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Assuming this is where I graduated from in the 80's, the school has been the Gators for almost 50 years. We used to do the chomp at football games with the Jaws song (sound familiar?). I seem to recall seeing a story from several years back about UF getting their tails in a wad about it, but it must have gone nowhere since they are still the Gators.

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/10/3/16408690/sec-football-conference-power-rankings-2017 ... Gunnerof the Year Watch Nate Ferguson is your GOTY leader as we approach the season’s midway point Photo by Jason Behnken/Getty Images Out of pure curiosity, I’ve been tracking special teams tackles this year. Maybe we’ll give a pretend award out to whoever has the most of them at the end. Winner of the award gets it named after him. Your fake award watch list at the moment: USF’s Nate Ferguson continues to shine on special teams. The junior cornerback is tied for the national lead with 7.5 special teams tackles, and the averages are still excellent; opponents are averaging just 5.7 yards per punt return and 20.7 yards per kick return when he’s in on the tackle.

P7 baby!

Any chance we'll see this tweeted out by any sports journalists with a snarky "P5?" reference as the caption? Yeah, I doubt it.

I didn't see this, but I would guess it's because the game was played in eastern N.C. where bluegrass music is big.

ECU fans are fleeing the stadium. No Quarter!

From the stadium those Flowers runs looked like slow motion lightning!

Section 12

Okay, so maybe P4. But if we're changing things up, let's just make it P6. Or here's a radical thought: FBS. Yeah, I know... I'm kidding myself.

Maybe they should just change it to P3. That way they can be super duper extra powerful.

We bought 4 tickets within a block of Raleigh Alumni Association tickets. As of last week we brought the total for just that block up to 55. The ECU Athletic sales guy told us we'd be near other Bulls fans, so hopefully there will be enough of us there to make the USF chants loud and clear on CBSSN.

Good!

I could actually deal with embracing the suck if we didn't also have to deal with certain people in the media seemingly trying their best to make us to gag on the suck.

The NCAA does not have any officially designated divisions known as 'Power 5' and 'Group of 5'! The AAC is in the FBS division. Until the NCAA creates a separate, lower-tier division this is a stupid idea that would only solidify the farce that is the "Power" 5.

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So it's all about TV contract negotiations for ESPN, and it's all about old grudges for McMurphy. I'm thinking there must be more to it than these well-worn explanations, but maybe that's all there is to it.... I hope the AAC keeps throwing P6 hype in the faces of those that, whatever their motives, seem to want to draw a line to keep the AAC in some sort of oddball "Major Mid-Major" status. After all, it took very little time for terms like "P5" and "G5" to stick in the college football world. A little self-fulfilling "P6" prophecy may just go a long way...

Very good read. Can anyone explain exactly why the ESPNs and McMurphys of the world don't embrace having another power conference (P6)? To me it seems like it would be good for business, more national level hype for them to cover. It can't just be a negotiation tactic to get cheaper TV contracts for AAC games, can it? There seems to be a bitter hatred from some (McMurphy) toward even the thought of a P6. It's baffling to me. Any thoughts or theories out there?

1) South Florida2) 52-173) Tice4) Marques Valdes-Scantling5) 575 Will be there in person to watch the Bulls take down the Pirates. Hopefully no torrential rains this year.

I stayed up to watch the whole game. Arizona definitely had their chances to win at the end but a non-fumble "fumble" (and terrible replay review that let the fumble stand) ruined it. Then AZ got the ball back with 2 minutes left and turned it over again. From what I saw, even without my green and gold goggles on, USF would handle any of the four teams that played on TV last night, including #23 Utah without much trouble.

ESPN2 is bashing SEC right now as Virginia completes the Boise beatdown. They are ranking the "P5" and have SEC at 4th. No mention of the AAC and the P6...

Seeing Boise State lose almost makes looking at that blue field worthwhile.

I'm actually happy to see that the Bulls can blow out a team that they should blowout -- even when QF has low numbers. I am sure our future opponents are not so happy to see that! Oh, and that one TD run was amazing even by Flowers' standards.

I know we should be up 60 to 0, but 30 to 7 does not suck.