Don’t know if you guys saw it, but I did… The first ESPN projections had Rice going to a bowl game, but not the Coogs… Not sure how they expected that to happen unless Rice would beat us. Not sure where they see 6 wins for Rice coming from… At any rate, I thought that was interesting and very clearly off base. I expect the Coogs to go bowling.
That said, one game at a time… We’re making progress each week. Haven’t seen that around here in a while…
88.1% chance of beating SFA seems pretty egregiously low. I’d have ballparked that at about 95%, which is about what we would have expected given the spread would have translated to. About 84% for Rice. Both of those seem more intuitive to me. That said, given these odds, we should expect to be a 5 or 6 win team, which seems about right.
They update this every Sunday morning after all the games are done. Our percentages moved a lot today. Favored in 5 games going forward after yesterday’s results.
The offensive line did not look good against Rice. If we don’t improve the Oline, it could be a long season. The positive is that Fritz didn’t run it up the middle on 1st and 2nd down each series. We were so predictable against SFA. After seeing our Oline in the SFA game, he probably realized it’s not advisable.
Given how weak the conference looks 8 wins seems much more doable. Colorado game will tell us all we need to know.
As for the scheduling, it’s unfortunate but once upon a time we did have two P5 opps scheduled. One got demoted and the other became a conference mate. Is what it is. Hopefully we beat Colorado and roll Oregon St. That’ll set up a big one against Tech.