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ESPN Says Temple Could Be in National Title Hunt

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mal359 said:
After last night’s win over East Carolina brought the Owls to 7-0 for the first time ever, ESPN says they could make a run at the national championship.

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/10/23/temple-football-national-title/
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RutgersRaRa

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They did come back against 0-7 UCF, so of course they're bigtime now. ESPN would never create a false narrative, would they?
 
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RutgersRaRa said:
They did come back against 0-7 UCF, so of course they're bigtime now. ESPN would never create a false narrative, would they?
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To be fair, not even the Philly Magazine writer believes ESPN. He does agree that this might be the best Temple team ever, though.
 
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After watching the first half of the game, I had to turn it off since it was so boring. ECU was terrible in terms of penalties and Temple did nothing on offense.
I like the Owls, but I cannot see them really competing at the top levels of college football for the NC.
 
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and Memphis is REALLY piling up points.....the AAC is looking good,,,,but not for a national run...........
 
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AAC team would have to be the only undefeated team, and a heck of a lot of teams will have to lose 2 games., Even then I'd doubt it.
 
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I don't have a problem with Temple doing well, unlike PSU. Temple is still in an inferior conference, and history has shown that doing well for a year isn't nearly as hard as it is to stay good. We are proof of that. UCF is REALLY proof of that. Temple will lose their coach and staff and start all over again, but without the budget to bring in a higher-profile coach. We barely got into big time football with our invitation to the B1G, and look at the struggles we face to get our football, basketball, and other facilities up to some sense of acceptability. It is hard in this arms race, and Temple's success will be difficult to maintain, especially since they don't dominate bad teams. They beat PSU to start the year, which was awesome on so many levels, but their dominance over bad teams isn't there. If they beat ND, they will turn some heads. And Rhule's price tag will climb.
 
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With all of the early Pac12 losses there is a decent chance their champ could have two losses. There is less chance, but it is not impossible, that the SEC champ could have two losses.

If both of those happen and the AAC champ is undefeated Temple with two excellent OOC wins, they would have to be seriously considered. I don't see any scenario where an undefeated AAC champ makes it over a one loss P5 champ.
 
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There is more chance of the stadium breaking away from the ground and floating off to nirvana tonight.
 
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RutgersRaRa said:
They did come back against 0-7 UCF, so of course they're bigtime now. ESPN would never create a false narrative, would they?
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If only half of our starting defense got arrested for home invasions or our star receiver body slammed a girl after a game, then we'd REALLY be big time. Until then we'll just have to deal with this national championship talk.
 
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sultanofslot said:
If only half of our starting defense got arrested for home invasions or our star receiver body slammed a girl after a game, then we'd REALLY be big time. Until then we'll just have to deal with this national championship talk.
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Since neither of those things happened at Rutgers I don't know why you would put them in a post on this topic.
But as you may be a Temple grad, your ignorance is not a surprise.
 
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I said this after they beat psu and I looked at their schedule, and thought if they beat ND and win their championship game, it could happen, what helps now, is the game with memphis, the winner (if temple beats ND) could drop into the final four????
 
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an undefeated AAC team gets a NY Day bowl - but not a playoff spot.

period. no further discussion

end of story.
 
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an undefeated AAC team gets a NY Day bowl - but not a playoff spot.

period. no further discussion

end of story.
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Nope, it depends on the year. If the Big conferences all have champions with losses, it's anybody's game.
 
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I hope they do get in the playoffs. It'll have the P5 crying for an 8 team playoff by season end.
 
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RutgersRaRa said:
I don't have a problem with Temple doing well, unlike PSU. Temple is still in an inferior conference, and history has shown that doing well for a year isn't nearly as hard as it is to stay good. We are proof of that. UCF is REALLY proof of that. Temple will lose their coach and staff and start all over again, but without the budget to bring in a higher-profile coach. We barely got into big time football with our invitation to the B1G, and look at the struggles we face to get our football, basketball, and other facilities up to some sense of acceptability. It is hard in this arms race, and Temple's success will be difficult to maintain, especially since they don't dominate bad teams. They beat PSU to start the year, which was awesome on so many levels, but their dominance over bad teams isn't there. If they beat ND, they will turn some heads. And Rhule's price tag will climb.
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We're paying Rhule $1.5M. We may not exactly have the budget for a Harbaugh, Gruden, Chip Kelly kinda hire, but if we pay $1.5M+ we should have a lot of interest from very successful coaches and coordinators.
 
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Have to believe Rhule could be had for $3-4 mil, but a) I don't think we fire Flood, and b) we would never pay that kind of money for a HC and then pay his staff another $1-2 mil. We are cheap, that is not going to change.
 
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