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Post by catamountalum04 on Aug 31, 2024 20:14:57 GMT -5
Taking out the 4 money games that were played the SoCon had a mixed bag of results from the week one games
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Post by retiredcat on Aug 31, 2024 21:39:39 GMT -5
Let's be honest...it was a BAD opening week for SoCon Football. Our performance at N.C. State was about the only bright spot. The top two preseason poll teams - Furman and Chattanooga - got slaughtered. VMI looked awful in a five TD loss. East Tennessee was never in the game at App State. Samford lost to a first year FCS program - West Georgia. The Citadel had to rally to beat Charleston Southern, 21-20, a team that we beat by 10 touchdowns last season. Wofford hung on to beat a decimated Gardner-Webb by one point. Mercer did rout a bad Presbyterian team by 60 points for our league's somewhat impressive win.
Guys, I worried about Campbell. The Camels played Liberty well into the fourth quarter. Liberty went to the FBS playoff last year as the nation's best Group of 5 team, ranked 25th nationally, and lost to Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.
I've got a feeling the SoCon will not be prominent in the FCS polls next week.
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Post by catamountalum04 on Aug 31, 2024 21:50:24 GMT -5
Yes sir I agree with you. Did you watch any of the Campbell game?
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Post by retiredcat on Sept 1, 2024 6:56:42 GMT -5
Yes...part of second and third quarters. We are going to have to treat this game as a SoCon game...and the same situation at Elon.
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Post by wcugrad95 on Sept 1, 2024 7:22:24 GMT -5
My bet is Furman and UTC probably don’t fall much if at all. FCS teams generally have FBS games ignored unless you pull off the upset. WCU might get a little love for looking good against a top-25 State team, but my guess is all 3 of us stay somewhere close to where we were last week. Mercer might move up into the rankings - I’ll have to look at all the other FCS ranked teams who lost to FCS schools.
I don’t think Furman or the Mocs are going to fall off either as good SoCon teams or the rankings. But this does show how much the division is growing between the haves with free agency and money and the have nots of FCS. Even the consensus #1 FCS team in South Dakota State got pretty beat down by a ranked FBS team.
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Post by wcugrad95 on Sept 1, 2024 7:25:15 GMT -5
And Campbell - they did look pretty good. Liberty lost a good bit of talent, but Campbell has had several really good recruiting classes in the last 3 or 4 years. I am confident Kerwin will have our team ready after a good showing in week 1, but no game is a cakewalk on this schedule.
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Post by wcugrad95 on Sept 1, 2024 7:41:56 GMT -5
I also took a look at the vaunted MVFC and how they did in week 1 games. They also played quite a few FBS schools, and they went 3-8 as a league. I don’t expect their teams to fall, as SDSU lost 44-20 to #17 Ok St, NDSU lost 31-26 to Colorado. But they also had some stinkers for some of their other highly touted teams.
Week 2 and 3 will be huge for us and all the ranked teams to prove something. UTC plays another FBS game, but this one should be a lot easier against Georgia St. Still, the Mocs probably expected to be 0-1 and realistically 0-2.
Also of note, Missouri State gave Montana all they wanted in a 29-24 game in Missoula. So week 2 and 3 will also be telling about who just simply played poorly in week 1.
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Post by catamountalum04 on Sept 1, 2024 8:42:12 GMT -5
And Campbell - they did look pretty good. Liberty lost a good bit of talent, but Campbell has had several really good recruiting classes in the last 3 or 4 years. I am confident Kerwin will have our team ready after a good showing in week 1, but no game is a cakewalk on this schedule. Number 9 Sincere Brown, WR for Campbell looked like he could cause our secondary some fits like the WR from State did |
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Sept 1, 2024 8:47:12 GMT -5
I watched the first quarter and a half of the Furman game and saw what happened at Tennessee and thought the time of the haves and have-nots was totally upon us. But then you see what Abilene Christian, Idaho and Old Dominion did (among others) and it becomes a little confusing.
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Post by catamountalum04 on Sept 1, 2024 10:22:14 GMT -5
I watched the first quarter and a half of the Furman game and saw what happened at Tennessee and thought the time of the haves and have-nots was totally upon us. But then you see what Abilene Christian, Idaho and Old Dominion did (among others) and it becomes a little confusing. I agree with you . I wonder if it is just a matchup issue with some of the schools |
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