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Week one... Cal Poly and Portland State

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LDopaPDX

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PSU gets a tough opener with BYU. Hard to see them getting a win; hopefully they can compete and make a game out of it.

Cal Poly opens at home with Colgate. I give them credit for their scheduling. I don't quite get how we can't get a return game from Fordham but Cal Poly can get Colgate down to SLO. I'd pick Cal Poly, but it's hard to get that taste of their wretched playoff performance against San Diego out of my mind. Still, smart money would think the 'Stangs cruise.
 
LDopaPDX said:
PSU gets a tough opener with BYU. Hard to see them getting a win; hopefully they can compete and make a game out of it.

Cal Poly opens at home with Colgate. I give them credit for their scheduling. I don't quite get how we can't get a return game from Fordham but Cal Poly can get Colgate down to SLO. I'd pick Cal Poly, but it's hard to get that taste of their wretched playoff performance against San Diego out of my mind. Still, smart money would think the 'Stangs cruise.
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The scheduling of the Fordham game still blows my mind how ridiculous it was
 
marceagfan5 said:
LDopaPDX said:
PSU gets a tough opener with BYU. Hard to see them getting a win; hopefully they can compete and make a game out of it.

Cal Poly opens at home with Colgate. I give them credit for their scheduling. I don't quite get how we can't get a return game from Fordham but Cal Poly can get Colgate down to SLO. I'd pick Cal Poly, but it's hard to get that taste of their wretched playoff performance against San Diego out of my mind. Still, smart money would think the 'Stangs cruise.
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The scheduling of the Fordham game still blows my mind how ridiculous it was
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It's South Dakota, 2011 all over again. Maybe worse because of the longer travel. I don't normally have scheduling compliants like many of you, but this one annoys me.
 
Cal Poly always starts the season strong. They should handle Colgate reasonably well...it's only after being banged up for 12 weeks do they start skidding.
 
The Patriot League will continue to close the talent gap with the schollie increases. Lehigh, Colgate, and Fordham are all capable of upsetting teams from FCS power conferences. Remember Colgate beat UNH and JMU in the 2015 playoffs in back to back weeks on the road and played a healthy Richmond very tough last year. This could be a year where the Patriot gets two teams in the playoffs.
 
Not sure if PSU looked good or BYU looked bad. Either way PSU played them tough which surprised me. Cal Poly looked bad then they looked good.
 
I was impressed with PSU and especially their true freshman QB. By the time we play them he will have one season of experience and be a real challenge. Their DB's did an excellent job of coverage. The final score didn't really indicate how close the game was.
Watch out for the Vikings!
 
Cal Poly looked disorganized. If you're going to be an option-heavy team, you still have to have enough "regular offense" in your arsenal to utilize when you need to manage the clock. Cal Poly had a chance to score and win and got themselves behind the 8-ball because they completely mismanaged their drive. They didn't use timeouts and wound the clock down when they had every opportunity to get two drives instead of one. A second very poor effort in a row by CP... On a national TV game making the Big Sky look bad, no less.
 
Also, you could tell Tim Walsh was about to kill his offensive coaches at the end of that game. "you had one job!!"

PSU looked good defensively. Maybe BYU had a rotten game; we'll find out where they are next week with LSU. Still, any time you hold BYU to 20 points in Lavell Edwards, you've done a great job. They have a long way to go offensively, but in fairness, not being able to move the ball against BYU doesn't mean you'll be unsuccessful against the Big Sky. I'd say PSU is a live dog against Oregon State next week.
 
Not much about Cal Poly impressed me, they will be out of my top 25. PSU's defense really impressed me, but offense was having issues. I would argue PSU is going to a decent big sky dark horse if their impressive QB can get the offense gelling.
 
Cal Poly looked like total crap until the very end of the game and then they blew their chances. All in all they did not look like a top 25 team.
 
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