College Football News: Marshall Preview & Predictions For Every Game

[Chris McLaughlin]

https://collegefootballnews.com/2020/07/2020-conference-usa-team-schedule-predictions-for-every-game

Marshall Football Schedule
2020 Record: 0-0
2020 Preseason Prediction: 6-6
2020 Preseason C-USA Prediction: 5-3
2019 Preseason Prediction: 7-5
2019: 8-5, 2018: 9-4

Sept. 5 at East Carolina L
Sept. 12 Pitt L
Sept. 19 at Ohio W
Sept. 26 Boise State L
Oct. 3 Rice W
Oct. 10 at WKU L
Oct. 17 at Louisiana Tech L
Oct. 24 Florida Atlantic W
Oct. 31 at FIU L
Nov. 7 OPEN DATE
Nov. 14 Middle Tennessee W
Nov. 21 Charlotte W
Nov. 28 at Old Dominion W

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Full preview here: https://collegefootballnews.com/2020/05/college-football-news-preview-2020-marshall-thundering-herd

 

[richmondherdfan]

without a capacity home crowd to help, we wont beat Pitt or Boise. ECU isnt good, but we all know how we fair on the road. Ohio is the swing game for a bowl game in my mind. We lose to them, which we always play close, we dont make a bowl. All comes down to our QB play and without spring ball, not confident in a big jump from last year.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

without a capacity home crowd to help, we wont beat Pitt or Boise. ECU isnt good, but we all know how we fair on the road. Ohio is the swing game for a bowl game in my mind. We lose to them, which we always play close, we dont make a bowl. All comes down to our QB play and without spring ball, not confident in a big jump from last year.

Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe we have ever won @ Dowdy-Ficklen. At least, not since we started playing them again in CUSA...

 

[RhinoD]

If we are 3-6 going into the bye, MU will not make a bowl game and Doc will have his bags packed before we even play MTSU.

The key to the whole season may very well be in week one. ECU is a tossup game we can win (assuming Pitt and Boise State are losses)... The other tossups are WKU and FIU because CUSA teams are pretty much impossible to predict one year to the next. Beat ECU, WKU and FIU and winning the division is doable... Lose those three, and most likely limp to 5-7 with a late loss to one of the last three dregs on the schedule.

 

[Herdmeister]

If we are 3-6 going into the bye, MU will not make a bowl game and Doc will have his bags packed before we even play MTSU.

The key to the whole season may very well be in week one. ECU is a tossup game we can win (assuming Pitt and Boise State are losses)... The other tossups are WKU and FIU because CUSA teams are pretty much impossible to predict one year to the next. Beat ECU, WKU and FIU and winning the division is doable... Lose those three, and most likely limp to 5-7 with a late loss to one of the last three dregs on the schedule.

unfortunately the only way leaves is IF HE wants to leave. Our AD will not fire him unless told to do so by his boss

 

[johns1124]

No love what-so-ever. How many have forgot that we kept Boise to one of the lowest scoring games at home. With any O that
game was winnable. I expect a W at home; then again with Doc and Cramsey calling the plays who knows.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Gonna be tough without good QB play and filling some holes on D.
Doc will go 7-5 and get an extension.

 

[i am herdman]

unfortunately the only way leaves is IF HE wants to leave. Our AD will not fire him unless told to do so by his boss

Is that Dr Jerome Gilbert? And, there was a rumor floating around that the BOG told them no new contract or they had to approve it or something like that. Any validity to that rumor?

 

[mlblack16.]

Gonna be tough without good QB play and filling some holes on D.
Doc will go 7-5 and get an extension.

Pretty much. It will no doubt be just enough to eek out another bowl eligible season. Fans will be pissed, Coach Stowers and Aaron Perks will knit gloves and give to the players for Christmas. Rinse and repeat for 2021.

 

[Herdmeister]

Is that Dr Jerome Gilbert? And, there was a rumor floating around that the BOG told them no new contract or they had to approve it or something like that. Any validity to that rumor?

Yes, Dr Gilbert is Hamrick's boss. Obviously they all work for the BOG. If the board wants Doc gone, then he will be gone. I have heard no rumors, nor do I pay much attention them. The YMCA here is Huntington's is the #1 rumor mill, I hear things come from there that I know for a fact are not even close to being true.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Yes, Dr Gilbert is Hamrick's boss. Obviously they all work for the BOG. If the board wants Doc gone, then he will be gone. I have heard no rumors, nor do I pay much attention them. The YMCA here is Huntington's is the #1 rumor mill, I hear things come from there that I know for a fact are not even close to being true.

Things like Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the volcano at the Pompeii club?

 

[herdfan429]

We won’t be playing an ooc schedule anyway so those games won’t matter. We all know we will lose a conf game or two that we shouldn’t at best we go one game over .500 in conf

 

[johns1124]

We won’t be playing an ooc schedule anyway so those games won’t matter. We all know we will lose a conf game or two that we shouldn’t at best we go one game over .500 in conf

So.... What would be the point of playing Conference games, but no OOC? Some of the ooc are closer then the conference games we play.

 

[herdfan429]

So.... What would be the point of playing Conference games, but no OOC? Some of the ooc are closer then the conference games we play.

Corona virus will dictate what is played. Playing conf games makes sense when bowl slots are selected based on conf ranking

 

[ekal]

I think all the games scheduled will be played, but perhaps with no fans in the stands. If no fans, that means more games will be televised to bring the games to the public. Should jack up advertising revenues and ratings for the networks and stations. America needs football this Fall, both college and NFL. The promise of a vaccine yet in 2020 should be a factor in deciding to play the full schedule. The death rate from Covid is dropping significantly because most people being infected now are young, healthy people.

 

[herdalicious]

Predictions most years are ridiculous, but in a year where a team could lose multiple starters the week of the game to COVID infection? It's pointless, except to occupy time. Which I guess is all it ever does anyway.

Carry on.

 

[Herdmeister]

I think all the games scheduled will be played, but perhaps with no fans in the stands. If no fans, that means more games will be televised to bring the games to the public. Should jack up advertising revenues and ratings for the networks and stations. America needs football this Fall, both college and NFL. The promise of a vaccine yet in 2020 should be a factor in deciding to play the full schedule. The death rate from Covid is dropping significantly because most people being infected now are young, healthy people.

For most G5 programs and below, playing to an empty stadium would break the schools financially. The cost to play would be the same but with no income it would be devastating

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

For most G5 programs and below, playing to an empty stadium would break the schools financially. The cost to play would be the same but with no income it would be devastating

Have you seen some of the G5 schools prior to the pandemic? Plenty had hardly anyone in the stands (yes, this includes MU) and finished heavily in debt...yet, here they are, chasing some sort of goal that somehow makes it worth it in the end.

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

I think all the games scheduled will be played, but perhaps with no fans in the stands. If no fans, that means more games will be televised to bring the games to the public. Should jack up advertising revenues and ratings for the networks and stations. America needs football this Fall, both college and NFL. The promise of a vaccine yet in 2020 should be a factor in deciding to play the full schedule. The death rate from Covid is dropping significantly because most people being infected now are young, healthy people.

I wonder if Hamrick and other AD's are planning contingency schedules...like contacting schools within say a 3-4 hr trip by bus or anyone else within a certain proximity and trying to set up a game between them, IF/should COVID restrict travel this season.
If MU can't get Boise, then why not play Wake Forest or something like that and have it set up with the OOC schedule so things are lined up as an alternative plan. It also wouldn't be too difficult since OOC games are usually the first games MU plays.

Also, how are the legal implications being affected by this? What I mean is, there's obviously some insurance and financial agreements or close to those, that would guard against something like what happened with South Carolina and the hurricane.
Does COVID get to be included as say, an "Act of God," and if so, how does one navigate the legality of it all?
Because MU got a chance to re-schedule an OOC team to make up the difference, while others cancelled outright.

 

[johns1124]

Teams will play OOC. Too much money involved not too. Good god ASU got 1.5 million just to play Michigan in the Big House.

 

[herdfan429]

Teams will play OOC. Too much money involved not too. Good god ASU got 1.5 million just to play Michigan in the Big House.

Only if the govt allows it