Season Prediction Thread - 2016

[JoeB]

I'm thinking 9-3 or 10-2 if things go right for us.  Been watching alot of games from last year and our O-Line will need to play well with some new guys.  Amichia seemed to allow a bunch of sacks and had some penalties too.  Threatt seems OK, but Kofi better step up along with some of the youngsters.  I could just as easily see 7-5 if the Line struggles.

[WhoRUSF]

I thought this would be a good spot for this

 

 

[WhoRUSF]

Another awesome interview of coach Taggert on ESPN. Very confused about how we are projected to lose at Syracuse, but projected to win AT Temple? Temple is very much a better team than Syracuse, but hey, this is ESP5N. Either way, the interview was mostly very positive

 

[Gismo]

10 wins

[Roaming Bull]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/bowls/predictions 

We are projected to go to the St. Pete Bowl vs Southern Piss

[TheUpperHand]

8 minutes ago, HR Bull said:

http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/bowls/predictions 

We are projected to go to the St. Pete Bowl vs Southern Piss

> Clicks link

> Ctrl + F

> Search for UCF

> "No matches found"

> Search for Central Florida

> "No matches found"

Edited August 11, 2016 by TheUpperHand

[Ionbull]

Syracuse has "P5" recruiting and is in a "P5" conference so automatically gets the benefit of the doubt.

Lets just throw away our overall record in their dome....

Dont get me wrong, don't sleep on Dino Babers, Eric Dungey and the Orange.

#eSPIN

[Bullshiznitz]

Havent see one of these and the search function brought up nothing, so with less than 2 weeks to the season, thought I start one: 

My realistic (somewhat optimistic) take: 

Towson - win 41-17- Kean plays most of second half - win not as big as FAMU last year - but comfortable warm up game for USF (1-0)

NIU - win 34 - 20 - slow start keeps game close but run game lets us get out in front in the 3rd quarter and cruise to win (2-0)

Syracuse - win 38-17 - Cuse wants revenge, but new coach, poor team just does not have enough to compete with motivated team looking to go undefeated until next weeks big game (3-0)

FSU - loss 20-24 - we make this a scary game for FSU, but defense allows them to control the clock and late USF TD too little to late to pull off the upset (3-1)

Cincy - loss 31-34 -  Cincy was a better team than they showed last year - they want revenge - at home - against a disappointed USF team from the previous week - we fall just short after digging ourselves a hole from sluggish start (3-2, 0-1)

ECU - win 34-13 - USF rights the ship against a rebuilding and struggling ECU team - take out a few aggressions from the past 2 weeks on them and get out in front early (4-2, 1-1)

UConn - win 27-17 - USF keeps things rolling in the right direction - close physical game, but we control the clock and UConn's slow prodding offense can't keep up with the scoring (5-2, 2-1)

Temple - win 27-24 - close hard fought game that is essentially the defacto division championship game - must win here and  we squeak it out having more offensive weapons then they do (6-2, 3-1)

Navy - win 27 - 13 - Navy lost a lot of talent on offense, we get a revenge win and keep momentum moving in the right direction (7-2, 4-1)

Memphis - win 38-20 - Revenge win back to back as our offense rolls on a rebuilding Memphis who's new QB makes too many mistakes (8-2, 5-1)

SMU - win 48-17 - Team starts truly hitting stride like last year and cruises to win verse a still very bad SMU team (9-2, 6-1)

UCF - win 37-20 - game's a little more difficult than last year, but team still rolls and is never truly threatened knowing a division title and possible conference title is on the line (10-2, 7-1)

Conf Title Game v #9 Houston - loss 31-37 - back and forth game that might depend on who has the ball last - we just miss the mark this season (10-3)

St Pete Bowl - v Va Tech - win 34-20 - team doesn't let disappointment reign and beats a lesser ACC opponent to finish (11-3) with a final ranking in the Top 20

Season hinges on Temple game, as they avoid Houston and Navy in the other division and would need to lose an additional conference game than us to make up for the head to head loss

There is a dream playoff scenario this season as we might likely have 3 key components work for us with a game against a top 10 P5 (FSU), a conference regular season game against a ranked team (Temple could possibly be 7-0 when facing us), and a conference title game against a top 10 team (UH).  Would need a lot to happen (beat FSU and have them stay in the top 15 by season end, Temple upset PSU, and UH run the conference table and beat either OKL or Louisville).  As a G5, we don't hold our fate in our own hands, so several different scenarios are needed to even have a remote chance.  Luckily those scenarios might present themselves and it will just depend on us taking care of our business.  

 

For the TL:DR crowd - final season record 11-3 (loss in conference title game - win in st pete bowl)

 

 

[Thebullsfan]

we started one a couple weeks back.

[Thebullsfan]

it be here.