(01-11-2019 04:38 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 03:50 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(01-11-2019 03:46 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  

it'd be interesting to see if this was independent of the UCF G5 spot.

SBC ahead of CUSA. wow. don't know that I saw that coming.

CUSA picked the SBC schools who spent the most on athletics, but did not pick the best football programs at the time. They probably would have taken ULL, Troy and Arkansas St. instead of 3 of the ones they did take (UNT, MTSU, WKU, FIU, FAU) if they were doing that. UNCC, ODU and UTSA were gambles too. The new SBC schools have built up pretty fast. It takes 5 years to roll in a class recruited solely for FBS and that's about how long it took to catch up.

I wouldn't say I expected it, but it is understandable.

MTSU, WKU, ODU and UTSA were good right out of the starting gates in C-USA.
FIU and FAU were 2017 great teams and North Texas 2018. Charlotte are becoming get their act together. They started out unbeaten and fell off in 2018.

UTSA last year lost close games, and ODU got a P5 scalp. I would not say all the schools in C-USA are really terrible except for Charlotte. Starting off in the year against P5 could kill your momentum from last year.