[chitownsparty86]

Originally Posted by UABinBHM

Whoa now. I'm a little nervous about making predictions this year since we're so short on numbers, but you act as though UAB has not ever been competitive.

Since UAB moved to Division I about 10 years ago, only a handful of teams from BCS conferences have scored 40pts or more against UAB: Virginia Tech (1998), Wake Forrest (1999), Florida (2002), and South Carolina (2003). That's only 4 times out of the 20-25 BCS opponents we've played in that time.

In addition, UAB (and probably MSU as well) will be more run-oriented, so I would expect this to be a fairly quick, relatively lower scoring game. But again, having little idea what to expect from our team, MSU could score 40pts on us... I just kind of doubt it. In fact, I kind of even doubt MSU scores 30. I think both MSU and UAB will score 30pts or less.

Thats true but from everything Im reading it looks like UAB could be EMU bad. I mean they lost everyone from a bad team last year. It seems like this is just a recipe to run all over you guys. Its not like I gthink UAB is some **** program or we are some juggernaut, but I do think we will be at least a middle tier big ten team and it looks like UAB could finish at the bottom in the CUSA and just seems like a recipe for a blowout.