The opener is coming. You should work up an appetite with a few nourishing tidbits.
- Here’s College Football News’ look at Appalachian State.
- The genius doesn’t want to be left out of the depth chart games.
- More Notre Dame preseason happy talk, this time about its new defensive coordinator.
- Gary Danielson discusses a few SEC teams.
- According to Brian Fremeau’s FEI ratings projections, it’s Alabama’s and Ohio State’s world, and the rest of college football is just living in it.
- Thanks for showing up: “Appalachian State coach Scott Satterfield gets a $10,000 bonus if his squad plays a Power Five team at that team’s stadium, which the Mountaineers will do Saturday at Georgia in exchange for $1.25 million.”
- I’d say there was much rejoicing in the Blankenship house yesterday, except Kirby is still hedging on the scholarship.
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Am I reading that right? Auburn has the toughest schedule in the nation? Well, I do guess having Clemson on the front end, and UGA & bama on the back end will do that.
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Seems about right to me. You have to start with an SEC West team. There isn’t even a close comparison for the most difficult divisional schedule. At that point its just which of them has the toughest cross divisional games and out of conference games. For Auburn thats Georgia and Clemson. Southern’s not another Clemson, but they aren’t a pushover anymore either.
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There’s an obscene NSFW visual of your last sentence involving the mascots that frankly, I would approve a poster of.
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With Chauncey gone there’s a scholarship opening…
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I am so tired of hearing about App St. Yes they beat Michigan 10 years ago. Guess how many Power 5 teams they have beaten since? Zero. None. Nada. Yes they took Booch and his gang of shitheels to 3 OT but that was more UT sucking than App St. beating them.
This is starting to remind me of the Boise St game in ’05. Hopefully with similar results.
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Reminds me a lot of more of Boise State 2011.
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I hope not.
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Looking at their roster and the way they have played not just historically, but specifically the last two years, they would be ranked and getting New Years Six buster hype if their name was Houston, Boise St., or BYU.
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Boise is NOT a good comparison at all. Boise had a LOT of guys go on to the NFL under Peterson, who is arguably one of the top 5 coaches in college football today. Boise had been great for five years from 2006-2011, which included wins over OU, Oregon (multiple times), TCU, and Va Tech. Moore was perhaps the most efficient passing QBs in the history of NCAA football, and we faced him as a 5th year senior. Lamb is game manager with mobility who has been ineffective throwing the ball against better competition.
App State is well coached and a good football team, but they are not anywhere close to Boise 2011.
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Agreed. App State has nowhere near the talent of Boise in ’05 or ’11 and yet we have fans peeing down their legs out of fear.
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Maybe not. But they’re also more than just a team that “if you don’t take them seriously they can make you sweat”; they’re a plain ole damn good team. I’m just hoping our players feel the same way, but their public comments aren’t convincing me at all. Same kind of comments we heard before Nichols last year. Don’t forget we lost to both Tech and Vandy last year and it wasn’t a talent problem there either. It was 100% mental. I think we win big, but we haven’t proven jack squat so far. I’d love for this to be the game we find out the culture of playing down to bad opponents has been exorcised but its been engrained pretty deep in the psyche of this team for a very long time.
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So, Notre Dame tackles better this year. If you’re not in the right place, there is no opportunity to tackle anyone. They have a new defensive scheme. How well will they have learned it by the second game of the season? I think we’ve got an opportunity to put up a lot of points on them.
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The article blames VanGorder’s lack of success at ND due to his veteran NFL focus and scheming. However, VanGorder only spent 6 of his past 17 years employed in the NFL – the rest was all college. His lack of success at Notre Dame likely stems more from lack of talent to work with than a scheme that resembles Chinese, per the article.
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The love for Ohio State is misguided. It is as if the media has collective case of amnesia about the end of the regular season as it applies to the Michigan, Ohio St., and the rest of the Big 10.
I understand why media bows at the alter of Meyer and has the belief that Kevin Wilson is going reinvigorate their offense, but when we last saw them, they were shut out by Clemson. Clemson was certainly a very good defense, but a shut out is “big dea” particularly to Meyer. Prior to that, they were lucky to beat Michigan on a highly questionable call, which was preceded by an 1 pt escape an 17 point outburst against a Michigan St. team that played zero defense in 2016. Dabo basically said that he was salivating over the matchup once he put the tape in. In picking Ohio St, the media is assuming its offense gets fixed.
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After reading about App State, I think they are going to give us all we want. Hope our offense is markedly improved. If not, we may all be crying the blues again by halftime.
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Anyone wanting some entertainment should read the comments on the Rodrigo story. That Al Knight dude is either a pseudonym for Ken Blankenship or he has a major ax to grind. He stays on point as well as any troll on GTP.
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