(03-08-2017 01:35 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Well it's the off season and on one of our boards, a poster ranked our opponents from weakest to strongest. You guys are very knowledgeable and sure you have your opinions on this subject. Personal think we are in the 4-6 win range and sure you have comments on that as well. Put in the quotes of two other poster's comments.

Quote:In order from weak to strong:

Maine
CC
Hawaii
ODU
Ohio
Georgia Southern
Temple
Appalachian State
USF
Mississippi State
BYU
Tenn

Mississippi state is a wild card and I thought of flipping ODU and Ohio as well as App State and USF, but App State was best in Troy's league and we saw what happened there. By the time we get past the GS and Temple levels we are in uncharted territory as being competitive. (Except for the wild card of Miss State). My hope is we are competitive with App state on down the line and that we can find a way to get those first five on the list in the W column, and hopefully get past either Temple
or GS to get to 6. The talent level jumps up from Temple to App State.
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Not sure I agree with the App State/Temple ranking. Temple won the AAC this year and lost in the championship game the year before and the AAC is far stronger than the Sun Belt. New coach and new QB could change things but that's a program that is better than their name brand suggests.
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Get a lot of APP ST coverage down here. They do play in a weaker conference but they were in better shape when they moved up from 1AA to 1 A than we were. One place where they excel is their kicking game. When we last played them their kicker sent all of the kickoffs into the end zone. When was the last time that we had kickers that could put at least half of the kickoffs into the end zone? Great defensive play.

I'm no expert but unless you guys have improved a lot that schedule looks like a 3 - 5 win season to me.