CFN 2023 PRESEASON RANK #55

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CFN ranking 1 to 131 for 2023 WAVE #55 only 2 teams in AAC in top 75 UTSA #72 six more in top `100. :mrgreen:


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krueman green wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 am CFN ranking 1 to 131 for 2023 WAVE #55 only 2 teams in AAC in top 75 UTSA #72 six more in top `100. :mrgreen:
No worries. We started this past season in some outlets in the #100’s.
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Here's the link:

https://collegefootballnews.com/2023/01 ... first-look

We have 5 that come in in the 100's. FAU is at 99. There are now 133 FBS teams.
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There's such a P5 bias in that article and ranking! If you notice, they lump a bunch of the conference members close together then spread out the top member up a dozen or two spots. There's no way a bunch of the teams above us are better than about half a dozen G5 programs, ours included.
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tpstulane wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:45 am
krueman green wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:24 am CFN ranking 1 to 131 for 2023 WAVE #55 only 2 teams in AAC in top 75 UTSA #72 six more in top `100. :mrgreen:
No worries. We started this past season in some outlets in the #100’s.
ESPN’s way too early poll has Tulane at 16 for next year.
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Who besides Ole piss has a greater than 25% chance of beating Tulane next year?

Home: Tulsa, North Texas, UTSA, UAB, USA and FCS team TBA
Away: Rice, Memphis, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina and USM

The team on that list that I believe has the best shot is Memphis. Other than that, 12-1 with another NY6 game is a realistic expectation.
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Losing Spears alone on offense and all the experience and leadership on defense means next year’s team will not be as good as this past year’s IMHO. We will be more susceptible to other teams holding the ball more against us. As an example as to how fragile this past year was, I’m not sure we beat USF if Bohannon hadn’t got hurt. They were controlling the game in the first half.
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dpm wave wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 6:58 pm Who besides Ole piss has a greater than 25% chance of beating Tulane next year?

Home: Tulsa, North Texas, UTSA, UAB, USA and FCS team TBA
Away: Rice, Memphis, Florida Atlantic, East Carolina and USM

The team on that list that I believe has the best shot is Memphis. Other than that, 12-1 with another NY6 game is a realistic expectation.
If it were something like ESPN runs at the bottom of the screen saying "XYZ has a 64% chance of winning" (meaning ABC as a 36% chance) I would put these schools at having better than a 25% chance of winning:
Tulsa, UTSA, UAB, Rice, Memphis, ECU, USM.

As we saw in our game against USM this past season there's a fine line between winning football and losing football. EVERY team EVERY year is a unique event. Come September what we did in 2022 and in the Cotton Bowl is meaningless for the 2023 team. It's a different entity, has it's own life. Of course coming off the great season we think we're going to win 10 games every year. But this was a very special team that had a will to win like very few. We will miss certain players (like Nick Anderson) not only for the plays they made but for how they shaped the team. We've won 10+ games in back to back years how many times in roughly 130 years of Football? Once? Twice?

I don't think we're wrong to aspire to get back to another NY6 bowl game in 2023. I don't think we're wrong to think we can win back to back AAC championships. But to think we have greater than 75% chance of winning 11 or our 12 games is not realistic. Heck some team that starts ranked will finish under .500, it happens every year. Another handful that start off the radar will finish in the top 25. The 2022 team, more than any other, proved that what happens in one year means nothing the next and demonstrated the fine line between winning and losing.
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5 reasons to be optimistic about Tulane’s immediate football future

https://crescentcitysports.com/5-reason ... tid=ykz3hl
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ESPN's 2023 pre spring top 25 incoming player that will make a difference

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... comer-team
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golfnut69 wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:53 pm ESPN's 2023 pre spring top 25 incoming player that will make a difference

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... comer-team
Wire is replacing Claybrook who is gone. Haynesworth is the other returning lineman.
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DfromCT wrote: Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:06 pm We've won 10+ games in back to back years how many times in roughly 130 years of Football? Once? Twice?
I think the correct answer to this is ZERO.
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We were pre-season ranked no. 45 in 1999 by one of the big mags after our 1998 season; so a no. 55 coming in is not that unexpected.
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swampnik wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:50 am We were pre-season ranked no. 45 in 1999 by one of the big mags after our 1998 season; so a no. 55 coming in is not that unexpected.
Big differnvce though. in '99 we had lost out coaches and QB. We have our coach and QB back this time.
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