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MTSU at Louisville tonight on ESPN

MTSU at Louisville tonight on ESPN

Lou Holtz mentioned that this was the same MTSU team that FAU held to 200 yards total offense last week and Mark May said "maybe OSU should look out this weekend". Good for FAU to get some recognition on a national broadcast.
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MTSU at Louisville tonight on ESPN

I hope you guys and pull off the upset. It would make our game so much more meaningful.

I hope we aren't overconfident.
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Lousiville winning 51-35 End of 3rd Qtr… Lets just hope that a Sun Belt Team (insert FAU here) will cause a major upset this year because the winds feel like they are changing for our favor. Imagine it - FAU beats OSU, USF, and Kentucky … plays close game with UF. Imagine that - 2 days from now that may begin to prove to be the case. Prepare well FAU, don't let your head grow with whats happening tonight (We practically demolished MTSU who is competing side-by-side most of the game with #8 in the country Louisville). Don't let it get to your heads - play tough and beat those Okies, Bulls, and … Kentuckians… :)
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That is totaly amazing! The FAU MTSU game was way more important than this game because of the conference. My point being that MTSU I thought would have been much more fired up for FAU than Louisville. Maybe they were, FAU may be that good.

MTSU barely had anytime to prepare for this. They had one less day than Louisville since it was an away game.

We will find the answer to that in about 2 days.

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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Looks like a final score of 58-42.

MTSU had 559 total yards. 268 rushing and 291 passing.

Louisville had 725 total yards. WOW!


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/scoreboards/2007/09/06/36060_viewcast.html

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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MTSU at Louisville tonight on ESPN

I was at the FAU vs MTSU game, and I watched the Louisville vs MTSU. I'm a big-time Owl fan, but I have to say the MTSU team last night was not the MTSU team of this past weekend. Good thing we caught them when we did. Yeah, I know, I'll be blasted. But, facts is facts. Let's hope FAU surprises the Cowboys.
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fauprowler said

OMG! The game with Louisville (#8 team in the country) is at halftime with MTSU and MTSU is only trailing by 3 points!!!!!!!! 38-35 ??? Did we really play that well against them or did they get a bunch of injured players back? What's the difference tonight with MTSU? Cuz we are gonna need it on Saturday vs OSU! (And I may just need to change my prediction vs OSU in favor of an FAU win!)

I have to say. I was shocked when I heard that we were giving Louisville a hard-fought game last night at work. Of course, Louisville's defense has always stuggled, but I still think UL has a better unit there than FAU. Middle Tennessee as of late seems to struggle in season-opening games. Last year you would recall that Middle Tennessee only won 7-6 in the opener last year over a team that eventually went 0-12.

Middle Tennessee did not get a bunch of injured players back. Far from it. Two freshmen made their career starts last night on the offensive line that was missing six starters. I think those young men turned out to be better than expected and perhaps they should have been in the game last Saturday in Fort Lauderdale.

It was also obvious that moving Desmond Gee to widereceiver and giving Phillip Tanner and Demarco McNair more full-time roles as tailbacks would prove to be more effective. Looking at the stat sheets, it would appear that was a good move. It was probably also a good move to move Brandon Nix from center (where he was at FAU) to guard (where he's been in all the games he's played for us before).

Our snapper made his first career start last night, and judging from what I hear, he did a great job.

You have to remember something too. Last night, the mistakes were few for Middle Tennessee. The Blue Raiders made several critical and costly unforced mistakes against FAU. I distinctly remember too botched punt receiving plays that wound up being turned over to FAU deep in our own territory. One resulted in a touchdown for FAU. I also remember the snapper botching a snap that resulted in a 17-yard loss deep in MT territory on a 3rd down play. Those types of mistakes didn't happen last night.

MT seemed to play gingerly trying not to lose against FAU. They played out of their heads and with a "Who the heck cares? Let's just do it" fiery attitude against Louisville.

Oklahoma State won't walk all over FAU, but I'd be very surprised if FAU actually won even still. FAU and MT both looked really sloppy last Saturday. It's obvious that Middle Tennessee's personnel adjustments were the key to a better game in Week 2. FAU won't beat Oklahoma State playing like they did against Middle Tennessee. No way the Big 12 Pokes make the same freshman-type mistakes that the Blue Raiders did when MT played FAU.

I really hope FAU wins because it's good for the conference and it helps our SOS, but FAU will have to play cleaner and rely less on their opponents' own miscues to pull out wins.
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Did any of you hear the telephone interview in the 3rd or 4th quarter with Mr. Howard Schlenbecker.... i almost fell off the couch.. "schlenbecker" are u kidding me, first rule in interviewing, know how to say the guys name u are interviewing...

Peyton
1999
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Rely less on opponents mistakes to win games? Both MTSU and FAU looked sloppy? Did you watch the same game I did? FAU admittedly didn't play their best game, but still basically dominated MTSU on both sides of the ball. They capitalized on the MTSU turnovers, yes, but all good teams do. I watched the MTSU-UL game last night. Congrats on keeping it close, but I think MTSU fans are getting a little carried away about what actually happened. First, on offense MTSU did look much better than against FAU, but that UL defense was horrendous, in the 1st half anyway. At the start of the game, they looked like they were just standing around figuring that their offense could score at will(which it did). Don't forget that UL gave up 130 yards on the ground last week to Murray State. It's not a very good unit. Still it did manage to hold MTSU to 1 score in the 2nd half…a TD that really never should have happened if the UL defender could finish the tackle. Second, your defense made 2 defnsive stops all night. 2..out of 12 drives. They have now given up close to 1200 yards of offense in 2 games.

This isn't to discount what happened last night. Good job of MTSU representing the Belt, but if you read the MTSU message boards, they are talking about winning the rest of their conference games, how FAU better run the table to get to NO, and how after 1 week their makeshift O-line is all fixed, etc. As if it was more likely that what happened last night was the norm and Saturday was the abberation. What I saw from the MTSU offense was that it was going against a bad tackling UL defense coming off a short week. It took UL a half, but they shut you down in the 2nd half. MTSU's last 7 drives ended in: INT, punt, punt, missed FG, fumble, rushing TD, INT.
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MTSU at Louisville tonight on ESPN

MTSU played one hell of a game last night. Congrats to them and their fans for sticking it to Louisville.

GO OWLS!!!

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