What record is realistic?

[JasonB]

I look at it this way:

A bad team would win UTEP, @Tulsa, Rice, @Baylor

An Average college football team would win @Nevada, @LT, @SJS

An good team would win Boise, Fresno, @Tech, TCU, OSU

The only question mark on the list is Boise, who lost a lot in the offseason.

What would I like to see? I would be very happy this year to see SMU go .500 in conference and win one OOC game. That would give us 5 wins. Because of our inexperience, especially at QB (remember, Bartel "tore up" some awful defensive teams last year), I expect us to finish with 4 wins. Anything less than that would be a very dissappointing season.

I would love to see the Mustangs do better, but I don't think we are up to the level of an "average" college football team yet. We just don't have that level of experience. Next year is the season I am really looking forward to...

[gostangs]

Very good summary Jason - I would be unhappy with 4 wins, 5 would meet expectations and very happy with 6. Baylor is far fom an easy win at home by the way, at least for us.

[Southland]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Stallion:
<B> SMU will be an pretty big underdog to San Jose St too-right now it would be 6-8 points. As I said last year and this year they are easily the most underrated team in the WAC because most of you are not familiar with the high quality of JC/CC players they have coming in. SJSU is as good as just about any one in the WAC at the skill positions.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Big news for CSU-SJ was the 31,500-attendance figure for the Grambling game. That total means San Jose only needs to average 10,900 for their remaining 4 home games to stay Division 1A eligible.

Amazing turnout for a program that has averaged 11,000 fans per game the last few seasons.

[Charleston Pony]

San Jose borrowed a page from the SMU book on how to meet the 15k attendance requirement. Our home schedule this year should attract a 20k average, if the team is competitive at all.

I do look for us to be competitive and with what is riding this season in terms of conference realignments, it's time to pull an upset or two and be noticed as a program on the rise.