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From your keyboard to God's ears. I would LOVE to see a season like that!

Love that...Thats definately something we should shoot for! I love it.

Somebody asked me why, after all the losing, I still follow SMU. By the way, this was in the presence of a classmate from SMU who makes five UT home games a year, but can’t find the time to go to one SMU game even though he lives less than five minutes away from Ford Stadium. This was my reply: When UT wins, most alumni feel good for an hour or two, the win is expected; when UT loses, they feel bad for a week. When SMU loses, I feel bad for an hour or two; when SMU wins, I feel good for a week.

I think that describes an SMU fan perfectly

To get some perspective on the upcoming season I thought it would be nice to check out last seasons Sagarin ratings and see how we would stack up against this seasons opponents.

If we are the same as last season we would go 3-8 (beating Tulane, ECU, and Rice, the latter by .5)

If we improved by 3.5 points we would go 5-6 (adding Baylor and TCU)

If we improved 8.5 points we would go 8-3 ( adding Marshall, Tulsa and Houston)

If we improved by 14 points we would go 10-1 (adding UAB and UTEP)

Of course this assumes an average performance by all teams and no change in our opponents. But the point is, given the level of our opponents, we are not that far away from very interesting results.

In the interest of fairness, I put up the "Worst Case Scenario."