Sun Belt's top teams expected to regress, with Georgia Southern and Southern Miss expected to show significant improvement.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/in...tions-2022

+6.5 ppg is....not a small amount

Just goes to show how atrocious our offense was last year.

SP+ projections for 2022
Team Proj. SP+ Off. SP+ Def. SP+
56. Marshall 4.8 29.8 (59) 25.0 (58)

Lol.

(02-09-2022 11:29 AM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  Lol.

I think the portal will swing these ratings around more than he expects.

Bump to stir the pot...

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(02-11-2022 04:30 PM)GATA Wrote:  Bump to stir the pot...

https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/14..._o96A&s=19

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Wellllllll let's prove SP+ half right lol

(02-11-2022 04:30 PM)GATA Wrote:  Bump to stir the pot...

https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/14..._o96A&s=19

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Enjoy it. I'm OK with moving from the hillbilly heartland to the swamp if it means more wins for our program's rebuild.

(02-11-2022 04:30 PM)GATA Wrote:  Bump to stir the pot...

https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/14..._o96A&s=19

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What's crazy is that I'm not even sure if that counts JMU because FCS teams don't get ranked in the SP+

I'm still iffy on JMU's ability to reload for 2022 but according to SP+ JMU is ranked:

90. James Madison -4.2 24.4 (88) 28.7 (84)

East
Marshall 56
App state 60
Coastal 73
Georgia st 75
JMU 90
ODU 95
Ga southern 105

West
Louisiana 72
Troy 93
Southern miss 98
South Alabama 107
Texas st 118
Arkansas st 121
UL Monroe 130

(02-11-2022 06:35 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(02-11-2022 04:30 PM)GATA Wrote:  Bump to stir the pot...

https://twitter.com/ESPN_BillC/status/14..._o96A&s=19

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What's crazy is that I'm not even sure if that counts JMU because FCS teams don't get ranked in the SP+

He does do FCS rankings, JMU ended up #2 behind NDSU. He also occasionally tweets where FCS teams would rank among FBS teams, last I saw he said it was a 19 point difference for 2021 so if that's what the difference ended up being and you apply that to JMU we would've finished #64 last year which would've put us fifth among Sun Belt teams. Behind Coastal(29), App(32), Marshall(45), and Louisiana(56).

For the preseason rankings, like 2Buck said JMU is #90. I think SP+ has several Sun Belt teams dropping quite a bit more than they probably should from the final 2021 rankings to 2022 preseason.