Well, not quite. Kirk Herbstreit recently released his 9th Annual Herbie Awards for the upcoming season on ESPN.com, and in case you’re not familiar with the Herbies, they’re basically just a list of players, coaches and teams Herbstreit considers to be the best in the country. It was pretty much what I expected, lots of players from powerhouse schools in the south, but then I got to his picks for Conference Champions. I’ll be damned if Herbie doesn’t have your Temple Owls as his pick to win the much respected MAC East. I was surprised at first, but then took a look at who Al Golden and his boys’ competition is in the Mid Atlantic Conference East: Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Kent State, Miami (OH) and Ohio. Wow. Temple’s schedule consists of one tough game, at Penn State, and other than that it’s a smattering of garbage I’m pretty sure my Thanksgiving Day pickup team could matchup with. In any case, I’ll be rooting for the Owls to do well this season, it’d be nice to see a college football team succeed in Philly, MAC East or not. Temple opens up the 2009 season Thursday night against Villanova at The Linc.
Other notable Herbie winners (notable to Dirty Wudders at least) after the jump:
Top DT: Jared Odrick (4), PSU
Top ILB: Sean Lee (3), PSU
Top OLB: Navorro Bowman (2), PSU
Players Who Don’t Get Enough Respect: Evan Royster (5), PSU
Head Coaches in Waiting: Tom Bradley (4), PSU
Best Student Sections: PSU (1) – Ed. Note: Nice.
Big 10 Conference Champ: PSU
Penn State kicks off the season this Saturday against the Akron Zips, more to come on the Lions later in the week.
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PSU's OOC schedule actually looks fairly similar to a MAC quality schedule, Akron, Syracuse, Temple, Eastern Illinois (D-1AA).
ReplyDeleteThe early line was Temple -2.5
ReplyDeleteVery true about PSU's schedule. It's pretty pathetic this year.
ReplyDeletetemple should be better, but it is still temple.
ReplyDeleteI will have to see them play and win a couple before I believe the hype
I heard Buffalo was the favorite before their running back went down. A couple of years ago, Buffalo vs Temple was a game between the 2 worst teams in football.
ReplyDeleteTemple is only a 5.5 favorite over Nova.
The Cuse have a backup poing guard playing QB.
Sagarin ratings preseason have Nova listed as the 94th best team in the country and Temple as the 125th.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt09.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Villanova ranked 5th in the country in 1AA to start the season according to coaches and media polling.
Other potential upsets/scares for those who like to gamble degenerately: Appalachian State at ECU, Richmond at Duke
That is some good information right there.
ReplyDeleteAlways happy to hear from those willing to help the degenerates among us!
Good call on Nova!
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