After looking at their schedule, we are about as good as anybody there. I'm sure Southern Miss and maybe Rice UAB or Western Kentucky may be rated higher, I don't know because I haven't checked, but that is a bad schedule. They should run the table, but as everyone says, that's usually hard to do.

Marshall peaked at the right time last year to get the hype they are getting this year. They dominated a good ECU team (although, I watched the game....and no discredit to Marshall because they came to play that day, but ECU didn't look like they wanted to be there), and didn't trip over a decent Maryland team. Plus they have a clear star in Cato, and college football press hype is all about the star. Witness: in the press the last two years Ohio Football was not "the Ohio Bobcats;" it was "QB Tyler Tettleton and the Ohio Bobcats." T^2 was the star, and our fortunes in the press rose and fell with his.

So, yes, Marshall is a talented team, but they are particularly well situated for press hype. And they should run the table with their schedule, in a conference that is basically the beta test version of the Sun Belt. But they won't, because they have yet to show they can go an entire season under Holliday without blowing a game through mental errors.

I'll say this too....I think Marshall beats us this year, and then turns around the next week and loses @Kron.

They'll be in Meyerberg's Top 20.