08-21-2024, 09:42 AM
Mick dateline='[url=tel:1724253449' Wrote: 1724253449[/url]']
SkiBum80 dateline='[url=tel:1724248506' Wrote: 1724248506[/url]']
Good & interesting coach research.
The three big revenue sports recent coach turnover and new hires would be attributable to Muir, though Coach Paye seems more an assumed ascension than Muir's doing.
I think for Coach TT to get to simply a winning season quickly would be a minor miracle achievement.
Coaches Smith and Paye both seem to have stabilized the roster and achieved good recruiting, their first big challenge.
In Coach Smith's case, I assume getting Raynaud back is due to a big assist from Lifetime Cardinal.
Have to agree. Athlon and The Athletic ranks Stanford at #87, fifth worst among FBS teams, only Purdue, ASU, Cincinnati and Vandy are behind them.
I don't see seven wins on their schedule. Cal Poly. SJSU and Cal, both away games, both have preseason rankings better than Stanford. TCU is a late night home game, they'll be playing the second half after 10:30 p.m. body clock time, maybe Stanford can steal that one. Wake Forest, that's five wins, maybe.
I think losses are Louisville, Notre Dame in South Bend, NC State at Raleigh, SMU, at Clemson, Virginia Tech. Six losses.
Syracuse, at Syracuse? September, 4:30 body clock time...possible. They were 6-7 last year. We'd have to win that to get to 6-6. Agreed, it would be a minor miracle.
Assuming Stanford gets to six wins, maybe a minor bowl and a win. Here's the ACC-affiliated bowl schedule, all but one in the Eastern time zone...of course:
Friday, December 20, 2024
Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, Florida) – 3:30 p.m. ET / ESPN
Friday, December 27, 2024
Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, Alabama) – Noon or 3:30 p.m. ET / ESPN
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Fenway Bowl (Boston, Massachusetts) – 11 a.m. ET / ESPN
Pinstripe Bowl (The Bronx, New York) – Noon ET / ABC
Pop-Tarts Bowl (Orlando, Florida) – 3:30 p.m. ET / ABC
Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com (Washington DC) – 5:45 p.m. ET / ESPN
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) – 2 p.m. ET / CBS
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Florida) – 7:30 p.m. ET / ESPN
Friday, January 3, 2025
Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, North Carolina) – 7:30 p.m. ET / ESPN
TBA
Holiday Bowl
re: Bowls — for the next two years, former P12 teams will honor existing contracts and be assigned to bowls agreed to when they were members of the P12.