NCAA FEATURED
"ANAL"YSIS

Aren’t we all excited for our first family outing to the Beav to watch my beloved Penn State Nittany Mercenaries against the Marshall Thundering Herd. I like to think that I have a decent feel for this year’s team. I think that though the team lacks the star NFL talent, it will be very balanced on both sides of the ball. Rocco Becht is a very good college QB and there are good to excellent players all over the field. PSU’s secondary should be very difficult to throw on. Look for Marshall to get a few broken chunk plays, but very few sustained drives. PSU by three scores.

This game has that dreaded cross country time zone change. That seems to always affect teams playing away. Stanford just won a tough home game against Hawaii, but played pretty well. Miami has one of the best QB-WR combinations in the country in Darian Mensah to Malachi Toney. Toney is a future NFL all pro. I put a lot of chicken stock into that road trip giving Miami a problem or two. Miami is just too talented though.

Everybody is so enthralled with this Indiana team. Keep in mind that they just lost multiple players to the NFL including the Heisman winner in Fernando Mendoza, 1st round WR Omar Cooper, and star WR Elijah Surratt. Of course they have the magician in Cignetti, and the transfer portal to save their a$$. I just don’t see a top five team…yet. North Texas always fields a decent enough team who competes. I think they keep it closer that the number. Maybe with ease...

Will this be ND’s year? Our wallets certainly hope so. Other than that, I hope they fall flat on their fcuking faces. This team is loaded. CJ Carr is a legit Heisman candidate. They have to replace both Love/Price in the backfield, but RB is overrated. They were an absolute buzzsaw last year after losing back to back games to Miami and ATM. Their schedule this year is embarrassing. Wisconsin has been abhorrent for what seems like forever. This may be Luke Fickell’s last hurray in Madison. I think they are good enough to score some points, but ND is loaded...as usual.

I think this is going to be Mike Norvell’s goose song at FSU. I watched some of their game against New Mexico State last weekend and they did not look good. SMU still has Kevin Jennings under center and the kid can straight play. SMU is going to be a playoff contender this year, and FSU is absolutely not. You are going to be hearing the FSU faithful calling for Norvell’s head after this game. SMU for the win.