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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Cane from the Bend » Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:41 am

Temple has the schedule.
Houston has the record.
Navy put down Memphis.

All of these would make a quality competitor. Right now, though, with an undefeated win/loss mark, Houston should have the lead.

Navy could knock them off too, which would make the decision of placing Temple or Navy ahead an interesting one. But, until they lose, the Cougars [imo] are leading this race.

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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby armchairqb » Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:44 am

1. Navy (8-1)
2. Houston (10-0)
3. Memphis (8-2)
4. Temple (8-2)
5. Bowling Green (8-2)
6. Cincinnati (6-4)
7. BYU (7-3)
8. Western Kentucky (8-2)
9. Louisiana Tech (7-3)
10. Toledo (8-1)
11. Boise State (7-3)
12. Air Force (7-3)
13. Arkansas State (7-3)
14. Marshall (9-2)
15. San Diego State (7-3)
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby armchairqb » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:29 am

1. Navy (10-1)
2. Temple (9-2)
3. BYU (8-3)
4. Toledo (9-1)
5. Houston (10-1)
6. Western Kentucky (9-2)
7. Memphis (8-3)
8. Northern Illinois (8-3)
9. Bowling Green (8-3)
10. Air Force (8-3)
11. Marshall (9-2)
12. Louisiana Tech (8-3)
13. Boise State (7-4)
14. Arkansas State (7-3)
15. Southern Mississippi (8-3)
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Eric » Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:41 pm

Seeing Navy in a big-time bowl as the Go5 representative would be incredible. When that spot was created, I don't think anybody assumed that an academy could ever make it in, but Navy can really play some football. Surprisingly, the reason they are better than usual this year is because of their defense. They have a legitimately solid defense that can hold their own against some good offensive players. That and Keenan Reynolds is the best Navy QB in decades.

There's a lot on the line with Houston and Navy this week. I wonder if Houston will rush Greg Ward back into action or if he'll still be too hurt to play. I think Postma might be out.

Plus, there's another connundrum: Will Navy get the group of 5 game even with another game left to go? The bowl selections should come out after the championship games, but as usual, Navy will play Army the following week so they can keep the tradition of closing out the year against the Knights. So....What if the unthinkable happened? Navy wins the AAC, but loses to Army after prepping to play Michigan State or Florida or somebody? Navy never loses to Army so I doubt it's a possibility, but that would certainly be bizarre. "You just lost to a bad 2-9 Army team, so have fun playing Ohio State / Oklahoma State / Etc.!"
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby armchairqb » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:59 am

1. Temple (10-2)
2. Houston (11-1)
3. BYU (9-3)
4. Navy (9-2)
5. Memphis (9-3)
6. Western Kentucky (10-2)
7. Bowling Green (9-3)
8. Toledo (9-2)
9. Boise State (8-4)
10. Southern Miss (9-3)
11. Ohio (8-4)
12. Arkansas State (8-3)
13. Louisiana Tech (8-4)
14. Appalachian State (9-2)
15. Northern illinois (8-4)
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby armchairqb » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:27 am

1. Houston (12-1)
2. Temple (10-3)
3. BYU (9-3)
4. Navy (9-2)
5. Memphis (9-3)
6. Western Kentucky (11-2)
7. Bowling Green (10-3)
8. Toledo (9-2)
9. Southern Miss (9-4)
10. Boise State (8-4)
11. Ohio (8-4)
12. Arkansas State (9-3)
13. Louisiana Tech (8-4)
14. Appalachian State (10-2)
15. San Diego State (10-3)
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby billybud » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:33 am

The sad thing is that no one wants to be the one who plays Houston in the NY6 bowl.

And Houston will go to the Peach or the Fiesta....(I am praying "please, not the Peach"). Let them play Ohio State in the Fiesta.

FSU learned with 12-1 NIU in the Orange a few years back. Nobody really cares. The P5 is expected to win no matter how good the G5 team is. The fans want to play a Notre Dame or Iowa or Ohio State and don't want to pay the big bowl bucks to play a NIU or Houston.

A noon kick off game with Houston in the Peach? I hope not.

Houston, we have a problem.
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby donovan » Sun Dec 06, 2015 6:01 pm

I get the Houston feeling. At least when Boise State was in that position there was year long hype which helped...but Houston is a boring as the town.
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Cane from the Bend » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:01 pm

Boise also had the BCS argument, where the media wanted to give the Broncos that amount of hype.

Now that espn has the tournament they were asking for, the Group of 5 is a forgotten man in the iron mask.

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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby armchairqb » Sun Dec 06, 2015 8:51 pm

billybud wrote:The sad thing is that no one wants to be the one who plays Houston in the NY6 bowl.

And Houston will go to the Peach or the Fiesta....(I am praying "please, not the Peach"). Let them play Ohio State in the Fiesta.

FSU learned with 12-1 NIU in the Orange a few years back. Nobody really cares. The P5 is expected to win no matter how good the G5 team is. The fans want to play a Notre Dame or Iowa or Ohio State and don't want to pay the big bowl bucks to play a NIU or Houston.

A noon kick off game with Houston in the Peach? I hope not.

Houston, we have a problem.


This is definitely a different scenario than NIU. Houston has thrown $ to keep their head coach and he is actually staying. UH is seriously looking at getting into a power conference, and they have much more going on paper and on the field than NIU. QB Greg Ward Jr could be on the Heisman short list before 2016 starts. They may not win, but they could make it quite close.
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Cane from the Bend » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:21 pm

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That won't happen unless Houston finagles their way into a Power 5 conference by next season.

Houston may have money; but they do not have a money conference to support their name.

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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Cane from the Bend » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:02 pm

billybud wrote:The sad thing is that no one wants to be the one who plays Houston in the NY6 bowl.

And Houston will go to the Peach or the Fiesta....(I am praying "please, not the Peach"). Let them play Ohio State in the Fiesta.

A noon kick off game with Houston in the Peach? I hope not.

Houston, we have a problem.


And; FSU vs Houston in the Peach Bowl it is.
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Eric » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:03 pm

The problem with Houston is that they are a 'tweener type of program. Not quite big enough to be attractive for their own sake, but definitely a bigger fish in a smaller pond. They don't offer the Big 12 anything they don't already have. If the Big 12 actually wants to get to 12, they'd rather go BYU, Memphis, Cincinnati, and possibly even Tulane before they went with Houston (or they could go on that hypothetical ACC raid that was rumored a few years ago). Not their fault, but what can they do.
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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby Spence » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:12 pm

Eric wrote:The problem with Houston is that they are a 'tweener type of program. Not quite big enough to be attractive for their own sake, but definitely a bigger fish in a smaller pond. They don't offer the Big 12 anything they don't already have. If the Big 12 actually wants to get to 12, they'd rather go BYU, Memphis, Cincinnati, and possibly even Tulane before they went with Houston (or they could go on that hypothetical ACC raid that was rumored a few years ago). Not their fault, but what can they do.


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Re: Group of Five: Top 15 Power Poll

Postby donovan » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:22 pm

Houston needs to just be comfortable with who they are. Anything else is doomsday. Boise is the same. Nobody cares. So they go to San Diego to play Northern Illinois....let be sure to rush and get our tickets...to Sea World. At least it will be warm weather.
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