R-E-S-P-E-C-T
We're now exactly a month away from the kickoff of the 2006 season, as Tennessee Tech prepares to host Chattanooga on Aug. 31, and Samford hosts Miles College. At the media day last week in Nashville, the OVC coaches made many comments on the improving level of play in the league. It's obvious they want to raise the league's standing nationally. Of course, talk can't accomplish that - only W's can.
The first four weeks of the season will be key if the OVC wants to make a case for multiple playoff bids this November. In that time, OVC teams play eight games against teams from the Gateway Football Conference and the Southern Conference, the two leagues represented in the national title game last year.
What do you think are the OVC's chances in these games? How will Tech fare against a UTC team on the rise? Can Jax State finally beat Furman? Can Eastern Illinois, Murray State and Eastern Kentucky finally get the league more wins against Gateway teams than losses? Will EKU at long last level the Hilltoppers?
Click below to comment and add your predictions.
(By the way, the check of today's morning papers showed no OVC news.)
posted by Jax42 @ 9:30 AM
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As for TTU-UTC, I think we may have a good shot. We barely lost to them last year, after beating them three years in a row. It's a Thursday, so we should have a good home crowd. And the team will probably be fired up from being ranked so low in the media and coaches poll.
Will JSU beat Furman? I think they'll lose by a razor-thin margin again this year.
I think EKU will lose to WKU (though it will be a good game as usual) but beat Western Carolina.
I think EIU will beat Indiana State, and may come close to beating Illinois State. Could go either way, I think.
Murray also plays the two ISUs. I think IllSt. will beat them, and that IndSt. can go either way.
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