(11-22-2020 02:20 PM)Tech80 Wrote: (11-22-2020 01:58 PM)HogDawg Wrote: (11-21-2020 06:18 PM)Dusky Wrote: (11-21-2020 05:50 PM)Dusky Wrote: (11-21-2020 01:48 PM)HogDawg Wrote: Well, congratulations. Your hindsight is almost as good as everyone else's.
But yeah, I do think LA Tech's 2020 football season is over. After not playing 3 straight weeks, and losing some quality players who chose to "opt out" (that's what the "everyone gets a trophy" generation calls QUITTING on your teammates) of the 2020 season, why would Tech even bother to play two more road games against FIU & UNT.
Oh, I want 'em to play, but Skip Holtz is much more interested in risk avoidance. If his season ends right now at 4-3, he'll consider that a victory.
Don’t you still have a legit shot to win the division?
Never mind, you needed SMiss to take care of UTSA.
LA Tech needs UNT to beat UTSA this Saturday (Nov 28th), and either USM or Rice to beat UAB over the next 2 weeks. If those two things happen --and Tech beats FIU & UNT-- then LA Tech will win the WEST.
Oh! is that all that has to happen?
- UNT is certainly capable of beating UTSA.
- Rice is capable of beating UAB
- USM is one of UAB's chief rivals, so anything can happen.
BTW, UTSA is having one of those years when they keep barley winning games. They roared back from a 13-point deficit in the 4th Qtr of our game to beat LA Tech by 1 point. They beat USM by 3 pts yesterday, they beat Middle Tennessee by 2 pts, and they beat TX State in OT.
Side Note: I remember telling Side Show Joe back in 2017 that his UNT Mean Green were having a particularly "lucky" year that season, when UNT won almost all of their
close games. UNT beat LA Tech by 1 pt, Army by 3, UAB by 3, UTSA by 3 and ODU by 7 that season. I told SSJ he shouldn't expect those kind of results every year because most teams just can't win all their close games like that. IMO, that was a really remarkable run for UNT.
Well, sure enough, the next season (2018) UNT lost about half of their close games (LA Tech by 2, ODU by 3 & USB by 8) and won the other half (UTEP, UTSA and FAU, all by 3 points). This was a much more normalized result.