BoiseStateFan27's College Football preseason 120

[UTVolCountry]

Holy hell that carp is huge.

 

[ForkEmBucky]

??

This gon' be a mighty big thread hoss.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

This gon' be a mighty big thread hoss.

Yes sir it will.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

116. Central Michigan Chippewas

Why they're here: Clearly this program isn't the same without Dan Lefevour now, just two years ago this team finished in the top 25, now coming off a 3-9 season look where they are. They return their starting QB who threw for a decent amount of yards but he threw 17 interceptions last year. Their top two offensive linemen both graduated which will hurt when the offense is already struggling. They currently have nothing at running back either right now. Their defense was pretty bad last year, giving up 5.5 yards per play and their secondary only had 4 interceptions on the year. They also lost their top CB. Their defensive line is another big hole for them, especially since they lost their top run stopper to graduation. Linebacker was a good area for this team last year but their top two linebackers also graduated, so this team has a lot of work to do.

Why they could be higher: They return reciever Cody Wilson who had 83 catches for 1137 yards last year, if they can get another reciever to emerge and their QB can throw less interceptions the offense can improve greatly.

Predictions

South Carolina State W
@ Kentucky L
@ Western Michigan L
@ Michigan State L
Northern Illinois L
@ NC State L
Eastern Michigan L
@ Ball State L
@ Akron W
@ Kent State L
Ohio L
Toledo L

2-10


Their schedule is not very kind to them, most of their best chances to win are on the road, They get the benefit of getting to play South Carolina State in their opener, but that could also be disaster because South Carolina State is one of the top FCS programs. I think they do manage to win the road game against Akron though.

 

[nolehusker]

For a second I didn't see the State after South Carolina and thought you were trying to troll 247

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

For a second I didn't see the State after South Carolina and thought you were trying to troll 247

LOL!

 

[24seven]

There is no such thing as "Central Michigan." Michigan is made of two distinct areas that are not connected. Thus, this team does not even exist, unless they are under water somewhere, in which case they are probably very slow if not dead.
I see them at 119.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

I have 59 posts left today so I'll do one more


115. Ball State Cardinals

Why they're here: You can't even imagine the fact that this team finished the regular season 12-0 just a few years back, they have struggled ever since. Now they've already moved on to a new coach, they hope to turn things around. They return both QBs that played last year but neither was effective. They struggled horribly with defense last year, with their defense only getting 14 sacks last year, which is made even worse by their top defensive player who contributed to 6 of those sacks graduated, he also forced 3 fumbles.

Why they could be higher: Pete Lembo was a pretty good offensive coach at Elon so he could very easily turn things around quickly for this team. They return 3 offensive linemen from a line that last year only gave up 16 sacks. They return Jr. RB Eric Williams who ran for 613 yards last year. They return WR Jack Thompson who could be a potential playmaker. They return all three linebackers who were all pretty good last year. The secondary is another good looking spot because they get saftey Kyle Hoke back from injury, plus return CB Jason Pinkston and FS Sean Baker, Pinkston had 4 picks last year, Baker had 6 so both these guys created turnovers.


Predictions

Indiana(at Indianapolis) L
@ USF L
Buffalo L
Army L
@ Oklahoma L
Temple L
@ Ohio L
Central Michigan W
@ Western Michigan L
@ Eastern Michigan L
@ Northern Illinois L
Toledo L

1-11

Their schedule is very tough for next year, they only get one real winable home game next year which is Central Michigan. If they do gets things together though they could easily win games over Temple, Buffalo, Army, Indiana and Central Michigan to have a solid year. Best case scenario is in addition to those they also manage to beat Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan to possibly make a bowl which would be huge in Pete Lembo's first year.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

wow that logo was much bigger than I thought it would be

 

[24seven]

wow that logo was much bigger than I thought it would be

 

[GunsUp_ShootinBlanks]

I believe you skipped 115 sir.

 

[huskers1217]

I believe you skipped 115 sir.

^^ this.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

I believe you skipped 115 sir.

fixed it, for some reason I thought I stopped at 116 last night and barely managed to have the right number for Central Michigan. I should be back on track now.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

114. New Mexico Lobos

Why they're here: This team has struggled horribly under Locksley reaching new lows each year, if that keeps up this year it will certainly be Lockley's last. The New Mexico offense was lethargic last year only getting more than 20 points 4 times. New Mexico needs to find a QB as they played a total of 4 of them last year and still couldn't find a true starter. They also only return 2 players on the offensive line, those two returners were freshmen last year. So besides the obvious of needing to find good players at the skill positions, New Mexico needs help at the offensive line as well. New Mexico also had a horrid defense last year, giving up 6.4 yards per play, including 8.3 yards per play against the pass. The defensive line also has it's issues, no starter had more than 2 sacks. The CB position is a major issue, as the secondary only had 4 picks last year and only one was by a CB.

Why they could be higher: They can only go up, perhaps this is the year Locksley gets something going with this team, they have a very talented tight end in Lucas Reed. On the defensive side they have a very talented middle linebacker in Carmen Messina along with a talented safety in Bubba Forrest, both players had over 100 tackles last year. A major issue for New Mexico's pass coverage last year was blown coverages, at time their defensive coordinator somehow would manage to not cover some of the other team's players, a new defensive coordinator can hopefully fix that this year.

Predictions

Colorado State L
@ Arkansas(in Little Rock) L
Texas Tech L
Sam Houston State W
New Mexico State W
@ Nevada L
@ TCU L
Air Force L
@ San Diego State L
UNLV L
@ Wyoming L
@ Boise State L

2-10

bad news for New Mexico is the schedule is really tough, luckily they play everyone they have a chance at beating at home this year, so New Mexico could potentially hit 4 wins if they can get past Colorado State and UNLV along with Sam Houston State and New Mexico State.

 

[UTVolCountry]

I have 59 posts left today so I'll do one more


115. Ball State Cardinals

Why they're here: You can't even imagine the fact that this team finished the regular season 12-0 just a few years back, they have struggled ever since. Now they've already moved on to a new coach, they hope to turn things around. They return both QBs that played last year but neither was effective. They struggled horribly with defense last year, with their defense only getting 14 sacks last year, which is made even worse by their top defensive player who contributed to 6 of those sacks graduated, he also forced 3 fumbles.

Why they could be higher: Pete Lembo was a pretty good offensive coach at Elon so he could very easily turn things around quickly for this team. They return 3 offensive linemen from a line that last year only gave up 16 sacks. They return Jr. RB Eric Williams who ran for 613 yards last year. They return WR Jack Thompson who could be a potential playmaker. They return all three linebackers who were all pretty good last year. The secondary is another good looking spot because they get saftey Kyle Hoke back from injury, plus return CB Jason Pinkston and FS Sean Baker, Pinkston had 4 picks last year, Baker had 6 so both these guys created turnovers.


Predictions

Indiana(at Indianapolis) L
@ USF L
Buffalo L
Army L
@ Oklahoma L
Temple L
@ Ohio L
Central Michigan W
@ Western Michigan L
@ Eastern Michigan L
@ Northern Illinois L
Toledo L

1-11

Their schedule is very tough for next year, they only get one real winable home game next year which is Central Michigan. If they do gets things together though they could easily win games over Temple, Buffalo, Army, Indiana and Central Michigan to have a solid year. Best case scenario is in addition to those they also manage to beat Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan to possibly make a bowl which would be huge in Pete Lembo's first year.

College Football 2011: The 25 Worst College Football Stadium Experiences | Bleacher Report

No. 1: Ball State

Not surprisingly, the top spot goes to a MAC school.

It's probably one of the only times the MAC is going to get a top ranking in anything. Maybe the entire conference should move to the FCS.

Ball State gives lack of attendance a new meaning. In 2010, Ball State averaged a home crowd of a mere 8,947.

To put that in perspective, Ball State's entire attendance for 2010 is less than half of a single Saturday's crowd at Michigan Stadium.

Worse than that, 29 FCS teams had a higher average attendance.

Worse still, 10 Division II teams had a higher average.

It's a little surprising that there are more people who would rather see a game between FCS Arkansas-Pine Bluff and FCS Alcorn State or D-II Grand Valley State and D-II West Texas A&M than would watch FBS Ball State play any FBS school.

Why is Ball State even a Division I-FBS school? They clearly don't deserve that destinction.

For that, Ball State gets our top spot on the list of Worst College Football Stadium Experiences.

Wow...

 

[cane_man]

since nothing but baseball is going on now, I'm going to start on this, I will countdown from 120 as the offseason goes on and then after the football season everyone can bump this and laugh at how far off I was.

To start this off time to name team number 120


120. Memphis Tigers

Reason Why they're here: They're the worst until they prove otherwise, and last season they were just terrible, they went 1-11 with their only win coming against a Mid Tenn State team who was using their backup QB, so in other words not good. This team and program has a lot of work to do.

Reason for Them to be hopeful of being better than this: umm their QB was a freshman and he showed some promise, maybe they'll surprise some people and win a few games. They got a few solid recruits this past offseason so at least the future is looking positive but this will likely be a season to forget.

Prediction

Mississippi State L
@ Arkansas State L
Austin Peay W(maybe)
SMU L
@ Mid Tenn State L
@ Rice L
ECU L
@ Tulane L
@ UCF L
UAB L
Marshall L
@ Southern Miss L

Record 1-11

Their schedule doesn't do them much favors luckily they play Austin Peay so they can get at least one win, bad news is the only other two winable games being against Tulane and Rice are both away games, very unlikely that they win those games. Their best chance other than that is Marshall at home but that isn't even too likely.

can you finish last seasons yet?

 

[popeyecv64]

I think he meant holy carp, one must have gotten into Lake Michigan.

now thats a big pish

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

bump, my moment of depression is about to come in.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

113. Buffalo Bulls

Why They're Here: Buffalo struggled horribly on offense last year. Runningbacks averaged only 3 yards per attempt. The offensive line returns 3 starters from last year, but with how they played it's questionable if that's in fact a positive. Quarterback was a bit of a struggle, Jerry Davis played QB through a lot of last year before towards the end of the year, Alex Zordich took over at QB, he'll be a sophmore this year, Zordich played alright and looked like he could make the offense better, but then he went down with an injury against Ball State, and the Bulls offense fell apart. If Zordich doesn't get injured again he could do quite well. Last season the defense was pretty good, mainly because of Domonic Cook and DaVonte Shannon, both were incredible members of the secondary combining for 10 interceptions, they also lost two other members of the secondary so now that previous strength now looks to be a weakness unless some new starters emerge. The defensive line was another weakness only getting 17 sacks on the year.

Why they could be higher: a lot of the team was young last year so they will definitely improve. They return their top 4 recievers which is a huge plus, if Zordich can get on track and connect with these recievers this will likely become a pass heavy offense especially with Jeff Quinn as coach. OLB Khalil Mack returns, he had 4.5 sacks, 14.5 TFL, and 2 forced fumbles last year, he and Defensive end Steven Means were top players on defense. Means also had 4.5 sacks last year.


Predictions

@ Pitt L
Stony Brook W
@ Ball State W
Uconn L
@ Tennessee L
Ohio L
@ Temple L
Northern Illinois L
@ Miami of Ohio L
@ Eastern Michigan L
Akron W
Bowling Green W

4-8

The good news is, the schedule is very favorable, if the offense gets things together this team could perhaps pull off wins against one of the Big east teams, Ohio, Eastern Michigan maybe even perhaps Temple.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

112. UTEP Miners

Why They're Here: Sure UTEP made a bowl game last year and played well, but they lost a lot of that team. Quarterback Trevor Vittatoe and Running Back Donald Buckram were both amazing players for UTEP but both graduated. So far UTEP's coach has been disappointing with the lack of progress of the returning QBs which isn't good. All 5 offensive linemen from last year graduated, their top reciever Kris Adams also graduated, and the best returning reciever they had was suspended to "focus on his academics"(something like this wouldn't happen in the SEC). So with their offense looking like a major question right now, UTEP needs their defense to step up, well their defensive line only had 15 sacks last year which isn't good. No defensive lineman got more than 3 sacks or 4.5 TFL, they gave up 4.8 yards per carry. The linebackers are nothing special either, the best one of them had 79 tackles last year and 4.5 TFL.

Why they could be higher: There's always the chance the new starters can develop into good players, also due to Donald Buckram having injury issues, the new starting running back Joe Banyard got some playing time last year where he ran for over 600 yards. On the defensive side of the ball, UTEP had a pretty solid secondary last year, only issue is they lost their leading tackler in the secondary.

Predictions

Stony Brook W
@ SMU L
@ New Mexico State W
@ USF L
Houston L
@ Tulane L
Colorado State L
Southern Miss L
@ Rice L
ECU L
Tulsa L
@ UCF L

2-10

Their schedule is incredibly unfavorable. Most of the games that they have the best chance to win are on the road this year. Luckily they do play Stony Brook and New Mexico State OOC so they can at least win those, but some good news is if new starters emerge this team could easily be in contention for the Conference USA championship due to playing most of the top Conference USA teams at home.