 that will show the biggest improvement from the 2019 season to the 2020 season. The can be my dark-horse to represent the Big Ten West in Indianapolis. I think we will play hard, but could very well lose that game solely because it's a road game.
Not a very good time to be playing Houston in September. Yes, the Cougars tanked in 2019 with redshirting almost everyone on their team, so it's going to be tough playing that team because we don't know what to fully expect from them. However, I do believe we will win against the Coogs.
UTSA should be a win based solely on talent. We are much more talented than the Roadrunners, and I do hope the starters take care of business again UTSA for the first 3 quarters, and get that fourth quarter win.
SMU will be tricky. First, this is the game SMU will circled on their schedule. Thursday night doesn't help, and playing back to back road games in a 5 day stretch, won't help either.
UCF game sucks because it's on a Friday night. So, the attendance will be down. But UCF will do everything it takes to win and get back into the AAC championship game. They'll give us everything they have.
Cincinnati will be a loss to me. Another road game where the opposing team will have this game circled, so who knows. Halloween, that tells me it'll be a black out in Cincy, could be cold as well. Better brace yourself to be a road warrior.
Navy to me will be one of the two teams in the AAC championship game. They have the easiest schedule to me. They play Memphis at home, in November where it'll be cold, and their new QB will be experienced. A game where the boys better strap it up, or could get ugly.
Tulane could be a game where the maturity shows. Their QB is a Texas Tech grad transfer that's pretty good when healthy. Could be a tough game when the going gets tough.
2020 record: 8-4
Per bolded part. I know it's a Friday night game with high school football being played, but, I disagree, When UCF comes to town, regardless of the night the game is played, the Liberty Bowl will be packed and the place will be a rockin. IMHO
Did you watch the AAC championship game?
Yes I did, I was there, as I am for all Tiger home games. Like I said, just my honest opinion.
I think that is during high schools fall break and they don't routinely schedule as many games during that time. If we ever wanted a Friday night game, that was actually the optimum time for one.
It's quite interesting how much the AAC did Memphis favors with this schedule, against what Stammers claims.
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I can't wait for the ut martin and utsa, they should be great games and well attended
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(02-21-2020 03:54 PM)memphisike Wrote: I can't wait for the ut martin and utsa, they should be great games and well attended
Here are some games you might want to go to instead of our games against UT Martin and UTSA. Alabama against Georgia State, Tn. Martin and Kent State or the Ole Miss games against Georgia Southern and So. E. Mo. State. I am sure they will be great games. I am sorry they want be great games but they will be well attended. I hope you enjoy them.
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(02-21-2020 03:42 PM)Tiger87 Wrote: (02-20-2020 01:23 PM)Stammers Wrote: I would imagine that the league set up the schedule. Typically, because of P5 bias, non P5 teams start out unranked or ranked lower than they should be. The only way they get ranked higher is by piling up a lot of wins. We will not get value by playing Cincinnati and UCF so early. I'm not worried about Houston being good, so that's a moot point. Navy is losing Perry and a lot of pieces, so it will be difficult for them to be very good. SMU also loses a lot.
Last year was the best. We played the best team last; the buildup was great.
Unbelievable.
Well, not really. Because the simple truth is, you just like to argue. And the more you lose, the more blustery you get.
You spent a lot of time and spewed a lot of anger arguing that there was no preseason P5 bias in this thread:
Stammers argues that there is no P5 bias in preseason polls
I guess I should take some satisfaction that my data did sink-in and you've changed your mind.
Your entire argument was based on bias the season after teams were ranked.
Quote:Here's the deal. G5 schools drop more between the prior final poll and the current preseason poll than P5 schools do. I have the data and have shared it multiple times. There is no argument otherwise.
Quote:Since the inception of the CFP, comparing the movement of teams between the final AP ranking from one season, to the preseason ranking the following season:
P5 teams move up an average of 3 spots;
G5 teams move down an average of 4 spots.
A large part of that data comes from teams like Army, Utah State, San Diego State, Western Kentucky, Western Michigan, Appalachian State. The bias is with teams that weren't ranked to end the year before not being ranked, and mostly non P5 schools not rising as fast in the rankings during the season.
What you fail to mention is that in the same thread, I did say that Houston, UCF and Cincinnati had been victims of bias. I would say that unranked UCF is a definite victim for this upcoming season. It seems like Boise and Navy have been treated fairly. The worst bias is when the season starts and non P5 get little or no reward for winning, and get pummelled when they lose.
I wasn't the clown arguing that UCF didn't deserve to fall 6 positions because Milton wasn't that good and quarterbacks aren't that important.
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Ike is a one-pump chump.
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(02-21-2020 03:54 PM)memphisike Wrote: I can't wait for the ut martin and utsa, they should be great games and well attended
UTSA is away, so I am betting there will be a few thousand Tiger fans there.
IF UTM falls the way I think it will, we will have between 35-40,000 at the game. Senior Day, might still be a Kroger game and will be the last chance to see the AAC West Champs at home.... until the AAC Championship game that is.
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