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I'm all holed up in southern Utah, and the school here, Dixie State, is moving up to D1 this year. They will be an FCS independent for FB, and in the WAC for everything else. There is another FCS team 50 miles up the road, SUU, who is in the Big Sky. The nearest FBS team is UNLV at 120 miles away. The Utes are the closest P5, I believe, at over 300 miles away. BYU is a little bit closer than the Utes. 

Dixie St sounds like a fictional college in Mississippi.  Pretty sure Bobby Boudreaux had 6 sacks against them.

They are the ones that changed their mascot thrice in under a decade; first the Rebels, then the Red Storm and now the Trailblazers. Their top players was Corey Dillon, who suited up for the Rebels back in their JuCo days.

He sounds like a kind of musroom.

#68 Wyoming Cowboys

#4 in Mountain West

Prior to a few years ago, with Josh Allen, the Cowboys’ history of elite football players was pretty small.  Even their best teams, the Joe Tiller years, the Bob Devaney teams of the late 50s, didn’t really produce names.  Jay Novacek was about it, unless you like Jim Kiick, who played for the pre-merger Dolphins.  You had a top 10 pick a couple years ago in Josh Allen, and now Xazavian Valladay, who certainly has the best name in the Group of Five, might be the most exciting player to watch in the group too.  Valladay burst onto the Mountain West scene, winning the conference rushing title with 1,265 yards, despite not being “the man” until the second half of the season.  He only topped 15 carries once in the Cowboys’ first six games; and then went over 15 in all but one of their final 7, running for over 115 yards in all of those, including a pair of two hundred yard games.  He played high school ball in Oak Lawn, Illinois, just 30 miles from Northwestern’s campus.  Yet the Wildcats didn’t offer him, neither did any MAC schools.  His only offers came from Wyoming and FCS Western Illinois.  Quite a find from halfway across the country.  This is probably it for him, so if you get the chance, he’s worth the late night watch on CBS Sports Network, or whatever.  He’ll have plenty of help up front, from a veteran offensive line that returns all five starters from a year ago, including a pair of all-conference performers.  They’ll need that running game to deliver, because the passing game is a disaster.  Wyoming cycled through three starting quarterbacks, and all of them were awful.  Tyler Vander Waal, the only one of the group who actually completed over 50% of his passes (at an outstanding 51.6%), transferred to Idaho State, so presumably its true sophomore Sean Chambers’ job to lose, since Wyoming was unable to get anyone in yet via the portal.  He didn’t have the interception issues that Vander Waal did, and ran for 6.3 ypc on 90 attempts, but only completed 43% of his passes, worst in the nation among quarterbacks with at least 120 passing attempts.  I say it’s his job to lose very loosely, because he probably doesn’t have to do much to lose it.  True freshman Levi Williams only played in three games, so he preserved his redshirt, but had the highest passer rating of the three (in spite of still completing under 50% of his passes), and Wyoming brought in two quarterbacks in their 2020 class.  Much like Georgia Southern yesterday, the Wyoming defense had some pretty harsh splits in favor of the run defense, except even more dramatic.  The Cowboys allowed just 2.9 ypc on the ground, 5th best nationally.  That accounted for just 29.76% of the yards allowed.  Only three schools; Georgia, Penn State and San Diego State, had a larger disparity between yards allowed via the run vs. the pass.  The scary thing about that Wyoming run defense, is that they suffered a ton of injuries along the line, a line that ranked top 10 in every run defense metric.  Now they return the healthy presumed starters, to go with that group that was a top 10 unit last year, to form what should be an elite defensive line, easily the best of the Group of Five.  The problem is behind that line is a mess, particularly linebacker.  They could be looking at a true freshman to step in and start at one outside linebacker spot, next to Chad Muma at middle linebacker, who has played in a reserve role, at most, in his first two seasons.

	KEY PLAYERS
RB	Xazavian Valladay, Junior
C	Keegan Cryder, Junior
G	Logan Harris, Senior
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DE	Solomon Byrd, Sophomore
DE	Garrett Crall, Senior
LB	Chad Muma, Junior

#67 Boston College Eagles

#11 in ACC

I don’t think there’s any way to characterize the last two seasons in Chestnut Hill as anything other than a failure.  The Eagles won 5 of their final 6 regular season games in 2017, led by a pair of freshmen in the backfield in quarterback Anthony Brown, and running back A.J. Dillon, who was the best running back in the nation over the second half of the season.  That appeared to set them up for a big couple year run, even though they have the misfortune of being in the same division as Clemson.  I had them in my preseason top 20 in 2018.  They opened with three wins over cupcakes, then went 4-5 the rest of the way, finishing 4 games behind Clemson, and behind Syracuse in the division standings.  They were even worse last year, going 6-6, making their two year record against ranked opponents 0-6.  A.J. Dillon made the expected decision to turn pro, but Anthony Brown also decided to transfer to Oregon, following an injury shortened junior season.  That leaves an Eagles offense that should be really, really good in the trenches, but absolutely devoid of talent at the skill positions.  They return four All-ACC linemen from a group that was top 30 in every Football Outsiders line metric, and top ten in several, including #2 nationally in power success rate.  Mix in tight end Hunter Long, son of Howie Long, younger brother of Chris Long, who was also All-ACC, and is an elite blocker, and the opportunity is there to do some special things.  The problem is that there is nobody to replace them.  Dennis Grosel hardly impressed in filling in for Brown, completing just 48.4% of his passes in seven starts.  Sam Johnson III redshirted as a true freshman last year; incoming true freshman Matthew Rueve, who had no other Power Five offers, doesn’t look like a guy who can step in and contribute right away; and Notre Dame transfer Phil Jurkovic hasn’t gotten a waiver yet to play in 2020.  He was a top 5 quarterback in the nation coming out of high school, but didn’t really see any meaningful action in two seasons in South Bend.  Even if they get the quarterback position figured out, who will they even have to throw to, aside from the aforementioned tight end Hunter Long?  Top receiver Kobay White transferred out, and Zay Flowers is the only other receiver with more than 3 receptions a year ago who didn’t graduate.  This from a passing game that only averaged 176 yards per game last year before resetting at quarterback and receiver.  The one spot Boston College might still be ok is running back, even with the departure of Dillon to the NFL.  Steve Addazio ran Dillon into the ground, racking up 845 carries over his three seasons.  So it might not be surprising that it was actually David Bailey who averaged the better 5.7 ypc, on a not insignificant 148 carries.  So he should be the beneficiary in 2020 of all of those additional carries.  The issue is who will he split with, for an offense that ran the ball 67% of the time last year; more often than any non triple-option team, aside from Buffalo?  For how many carries Dillon and Bailey got last year (466), no other running back had more than 28.  The other issue is that while Boston College’s offense has had its ups and downs recently (with some major downs), the defense could always be relied upon.  That is, until last year, when they surrendered an ACC worst 6.3 ypp and 478.7 ypg.  They were very young a year ago, but have one of the 15 most experienced units this year.  How much that aids what was the ACC’s worst defense a year ago, remains to be seen.

	KEY PLAYERS
TE	Hunter Long, Junior
T	Ben Petrula, Senior
G	Zion Johnson, Senior
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LB	Max Richardson, Senior
LB	John Lamot, Senior
S	Mike Palmer, Senior

BC has become a school that you sort of forget about even being a P5 program.  They have been mediocre at best and often times outright bad in the two major sports for over a decade now.

I feel like they've rarely been bad, but as you said, they've never been good.  Other schools have had random bad seasons, but at least had one year, somewhere, where they've also been good.

I think the ACC suffers from this more than any conference, as far as number of schools that haven't even had a singular really good season in either sports in too long.  BC, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Pitt, Virginia Tech, NC State, Miami.  When was the last time any of those schools reached a Sweet 16 or finished a football season ranked in the Top 15?

GaTech was pretty good a decade or so back, VaTech as well, Miami further back I think.