Football Update

We're in the heat of the summer.  Training camp for football will start soon and then things will we'll get fired up for another year.

MAC Media Day is on Wednesday, so there should be some news (ie, early predictions and maybe an updated roster) nestled between the platitudes and Coachspeak.

The Orlando Sentinel does a countdown each summer of the teams in FBS, ranked in reverse order.  It comes in an email every day and then you wait for your team to get mentioned.

It came out last week...BG is ranked #36 in FBS, according to them.  Their general synopsis is big scoring and defensive challenges, which is pretty much the topline for the team as the season starts.  The ranking is the second highest in the MAC, behind NIU, who has not been ranked yet.

Toledo (41)
Ball State (55)
Ohio (65)
WMU (74)
Buffalo (82)
UMass (91)
Akron (99)
EMU (101)
Kent (110)
Miami (113)
CMU (124)

Interestingly, Phil Steele has BG #49 in his basic rankings and #75 in the ranking that is supposed to be just about the team and does not include schedule.  That's odd because BG plays a relatively tough schedule, I might have expected them to be reversed.

Steele has BG as a co-favorite in the East with Akron.  We will see what the media says this week.

On the recruiting front, BG has 15 verbals.  Six of those are offensive players and 9 play on the defensive side of the ball.  In particular, BG continues to work to get d-backs, with 5 of the 15 players projected to play CB or S.  There is one QB in the class, along with 2 WRs and 2 TEs, of all things.  If you want to flash back to the bad old days, you can see that there is only 1 D-linemen in the class and no o-lineman.  Yet.  To date.  You know.