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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1638382, member: 636"]
Interesting question.  While I am certainly excited for Dino era to start and understand that there will be a talent upgrade here over Bowling Green, I decided to look at what Babers accomplished at BG in terms of P5 opponents:

[B][U]Year One at Bowling Green[/U][/B]

Beat a 4-8 Ind - 45-42 at home
Loss to an 11-3 Wisc - 17-68 on the road

[B][U]Year Two at Bowling Green[/U][/B]

Loss to a 9-4 Tenn - 30-59 in Nashville
Beat a 3-9 MD - 48-27 on the road
Loss to a 9-4 Memphis - 41-44 on the road (not P5 I know, but they had a good year last year so I threw them in)
Beat a 2-10 Purdue 35-28 on the road

Not much of a data set to draw any definitive conclusions, but looks like in Year 1 the wins will likely come more by how well the opponent is doing than us.
By the end of Year 2 we should have a better feel.  Pitt is recruiting really well this year under Narduzzi while NC State the past few years has ranked between 45 and high 30s.

So both will still have a "perceived" talent edge on us for the next couple of years.  Hopefully the new system helps to neutralize that as we move forward.

Cheers,
Neil
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