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South Florida and Memphis are two of the teams that are expected of a lot · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford one more segment cland he's with us every Tuesday. Of course,
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  next week will be Wednesday, Kford Ratings dot Com and then of course k
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  Ford Ratings on X. All right, Kelly, I know that you're probably,
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  I would have to assume, working on some stuff. We're gonna wait
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  and see what this second transfer portal window does for college football, But I
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  want to get your take on a few teams. You know, a lot
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  a lot is being built up. As far as you know, this is
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  talk and season. We know that, so this is for fun. We're
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  not holding anybody to their predictions, nor would we ever even during the season,
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  but a lot a lot is being made of Memphis in South Florida as
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  far as group of five teams that could punch a ticket to the playoff are.
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  When you look at those two programs, you know from a distance,
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  obviously got to button up a lot of stuff before the season. Are you
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  in the same camp on Memphis and South Florida's a lot of people are saying,
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  hey, these are two teams that could really have special years and make
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  the playoff. Yeah, Jake, I'll preface it, like you said,
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  we are a long way away from the season. Lots can change here with
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  another transfer portal window and and just everything that's going to happen. But yet,
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  when you're looking at group of five programs, and of course now you're
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  going to get at least one group of five team into the twelve team CFB
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  starting this year, it's easy to look at the American and Memphis is a
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  team that in recent years has had a high level of success within that conference.
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  You combine that with the fact that a lot of the you know,
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  recent dominant programs and teams in that commerce have made a transition to the Big
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  twelve or out of the American, it does kind of leave the door open
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  for a team like Memphis USF, you know, South Florida, that's another
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  team that they're interesting because they made some great strides last year, really overperformed
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  by a lot of metrics and a lot of realistic expectations. And you are
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  I would be encouraged if I'm a USF fan, I think between the two.
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  If I'm looking at the most or highest level of success yere in twenty
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  twenty four again early look, I'd probably lean with Memphis are a little bit
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  more proven. They just got the track record in South Florida. I kind
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  of have to see it one more time before you're truly going to buy in.
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  I would also say, though, Jake, it's easy to look at
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  the American it's also easy to look maybe at the sun Belt. There's some
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  really good teams in the Sun Belt Conference, especially at the top of that
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  conference. I would be I'll say, surprised that I know the Mountain West
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  is going to have a say in this. I'll be surprised though, if
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  the group of five representative in the playoff is not from the sun Belt or
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  the American That's where I am right now here in early April