mac football conference preview for 2017

#Mac football conference preview for 2017 series

Get one roundup of college football stories, rumors, game breakdowns, and Big 12 hysteria in your inbox every morning. Most or all should end up in the postseason. This is just a half-step down from the one above. Most will enter November with conference title hopes.

Because of uncertainty, at least a few will disappoint this fall, but they all have sturdy foundations. Maybe a star quarterback left, or maybe there was a coaching change. Definite conference title contendersĮach of these is one or two answers away from making a run at 10-plus wins. The Broncos went 9-4.Īnyone from the second tier below could make a run at the major bowl bid, but I would be surprised if the bid didn't go to one of the four eligible teams above. That said, they are only a nose ahead of others, and as much as conventional wisdom has settled on UH as the de facto Group of 5 favorite, most of us were saying the same things about Boise State a year ago. I am not as high on Houston as many - for all of the luck-related reasons I've mentioned many times before - but I still trust the Cougars more than any other team in the mid-major universe. These are the five with the fewest question marks to me. Capable of making (and winning) a major bowl

They could still make big bowls by ranking highly, of course. I'll include three independents here - including BYU, which has probably done enough to earn honorary major status - with asterisks ( *) that signify they technically aren't part of the Group of 5 (and therefore ineligible to get the New Year's Six's Group of 5 conference champion bid). Since we've reached a benchmark, it might be interesting to merge these power rankings into one giant set of mid-major power rankings. Notre Dame will mark the official halfway point on Monday.Īt the end of each set of conference previews, I have been releasing power rankings based not on numbers, but on my opinions after writing so many words about each team.

#Mac football conference preview for 2017 series

My annual preview series has basically reached the halfway point, with the Group of 5 conferences and non-Notre Dame independents in the books.