Tag: CUSA
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FBS College Football Roundup Week 5
How did we already get to week 5?? This season is flying by but with most teams in conference play things are ramping up on the field. American The headliner in the conference was Tulane’s blowout of South Florida. The Wave rolled the Bulls from start to finish in a truly dominant effort. Outside of…
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College Football Roundup Week 4
This season is already flying by, and even though it doesn’t feel like it (because of so many weird matchups) conference play has begun for most. It’s time for things to ramp up. American The American had a lot of teams mentioned as playoff favorites and none of them really panned out. Suddenly it feels…
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College Football Roundup Week 3
This weekend was called a bad slate by many, but you can’t ever go in with that mindset this sport always delivers. American This hasn’t been a banner OOC performance by this conference and Saturday in particular was really rough. Yes, what appears to be the top 2 teams in the conference won Memphis and…
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College Football Roundup Week 1
Welcome! This is a new weekly article where I’ll break down some interesting results from each conference and break down what it means, without attempting to make any crazy “hot takes” (we’ll see how that goes.) I opened this year differently, most of the time I watch from home to begin the season or if…
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State of the Program: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Head Coach: Tyson Helton is entering his 6th season as the head coach of the Tops with a 40-26 record. He’s been the Hallmark of consistency for the program, the weird 2020 season is the only time they won less than 8 games and didn’t win a bowl under his watch. He’s pretty underrated as…
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State of the Program: Liberty Flames
Head Coach: Jamey Chadwell is in his 2nd season as the head coach of the Flames with a 13-1 record. They went through the season undefeated with a conference championship win and Fiesta Bowl birth. A pretty good start to say the least. Program Outlook: Liberty is a program with a lot of resources they…
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State of the Program: Kennesaw State Owls
Head Coach: Kennesaw State is lead by Brian Bohannon who is the program’s only head coach ever and is entering his 10th year leading this program. He has a 71-30 record which is pretty incredible considering he built the program from the ground up plus last season was a weird transition year where they redshirted…
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State of the Program: Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Head Coach: Derek Mason is entering his first year as the head coach of the Blue Raiders. He was a head coach one other time at Vanderbilt, it wasn’t successful but almost no one succeeds there. Here’s a deeper look at his coach profile and hire grade: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/02/27/college-football-coach-hire-grades-middle-tennessee-state/ Program Outlook: Mid Tenn State has generally…
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State of the Program: UTEP Miners
Head Coach: Scotty Walden is entering his first year as the head coach of the Miners. He came over after having success at Austin Peay and has already brought a new energy to the program. You can read more about Walden and my hire grade for him here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/02/14/college-football-coach-hire-grades-utep/ Program Outlook: UTEP has struggled a…
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State of the Program: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Head Coach: Sonny Cumbie is entering his 3rd year as the head coach of the Bulldogs with a 6-18 record. It felt like he was going to hit his breakthrough last season when they opened with a 3-3 record (2-0 in conference), but they absolutely collapsed down the stretch with an 0-6 finish. Louisiana Tech…
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