Hustle Belt Power Rankings: Week Ten-ish
by geeves on Nov 3, 2011 6:00 AM CDT
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PrintFigured I would wait til midweek to pump out the power rankings so that everyone aside from Eastern would get another game under their belts. Yes, a week disappeared in there somewhere, just shut up. Tuesday and Wednesday night confirmed what we already suspected in preseason - Ohio and Temple are probably the two best in the east, and NIU and Toledo are probably tops in the west, pimples and all.
| Rank | Rank (Pv) | Team | Record | What We Learned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |  |
(6-3) | The defense is still a miserable wreck, but boy was that a fun game to watch. Now they get a break before they mow down Bowling Green |
| 2 | 6 |  |
(6-3) | A solid win on the shoulders of Lavon Brazill and Donte Harden to become the MAC East leaders. Lets see if they can make it last. |
| 3 | 4 |  |
(5-3) | I bet these boys are really excited about facing that Ball State run "defense" this weekend. |
| 4 | 1 |  |
(5-4) | WOW. I will say it one more time - they racked up 584 yards of offense and 60 points and could not win. Not even remotely acceptable. |
| 5 | 8 |  |
(5-4) | Western came out on top in a shootout, which is nice for a win now but isn't sustainable in the long run. Whatever happened to that shutdown defense from earlier this season? |
| 6 | 3 |  |
(5-4) | They continue to fluctuate between just good enough to win and just good enough to lose. How awesome…ly frustrating. |
| 7 | 5 |  |
(5-4) | Probably should have won that game last night, but they also appear to have found the right quarterback going forward. Welcome to (probably) the Chris Coyer era. |
| 8 | 7 |  |
(4-5) | And the slide continues to continue. I appreciate Kent's defense is good, but 20 points to the worst offense in all of FBS? Yikes. |
| 9 | 11 |  |
(3-5) | How-do to POTW runner-up Zac Dysert and his destruction of Buffalo's (admittedly destructible) pass defense. Short week turnaround tonight, but they get Akron at home. |
| 10 | 9 |  |
(3-6) | Once again Central Michigan was truly impressive on offense and defense. For a half. Fortunately it was Akron, so one half of good football was just enough to win. They won't be so lucky against Kent. |
| 11 | 13 |  |
(2-6) | I told you their defense was good enough to win this game. I just didn't think their offense was also good enough. |
| 12 | 10 |  |
(2-6) | They get a bye week to marinate over a thoroughly embarrassing performance in their loss to Miami |
| 13 | 12 |  |
(1-7) | An impressive comeback and a little bit of life shown by Jawon Chisolm and the offense. Hope they don't struggle too much in a short week on the road. |
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Parity at its finest.
I think that anyone between 1 and 7 is pretty much interchangeable. It’s all a matter of who will win down the stretch.
Ah, an anticipated NIU-OHIO championship game for the third straight year. Must be November.
Benevolent despot, Hustle Belt — SBN's MAC blog
Ball state and ohio over temple!?!?!?
Are you kidding me. We killed Ball st. something like 42-0 in their house on their home coming.
I also dont understand how u can put ohio over TU when temple killed the teams they lost to in the mac and when temple only lost to them by 4 in their house in a game where the refs spotted Ohio atleast 14 points if u dont include the dive they picked the flag up on.
temple should be 4-1 in the mac
Refs were the difference @Ohio in a 4 point loss
BGSU loss was a fluke/ trap game in their place where TU missed a fg that ended up being the difference that would of given TU a 2 score lead with like 11 mins to plays. The same is true with the only TD BGSU which was a complete fluke. On top of that, if Daz had put in gerardi or coyer at anypoint in the game TU wud of won
Should be and if are big words
I could use them too! IF Western played defense against NIU, there is one loss gone. Western SHOULD BE 7-2 (8-1 if you really wanna go) IF they showed up in back-to-back weeks on the road. But they aren’t. The only thing that matters is what happened, and Temple is 2-3 in the MAC and WMU is 3-2.
Shoot, tonight ask a Central fan. Harman SHOULD HAVE hit that gimme field goal. It’s what happens.
Refs will be refs, and there will be questionable calls. It happens to everyone, everywhere, in EVERY sport, at EVERY level.
Face it, Temple may be a favorite for the best team on paper in the MAC this year, but in games, they have more losses than wins right now.
by Brown and Gold on Nov 5, 2011 12:19 AM CDT up reply actions
wa-wa-wa-wahhhhhhh waahhhhhhhhh
and and and if if Chester Stewart had done his visualization exercises over the summer like he was supposed to he’d basically be Case Keenum but living in Phily, and and and if Daz wore his letterman’s jacket on the side line like he’s supposed to temple would’ve beaten everyone by 40, and and (sniffle, sob) and if temple’s vaunted offensive and defensive linemen hadn’t been thrown around like rag dolls by the smaller OHIO linemen temple would have won too, so so so really you should give temple credit for being 23-0 this season! [stamps foot][sucks on thumb]
You’re joking, right? You’re a mac fan doing a hilarious impression of a temple fan, right? If we’re playing coulda-woulda-shoulda, OHIO should have (according to Vegas) beat Buffalo and Ball State, but we didn’t. It sucks, but it happens. As to your other hilarious comments:
1) Every fan in the history of organized sports has been of the opinion that their team got hosed (whether their team won or lost). I thought on numerous occasions “Oh look at that, the refs are giving these overrated jerks ANOTHER assist, just because according to every non-MAC sports commentator Temple is the best thing since sliced bread”. But you know what? It balances out. We didn’t get hosed any more or less than you did. Get over yourself
2) I don’t care what you think the refs did, the refs aren’t the reason that our linemen (injury depleted in the case of the D-line) made your vaunted and larger linemen look silly.
You lost because you were outplayed. Quit being a baby or (a) invent a time machine and go back in time to before you were thrown out of the big east for being laughably bad or (b) go cry about your stubbed toe and hurt feelings on an A-10 football board…oh wait…
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