2006 C-USA Team Schedule

[ponydawg]

Thanks to sonic -

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Conf ... hedule.htm


They have all of the teams, only cut and pasted the Ponies.

SMU
Realistic best case record with this schedule: 7-5
Barring total disaster worst case record: 4-8
Realistic record: 6-6
If Phil Bennett's team is ready to take another positive step up, the schedule is there to do it helped by four home games in five before closing out the year with a winnable season against Rice. Outside of the opening day game at Texas Tech, there isn't a certain loss to worry about with the toughest road game at UTEP; that's not that bad. There's no UCF or Southern Miss from the East, and Tulsa has to come to Dallas.
Sept. 2 at Texas Tech - Likely loss
Sept. 9 at North Texas
Sept. 16 Sam Houston State - Almost certain win
Sept. 23 Arkansas State - Almost certain win
Sept. 30 at Tulane
Oct. 7 at UTEP
Oct. 14 Marshall
Oct. 21 at East Carolina
Oct. 31 UAB
Nov. 11 Houston
Nov. 18 Tulsa
Nov. 25 at Rice
- Almost certain win | Likely loss | Could go either way

[The PonyGrad]

You only list one game as likely loss and your best possible record is 7-5?

[SMU Football Blog]

I mentioned this a month ago here:
http://smufootballblog.blogspot.com/200 ... edule.html

[Cheesesteak]

Posted by The PonyGrad:

You only list one game as likely loss and your best possible record is 7-5?

The Likely loss / Almost certain win notations are by College Football News. CFN does that for all D-1A football team schedules.

Games without notations should be competitive according to CFN.

[PonyFan]

I'd love to say 12-0, of course (wait -- make that 14-0, after we win the C-USA title game and our bowl game). But until we know what's going to happen at QB, I don't see how any prediction can be made.

[The PonyGrad]

Assuming a serviceable (sp?) QB like last season, I think, given similar defense to last season, we could go 7-5. If the QB is better than last year then it is only upside.

Assuming the QB is similar to last season the defense will need to be similar to last season to go 7-5. Is that redundant? Point being holes need to be filled on D though solid replacements are sufficient. We lost some very good players but we are not replacing all-americans.

[GoRedGoBlue]

For the record...

Is 7-5 bowl eligible (5-5 vs. Div 1a, 2-0 vs. Div-1aa)

7-5 is NOT an improvement over last season.

5-3 in conference is, period. That is 8-4.

Anything less and I give the new AD free reign to let loose PB.

"well we don't have a QB." Well, PB, you should have redshirted one of your two JUCOs 2 years ago...and been better at developing C.Phillips, etc.

Blah blah blah.

Next, we will have Vincent Chase, our lone remaining 3-star recruit from his vaulted classes, moved to DE.

[GoRedGoBlue]

Posted by The PonyGrad:

You only list one game as likely loss and your best possible record is 7-5?

The Likely loss / Almost certain win notations are by College Football News. CFN does that for all D-1A football team schedules.

Games without notations should be competitive according to CFN.

If you look at TEXAS TECH page, SMU is not a likely win...but its a likely loss for us

[SMU Football Blog]

Look, it takes six wins to be bowl eligible. One of those can be I-AA, I know some people say that last part is not set in stone, but that is the rule as it is now and I assure you it isn't going to change considering how hard it was for a lot of schools to find a 12th opponent (some schools still don't have them). Regardless, as a practical matter, it is probably going to take more than six wins as there will likely be more teams with six or more wins.

You say two I-AA wins, but there is only one I-AA team on the schedule and that is Sam Houston State. To be clear, and why people think it is fun to deliberately confuse this is beyond me, Arkansas State is I-A and, in fact, Arkansas State won the Sunbelt last year, which means they went to a bowl game. I keep hearing from alums that they are worried about losing to UNT because they have gone to bowl games recently, but everybody overlooks that UNT bit last year and Arkansas State won that (albeit bad) conference.

[Stallion]

I've got 7 reasons SMU will be lucky to stay within 35 points of Texas Tech in Lubbock.

1. new SMU Starting LCB
2. new SMU Starting RCB
3. new SMU Starting Safety
4. Tech WR Joel Filani 65 Catches 1007 yards 15.5 YPC 8 TDs
5. Tech WR Jarrett Hicks 65 Catches 850 Yards 13.1 YPC 10 TDs
6. Tech WR Robert Johnson 67 Catches 951 yards 14.2 YPC 4 TDs
7. Danny Ammendola 34 Catches 395 Yards 11.6 YPC 3 TDs-not to mention superlative Special Teams play.

I think this is one of those times we might hear the post-game comments-"We just didn't match up very well with our opponent."

[abezontar]

Let's also not forget that Tech has never had a problem working with a new QB, which I assume they are doing again this year.

[jtstang]

I think this is one of those times we might hear the post-game comments-"We just didn't match up very well with our opponent."

Actually, you just made that a pre-game comment. And a pretty astute one at that.

All of you people talking about bowl eligibility are putting the cart before the horse. We need to worry about not losing to a d-2 team. Besides, being bowl eliglible with only six wins from that schedule is going to be pretty embarassing anyway.

[Stallion]

yeah let's not spend all summer holding our breath that Tech's "inexperienced" starting QB will not be able to handle the job. Harrell played in 6 games last year where he was 37-55 67.3% ZERO Ints 3 TDs and a 149.72 QB rating-not too green. Actually his numbers were better than the starter last year. He can play and I doubt he gets "rattled" in Lubbock.

[SMU Football Blog]

I wrote off the Texas Tech game circa 2003. The final score will mean very little to me. But if someone wanted to give me 35 points, I'd take that bet because it is better than what I am going to get in Vegas for a week 1 game and there would value in that bet. The season for me begins when I get in the car and head north to Denton. That is the game that worries me, not Ark. State and certainly not Sam Houston State. And the UNT game only worries me because they and their crowd will be jacked up.

[abezontar]

Actually all of our games worry me until the final gun has sounded and we have com out on top. We are not a team that can afford to take anyone lightly.