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Seems to be that their people are penciling I’m Furman as a solid W.
I don’t know how they can be so confident in this view, as I believe we will be in it to win it.
Thoughts?

Purpleglasses wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:37 pm

Seems to be that their people are penciling I’m Furman as a solid W.
I don’t know how they can be so confident in this view, as I believe we will be in it to win it.
Thoughts?

Its kinda like the way we used to think about Wofford. They (gsu) may win but it won't be easy.

I hope we have a big crowd of Paladins to watch our team play. I’ll mark in a W with ink.

The guys who put out percentages say GSU 70%.. FU 30%. Souinds about right. Consider they are supposed to be a little better than last year - returning strong QB and top WR corps (our weakness)... they beat Kennesaw State last year with, again, a supposedly lesser team.. so they are the equivalent of a top10/15 FCS club. and it's on the road. So like going to a top 10 FCS club in playoffs. Except we have the distinct disadvantage of being our QBs second real game. If this were in October I might say 50/50 but a returning starting QB vs a QB in his second real game of college, on the road. That's a tough ask for anyone - no slight to our QBs.

The big advantage for us is GSU sometimes struggle to stop the run. If it plays out that way, then yeah, we are in it to win it. Everyone sees GSU won 2 games last year but they won 7 the year before and are supposed to be a little better this year as they were young last year... most say they are a 3 or 4 win club this year. (You can see - just for fun - the odds on how many games a team should win on Vegas sites). the over/under for GSU is 3.5 I think. Which would mean they are to beat us.

I hope they (Ga. State) go into the game with the confidence you give them. I'm pretty certain Central Florida had the same confidence when they faced the Paladins.

Flagman wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 6:43 pm

I hope they (Ga. State) go into the game with the confidence you give them. I'm pretty certain Central Florida had the same confidence when they faced the Paladins.

Me too. I am a ‘Lou Holtz’ type. You older guys get the reference. . I don’t ever want to say we will win and be wrong. Far rather say we will lose and then eat crow. I always build the other team up. Logically I can then (in latter example) say “man we must be AWESOME because that team we played was top 10 and loaded w talent !’

Though objectively it is a top 15 FCS type team on road ... w our QB in his second game. GSU should prob be a 7/10 point favorite

We gonna stomp a mud hole in ‘em!