Early Poll: How Many Wins?

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Screamin', what program do you use to make your banners? Gimp?

Photoshop.

 

[EWURanger]

Had a feeling you'd say that. :lol: Wouldn't mind tooling around with PS, but also don't want to pay hundreds of moolahs. Think I'll stick with GIMP for the time being. = Free

 

[EWURanger]

Assuming this is a regular season record, I say we go 8-3, with a loss to Nevada, a split with the Montana schools, and one other loss to either Sac State, Weber, or NAU. Or who knows, we could win all of those and lose to a PSU or UNC, although highly unlikely. That said, every game on or schedule is winnable outside of the Nevada game. We return a good chunk of our defense, much of our O-Line, and have some very promising young receivers. Couple that with the fact that we have Buchanan Award favorite LB JC Sherritt anchoring the defense and Payton Award candidate Taiwan Jones in the backfield to help out talented transfer QB Bo Levi Mitchell in what should again be one of the best offenses in FCS, and the Eags should be in contention for a conference championship and another playoff birth. I think anything less than an 8-3 record and playoff birth for this team will be a dissapointment.

Weberwildcat, since it was undoubtedly you who picked us to finish 5-6 - question. How can you possibly pick us to finish so low with the amount of talent and experience this team has returning?

6 games into the season, time to re-visit this topic. How does everyone feel about our prospects the rest of the way through?

I still maintain that 8-3 is the most probable, but that will be good enough to get us into the play-offs. Sac and PSU will be very tough games indeed, and I feel like we could drop one of those but still win out to make the play-offs. SUU will also be no walk in the park, but I feel like we should win the UNC and ISU games.

On the other hand, 9-2 is still a possibility if the stars align themselves. A 9-2 mark would get us a share of the BSC title IMO, because I do not think MSU will win out the remainder of their schedule. They will have to beat UM in Missoula to do that, and the Griz are getting better each week while MSU has sustained injuries and had a couple of defensive melt-downs the past couple of weeks. I don't know if they're going to have enough tank in the gas left to beat Montana the last game of the year. With UM already dropping one conference game to us, we could be in a great position come the end of the year by winning the remaining games on our schedule.

Sep 04 at Nevada L
Sep 11 Central Washington W
Sep 18 Montana W
Sep 25 at Montana State L
Oct 02 at Weber State W
Oct 09 Northern Arizona W
Oct 16 at Northern Colorado (should be a W, even on the road)
Oct 23 Sacramento State (toss-up)
Oct 30 at Portland State (toss-up)
Nov 06 Bye
Nov 13 Southern Utah (should be a W)
Nov 20 Idaho State (should be a W)

 

[LDopaPDX]

A couple of things:

Sac State is not very good defensively. We can score points on them. Plus, I think we can stop them sporadically on offense. This is a tough game, but this would only be a toss-up on the road. At home, we should be pretty sizeable favorites.

Calling Portland State a toss-up in Hillsburrito is a little iffy. Should PSU win this weekend, then fine, we can call that a toss-up. But PSU has really only beaten crappy teams thus far, and only played MSU great for a quarter before getting outscored 44-13 in the remaining 3 quarters. They are still a big mystery haflway thru the season... we should know a lot more about them after they play on Saturday night.

 

[EdubAlum]

A couple of things:

Sac State is not very good defensively. We can score points on them. Plus, I think we can stop them sporadically on offense. This is a tough game, but this would only be a toss-up on the road. At home, we should be pretty sizeable favorites.

Calling Portland State a toss-up in Hillsburrito is a little iffy. Should PSU win this weekend, then fine, we can call that a toss-up. But PSU has really only beaten crappy teams thus far, and only played MSU great for a quarter before getting outscored 44-13 in the remaining 3 quarters. They are still a big mystery haflway thru the season... we should know a lot more about them after they play on Saturday night.

and SUU looks pretty legit honestly. Luckily we have them at home. I think they're much better than their record indicates.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

A couple of things:

Sac State is not very good defensively. We can score points on them. Plus, I think we can stop them sporadically on offense. This is a tough game, but this would only be a toss-up on the road. At home, we should be pretty sizeable favorites.

Calling Portland State a toss-up in Hillsburrito is a little iffy. Should PSU win this weekend, then fine, we can call that a toss-up. But PSU has really only beaten crappy teams thus far, and only played MSU great for a quarter before getting outscored 44-13 in the remaining 3 quarters. They are still a big mystery haflway thru the season... we should know a lot more about them after they play on Saturday night.

and SUU looks pretty legit honestly. Luckily we have them at home. I think they're much better than their record indicates.

They are.

 

[SDHornet]

Sac State is not very good defensively. We can score points on them. Plus, I think we can stop them sporadically on offense. This is a tough game, but this would only be a toss-up on the road. At home, we should be pretty sizeable favorites.

I beg to differ but it’s hard to defend the defense after the MSU game. Our defense has been pretty solid against the run but not too good against the pass. Our pass rush has varied but has shown the ability to get to the QB. I think the EWU game will hinge on TJ’s health. If he is 100%, the odds for a Hornet win are slim. If he is hurt and isn’t effective as he was early in the season we definitely have a chance. BLM has been showing improvement and if that continues, it will be tough to stop EWU.

Offensively we are a run heavy team. Expect to see lots of Hilliard carries, he is our work horse. EWU is middle of the conference in terms of rush defense and that will be the match-up to watch in two weeks. If the EWU defense can’t get off the field, it will be a long day for them. The Hornets grind out games and controlling the TOP is always a priority.

I am looking forward to the game as I think it will be close. We need to run the table to get into the playoffs but I think it is possible (but it won’t be easy). Good luck this week against UNC.

 

[EWURanger]

One thing Sac has going for them is that they'll have two weeks to prepare for the game @ Eastern. If we can beat UNC, then that Sac game is going to have *HUGE* implications. They're not out of the play-off picture yet and are going to try their damnedest to give us our first loss on the Inferno.

Maybe we'll have TJ back by then, maybe not. He did absolutely kill them in Sacramento last year.