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Gonna be a tougher schedule what with picking up Central Florida and Southern Miss. Beat A@M and they then win Big 12. Beat tcu and they don't lose again. Beat Navy and they have another good year. Win em all and SMU is a top 10 or higher and in line for a bcs bowl!. Yea, we are gonna be better but we need to fill some holes and add some depth and get lucky with the injury bug.

smuuth wrote:Gonna be a tougher schedule what with picking up Central Florida and Southern Miss. Beat A@M and they then win Big 12. Beat tcu and they don't lose again. Beat Navy and they have another good year. Win em all and SMU is a top 10 or higher and in line for a bcs bowl!. Yea, we are gonna be better but we need to fill some holes and add some depth and get lucky with the injury bug.

that's the blueprint for getting to the upper echelon. Do that, then have a slightly weaker schedule the following year and go 12-0 and there you go

Sounds simpler than it is

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2011 College Football

1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. Louisiana State
4. Oregon
5. Auburn
6. Ohio State
7. Arkansas
8. Missouri
9. Stanford
10. Texas A&M
11. Oklahoma State
12. Michigan State
13. Wisconsin
14. Boise State
15. Nebraska
16. Virginia Tech
17. TCU[/b
]18. Florida State
19. South Carolina
20. Notre Dame
21. Georgia
22. Connecticut
23. Mississippi State
24. Michigan
[b]25. Tulsa
26. West Virginia
27. Arizona State
28. Florida
29. Utah
30. Penn State
31. Texas
32. Maryland
33. Miami FL
34. Clemson
35. Pittsburgh
36. SMU
37. Tennessee
38. Miami OH
39. North Carolina State
40. Air Force
41. Kentucky
42. Northwestern
43. Southern California
44. Navy
45. Baylor
46. San Diego State
47. Iowa
48. Boston College
49. Southern Miss
50. Brigham Young

Seems to me 36 is about right for the end of next season. Top 25 in 2012.

i predict a 3 loss season. win c-usa next year!

sbsmith wrote:We know the rest of the opponents

@Tulsa
@Houston
vs. UTEP
vs. Rice
vs. Tulane
@Memphis
@Southern Miss
vs. UCF

What are the game dates? What's your source? Does it include other teams' schedules, too?

b_caesar wrote:

sbsmith wrote:We know the rest of the opponents

@Tulsa
@Houston
vs. UTEP
vs. Rice
vs. Tulane
@Memphis
@Southern Miss
vs. UCF

What are the game dates? What's your source? Does it include other teams' schedules, too?

The dates haven't been released yet but we know those teams will be our opponents based on the fact that we face the 5 other C-USA West teams every season and the sites are just alternated from the previous season, our other 3 opponents from C-USA East are determined by a 2 year cycle, the next of which begins in 2011 and is the same as 2007 (@Memphis, @Southern Miss, vs. UCF).

ponyboy wrote:Seems to me 36 is about right for the end of next season. Top 25 in 2012.

2012 may be tough since we lose most of the o-line and d-line

sbsmith wrote:

Big C wrote:I predict we win every home game.

Anything less than 5-1 would be a massive disappointment.

Looks like today will be that 1st home loss; put's some pressure on that Rice game if we are going to win 7 games this year