FIU looks scary

[douglas]

speaking of abortions Louisville was pretty terrible all 4 quarters of that one

[ManAboutTown]

In hindsight, Louisville might be one of the worst teams in America. FIU should have won that game.

[Bandwagon King]

they do look solid HOWEVER, you must admit Louisville looks pretty awful combine that with the performance against murray state last week and FIU becomes a tad deceiving.

I don't buy it. This was a major beat down on a BCS school. The score does not nearly reflect the overall dominance of FIU's performance. Their offense made a couple of huge plays with TY Hilton, but their defense was tenacious. This was an extremely impressive performance by Crystal Ball's team.

[douglas]

don't get me wrong it wasn't a gimmie and it was a great sunbelt showing on national tv, but Louisville is pretty bad. When a "Automatic Qualifier" has a scoreless 2nd half against Murray state-at home, they got problems

[Bandwagon King]

don't get me wrong it wasn't a gimmie and it was a great sunbelt showing on national tv, but Louisville is pretty bad. When a "Automatic Qualifier" has a scoreless 2nd half against Murray state-at home, they got problems

True that, but it looked like they were gonna rally with the change at QB & they will likely turn their season around with the 2nd half QB playing the rest of the season. But FIU's defense was still exceptional. That team has some real talent on it.

[Boomer]

Looked at the college rankings and our highest is #83 and lowest#118---Our average is #111----All the pickers have the Belt at #12 the lowest conference!!!!! Not too happy about that but we will see as the year goes on during the season!!!!!

[Cajunsmike]

Weren't they like THE worst school in the country just a few years ago? If so, how the massive turnaround?

Cristobal is a good coach, there is lots of overlooked talent in South Florida, and perhaps most importantly; they collect student fees. Why is that significant? They have a large enrollment, I believe over 30000
which is as many as LSU has. That allows them to collect 14 million per year for their athletic budget
directly from those fees. That is probably more than the whole UL athletic budget. That is why the first statement Coach Hudspeth made in his initial remarks to the QB Club that the teams that win the most are the teams that have the most money.

[Bandwagon King]

Looked at the college rankings and our highest is #83 and lowest#118---Our average is #111----All the pickers have the Belt at #12 the lowest conference!!!!! Not too happy about that but we will see as the year goes on during the season!!!!!

This is the kind of BS the SBC needs to promote itself to overcome. WKU played Kentucky neck & neck, MTSU blew the game against Purdue last week, & FIU kicked Louisville's behind straight up. This conference has come a long way since NTSU used to dominate a 7 team conference not too long ago. The top teams might not deserve to be playing in a BCS game, but they are definitely bowl worthy & can compete with most BCS conference's 2nd tier teams. The middle of the pack teams can compete with the lower tier teams from bigger conferences, & the louzy teams, well they're not any louzier than other conference's Louzy teams.

PS. There's no way there are 83 teams in the country better than what I saw out of FIU tonight. I highly doubt there are 40 teams better than those guys.

[lordguill]

Cristobal is a good coach, there is lots of overlooked talent in South Florida, and perhaps most importantly; they collect student fees. Why is that significant? They have a large enrollment, I believe over 30000
which is as many as LSU has.

FIU's current enrollment is 44,000. According to the commentators, they expect to eclipse 60,000 in the next few years.

Of course

[RedTails]

FIU's current enrollment is 44,000. According to the commentators, they expect to eclipse 60,000 in the next few years.

Of course

60,000 is insane.