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Mid Major Bowl Breakdown: GMAC Bowl

GMAC Bowl:

Central Michigan vs. Troy

This will be a classic battle between two stellar quarterbacks and their powerful offenses. Interesting story for Gmac_mediumCentral Michigan though, as they will be facing the Sun Belt Conference champion without the coach who led them to their first national ranking. The Chippewas are the MAC champs for the third time in four seasons, and now they look to finish the season strong against a tough Troy team. Central Michigan is led by four year starter QB Dan LeFevour, who has thrown for 27 TDs and run for another 14 this year to bring his career total up to 147, which sets the major college football mark. His best weapon and favorite target, receiver Bryan Anderson has caught at least one pass in an NCAA record 53 consecutive games. Throw in receiver Antonio Brown who has team highs of 97 catches for 1,020 yards and nine touchdowns, and you have an offense that is hard to beat. I have a feeling however that the Troy offense may be able to keep up. Troy throws the ball just as good as any non-BCS team aside from Houston, and over their last six games averaged a total of 41.2 points.QB Levi Brown leads the charge and is second in the nation in passing yards per game at 322.3, and he tallied a total of 3,868 passing yards, the most in Troy's or Sun Belt history. This is the first meeting between the schools, and it is going to be explosive. Troy has won (at least a share) of the Sun Belt title for the fourth consecutive year, while the Chippewas will be entering their fourth consecutive bowl game. I am going to go with Central Michigan on this one simply for this fact: Troy's defense is not what it has been in recent years, and LeFevour looks to finish off his spectacular career by taking advantage of any and every opportunity given on game day. Expect LeFevour to launch away, but Levi Brown will be close behind ... Central Michigan wins 38-34.

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Thats not a bad write up

I feel the difference will be the Rushing D…I think the Chips will run well against the Trojans with Dan and the Running Backs

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by CapitolLions on Dec 28, 2009 8:18 AM PST reply actions  

honestly

i think you’ll have a lot more luck in the passing game since the meat in our defense is in the box, whereas we’re not as talented and very young in the secondary.

i think it’ll come down to how well CMU’s passing game is able to operate. I think Troy will be able to put up enough points to win, its just a matter of whether the defense can do a reasonable job of containing CMU’s o.

he was injured. injured bad.

by troy145 on Dec 29, 2009 8:48 PM PST up reply actions  

Man, I'll give it to you, Troy is good.

They will be much better than CMU next year, I would be suprised if we win 7 games HAHA.

and, that WR Jernigan is as good as anyone I have seen.

Good Game, and good luck next season!

http://cmufootball.blogspot.com/

by CapitolLions on Jan 9, 2010 6:28 AM PST reply actions  

the central michigan vs troy game was my second favorite bowl game

after idaho and bowling green. it always amzes me when the so called big boys put on snoozefests while the mid tier teams play their hearts out and give us thrilling games.

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 11, 2010 4:54 PM PST reply actions  

Are we the only people who use this board now?

HAHA…I think that CMU will have a complete overhaul of their offensive mindset next year. Their best weapons will be Schroder the RB and Kito Pobalah the WR since brown and anderson are graduating. The QB play will be much more pro style. I think that Schroder will have over 1000 yards rushing, but honestly, as a fan, I am just hoping for a bowl game, that will be a victory. 7-5 lets make it happen!!!!

http://cmufootball.blogspot.com/

by CapitolLions on Jan 16, 2010 5:57 AM PST up reply actions  

Troy lost our OC to TexTech

Good riddance I say. His HORRIBLE clock management probably cost us our Bowl game vs CMU (not to take anything away from yall) and it definitely cost us the programs biggest win @ LSU last year.

 We’ll be decent in 2010, maybe win the SBC again (woopee) and then in 2011 I would expect bigger things if we can get a competent DC.

he was injured. injured bad.

by troy145 on Jan 17, 2010 12:57 PM PST up reply actions  

I saw something about MTSU being the favorite in the Sunbelt for 2010

Do you agree with that? I know Dasher is nice, but i don’t know anything else about them.

http://cmufootball.blogspot.com/

by CapitolLions on Jan 19, 2010 10:24 AM PST up reply actions  

its too early to tell I think

we have to see how Troy rebounds with the loss of 2 coaches in the recruiting front. i think we’ll be close to as effective as we were this year on offense but i worry about defense. This year was really the first time people picked Troy as teh favorite to win the Sun Belt, yet we’ve won it 4 years in a row now.

either way I think its a two-team race between us and MTSU (our rival)

he was injured. injured bad.

by troy145 on Jan 19, 2010 10:50 AM PST up reply actions  

dwight dasher is extremely good. he is a dual threat qb.

he broke vince young’s rushing yards by a qb by one yeard. he had 201 yards vs southern miss. very exciting player.

i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"

by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 20, 2010 4:36 AM PST up reply actions  

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