It's an early start for this, but as things get rolling I'd like to see peoples' take on this from different schools. I'm interested to see how similar/different the 3 DFW schools' fans' responses are.
Unless an FCS/D2/D3 team does something amazing, let's please stick to FBS/D1A (if you guys are even interested in this). I'll go first.
1) UT. Again. Likely overrated as in times past, but for now they look pretty good.
2) TTU. Crazy good offense. Billed to blow away a lot of the competition. Considering last season, very likely. Hometown smells like poo.
3) TCU. Building on a lot of recent success. Too many recent let-downs to put higher than #3.
4) Houston. Another wildly successful offense over the past few years. Another city that smells like a turd.
5) Rice. Very strangely successful lately. See #2 and #4.
6) UTEP. Not as hot as when Mike Price showed up, but might still surprise people.
7) TAMU. Lost to ASU. New coach might get things going throughout the season but that loss definitely hurts their chances of anything, as well as their pride. Strange obsession with grass.
8-9) SMU/Baylor. New coaches, bad losses in week one. Might turn a corner early and have a good season, might not. I'm morbidly curious about it. Waco has fun weird stuff to visit, though. And there's a Houston's by SMU, yum.
10) North Texas. Very exciting for a 2-10 season. Hoping for usefulness from new (old) DC. 7-5 if everything goes right. Little to no improvement otherwise. I'd put us above SMU and Baylor if we'd done better against KSU, but right now we don't get a "pass" for having a new coach like we did last year.
Did I miss anyone?
(Note just for the SMU board: still think, thus far, it's likely you'll beat UTEP, but I expect their record to be barely better overall).
Edit: Forgot...TX game of the week! I expect most of the TX teams to win, and the only TX v. TX game is a very likely UT over UTEP. UNT v. Tulsa is a likely cluster-you-know-what. Sooo...my vote is Rice v. Memphis as the most exciting (?) game for Texans overall.