You guys had a total offense ranking of 63 and the Cajuns 49th. You ranked 48 in total D and they were 104th. You are playing at home where you averaged 26,000+ last year and the Cajuns are taking their show on the road where they played in front of 100,000+ at Tennessee last year. You have a new coach and the Cajun's coach begins his 7th season. This is a very important year for Coach Bustle and I'm sure his players know it.
All in all, with you playing at home and having a better D (on paper) it would seem that you guys should carry the day. 52-13 might just a tad wishful.
I will go with 30-23 So. Miss. I would be surprised if it turns out to be the cake walk you envision.
Wow...good for you to have a 5 star 6'6 wideout...it doesnt mean he runs crisp routes or even has done anything at the college level...thus why (surprise surprise) he's running with the second and 3rd string. Newsflash, we had a guy come to us from bunkie, a borderline 4 star athlete, was 6'6 himself, and ran sub 4.5, but he never understood the game, and thus never played...and that wonderful mismatch you're talking about only happens if the guy is good enough to beat out the guys in front of him on the depth chart. We know that god blessed your team with god given talent that every team in the country would love to have. Newsflash, I don't care who we are playing, you're chances of winning go up exponentially if the other team runs out a true freshman QB playing in his first game ever. In one breath you say you don't think of yourself as BCS, yet a post or 2 later, you claim that
"We finished at #37, ahead of multiple BCS schools, with multiple 3 and 4-star players, and a 5-star player that LSU sent the house to sway their way."
Wake up buddy, you haven't won a game this season, and those 3 and 4 star players still have to prove on the field that they can win. I'm all for keeping this cordial, but coming on here and beating your chest while saying that you're gonna win 400-2 is neither flattering nor reality. You're breaking in new offensive, and defensive systems, new QB, and new defensive line. I do think its possible that you win by double digits, maybe 14 and at the same time I feel its possible for us to do the same, but if you're expecting it to be a 40 pt blowout, you're gonna be dissapointed.
Trust me, DeAndre Brown will be a superstar at Southern Miss. I've seen him in action in high school, in the Army All-American game, and in camp at Southern Miss. There's a reason that LSU sent their entire offensive coaching staff to his home the day before he committed to USM. He could start for any team in the country, but he's going to have to go out against you guys and prove it on the field before Fedora bumps him ahead of our highly qualified veterans.
And we won't be running out a true freshman at QB. One of the potential starters will be in his 3rd season with us. The other is in his 2nd. They have had ample time to get accustomed to IA football.
You're right. Anything can happen. But all we have to go on right now is history and the level of talent each team has. In both of those areas, USM is waaaay ahead.
You guys can say what you want about DeAndre Brown wanting to come to USM and chose them over LSU all you want. The fact is he could not qualify to get into LSU and they have three other WR committed and signed that were better than he was. He went to USM because he could get in there. He did no choose to go there over LSU he chose USM by DEFAULT. He is and will be a really good reciever.
If you go to the main campus website for Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina, California, etc., you will find the following official names of the universities:
University of Texas at Austin
University of Nebraska Lincoln
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of California Berkeley
However, if you go to their athletic websites, you will see Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Carolina and Cal.
The same for UL. We are officially the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Athletically, we are UL and Louisiana. We are striving for that universal reference athletically and appreciate your so acknowledging.
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