Over / Under Giving Up 100 Pts

NT03 · August 17, 2009

Can we hold Ball St , Ohio U & Bama to under a 100 points total for the first 3 games of the year ? That's 33.3 ppg.

My predection : NO

Ball St : 31- 37

Ohio U : 24 -31

Bama : 49 -56

Edited August 17, 2009 by NT03

emmitt01 · August 17, 2009

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Over...easily

mad dog · August 17, 2009

Over, and it won't even be close. It has been done once in the last five years. Through three games, we've never been lower than 60 in the last eight years, and that is from our great 2002 defensive team that held Texas to 27 and sacked Chris Simms all over the place (it also benefitted from a home game shutout of Nicholls State). If we're taking an average of the last five years, we're looking at an over of 127 or 42 points per game.

Mean Green 93-98 · August 17, 2009

Even with major improvement on the D, I don't see that coming close. Move that over/under to 120 or 130, and at least make it a contest.

Stan R · August 17, 2009

nope. sorry. won't happen.

The Fake Lonnie Finch · August 17, 2009

Game 1 at Ball State: Ball State 28, UNT 19

Game 2 OHIO: Ohio 25, UNT 22

Game 3 at Alabama: Alabama 47, UNT 6

I predicted we'd give up 100 on the nose for the first three games. That would be a vast improvement over the past two seasons. Over the past five seasons, we've only held our first three opponents under 100 points combined once - and it wasn't during our Sun Belt title run!

2008 = 142 in first three games

Kansas State 45, UNT 6

Tulsa 56, UNT 26

LSU 41, UNT 3

2007 = 154 in first three games

Oklahoma 79, UNT 10

SMU 45, UNT 31

Florida Atlantic 30, UNT 20

2006 = 90 in first three games

Texas 56, UNT 7

UNT 24, SMU 6

Tulsa 28, UNT 3

2005 = 115 in first three games

UNT 14, Middle Tennessee 7

Tulsa 54, UNT 2

Kansas State 54, UNT 7

2004 = 137 in first three games

Texas 65, UNT 0

Florida Atlantic 20, UNT 13

Colorado 52, UNT 21

untlynchka · August 17, 2009

Ohio will score more that Ball State will. I think you guys forget that their O-line is supposed to be pretty awful this year.

Btw, there is no way that we are under.

meangreen-mba · August 17, 2009

I guess I am the only one drink green Kool-Aid while wearing green glasses - we go 2 -1 and outscore our opponent 74 - 73 in that stretch...

34 - 14 Ball State

27 - 17 Ohio

13 - 42 Bama

GoMeanGreen1999 · August 17, 2009

I guess I am the only one drink green Kool-Aid while wearing green glasses - we go 2 -1 and outscore our opponent 74 - 73 in that stretch...
34 - 14 Ball State
27 - 17 Ohio
13 - 42 Bama

You are drinking something that is green. I have Ball State scoring 14 on us in the first quarter.

Ball State 42 - 20

Ohio 35 - 21 (I really don't see it being this close when I consider the last two times I thought we would be close playing Tulsa and the subsequent outcomes)

Bama 52 - 10

UNT90 · August 17, 2009

I voted no thinking that this was a poll for any of the 1st three games, thinking that surely Alabama would not run the score up that high.

I need to work on my attitude.

But, Id be pleasantly surprised if we were under 120 for the 1st 3 games combined.

Mean Green 93-98 · August 18, 2009

I would be ok with giving up over 100 in the first three games. As long as it looks something like this:
UNT 35, Balls Taint 28
UNT 27 Ohio 24
Alabamy 56 UNT 24
That I can live with.

I can live with winning at pretty much any score.