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Normally do the official prediction thread on Monday, but since North Texas State has already played a game, let's do this a day early. Watching their game last night, they looked better than last year, taking a seven win UTEP team to the woodshed, in front of a big home crowd. They were also missing a couple of starting receivers and one of their top defenders..... but guess what, all are expected back for the SMU game. Could be a tough one in Denton. You know the old saying, teams improve the most, from week one to week two.

38-17 SMU.

Mustangs 38

Buzzards 21

ponies- 42

buzzards- 14

Our new D steps up big time and shuts them down.

NTSU comes ready to play off their road win and start fast and strong. The talent difference starts to show separation in the 3rd Q.

Greenies 20
Smoo 38

They should be a good test for the Defense. I expect to outscore them. May be closer than I think.

31-21 Ponies

With Austin, Denton, San Antonio, Lubbock, Waco and College Station hosting games, there's going to be a lot of college football attendance in Texas on Saturday.

38-27 Ponies

45-28 SMU

UNT comes out strong and ready, is up at the half. Game is close, SMU wins by 3.

Lots of complaining on the boards by people who thought a first time HC with all new offense and defense and a ton of new faces was going to come out rolling in game one on the road.

PNW- understand the issues. However if we crap the bed and look like a weak sister then I think our chances of moving up are seriously diminished. I expect there will be a lot of important eyes watching how we do etc.

Plus we have a very experienced QB and a WR corps that should be outstanding.

PNW_Stang wrote:UNT comes out strong and ready, is up at the half. Game is close, SMU wins by 3.

Lots of complaining on the boards by people who thought a first time HC with all new offense and defense and a ton of new faces was going to come out rolling in game one on the road.

I can't predict the numbers but I think SMU wins by at least 10. This is not a normal coaching change where the outgoing coaching staff struggled for 2-3 seasons and left the cupboard bare. This is not a new head coach who is unfamiliar with the school and the team; hell, he was only gone for 23 months. Yes, he's breaking in a lot of new players but that's nothing new in the free-transfer era. Yes, the College/University of North Texas looked fine last week, against a UTEP team that was 7-6 last year and beat precisely zero teams with winning records.

But I hope the team is not nearly so confident of a good outcome.

Ponies 42-21

redpony wrote:PNW- understand the issues. However if we crap the bed and look like a weak sister then I think our chances of moving up are seriously diminished. I expect there will be a lot of important eyes watching how we do etc.

Plus we have a very experienced QB and a WR corps that should be outstanding.

Not to mention a pretty impressive RB collection.

This won't be easy. The thing that scares me the most is the fact that they already have played and won a game. We have loads more talent, and there are key experienced pieces coming back that won't be starting for the first time, but it will still take a quarter to wake up, if not a half.

We could be down at the half, but we will win, and not in a blowout fasion.

SMU 34
UNT 24