I love the fact no one is talking about us this year. As a matter of fact, it seems there just isn’t the buzz about the season in general. Everyone is chalking up the National Title race to Florida against the survivor of the Big XII and potentially USC, who is a little green. Maybe an outside shot of an undefeated OSU/PSU team making things interesting without a championship game to play, before getting smacked by sun belt speed in the BCS.

The Heisman could go to a repeat winner with two of the projected three winners already having held the trophy. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be more than three or four other contenders than those we already know about.

This is the kind of year you have an unheralded QB step to the front, behind a line that has potentially gelled and improved, and you smack a few teams down a rat hole before anyone sees you coming. It’s the kind of quiet that should motivate a team. Especially a team that was getting accustom to being hyped to win the conference and loading the pre-season All Conference squads. No hype, no expectations, hell, have the people I was used to tailgating with didn’t even buy tickets. This is the type of year the team needs to earn their keep and the support they have grown used to having from a pretty damn good fan base.

Everyone seems to be pretty ho-hum these days, and the Tiger’s could be just what the doctor ordered to unexpectedly liven’ things up.

Posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 9:26 am by Bowman

Filed under Football, Predictions.

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