Marshall Top 25 Votes

[Cerebus]

Marshall now has votes in both the AP and Coaches polls.

[chrisfisher]

Awesome. Great for the conference. And great for us when we beat them in the Cusa championship game! 

[dmaxel]

I'm pretty sure that if we make it to the championship game and beat FAU along the way, we'll face Marshall. And if we beat them, maybe we'd be ranked for our bowl game.

[NorthTexan95]

Marshall is getting votes based on their name.  

[BTG_Fan1]

2 hours ago, dmaxel said:

I'm pretty sure that if we make it to the championship game and beat FAU along the way, we'll face Marshall. And if we beat them, maybe we'd be ranked for our bowl game.

Look at the remaining Marshall games.. they didn’t have a body bag game either..

MTSU, FAU, LAT, UTSA, and FIU.. they are going to be challenged the rest of the season

[p_phelps]

12 minutes ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

Look at the remaining Marshall games.. they didn’t have a body bag game either..

MTSU, FAU, LAT, UTSA, and FIU.. they are going to be challenged the rest of the season

If they win out i'll be very impressed 

[BTG_Fan1]

4 minutes ago, p_phelps said:

If they win out i'll be very impressed 

Yep, but I’m going to say it’s not likely

[DeepGreen]

3 hours ago, NorthTexan95 said:

Marshall is getting votes based on their name.  

Thundering turd?  I mean herd.

[BTG_Fan1]

Others receiving votes: San Diego St. 56, Texas A&M 46, Iowa St. 16, Virginia 10, Kentucky 8, Utah 4, Mississippi St. 3, South Carolina 2, Iowa 2, Navy 2, Texas Tech 2, Georgia Tech 1, Marshall 1, Florida St. 1

 

Iowa State with 16 votes.. Kentucky with 8, Iowa with 2... that’s surprising

[Ken14]

What about a T25 vote for us................too much to ask for???

[outoftown]

6 minutes ago, Ken14 said:

What about a T25 vote for us................too much to ask for???

Not there yet. UNT needs to creat a a bit of a name and a record better than 4-2. Right now UNT really doesn't have that, despite this seasons sexy numbers. Also we lost to two teams who are at best also on the others receiving votes list. Marshall got one single vote, likely due to a homer thiking highly of them due to name recognition.

If we beat FAU next week, we'll get closer, but I don't think it happens unless we also beat LaTech.

[Ken14]

Just a thought.....I'm a NT Homer.....we can do wrong after last night.............GMG

 

[oldguystudent]

We're at 68 in the CBS poll and 102 in Sagarin.  

There are no future opponents ranked above us in the CBS poll.

Sagarin still has Southern Miss and UTSA above us.  

According to Sagarin, current odds on future opponents (+3 points for home team taken into account):

FAU favored by 5

UNT favored over Old Dominion by 12

LaTech favored by 6

UNT favored over UTEP by 21

Army favored by 1

UNT favored over Rice by 11

There's a good chance that this becomes a very, very special season, but I'll reserve "ROAD TO 10-2 AND RANKED LIKE A DUMBASS ROADKILL CHICKEN!!!!" assertions for now, though I do think we're in solid position to most certainly go to a bowl. 

[eagle73]

How is that we beat USM and UTSA and both of those teams are rated above us?  Incomprehensible.

[BTG_Fan1]

42 minutes ago, Ken14 said:

What about a T25 vote for us................too much to ask for???

SL has a vote, he should do it.. and then it would generate some buzz then

[UNT 90 Grad]

1 hour ago, eagle73 said:

How is that we beat USM and UTSA and both of those teams are rated above us?  Incomprehensible.

[TheColonyEagle]

I think if we beat Lane Kiffin.....the media will take notice. 

[VideoEagle]

2 hours ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

SL has a vote, he should do it.. and then it would generate some buzz then

That is exactly what Hayden Fry did - he voted us pretty high, but not #1 or #2. Back then there were fewer voters so one high ranking could get you into the top 20. (Not only fewer voters, but they only ranked the top 20 also.) 

[GreenBacker]

8 hours ago, chrisfisher said:

Awesome. Great for the conference. And great for us when we beat them in the Cusa championship game! 

I do agree with the exception of hosting the championship.  If we had the same record, ranking would determine who would host.  I’d really really like to have a championship at Apogee!

[meaniegreenie]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2017/08/01/amway-coaches-poll-meet-college-football-coaches-behind-poll/526011001/

CUSA E/W not balanced in our favor.

         Major Applewhite, Houston
CUSA-W - David Bailiff, Rice
         David Beaty, Kansas
         Bret Bielema, Arkansas
         Craig Bohl, Wyoming
         John Bonamego, Central Michigan
         Terry Bowden, Akron
         Jeff Brohm, Purdue
         Matt Campbell, Iowa State
         Rod Carey, Northern Illinois
         Mark Dantonio, Michigan State
CUSA-E - Butch Davis, Florida International
         Dave Doeren, North Carolina State
         DJ Durkin, Maryland
         Shawn Elliott, Georgia State
         Larry Fedora, North Carolina
         Luke Fickell, Cincinnati
         Jimbo Fisher, Florida State
         P.J. Fleck, Minnesota
         James Franklin, Penn State
         Willie Fritz, Tulane
         Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech
         Bryan Harsin, Boise State
         Clay Helton, Southern California
         Tom Herman, Texas
CUSA-E - Doc Holliday, Marshall
         Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana-Lafayette
         Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech
         Joey Jones, South Alabama
         Mike Leach, Washington State
         Lance Leipold, Buffalo
         Tim Lester, Western Michigan
CUSA-W - Seth Littrell, North Texas
         Rocky Long, San Diego State
         Mike MacIntyre, Colorado
         Gus Malzahn, Auburn
         Derek Mason, Vanderbilt
         Urban Meyer, Ohio State
         Jeff Monken, Army
         Philip Montgomery, Tulsa
         Scottie Montgomery, East Carolina
         Jim Mora, UCLA
         Dan Mullen, Mississippi State
         Pat Narduzzi, Pittsburgh
         Ken Niumatalolo, Navy
         Barry Odom, Missouri
         Gary Patterson, TCU
         Mike Riley, Nebraska
         Rich Rodriguez, Arizona
         Nick Rolovich, Hawaii
         Nick Saban, Alabama
         Tony Sanchez, UNLV
CUSA-E - Mike Sanford Jr., Western Kentucky
         Scott Satterfield, Appalachian State
         Bill Snyder, Kansas State
         Frank Solich, Ohio
CUSA-E - Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee
         Mark Stoops, Kentucky
         Tyson Summers, Georgia Southern
         Dabo Swinney, Clemson
         Matt Wells, Utah State
         Mark Whipple, Massachusetts
         Kyle Whittingham, Utah
CUSA-E - Bobby Wilder, Old Dominion
         Everett Withers, Texas State

 

Edited October 16, 2017 by meaniegreenie

[dmaxel]

33 minutes ago, GreenBacker said:

I do agree with the exception of hosting the championship.  If we had the same record, ranking would determine who would host.  I’d really really like to have a championship at Apogee!

Looks like we have to win out the rest of the season then! (just to be sure)

[BTG_Fan1]

7 hours ago, VideoEagle said:

That is exactly what Hayden Fry did - he voted us pretty high, but not #1 or #2. Back then there were fewer voters so one high ranking could get you into the top 20. (Not only fewer voters, but they only ranked the top 20 also.) 

It would be interesting and something that would draw a few alumni as well...