has Ark State and Boise State...interesting.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...enn-state/

(09-06-2023 08:01 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  has Ark State and Boise State...interesting.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...enn-state/

Can you pull off an UGLY blue field with a poor team?

That’s a who’s who of AAC teams

Navy
Rice
North Texas
ECU

And 2 of our non conf opponents

Arky State was #1 in this week’s ESPN Bottom 10.

How is CC on the list?

They played UCLA very tough on the road.

ECU?

Goes to the big house and in front of over 100,000 fans keeps the Michigan QB to less than 300 yards passing and not allowing a 100 yard rusher.

Michigan averaged 55 with a margin of victory of 49 in their first three games last year.

Think the writer just picked a bunch of G5 schools that lost by 20 or more and made his list.

(09-06-2023 09:39 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  How is CC on the list?

They played UCLA very tough on the road.

ECU?

Goes to the big house and in front of over 100,000 fans keeps the Michigan QB to less than 300 yards passing and not allowing a 100 yard rusher.

Michigan averaged 55 with a margin of victory of 49 in their first three games last year.

Think the writer just picked a bunch of G5 schools that lost by 20 or more and made his list.

Probably so. Everybody lazy these days. Pretty much everything is going for shock value. Probably why people don't take sports journalism seriously these days

(09-06-2023 10:11 PM)Crazier Wrote:  

(09-06-2023 09:39 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  How is CC on the list?

They played UCLA very tough on the road.

ECU?

Goes to the big house and in front of over 100,000 fans keeps the Michigan QB to less than 300 yards passing and not allowing a 100 yard rusher.

Michigan averaged 55 with a margin of victory of 49 in their first three games last year.

Think the writer just picked a bunch of G5 schools that lost by 20 or more and made his list.

Probably so. Everybody lazy these days. Pretty much everything is going for shock value. Probably why people don't take sports journalism seriously these days

Or journalism in general.

(09-06-2023 08:39 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  That’s a who’s who of AAC teams

Navy
Rice
North Texas
ECU

And 2 of our non conf opponents

We continue to have such awful scheduling

Live by the CUPCAKE die by the CUPCAKE

Bottom 10 based on RPI, without bias.

129 Cent. Michigan
130 Colorado St.
131 Old Dominion
133 Hawaii
134 Akron
135 Arkansas St.
136 Nevada
138 Northwestern
139 South Florida
140 New Mexico

(09-07-2023 11:59 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Bottom 10 based on RPI, without bias.

129 Cent. Michigan
130 Colorado St.
131 Old Dominion
133 Hawaii
134 Akron
135 Arkansas St.
136 Nevada
138 Northwestern
139 South Florida
140 New Mexico

So we play 2 of the 5 worst teams

(09-07-2023 12:11 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(09-07-2023 11:59 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Bottom 10 based on RPI, without bias.

129 Cent. Michigan
130 Colorado St.
131 Old Dominion
133 Hawaii
134 Akron
135 Arkansas St.
136 Nevada
138 Northwestern
139 South Florida
140 New Mexico

So we play 2 of the 5 worst teams

After the first game. The stats will change wildly. Just like we play an easy team the first game, the stronger teams do as well. So they destroy them, and they show up really low on the RPI chart.

Arkansas St. is almost definitely not one of the worst 5 teams in the nation. That will change and change and change again throughout the season. That's why the 21.5 spread surprised me so much.

Bottom 10 ESPN FPI

North Texas
Arkansas State
Bowling Green
Massachusetts
Colorado State
Kent State
Akron
Eastern Michigan
New Mexico
Florida International

(09-07-2023 01:23 PM)ballhog Wrote:  Arkansas St. is almost definitely not one of the worst 5 teams in the nation. That will change and change and change again throughout the season. That's why the 21.5 spread surprised me so much.

Arkansas State has won only 5 games over the past 2 years & a questionable OU team just hanged 73 points on them. They are dreadful.

(09-07-2023 02:23 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(09-07-2023 01:23 PM)ballhog Wrote:  Arkansas St. is almost definitely not one of the worst 5 teams in the nation. That will change and change and change again throughout the season. That's why the 21.5 spread surprised me so much.

Arkansas State has won only 5 games over the past 2 years & a questionable OU team just hung 73 points on them. They are dreadful.

They are dreadful, but there are a lot of REALLY bad teams out there.

Arkansas State is BAD.

(09-07-2023 02:33 PM)ballhog Wrote:  

(09-07-2023 02:23 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(09-07-2023 01:23 PM)ballhog Wrote:  Arkansas St. is almost definitely not one of the worst 5 teams in the nation. That will change and change and change again throughout the season. That's why the 21.5 spread surprised me so much.

Arkansas State has won only 5 games over the past 2 years & a questionable OU team just hung 73 points on them. They are dreadful.

They are dreadful, but there are a lot of REALLY bad teams out there.

AState can compete with the worst of them.

We're number 1! We're number 1!

Yes, the stAte team is very, very, bad. The run of 1 and done coaches coupled with keeping a bad coach around 3 years too long plus hiring a Memphis AD retread as our AD pretty much put all the athletic programs in a ditch. There was also president selfie in there who was asleep at the wheel through all this. The new coaches and AD are trying to pull them out but it's a long haul. Hopefully, we look better come Saturday. Until then, they deserve every shameful accolade they can heap on stAte.

(09-07-2023 03:41 PM)sdcritter Wrote:  We're number 1! We're number 1!

Yes, the stAte team is very, very, bad. The run of 1 and done coaches coupled with keeping a bad coach around 3 years too long plus hiring a Memphis AD retread as our AD pretty much put all the athletic programs in a ditch. There was also president selfie in there who was asleep at the wheel through all this. The new coaches and AD are trying to pull them out but it's a long haul. Hopefully, we look better come Saturday. Until then, they deserve every shameful accolade they can heap on stAte.

This game seems to be one that is regularly closer than one might think. Almost always a battle! I feel certain ASU can't play worse and I think we will need to play much better on the OL to cover the spread. As always I can see this one coming down to the 4th quarter, but you never know. This week and the Navy game are certainly both expected wins but I think how we win will tell us more about what the rest of the season might look like.