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Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:50 pm
by MAD Doctor
Of course, just another offseason time filler, but La.Tech in NOLA isn’t an insult, considering that they have Coastal vs Toledo in Conway and LaLa in Montgomery.
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/C ... 20181/Amp/
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:49 pm
by VNova
Playing Louisiana Tech would be neat. New team, relatively successful, and another chance to prove Sun Belt superiority.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:09 pm
by app97
VNova wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:49 pm
Playing Louisiana Tech would be neat. New team, relatively successful, and another chance to prove Sun Belt superiority.
And would be playing against former Mountaineer, Marcus Williams Jr.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:24 am
by ArmantiWaterSafety
"The Knights will be battling Cincinnati, Louisiana, Coastal Carolina and others for this invite. The race for the Group of 5's NY6 bid will be fun to watch this fall."
Still struggling to see how we completely fell out of these discussions in one abnormal year, but another reason to prove them all wrong.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:08 am
by rbarthle17
ArmantiWaterSafety wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:24 am
"The Knights will be battling Cincinnati, Louisiana, Coastal Carolina and others for this invite. The race for the Group of 5's NY6 bid will be fun to watch this fall."
Still struggling to see how we completely fell out of these discussions in one abnormal year, but another reason to prove them all wrong.
Neither us or UL are going to win our P5 game, and one or both of us will knock Coastal out. A SB team would have to go undefeated to overcome the weak perception of the conference. It's going to take the AAC as a whole having an off year for us to have a shot.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:44 am
by t4pizza
I don't think UCF or Cincy will will their P5 games either, and the reputation of the Sun Belt made significant strides last year. The whole AAC doesn't have to have a bad year because only a few schools in that conference even compete for their title. If the AAC champ has 2 or more loses and the Sun Belt champ only has an out of conference loss to either Texas or Miami, I think the Sun Belt champ is in very good shape to get that NY6 bowl. The Sun Belt is the only G5 conference with 2 way too early pre season top 25 teams, I wouldn't say that is a weak perception of the conference.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:05 am
by AppSt94
ArmantiWaterSafety wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:24 am
"The Knights will be battling Cincinnati, Louisiana, Coastal Carolina and others for this invite. The race for the Group of 5's NY6 bid will be fun to watch this fall."
Still struggling to see how we completely fell out of these discussions in one abnormal year, but another reason to prove them all wrong.
Meh. It’s just one guys opinion looking to fill some time with Op Ed content. Ironically, he lives in NC. My guess is that he hasn’t done much of a deep dive into anyone at the G5 level to justify his statements. I would guess that we are included in the “others” category. For us in particular, as is a lot of prognosticators, he is over valuing the loss of Zac and undervaluing the addition of CB. Let them. No concerns that CB can get it done.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:20 am
by Black Saturday
AppSt94 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:05 am
ArmantiWaterSafety wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 8:24 am
"The Knights will be battling Cincinnati, Louisiana, Coastal Carolina and others for this invite. The race for the Group of 5's NY6 bid will be fun to watch this fall."
Still struggling to see how we completely fell out of these discussions in one abnormal year, but another reason to prove them all wrong.
Meh. It’s just one guys opinion looking to fill some time with Op Ed content. Ironically, he lives in NC. My guess is that he hasn’t done much of a deep dive into anyone at the G5 level to justify his statements. I would guess that we are included in the “others” category. For us in particular, as is a lot of prognosticators, he is over valuing the loss of Zac and undervaluing the addition of CB. Let them. No concerns that CB can get it done.
Agree, CB has the talent or he'd never had a scholarship to Clemson and Duke, he's definitely competed at a higher level. hope the team can come together and have a great year.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:07 am
by AtlAppMan
I don't really like these early bowl projections because for the G5's they really just take the bowls setup for each conference and basically play musical chairs with them. They don't really have any rhyme or reason to their slotting of teams into bowls.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 11:47 am
by Black Saturday
t4pizza wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:44 am
I don't think UCF or Cincy will will their P5 games either, and the reputation of the Sun Belt made significant strides last year. The whole AAC doesn't have to have a bad year because only a few schools in that conference even compete for their title. If the AAC champ has 2 or more loses and the Sun Belt champ only has an out of conference loss to either Texas or Miami, I think the Sun Belt champ is in very good shape to get that NY6 bowl. The Sun Belt is the only G5 conference with 2 way too early pre season top 25 teams, I wouldn't say that is a weak perception of the conference.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... hp&pc=U531
This article says Cincy is one of 7 teams favored in each of their games, fwiw
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 12:18 pm
by t4pizza
Cincy plays at Indiana and at Notre Dame in back to back weeks. Perhaps they will be favored in each game but it would surprise me for them to be favored over Notre Dame under touchdown Jesus.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:52 pm
by Black Saturday
speaking of TD Jesus, do we still have the RB from them in school and on the roster?
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:08 pm
by WVAPPeer
Unless something changes and we can fill at large spots instead of the current bowl tie-ins, there really is no one out there that I have any excitement about playing.
Re: Way, Way Too Early Bowl Projection
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:12 pm
by t4pizza
Black Saturday wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:52 pm
speaking of TD Jesus, do we still have the RB from them in school and on the roster?
Yes, he is enrolled and on the roster.