We are clearly the better team. On both sides of the ball. Special teams might be a push. If we do not lose the TO battle, we'll win comfortably. I'm still going-- Cyclones 28 Cajuns 20.
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I think we’ll be as vanilla as we usually are in week 1.
The difference is, I think we have the talent and physicality this season to win fairly comfortably doing so. Even against a decent ULL squad.
Take the running game away and make their lack of experience on the outside beat us.
Aka let Johnson and Kyle play straight up on an island, and put 7 in the box.
Maybe (likely) it won’t be that simple, but it seems like the obvious move with what they’ve had going on at WR.
We were very, very obviously playing abnormally conservative against UNI last season until crunch time, and still almost lost with that. We did not approach that game as we did for conference games. It looks okay in that statbook, but terrible on the scoreboard -- that kind of game will not win against UL.
No reason to do that here. All 10(?) games are equally important. Go full force with it from game 1. No s***ty first game this time, we can't afford the early mishaps against a sharper team.
Borrowing this from Daserop on another thread:
Today at 11:27 AM
For those who are curious.
Overall Record & Sagarin 2019 Rank
Louisiana (11-3) Rank 43
Loss x 2 App State (13-1) Rank 25
Loss Miss State* (6-7) Rank 47
Win @ Ohio (7-6) Rank 82
Win @ Ark State (8-5) Rank 89
Win @ Georgia Southern (W) (7-6) Rank 92
Win Miami (OH)* (W) (8-6) Rank 93
Win Troy (W) (5-7) Rank 100
Win Liberty (W) 8-5 Rank 101
Win UL Monroe (W) (5-7) Rank 112
Win @ Coastal Carolina (W) (5-7) Rank 128
Win Texas State (W) (3-9) Rank 152
Win @ South Alabama (W) (2-10) Rank 158
Win Texas Southern (W) (0-11) Rank 256
Three reads on Louisiana
I know they are supposed to be played but I'll be mildly surprised if bowl games are actually played, outside of the playoff. Can the bowls afford to pay teams to go? The teams can't afford ANYTHING on their own dime so TV revenue will have to pay the freight. I've spent 0 time considering this...cyclonefanatic.com
So their best win was against the "82nd" best team in Sagarin - Congrats?
I can remember a number in inexplicable turnovers that killed us last year. I think those get cleaned up this year, and we are world beaters.
45-17, good guys.
The only time I can think of where a majority of the opposing fans expected to lose to us was the Drake game in 2018.
I expected about 50/50, maybe a touch more to them, and a lot of close game calls. Not like 75% them and many by more than 1 TD.
It felt like we were running the same plays over and over the first 3 quarters against UNI - seemed as if Campbell and Co did not want to reveal our full hand for whatever reason.
Why not? He’s back to full health now, and CMC has repeatedly talked about the added dimension a running quarterback adds to an attack.
The only way Brock isn’t running in this game is if we don’t need him to.
He was full health at this point last season, too, but his running threat was minimally-used.
They live in the heart of SEC territory where it's preached that there's no defense in the Big 12. The misconception is actually pretty much everywhere, including the majority of the state of Iowa.
Purdy was full strength in the UNI game last year, and there were probably 4-5 times where we failed to convert on 3rd down where he had 10-15 yards of open field ahead of him and he wouldn't run.
He was definitely coached to avoid running at all costs, and it nearly cost us that game.
I figure that's true for a lot of non-Big-12 fans. Apparently 3 straight years above .500 isn't enough to get us noticed.
That seems bold for a team that has never beaten a P5 program, unless I'm mistaken. Thought I read that somewhere. But man, you really want to avoid being the first.
If we tackle ok and don't turn it over. I think it's a borderline comfortable win. However, I'm extremely nervous that we struggle against teams who run well and set up play action. Example: K-state, Iowa, and Baylor last year.
