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Miami -10.5 at SMU Saturday

First real home game and an 11am start for the first time all year. Will be interesting to see how the team comes out. Will the be sleep walking the first half again, will the early start and change or scenery be good?
 
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Hoyacane1620 said:
Jennings didn't do much, if any, running yesterday. Assume he is still nursing that ankle issue.

If that holds true another week it will be good for us. He was particularly inaccurate yestereday, too. So much so that the announcers started to wonder who he was throwing to...

Mario and Dawson need to start their gameplan with the plays/formations they brought out in the 3rd Q this week. The team looked totally different on offense for most of that Q
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You mean more spread in the 2nd half? Shocking, isn’t it, that helped our offense.
 
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They've forced 14 turnovers in 6 P4 games. They do a good job of stopping the run. They aren't so great at defending the pass. Our offense vs their defense is similar to UL. Either we are able to impose our will and run against a good run stopping defense (in which case we will blow them out), or Beck will have to carefully navigate their pass defense till he finds open guys without turning the ball over numerous times. Will be a good test to see what we learned on offense from the UL game. I like us to cover but getting it under -10 early in the week I like a lot more.

If CJJjr is out for them that would be huge for us. Getting him in space against our LBers worries me.
 
Wtf. Can’t be any worse. Halloween party at Numbers in Houston on Friday. ***** blows.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
If there’s anything that anyone who even remotely follows this sport should know and NEVER be confused on, it’s that fact that you can never draw conclusions on teams from one week to the next. Each week is a literal new season. It’s the most Jekyll and Hyde sport in existence.

What they did against wake means literally nothing. They get a fresh start with zeros on the scoreboard next week. Gotta play well to win.

I will say this, their fans are really dejected right now. It’s homecoming and the best show in town is passing through, so I’m sure by Saturday they’ll be ready to go. But they’re online talmbout there’s gonna be 15k ppl there and they’ll be half asleep. The juice is totally gone from their program right now.

I saw on here and didn’t believe it so I had to Google it, but it’s true. Their stadium only holds 32k people. That’s crazy. Miami is gonna have to manufacture their own energy. We’re not coming out to 70k telling us to go **** ourselves.
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Correct.

Forrest Gregg Stadium on The Hilltop is an intimate setting.

Anyone who thinks Miami should get an "on campus stadium", I strongly encourage you to attend SMU vs Miami.

The campuses are nearly identical in size and "landlocked"-ness...go see for yourself what it would be like. Highland Park = Coral Gables.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
If there’s anything that anyone who even remotely follows this sport should know and NEVER be confused on, it’s that fact that you can never draw conclusions on teams from one week to the next. Each week is a literal new season. It’s the most Jekyll and Hyde sport in existence.

What they did against wake means literally nothing. They get a fresh start with zeros on the scoreboard next week. Gotta play well to win.

I will say this, their fans are really dejected right now. It’s homecoming and the best show in town is passing through, so I’m sure by Saturday they’ll be ready to go. But they’re online talmbout there’s gonna be 15k ppl there and they’ll be half asleep. The juice is totally gone from their program right now.

I saw on here and didn’t believe it so I had to Google it, but it’s true. Their stadium only holds 32k people. That’s crazy. Miami is gonna have to manufacture their own energy. We’re not coming out to 70k telling us to go **** ourselves.
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One of my friends that i played (and coached with) is a coach in the league.

He made the observation that college football, with NIL and the transfer portal, (effectively free agency) has made the game much like the NFL in that there’s now an “any given Saturday” effect that was never really there. Big upsets were national news a dozen years ago. Now? Any team can be beat from one week to the next by any other team.

A team’s last game has minimal relevance to the one being played now.

That wasn’t the case 10 years ago.

If this is 2015 instead of 2025, does anyone think a team like penn state loses to UCLA? Or Alabama loses opening day to a half-a$$ed FSU squad? Or Vandy in the SEC is now better than LSU and Texas. and Indiana in the B10 is now way ahead of Michigan?

Don’t think so.
 
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