Bullshiznitz

They still have Michigan and likely Ohio St left.  They'll drop one of those, so won't matter.  

I just wish some of these prognosticators would be consistent with their methodology.  If you're going to punish USF for their schedule, then why not punish Wisconsin?   Or worse yet, why is WVU with 2 losses and wins over ECU, Kansas, Baylor, Delaware St and Texas Tech (their lone "good" win at 4-3 but unranked) in over us?  Not to mention WVU struggled winning by 2 over 0-7 Baylor (who has lost to Liberty and UTSA this year) and to smaller extent 1-6 Kansas (were up by 8 with 5.5 min left in game).  

I think putting UGA in will be big  enough to upset a lot of people.  It will be LSU/BAMA all over again.  I mean they will end the season playing Bama in the conference championship.   If they lose, no reason for them in the playoff at all.  

51 minutes ago, brybull1970 said:

Tom Jones is a troll with media credentials.

Sadly, that seems to be all journalism has become.  

The only chance of it happening this year are 2 P5 conferences shizniting the bed (conference champion having 3 losses), UCF & Memphis both winning out until they play us, and runner's up in the SEC (UGA) and Big Ten having atleast 2 losses.  The second two are possible, but don't see 2 P5 conferences having champions with 3 or more losses.  Maybe the PAC12 (as USC and Stanford both still play ND, and Wash, Wash st, Stanford still all have to play each other), but don't see a realistic road for a 3 loss champion in the ACC or Big 12

If we want to establish or get back to drawing 45k+ to home games, then a move to a true P5 is the only way to go.  The AAC plays better quality football then they are given credit for, but lacks "name" recognition.  A home slate of Cincy/Tulane/UCF/ECU is never ever ever ever going to draw as well as Texas/Kansas St/TCU/WVU  or NC St/FSU/Duke/Va Tech.   

This Saturday will be the first game Im able to make it over.  Bringing the wife and our 3 year old (his first game).   So +3 from us.  Working on my sister and her 3 kids as well, just for a fun family outing.  They would make 5 more if I can convince them.  So hoping to be a +8 coming from us in total.  

The whole going conservative has me worried.  With our schedule, we out talent everyone by so much, we can "go conservative" all the way up to the Houston game.  But if we do that, I think its dangerously unfair to QF and the offense to then expect them to just turn it on with a full game plan against a very good team (Houston) more than halfway through the season.  As the announcers actually said during the Illinios game (or maybe it was the Temple game), we should have had Flowers almost running a 2-minute drill and throwing almost every down late in that game. We want him (and the team) to feel comfortable with that part of the offense.  Yeah, it may look like you're running up the score, but getting your team ready for further down the season is much more important then "looking bad".  

1 hour ago, bullsmeanbusiness said:

Mind if I use this for twitter? 

Go for it

The priority needs to be (as that article mentions), adding better (atleast one) bowl game matchups.  It would be absurd if we go undefeated this year, get edged out by SDSU for the Peach/Cotton and then are relegated to playing a 6-6 SEC team as our reward (which may still happen).  We need to have an arrangement with a bowl that if our champion doesn't make the NY6 bowls, then they go to a Sun or Liberty type bowl against atleast the second tier ACC/SEC/Big12 team.  Getting a 9-3/8-4 team like LSU/Miami/TCU is a lot better then 6-6 South Carolina/Arkansas/Vandy.

1 hour ago, beastiebull said:

Any opportunity we can get to improve our SOS is beneficial.  

If SDSU goes undefeated they are getting the NY6. 

 If we can add this game we should, but we can't so we won't. 

I'm not sure why.  They currently still trail us in both polls.   The MWC is rather weak this year (only 3/12 teams currently have a winning record), and they're biggest chance for a bump will be a matchup with Boise (10/14), who will likely still be unranked for the matchup (they only have 2 games between now and then).  

USF will face tougher conf opponents, and we'll get our bump after theirs with a matchup with Houston on 10/28 (who could be ranked for our matchup).  

12th game isn't needed at this point.  Focus is on winning the conference, and the bye week is needed for that.  Extra game isn't going to push us into the playoff.  Stay undefeated, win conference and we should hold off San Diego St for the Peach/Cotton Bowl Bid.  The team that should be worried and trying to schedule another game is UCF.  They've lost 2 games (down to 10), and may struggle to get to 6 wins for bowl eligibility in those games.  

22 minutes ago, Bulls Are We said:

4-5 losses?  No way.  Florida is bad, but the SEC East is hot garbage.  A&M should beat them and maybe LSU, but they looked awful Saturday.  

Unfortunately this.  The SEC isn't what it used to be.  Their schedule really isn't that difficult from here out with LSU, UGA and FSU being their only possible challenges (maybe A&M, but as you said, they looked awful this past week).  

18 hours ago, raptorcj said:

It's basically a slightly smaller UCiF stadium...on the west coast.

Looks like a mini "old sombrero" to me.  

Pie in the sky absolute best case scenario that I can see:  

Temple upsets ND week 1 and cruises to 3-0 before our game (although this likely will still have them unranked as ND is unranked to start the season)

Houston rolls early going 9-0 until our game (tough games being Arizona, Texas Tech and Memphis) coming in ranked #10-15 (they get big jump with head to head showdown with Memphis when both teams are 7-0).  

Memphis rolls the rest of the time going 11-1 (only tough OOC is UCLA and they avoid USF, Temple and Cincy) and win the west when Navy beats Houston in the last week.  They come to the conference championship game ranked #18-22

This would give us 2 late season wins over ranked teams, but even with that absolutely best case scenario (where even a single extra loss by Houston or Memphis destroys it), still likely wouldn't be enough to jump into the top 4.  

If we start the season ranked, then we'll ideally get a good bit of attention simply by appearing in nearly every College Game Day or College Wrap Up show as they typically at least touch on the results of all ranked teams.  

And personally, think CBS Sports Network is still better than WatchESPN....although I'm one of those people that still has cable.  My Saturday is flipping through the channels until I find an interesting game.  Unless we're on WatchESPN, I'm pretty much never on there.  

Maybe we are secretly changing the school colors to Red, White & Blue so that we fit in at RayJay more. 

Hopefully being ranked to start the season (meaning being highlighted much more often on Gameday / Wrap up shows)

Beating UCF to bump the head to head to 7-2

Conference title and Peach bowl visit

And the positive of having the second year in a row where I am "kid on christmas eve" excited for the season rather than "fingers crossed this season won't be a complete disaster" excited from the previous 3-4 years.  

According to Colin, the conference is not about Sun dome naming rights.  

Now just replace the red/pink seats with pewter seats and we might never leave

On 12/30/2016 at 10:25 AM, brybull1970 said:

Once the Big East fell apart and USF football tanked there was no reason to give the program any ink.

The media isn't going to come back until there is a reason to like beating a ranked P5 team, cracking the top 15 or joining a P5 conference.

The local media won't even jump if we win the AAC. It's Conference USA 2.0 and not worthy of their time.

 

 

I'd understand the somewhat lack of coverage.  What I don't like is the general negative slant to the coverage.  We've pointed this out numerous times during the season where they had multiple angles to provide a positive uplifting story of USF or its individual players, yet choose to put in digs at attendance or schedule or anything they could find.  During bad seasons, I understand not being able to sugar coat things or provide much "positive" news.  We had a 10-2 season with multiple records broken, yet the coverage rarely reflected that.  

I'm in agreement with the likely 17-19 range as a final ranking. I'll take it.  Goal accomplished.   Now lets go 13-1 next year with a AAC championship and major bowl victory (as G5 representative...don't know what bowl that may be next year). 

8 minutes ago, Orlando Bull said:

He's better than Jackson, sorry, watching them play LSU now and Jackson has been bad in every big game outside of Clemson. 

QF wasn't great against FSU, but, I still think it's because tags kept him from running in the first half. Otherwise, QF put the team on his back every game. No way he should have won the Heisman this year, but, it's a slap in the face to the G5 that he wasn't invited to the ceremony this year. 

Keep fighting Quinton!

Watching Louisville makes me appreciate our complementary players (Mack, DJ, Adams) and OL (mabye the most) even more.  There's no way this Louisville offense should be shutdown by anyone with Lamar at the helm.  

Altough I don't think a non-Heisman invite was necessary a slight.  I would have had a tough decision trying to take one of the people invited out in place of Flowers.  Now not being in ESPN's top 50 college players...thats a major slight.