I can't ignore three hot SunBelt schools, App St, Marshall, and Georgia Southern, this week. I think the trio may come out of the gate slow but get in gear by the second quarter of their respective games.
App St will get a big game out of running back C Peoples in a 30-19 home conference win over Troy.
Marshall will ride freshman phenom K. Laborn to a 31-16 win at Bowling Green(MAC).
Georgia Southern will have to slow down C Brown to pull out a close road win. GS 24 UAB(CUSA) 22
Air Force has relied on a strong running attack to get off to a 2-0 start but face a tough conference road game at Wyoming. Peasley will throw 3 TDS for the Cowboys and hand AFA a 27-24 loss.
I covered the AAC in a blog on ACC history and SMU losing a close one to MD(Big10)
Sept 17, 2022
Peasley only tossed one TD pass, but the Cowboys slowed down AFA in a 17-14 win.
Sept 18, 2022
The "Stun" belt had a few holes poked in it this weekend, on OOC play with Marshall falling in OT to BG and Georgia Southern getting handled by UAB which made me 2-2 in my picks. Laborn's fumble out of the end zone for a touchback was a killer for Marshall.
In other OOC play USA was held scoreless in the fourth quarter in a one-point loss to UCLA, Ark St fell to Memphis, ODU fell to UVA, SMU lost to MD, and ULL lost to Rice.
