{"id":334,"date":"2017-06-28T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:10:18","slug":"2017-cusa-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-cusa-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 CUSA Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
The CUSA has steadily improved the last few years and has likely overtaken the Mountain West in the conference hierarchy (after the Power 5 and American Conf). There are probably 3-4 teams in the CUSA that would likely win the Mountain West this year. They also have some pretty decent teams in the middle of the pack. If a conference is going to have a team challenge the American conference to take the Group of 5 Contract Bowl bid, it will likely come from the CUSA.<\/p>\n
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For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.<\/p>\n
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CUSA\u00a0Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n East<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n West<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marshall and Southern Miss both win their divisions outright<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Championship game \u2013\u00a0Southern Miss beats Marshall getting revenge from a loss earlier in the season.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That makes 6 bowl teams for the\u00a0CUSA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Boca Raton Bowl – Southern Miss<\/p>\n Heart of Dallas Bowl – Marshall<\/p>\n New Mexico Bowl – Western Kentucky<\/p>\n St Petersburg Bowl – FAU<\/p>\n New Orleans Bowl – Middle Tennessee St<\/p>\n Bahamas Bowl – Louisiana Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The CUSA has steadily improved the last few years and has likely overtaken the Mountain West in the conference hierarchy (after the Power 5 and American Conf). There are probably 3-4 teams in the CUSA that would likely win the Mountain West this year. They also have some pretty decent teams in the middle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128,121,100,126,90,83,84,127,91,124,123,122,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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