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nelsonmuntz said:
Good win for the American. Hopefully UConn can add to the non-conference victories tomorrow night.
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Not bad when a southern mid major conference can have one of its teams from the midwest represent huh?
 
NYUConn said:
The P5 will never let the AAC get good enough to get on their level. They will raid the top teams before we even sniff an New Year's access bowl or a better TV deal.

That's why I root for UConn and against 11 other teams in the AAC every weekend.
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Question: When Navy plays ND in south Bend, who are you rooting and pulling for??
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The odds on 4th and 6 are not great. Miami could have kicked the FG and even kicked off. I suspect Golden went for it because of the timeout situation, but he needed a FG at some point anyway, so might as well get it.
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Don't necessarily disagree about kicking it away. Wasn't keeping track of Miami's TO's so it may have been the right call.
 
huskymedic said:
slmandel 10:56pm via TweetDeck
With this loss, the ACC falls to 5-14 vs. the Power 5, American and Mountain West.

slmandel 10:59pm via TweetDeck
The American is so much fun this year. Memphis, Houston, Cincy, Temple, ECU, Navy. No idea who's going to win it.
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One more...

McMurphyESPN 11:05pm via TweetDeck
ACC teams now 3-3 vs. American this year & only 3-10 vs. Power 5 teams
 
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NYUConn said:
I know it's in our best interest this year if Cincy wins, but I can't find myself rooting for them tonight. I just hate them so much.
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Really? So you're a Miami fan?
 
Jimdish255 said:
Kirk is dying for every call to go Miami's way. lol
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Actually Jim, it was David (Pollock) and Jesse (Palmer) were dying for every call to go Miami's way. Agree with you, was making me ad nauseum nauseous wanting to puke on them and their p5 build up. Yes, you are right if you were inferring it-IMO - Kirk (along with Jesse and David) are puppets for the ESPN rhetoric and self promotion for the P5, THEIR playoff system & ESPN owned & sponsored bowl games. Makes me sick-did I mention that?
 
Cincy over Miami, UConn driving for the win against SEC/MO, Temple over Penn State, ECU driving for the win against Florida, Houston over Louisville. . . Memphis cued up for #1 Mississippi. . . Navy and Temple take on ND. . .maybe this league isn't as bad as the pundits led me to believe (I'm so gullible :rolleyes:). Tulsa and SMU laying the foundation too. Of course this probably ends bad for UConn, but I'm wired to root for my conference so I'm totally screwed.
 
itgoeslike said:
Cincy over Miami, UConn driving for the win against SEC/MO, Temple over Penn State, ECU driving for the win against Florida, Houston over Louisville. . . Memphis cued up for #1 Mississippi. . . Navy and Temple take on ND. . .maybe this league isn't as bad as the pundits led me to believe (I'm so gullible :rolleyes:). Tulsa and SMU laying the foundation too. Of course this probably ends bad for UConn, but I'm wired to root for my conference so I'm totally screwed.
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Just looking at the schedules AAC teams seem to be setup as trap games for a few of these ranked schools. Doesn't mean they'll win but could be some close calls esp Navy-ND. Memphis Ole Miss might be fun for awhile but Ole Miss is real good this year.
 
sportsart said:
I'm thinking if AAC teams beat P5 teams and UConn beats them, it looks better for UConn. If AAC teams lose to P5 teams and UConn beats them it doesn't look too impressive. But that's just me. :rolleyes:
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What do you get when you add 5 P5 wins + two close losses to the SEC+ Navy with
a shot at going undefeated in 2015?

Temple 27 Penn State 10
Houston 34 Louisville 31
Memphis 55 Kansas 23
ECU 35 VA Tech 28
Cincy 34 Miami 23

ECU 31 Florida 24
Missouri 9 UCONN 6

ANSWER:

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Jimdish255 said:
Just looking at the schedules AAC teams seem to be setup as trap games for a few of these ranked schools. Doesn't mean they'll win but could be some close calls esp Navy-ND. Memphis Ole Miss might be fun for awhile but Ole Miss is real good this year.
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Ole Miss is legit. If Memphis could pullI off a victory it would be a Marquis win for Memphis and the AAC. If you buy into Warren Nolan's NPI, then the AAC is currently closer to P5 than G5.
 
Honestly I think the stranger decision was kicking it on 4th down when they were down 27-20.

You take 3 in the last spot you still need: a stop, a TD, 2 pt conversion and you are still only tied. From the 4 you may as well play for 2 TDs and the win in regulation.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Cincy's ability to plug in QB after QB is pretty remarkable.
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What is even more remarkable is Hayden Moore was not highly rated coming out of high school in Alabama! He didn't have any P5 offers. Wonder if that kept Nick Saban up last night? So much for the star system!

"Rivals rated Moore as a two-star prospect heading into his senior season, while 247sports listed him as a three-star recruit. He also received offers from Jacksonville State, Middle Tennessee, Murray State, South Alabama, Southern Illinois and UAB."

http://heavy.com/sports/2015/10/hay...ights-rivals-twitter-family-college-football/
 
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whaler11 said:
Honestly I think the stranger decision was kicking it on 4th down when they were down 27-20.
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I agree with you totally. When you are moving the ball and get stymied with a 4th and 1--you go for it. We should have on first drive vs Navy--and the score/time remaining wasn't even a factor for us like it was for Miami. Those two running plays into the middle on 2nd and 3rd downs were poor play calls also. Miami blew that game.
 
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itgoeslike said:
Cincy over Miami, UConn driving for the win against SEC/MO, Temple over Penn State, ECU driving for the win against Florida, Houston over Louisville. . . Memphis cued up for #1 Mississippi. . . Navy and Temple take on ND. . .maybe this league isn't as bad as the pundits led me to believe (I'm so gullible :rolleyes:). Tulsa and SMU laying the foundation too. Of course this probably ends bad for UConn, but I'm wired to root for my conference so I'm totally screwed.
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The conference isn't awful. But if you have to measure a conference by the number of premiere programs in it, it is awful. If we had FSU and Clemson, we'd be P5. :)
 
I feel bad for that dude who flew 1,116 miles to fly a #FireAlGolden sign.
 
I went up and sat in our box at Nippert and watched most of the game. Fun game to watch, observations::
-Cincy kicker is outstanding. He hit one from 50 or so in the first half and i don't know what it looked like on tv, but he had enough on it that it might have cleared from 75. Little guy with quite a strike. Not sure i've ever seen a ball hit that strong.
-Cincy qb throw/wr catch down the middle of the field in first half was about as nice a pass play as you will see.
-Cincy d started numerous frosh, and they made mistakes but appear to be getting better. Big kids up front including one tackle who is over 300lbs and made two plays on 3rd and short that were freaky. He threw on offensive lineman like he was a tackling dummy and the kid has to be over 300lbs.
-Miami is big, but somewhat slow. Cincy appeared better conditioned and it showed by the end of the game.
-It would not suprise me if Cincy runs off a big win streak in the conference. If they limit turnovers, and their defense matures, it's going to hard to keep up scoring with them.
-Root for the AAC teams as it only helps tv situation and the likelihood teams like Ucon, Cincy, etc. get their shots and do not get marginalized.
 
UCONN13KC said:
The conference isn't awful. But if you have to measure a conference by the number of premiere programs in it, it is awful. If we had FSU and Clemson, we'd be P5. :)
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Mike Aresco (although he wouldn't use the word awful) agrees with you and so do I.
Read what he said in an interview with the Orlando Sun this summer:

Sentinel: Now that we've seen the college football playoff system play out for at least one year, what are your initial thoughts on how it's going to impact your conference in the next couple of years?

Aresco: I think there are two ways, two things that we've got to think about, what's our realistic path to being in a playoff when you have a really outstanding team and this year we had three really good tri-champions, but we did not have a nationally ranked top 10 team. Now, last year, two years ago, we did in UCF. Although, I don't think people appreciated UCF as much until they won the Fiesta Bowl in the convincing fashion that they did. I don't think there's any question that two years ago they might have been a contender for one of those four spots...but we didn't have a team like that last year to test what the committee is gonna do. That's what I'm hoping for, I'm hoping we do have some elite teams in this conference as we go forward. I'm hoping that we have some undefeated, one-loss teams that are winning those nonconference games...We play the toughest nonconference schedule in the country and if we can win those games coming in, we can see what the committee will do. That's one part of it. The second, I do not like the narrow path to the one slot with the group of five. I'm glad we have it, but I would really rather have a little wider...I think there are usually gonna be two, possibly even three deserving teams from the so-called group of five. I'd love to see a little broader access, but that's the reality we have right now and we have to deal with it. It's not easy to get that one as some writers call the "golden ticket." We came close last year. You could argue that if UCF had lost one fewer game or Cincinnati, they'd have been right in the mix. So it's a narrower path and that's really something that we're gonna have to work hard at to see if we can develop elite teams and obviously strengthen the conference overall which I think we're doing. I think our lower tier teams hired outstanding coaches that are gonna rebuild those programs, that's gonna be a significant marker. I think that's been affecting us in basketball a bit too. I don't think our role here is as respected as it needs to be. Once that changes, I think that gives us another boost.

As of right now, Temple, Memphis, Navy and Houston have an opportunity to move up in the rankings. It's still early and a lot of football to play.
 
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UCONN13KC said:
The conference isn't awful. But if you have to measure a conference by the number of premiere programs in it, it is awful. If we had FSU and Clemson, we'd be P5. :)
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I hear you. But, getting a conference win against a team that just beat Miami, Penn State or Louisville is more interesting than beating a team that just got blown out by them.
 
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We are the most talented team in the conference but have no discipline thanks to this coaching staff. It sucks that unless Temple losing 3 conference games, we really have nothing to play for this season and it is barely October.
 
huskymedic said:
LOL... really? You need to watch more games.
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#1 in the country in total offense, #1 in the country in most first downs. Dead last in turnover margin. Just beat Miami-FL with our best running back (9.6 YPC) and our two best receivers in Holton and Chris Moore out with injuries. We aren't unbeaten because our team is too undisciplined.
 
kobe said:
#1 in the country in total offense, #1 in the country in most first downs. Dead last in turnover margin. Just beat Miami-FL with our best running back (9.6 YPC) and our two best receivers in Holton and Chris Moore out with injuries. We aren't unbeaten because our team is too undisciplined.
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Storming the field aside, beating Miami doesn't exactly mean too much, outside of maybe being the final nail in Al Golden's coffin. There is no denying the way Cincy can play offense though, gotta say that.
 
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