Week One lines: North Texas -1½ vs. SMU

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https://www.sbnation.com/college-footba ... eek-1-2018

North Texas -1½ vs. SMU

Central Florida -20½ at Uconn
Wake Forest -9 at Tulane
Houston -21 at Rice
UCLA -15½ vs. Cincinnati

Notre Dame -2 vs. Michigan
Navy -15 at Hawaii

[AusTxPony]

No surprise since SBNation had rated us about 20 spots below them.

[mtrout]

Jesus

[ALEX LIFESON]

3 years of Full Tilt Boogie recruiting! LOL

[BIGHORSE]

That is not a good sign for the season.

[JasonB]

I'll take SMU with that line.

[JoeKidd]

Yep will take that line all day long....we wont' lose to UNT.

[Charleston Pony]

We will see whether Sonny's team can win road games. That would certainly be a sign of improved toughness. Have we won in Denton since the JJ debacle?

[sbsmith]

Have we won in Denton since the JJ debacle?

Yes

[footballdad]

3 years of Full Tilt Boogie recruiting! LOL

The 4-5 year total rebuild excuse apparently didn't apply at little ole' UNT.

[SoCal_Pony]

In 2014, the tiki debacle year, when over halfway through the season, SMU was within spitting distance of having THE MOST inept season in college football history.

We started the season 0-4, losing by a combined 202-12. We would go on to lose to 4 other teams by a combined 177-29. That’s 8 teams we lost to by 379-41.

When we headed to Denton, where we we would get shellacked 43-6, SMU was 2.5 point dogs to North Texas.

Today we are 1.5 point dogs.

If I’m the President of this University, after all the $$$ spent on chad, all the $$$ and valuable real estate I gave up for the IPF, looking at attendance and season ticket sales, I’d have to ask myself, is this really worth it.

[PonyTime]

UNT finished 9-5 last season - two games ahead of conference-mate Louisiana Tech, who they beat head to head.

What makes you think that the SMU returnees minus 2 NFL Wide Receivers are going to win on the road?

(BTW - I'm not sure we win last year's home game vs. UNT without Sutton)

[Stallion]

yeah SMU only had a 30 point lead when the backups got in-barely sneaked by.

[PonyTime]

yeah SMU only had a 30 point lead when the backups got in-barely sneaked by.

You do realize Courtland Sutton scored 4 TDs in the first 31 minutes of that game and accounted for 28 points in our 22 point win. He also scored 3 TDs in our 13 point win at UNT the previous year. One could say that he was the difference in both games.

The entire slate of returning WRs had 5 receptions in that game last year- led by 2 from Proche and 2 from Gailliard.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Proche and Gailliard post 250 yards of offense and 4 TDs on UNT this year - but I am not counting on it.

[ponyboy]

North Texas is a good football team and we're a relative unknown. Not sure why all this angst. Let's lace 'em up and see what happens.