Notre Dame with one foot in the ACC plays only teams in conferences so I'll highlight its opening week game vs Michigan.
New Mexico St and BYU, two teams that belong in the MWC, faceoff at BYU on Nov17.
Liberty with all your $$$ give the Sunbelt a boost, and why the hell are you playing New Mexico St twice.
Army- you should've stayed in the MAC- faces Liberty on Sept 9.
UMass , the AAC beckons, particularly for hoop reasons, and you have a nice regional match up against UConn (AAC) on Oct 27. The next week you play Liberty.
aug 1, 2018
#BYU faces five P5 schools Arizona California, Wisconsin, Washington, and Utah. Cal is the only one of those teams traveling to Provo.
aug 19, 2018
New Mexico St is selling tickets for as low as $3 for first home game on national TV (ESPN) in a decade. #wyoming (MWC) is coming to #LasCruces for an Aug 25 matchup.
aug 26
#NMST falls at home to Wyoming 29-7 Nico Evans ran for 206 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries to help #wyoming beat 29-7. That's one way to replace Josh Allen. attendance 20,322
aug 29, 2018
#Army coach Jeff Monken named Kelvin Hopkins Jr. the starter at quarterback in the opener at Duke. He takes over for Ahmad Bradshaw, who led the Black Knights to consecutive winning seasons for the first time in three decades.
aug 31 2018
NMST was up 10-7 early against Minnesota, and I noticed that #FrankSpaziani, the former the DC then HC at BC, was their Defensive Coordinator. It went downhill for the Ags from there. Minn 48 NMST 10sept 1: #army passed for more yards (197) than rushed (168) in a 31-14 loss to Duke
sept 15: #army hosts #hawaii and their rushing attack eating up the clock may be the best way to slow down the Rainbows' aerial show but they'll losea squaeker 24-21.
sept 29, 2018: Plenty of road work for the Independents this weekend.
#army travels to Buffalo (MAC): Bulls Tyree Jackson's arm will do enough to edge Army 24-23 in an intrastate battle
#umass travels to Ohio (MAC). Look for Ohio to slow down their former MAC foe and pull out a 28-27 win.
#Liberty travels to New Mexico (MWC): Lobos 19 Liberty 14
#BYU travels to UW (Pac12) Another tight game . UW D gets a pick 6 and wina 23 -20
Notre Dame hosts Stanford (PAC12): Maybe a special teams play turns the gave for the Irish. in a 27-26 win.
Sept 30, 2018
Props to #army and I was 100% wrong on Jackson's arm. Army 42 Buff 14The Bobcats roared into gear in the second quarter and never looked back in 58- 42 win over UMass. N. Rourke, the Ohio QB, tossed three TD passes and rushed for a TD.
I was wrong on the amount of O and the winner as Jones, the Libert QB, threw for 417 yards and three TDs in 52-43 win over the Lobos.
UW defense was stingier than I guessed and Browning had a solid game for the Huskies in a 35-7 win over BYU.
ND defense was solid and Book threw four TD passes in a 38 -17 win over the Cards. Three out of 5 correct picks
oct 7, 2018
UMass got trounced by USF. Notre Dame smacked VTech, and #Nmst with 4 td passes from Josh Adkins, outlasted #Liberty 49-41Oct 13, 2018 7:52AM EST
INDEPENDENTS (FBS) W L
Notre Dame 6 0
Army 3 2
BYU 3 3
Liberty 2 3
New Mexico State 2 4
Massachusetts 2 5
Oct 20,2018
Alabama adds New Mexico State to its 2019 and 2021 home football schedule.
Big game for #army (4-2) today to stay in the bowl game hunt as they host Miami (Ohio).
oct 21, 2018
G. Ragland (30-53, 329 YDS, 4 TD) effort for Miami O wasn't enough as Coach Martin's decision to go for a two pint conversion in OT backfired in a 31-30 loss at Army. Woofolk and Thomas led the strong Army rushing attack.
Can't believe we still have independents. ND can do it until the TV contract runs out. However, I don't see that anytime soon. They seem to have a national following (I'm not one of them).
ReplyDeleteMy Dad was a big ND fan so I was always tuned in even though I'm a lifelong Terps fan
DeletePersonally I would like to see CUSA split and form 2 different conferences. Maybe some that you mentioned would be included in the 2 new conferences. Just a thought...
ReplyDeleteRobert- I can see another non power conference or shuffle some teams around. The Big 12 is at 10 and I've thought BYU could be a fit there.
DeleteI don't know about that Liberty - N MX game. Long trip for Liberty but I may go with them. This one could turn out to be a good game.
ReplyDeleterobert- Liberty & New Mexico are hard teams to gauge
ReplyDeleteBYU wasnt even in the game. Huskies trying to get back on the college football map.
ReplyDeleteThought Stanford would have a better showing. ND pretty much controlled the game. Good win by ARMY...HOOAH!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRobert- Army was dominant. Huskies may be the only serious team in the PAC12
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