My Take

[OCESIP]

Was going to start a new thread (probably still will) noting pretty much the same on Uconn. Hate to say a week 2 game is a must win but man a loss here and your staring an 1-3 start in the face and with this schedule things could get off the rails quickly. This is a very tricky game for a fairly young SU team especially on defense. This needs to be a game where the Offense really takes advantage of a Uconn defense replacing essentially 9 starters from last year and just lost its starting safety for Saturday. I fear this may be much closer than the majority of the fanbase thinks it will be and I do worry that if this team makes the same mistakes with turnovers we could be in trouble.

Fans will accept losses to better programs, but it won't take long to undo all the positive vibes from last year if we loose to a couple of teams we are supposed to beat.

 

[Moontan]

Uconns a tricky opponent. I suspect it will be closer them people think. Their offense has some nice skill pieces at Wr in Bell and a good RB stable. The QB Fagnano is in his 7th year (no joke) and can sling it though he has accuracy issues. If the Syracuse D doesn't shore up some of the run and coverage issues were gonna have a problem.

On the other hand Uconn defensively lost its entire front 7 from last year and 2 secondary guys. They apparently got zero pressure today vs a 1AA school and the dline struggled. I suspect SU is gonna try and ram it Down their throats and PA them once they get it going.

This game comes down to whatever D can get a few stops and or multiple turnovers. SU dominated yardage last year but mistakes had it a 1 score game. Again tricky game

“We” need to run over and destroy them!

43+,-13 would be good.
Get Rickie in for the last possession or two and it would be perfect.

 

[bigmike]

and by national exposure you mean everything but the last 4 minutes.

It means they played hard the entire game, not well, but hard. They never gave up, and that means something.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

Nobody else was playing 11 BCS teams back then? How may FCS teams were teams playing?

BCS (top 6 conferences) not FBS.

 

[sufandu]

BCS (top 6 conferences) not FBS.

My bad. Still that's a weak argument. The Big East was weak. Missouri won 2 SEC games that year. Minnesota won 2 games in the B1G. WVU had a losing record in the Big 12. And we played Stony Brook.

It was a decent schedule. It wasn't a particularly hard one.

 

[Archbold44]

My bad. Still that's a weak argument. The Big East was weak. Missouri won 2 SEC games that year. Minnesota won 2 games in the B1G. WVU had a losing record in the Big 12. And we played Stony Brook.

It was a decent schedule. It wasn't a particularly hard one.

Rutgers OOC that year: Arkansas, Kent State, Tulane, Army, and Howard.
Louisville: Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri STATE, Fl Intl, and Southern Mississippi
Cincinnati: Va Tech, Miami (OH), Toledo, Fordham, Delaware State (they went 10-2, we went 7-5, I wonder why?)
USF: Florida State, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Nevada, Ball State, Miami (FL)
UConn: NC State, Maryland, Western Michigan, Buffalo, UMass
Pitt: Notre Dame, Va Tech, Buffalo, Youngstown State, Gardener-Webb
Syracuse: USC, Missouri, NW, Minnesota, Stony Brook

We played 4 BCS-level teams. Nobody else played more than 2. We only had one of the four at home too.

Missouri lost to 12-2 Georgia, 11-2 South Carolina, 13-1 Alabama, 11-2 Florida, 11-2 Texas A&M, 9-4 Vanderbilt. A combined 63-11 No wonder they went 2-6 in the SEC.

USC lost 5 PAC games to teams that were a combined 53-14.

NW finished 10-3.

Minnesota lost to a bunch of good teams, including NW. Iowa was their bad loss and that is a rivalry game.

 

[RedtheGOB]

Lot of negativity here on this thread.

Our guys were better and so much more in control as the game went on which is not something to take lightly. It’s why I’m still very high on this team and am expecting big things this year still. Judging a team for their 1st 2 quarters of football for the year is just stupid which way too many people are doing.

It’s prob a dead horse to beat but we all watched the GOAT coach his new UNCheaters team to a fast start scoring first and looking good only to fall apart and get crushed by much lesser competition at Home.

People really need to rewatch the game from the 2nd quarter on and just the last 25 mins of the game also. It was just night and day and no quit.

We were out of control in the 1st quarter in our first game in front of a crowd that was 80% hostile Tennessee fans. We were equally Bad at the end of the half and beginning of the 3rd with a new QB. It happens.

Sometimes it’s just simple #’s. 90% of Tenns starters and 2 deeps had multiple years experience starting big time games. Someone can do our math on just how many guys were getting their first start but it was closer to the opposite. Yet they got their Sstuff together quickly.

 

[sufandu]

Rutgers OOC that year: Arkansas, Kent State, Tulane, Army, and Howard.
Louisville: Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri STATE, Fl Intl, and Southern Mississippi
Cincinnati: Va Tech, Miami (OH), Toledo, Fordham, Delaware State (they went 10-2, we went 7-5, I wonder why?)
USF: Florida State, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Nevada, Ball State, Miami (FL)
UConn: NC State, Maryland, Western Michigan, Buffalo, UMass
Pitt: Notre Dame, Va Tech, Buffalo, Youngstown State, Gardener-Webb
Syracuse: USC, Missouri, NW, Minnesota, Stony Brook

We played 4 BCS-level teams. Nobody else played more than 2. We only had one of the four at home too.

Missouri lost to 12-2 Georgia, 11-2 South Carolina, 13-1 Alabama, 11-2 Florida, 11-2 Texas A&M, 9-4 Vanderbilt. A combined 63-11 No wonder they went 2-6 in the SEC.

USC lost 5 PAC games to teams that were a combined 53-14.

NW finished 10-3.

Minnesota lost to a bunch of good teams, including NW. Iowa was their bad loss and that is a rivalry game.

Right. You're describing a decent schedule, not a particularly hard one. Look at all of teams that you listed that our OOC opponents lost to. THEY had gauntlet schedules, not us.

We played two teams that finished in the top 25.

Our SOS was ranked 46th.

The Big East was weaker than the other BCS conferences.

One of our wins was against Stony Brook.

It wasn't a cupcake schedule. It wasn't a really hard schedule. It was decent. Why do people want to inflate things?

 

[djorange1989]

The biggest problem with the 2012 schedule was we were breaking in a new offense(hastily installed) against power opponents. However, our D wasn’t exactly stellar either and no excuses there. As far as this year, if we make a bowl then I won’t care about scheduling Tennessee. If we go 5-7, I will care and wished we scheduled a chump! Gotta keep making bowls, 4 straight years would mean a lot, even if it’s a crappy bowl