Official 2015 Sun Belt Football Thread

[ASUG8]

Ok

Everyone knows Deliverance was set in Georgia. That wasn't the point.
The gist is it was a story about the bassackward mountain folk in the Appalachian mountains. The same mountains and people and culture Boone proudly embraces. My point was if the story was was set on the sandy plains of coastal Georgia 200+ miles from the Appalachian mountains, then you would have a correlation.

Hey, I'm one of those bassackward mountain folks from the Appalachian mountains.

Wait, what?

[Ivytalk]

Ok

Everyone knows Deliverance was set in Georgia. That wasn't the point.
The gist is it was a story about the bassackward mountain folk in the Appalachian mountains. The same mountains and people and culture Boone proudly embraces. My point was if the story was was set on the sandy plains of coastal Georgia 200+ miles from the Appalachian mountains, then you would have a correlation.

Hey, I'm one of those bassackward mountain folks from the Appalachian mountains.

Wait, what?

[dbackjon]

Receiving votes in the AP poll.

Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 73, North Carolina 46, Southern Cal 33, BYU 18, Georgia 17, Wisconsin 15, Northwestern 10, Appalachian St. 6, California 5, Washington St. 2

Win the next couple and dbackjon's favorite Sun Belt talking point could be trashed.

Could be - and good for ASU if it happens.

ASU is helped by having the "top" Sun Belt teams at home this year.

[Baldy]

Ok

Everyone knows Deliverance was set in Georgia. That wasn't the point.
The gist is it was a story about the bassackward mountain folk in the Appalachian mountains. The same mountains and people and culture Boone proudly embraces. My point was if the story was was set on the sandy plains of coastal Georgia 200+ miles from the Appalachian mountains, then you would have a correlation.

Hey, I'm one of those bassackward mountain folks from the Appalachian mountains.

Wait, what?

If the shoe fits.....

[Skjellyfetti]

Could be - and good for ASU if it happens.

ASU is helped by having the "top" Sun Belt teams at home this year.

Arkansas State or Appalachian State?

[dbackjon]

Could be - and good for ASU if it happens.

ASU is helped by having the "top" Sun Belt teams at home this year.

Arkansas State or Appalachian State?

Does that need to be asked on this board?

ASU = Hillbillies
ArkState, or state = flatland rednecks

[Baldy]

Arkansas State or Appalachian State?

Does that need to be asked on this board?

ASU = Hillbillies
ArkState, or state = flatland rednecks

I don't know. I think Jonesboro is close enough to the Ozarks for them to be considered Hillbillies, too.

[dbackjon]

Does that need to be asked on this board?

ASU = Hillbillies
ArkState, or state = flatland rednecks

I don't know. I think Jonesboro is close enough to the Ozarks for them to be considered Hillbillies, too.

Jonesboro is in the Mississippi Delta, elevation 300 feet. Flatlands

[ASUG8]

I don't know. I think Jonesboro is close enough to the Ozarks for them to be considered Hillbillies, too.

Jonesboro is in the Mississippi Delta, elevation 300 feet. Flatlands

What do you call NMSU @ 4000 ft. ?

[dbackjon]

Jonesboro is in the Mississippi Delta, elevation 300 feet. Flatlands

What do you call NMSU @ 4000 ft. ?

Las Cruces

High Desert Illegals

[ASUG8]

What do you call NMSU @ 4000 ft. ?

Las Cruces

High Desert Illegals

Hmmm.....seems like there's another school near you way up in the hills, maybe around 7,000 ft. Can't seem to put my finger on the name.

[Baldy]

Las Cruces

High Desert Illegals

Hmmm.....seems like there's another school near you way up in the hills, maybe around 7,000 ft. Can't seem to put my finger on the name.

High Country Posh.

[dbackjon]

Las Cruces

High Desert Illegals

Hmmm.....seems like there's another school near you way up in the hills, maybe around 7,000 ft. Can't seem to put my finger on the name.

Hills?

[AshevilleApp]

Does that need to be asked on this board?

ASU = Hillbillies
ArkState, or state = flatland rednecks

I don't know. I think Jonesboro is close enough to the Ozarks for them to be considered Hillbillies, too.

So, GSU =Flatland Rednecks. Thanks for the clarification.

[Baldy]

I don't know. I think Jonesboro is close enough to the Ozarks for them to be considered Hillbillies, too.

So, GSU =Flatland Rednecks. Thanks for the clarification.

Silly Hillbilly.
Coastal Empire Sophisticates.

[89Hen]

Receiving votes in the AP poll.

Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 73, North Carolina 46, Southern Cal 33, BYU 18, Georgia 17, Wisconsin 15, Northwestern 10, Appalachian St. 6, California 5, Washington St. 2

Win the next couple and dbackjon's favorite Sun Belt talking point could be trashed.

Here is the list of all the I-A out of conference wins for the SB this year:

ASU = ODU and Wyoming
GSU = Western Michigan
GsU = Ball St (lost to Liberty)
USA = San Diego St
Troy = none
ULM = none
ULL = none
ArkSt = none
TxSt = none
NMSt = none
Idaho = none

[Baldy]

Receiving votes in the AP poll.



Win the next couple and dbackjon's favorite Sun Belt talking point could be trashed.

Here is the list of all the I-A out of conference wins for the SB this year:

ASU = ODU and Wyoming
GSU = Western Michigan
GsU = Ball St (lost to Liberty)
USA = San Diego St
Troy = none
ULM = none
ULL = none
ArkSt = none
TxSt = none
NMSt = none
Idaho = none

SDSU and WMU are quality OOC FBS wins.
As I said, we can't help what our conference mates do. The only thing we can control is beating the teams on our schedules.

[Skjellyfetti]

As I said, we can't help what our conference mates do. The only thing we can control is beating the teams on our schedules.

Winning 12 of our last 13.

And, it's noticed.

App State has come a long way since that '07 upset of Michigan -- now they're really playing with the big boys.


The team you should know about but probably don't: Appalachian State Mountaineers

The Mountaineers got Week 8 kicked off with a 31-17 throttling of longtime Southern Conference and now-Sun Belt rival Georgia Southern. App State (don't call them Appy State, they hate that) is 6-1, their only loss coming at Clemson in Week 2. Sure, losing 41-10 is never good, no matter the opponent, but the Mountaineers certainly gave the Tigers a better game than Miami did. After a lot of internal arguing over whether the FCS powerhouse should make the jump to the FBS, the program best known for knocking off Michigan in 2007 got off to a terrible start, beginning last season 1-5 and bottoming out with an overtime loss to Liberty. Since then, they're 12-1 and thinking about their first bowl bid.

Extra Point: About that Appalachian State bowl berth . . . let me clarify. The Mountaineers haven't been to an FBS bowl, but they have been to bowl games before. Sort of. Back in the day, they played in invitation-only postseason games organized by local charities (which is actually how a lot of current bowl committees would like for us to describe them). In 1950 and '54, ASU played in two bowl games in one week. Take that, College Football Playoff teams! I'm a sucker for awesomely weird, old bowl-game names (Gotham City Bowl, y'all), but App State's first might be my favorite bowl name of all time:

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THIS WEEK’S COACH OF THE YEAR
Appalachian State’s Scott Satterfield. With a 31-13 rout of rival Georgia Southern, the Mountaineers, which moved up to FBS just last year, improved to 6-1. They’ve now won nine straight Sun Belt contests dating to last season.

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[89Hen]

SDSU and WMU are quality OOC FBS wins.
As I said, we can't help what our conference mates do. The only thing we can control is beating the teams on our schedules.

9 of ASU's "12 of 13" are against SB teams, so we have to look at the strength of those teams. Liberty is 2-0 vs SB teams in the last two years.

Let's see how you guys fare against real I-A teams:

AppSt - Tennessee in 2016, Wake and Georgia in 2017, PennSt and SoMiss in 2018...
GSU - Ole Miss and GT in 2016, Auburn and Indiana in 2017, Clemson in 2018, LSU in 2019...

That's 11 games. Give me a number you think would be respectable against those teams.

[AZGrizFan]

SDSU and WMU are quality OOC FBS wins.
As I said, we can't help what our conference mates do. The only thing we can control is beating the teams on our schedules.

9 of ASU's "12 of 13" are against SB teams, so we have to look at the strength of those teams. Liberty is 2-0 vs SB teams in the last two years.

Let's see how you guys fare against real I-A teams:

AppSt - Tennessee in 2016, Wake and Georgia in 2017, PennSt and SoMiss in 2018...
GSU - Ole Miss and GT in 2016, Auburn and Indiana in 2017, Clemson in 2018, LSU in 2019...

That's 11 games. Give me a number you think would be respectable against those teams.

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[Baldy]

SDSU and WMU are quality OOC FBS wins.
As I said, we can't help what our conference mates do. The only thing we can control is beating the teams on our schedules.

9 of ASU's "12 of 13" are against SB teams, so we have to look at the strength of those teams. Liberty is 2-0 vs SB teams in the last two years.

Let's see how you guys fare against real I-A teams:

AppSt - Tennessee in 2016, Wake and Georgia in 2017, PennSt and SoMiss in 2018...
GSU - Ole Miss and GT in 2016, Auburn and Indiana in 2017, Clemson in 2018, LSU in 2019...

That's 11 games. Give me a number you think would be respectable against those teams.

How is Southern Miss a "real" I-A team while Western Michigan isn't?

Appy has winnable games vs. Wake and So. Miss.
GSU has winnable games vs. Tech, Indiana, and WMU. Ol' Miss stands to lose a ton of their talent in the 2016 NFL draft, so that might be a very competitive game as well.

[Skjellyfetti]

We both have a few winnable games over "real I-A teams" (though, I consider Georgia Southern to be a win over a real I-A team this year.). But, predicting games years in advance is silly.

I would have thought that ODU would have been a quality OOC matchup this year. Oops!

I don't even know who will be our coach that far our. If Satterfield continues to be successful... he won't be our coach in 2018.

I don't see Wake improving much, but who knows where Georgia is in 2017. I doubt that Richt is still their coach... so, they could go in two different directions. If we were to run the table with 2 P5 wins... who knows... playoff field will probably be expanded by then... Lots of unknown.

[Ivytalk]

Big win for GSU over Texas State last night. Over 500 yards rushing for the Eags!

[Ibanez]

Big win for GSU over Texas State last night. Over 500 yards rushing for the Eags!

Did you watch the game? I caught the first half. GSU was pretty good. The first TDs were executed beautifully; Breida found a gap and exploded (no homo) through it for the TD. Very impressive.

[89Hen]

How is Southern Miss a "real" I-A team while Western Michigan isn't?

Neither probably are, so we can take SoMiss out of "games against real I-A's". Doesn't help your cause.

Western Michigan OOC wins vs I-A teams last SEVEN years: Idaho (Sun Belt) and UConn