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Marshall vs Florida Atlantic Prediction, Game Preview

Marshall vs Florida Atlantic prediction, game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win this Saturday.

Marshall vs Florida Atlantic prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, November 6

Marshall vs Florida Atlantic How To Watch

Date: Saturday, November 6
Game Time: 6:00 ET
Venue: FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, FL
How To Watch: CBS Sports Network
Record: Marshall (5-3), Florida Atlantic (5-3)
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Marshall vs Florida Atlantic Game Preview

Why Marshall Will Win

Well there we go.

Marshall is on a three-game winning streak with the running game kicking it all in against FIU, the passing game rolling against North Texas, and with the turnovers not quite as bad after losing to Middle Tennessee with six giveaways.

Florida Atlantic’s offense is too inconsistent. The offensive line allows too many plays behind the line, the running game hasn’t been able to do enough against anyone but the mediocre, and now it deals with a Marshall D that generates a whole lot of pressure.

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Why Florida Atlantic Will Win

Which offense will show up?

When it’s balanced and the ground game is rocking, Florida Atlantic wins. When it gets stuffed, it has a problem.

It’s 4-0 when getting to close to 200 yards on the ground – and it beat UTEP last week even though it struggled to do anything offensively. Marshall stuffed FIU, but gave up over 200 rushing yards in four straight games before last week.

The defense has been great at taking the ball away over the last few games, it’s +2 on the year in turnover margin, and it only had real issues with turnovers once, going -3 in the loss to UAB.

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What’s Going To Happen

It’s the battle for the Conference USA East title … for now, at least until WKU has more to say about it.

Both teams have been wildly inconsistent and both have a ton of problems, but Marshall’s offense will be stronger on the road to overcome a rough day by the run D.

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Marshall vs Florida Atlantic Prediction, Lines

Marshall 31, Florida Atlantic 26
Line: Marshall -1.5, o/u: 57.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 4

5: Belfast
1: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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FIU vs Marshall Prediction, Game Preview

FIU vs Marshall prediction, game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might – or might not – win this Saturday.

FIU vs Marshall prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, October 30

FIU vs Marshall How To Watch

Date: Saturday, October 30
Game Time: 3:30 ET
Venue: Joan C Edwards Stadium, Huntington, WV
How To Watch: Stadium
Record: FIU (1-6), Marshall (4-3)
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Why FIU Will Win

The passing game continues to be fun.

The wins aren’t there, and the defense is letting the team down, but the Golden Panthers have the ability to keep up and bomb away against just about anyone with one of the best downfield passing attacks in college football.

FIU will throw for over 300 yards, and then it comes down to whether or not Marshall goes Marshall and turns the ball over enough to matter. The Thundering Herd have given it up multiple times in every game but one with ten giveaways over the last three games. But …

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Why Marshall Will Win

This FIU team just doesn’t do a thing on defense.

It might throw for a ton of yards, but it gives them up just as fast, allowing 382 passing yards or more in four of the last five games.

It’s the second-worst pass defense in the country, there’s no ball control with the O struggling in the time of possession battle, and when it comes to those pesky Thundering Herd giveaways, the FIU D has only come up with four turnovers.

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What’s Going To Happen

Marshall has to do everything possible to not turn the ball over four times. It can get away with its normal two, but the only way FIU pulls this off is if there’s a total meltdown like the Herd’s loss to Middle Tennessee.

Expect over 600 passing yards between the two teams and a lot of offensive fun, but Marshall will come up with a few stops, and FIU won’t.

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FIU vs Marshall Prediction, Lines

Marshall 48, FIU 24
Line: Marshall -22, o/u: 64
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 2

5: The French Dispatch
1: Finch

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Marshall vs North Texas Prediction, Game Preview

Marshall vs North Texas prediction, game preview, how to watch: Saturday, October 16

Marshall vs North Texas prediction, game preview, how to watch: Friday, October 15

Marshall vs North Texas How To Watch

Date: Friday, October 15
Game Time: 7:00 ET
Venue: Apogee Stadium, Denton, TX
How To Watch: CBS Sports Network
Record: Marshall (3-3), North Texas (1-4)
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Marshall vs North Texas Game Preview

Why Marshall Will Win

How does Marshall want to get the offense going?

The North Texas defense is far better than it was last year, and it’s had a few surprising moments – like against the Missouri passing game in last week’s 48-35 loss – but the Herd should be able to move the ball however it wants to.

Want to run? Missouri, SMU, and Northwestern State all cranked it up on the ground against the Mean Green.

Want to throw? Everyone but Mizzou hit 200 yards without a problem, and best of all for the Herd, the secondary doesn’t pick off passes with none in the last three games.

But …

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Why North Texas Will Win

Marshall has a giant turnover issue.

It didn’t give it away in the loss to Appalachian State, but that was an anomaly. The O turned it over three times in each of the first three games, six times in the clunker to Middle Tennessee, and twice last week against Old Dominion.

North Texas doesn’t generate a whole lot of takeaways lately – just one in the last three games – but if it can make the big plays like it did when it came up with four turnovers in the first two games, it might have this.

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What’s Going To Happen

This is a strange North Texas team that could use a bit of a lucky break.

It at least made the score look okay against Missouri, and it hung around against Louisiana Tech, but it couldn’t get a key third down stop.

Marshall needs to make its own lucky break – it HAS to stop turning the ball over.

But it’ll give it away a few times to see this interesting. The defense that should be a whole lot better than it’s been, though, will come through with a few key stops when it absolutely has to.

Marshall will move the ball, and in a strength-in-numbers way, enough of those drives will end in scores to overcome the mistakes.

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Marshall vs North Texas Prediction, Line

Marshall 34, North Texas 20
Line: Marshall -11, o/u: 66.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 2

Must See Rating: 2

5: Caramel apple anything
1: Pumpkin spice anything

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What the College Football Playoff would look like if it was based on point differential

This is what the College Football Playoff would look like if it was based simply on point differential.

Imagine a world where Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, and Oklahoma get left out of the College Football Playoff. Sounds fun, doesn’t it?

Now picture a system that only chose playoff teams based on their point differential. Sounds as flawed as the BCS rankings, right? Even though we are two weeks into the college football season, it’s interesting to look at some of the teams that have come out the gate swinging. Dominating their opponents on the scoreboard.

This is what the College Football Playoff would look like if it was based simply on point differential.

NOTE: These point differentials only include games between two FBS schools.

Marshall Thundering Herd: CFN College Football Preview 2021

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Marshall football season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Marshall football season with what you need to know.

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2020 Record: 7-3 overall, 4-2 in C-USA
Head Coach: Charles Huff, 1st year
2020 CFN Final Ranking: 67
2020 CFN Preview Ranking: 90
2019 CFN Final Ranking: 35

Marshall Thundering Herd College Football Preview 2021: Offense

– Everything was going along just fine over the first seven games – even with a few hiccups – and then it all crashed. The offense failed to get to 270 yards in any of the last three games, the passing game fell flat, the ground game went nowhere, and now there’s a new regime.

New head coach Charles Huff is a young coach who knows offense. A longtime assistant, he helped handle the running backs at Alabama over the last two seasons on the way to get here. He knows running backs, but offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey is still around even after the problems of last year.

Even with the late collapse, Marshall still averaged 391 yards and was second in the conference averaging close to 29 points per game. Nine starters are expected back, starting with …

– Grant Wells. He stepped up and made the quarterback job his, taking over right away and throwing for over 2,000 yards and 18 scores and nine picks. The 6-2, 210-pounder doesn’t add a whole lot to the ground game, but he’s a solid passer who can move the ball around. The backup situation is very, very thin. There’s sophomore Luke Zban, and that’s about it.

The side receivers are strong. 6-4, 227-pound sophomore Corey Gammage led the team with 35 catches, All-Conference USA tight end Xavier Gaines was second with 28 grabs – he can stretch the field – the rest of the main targets are back except for Artie Henry (Virginia) and Broc Thompson (Purdue) who left through the transfer portal.

– The offensive front was fourth in the nation in fewest tackles for loss allowed and only allowed 1.2 sacks per game. Three starters are back, but Tarik Adams is a big tackle who’s part of the mix and North Carolina transfer Billy Ross will play a role.

Again, the new head man knows how to coach up running backs, but he doesn’t have leading rusher Brenden Knox around to work with. Sheldon Evans is a good 200-pound back who ran for 327 yards and four scores as a part of the rotation, and 218-pound sophomore Knowledge McDaniel adds more power and pop averaging six yards per carry.

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Marshall Football Schedule 2021, Analysis

Marshall Thundering Herd football schedule. Analysis of the 2021 slate and who they have to play, and who they miss, from the other division

Marshall Thundering Herd football schedule. Analysis of the 2021 slate and who they have to play – and who they miss – from the other division.

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Marshall Football Schedule 2021

– 2021 Conference USA Football Schedule

Sept. 4 at Navy

Sept. 11 NC Central

Sept. 18 East Carolina

Sept. 25 at Appalachian State

Oct. 2 at Middle Tennessee

Oct. 9 Old Dominion

Oct. 16 at North Texas

Oct. 23 OPEN DATE

Oct. 30 FIU

Nov. 6 at Florida Atlantic

Nov. 13 UAB

Nov. 20 at Charlotte

Nov. 27 WKU

Dec. 4 Conference USA Championship

Games vs. The West: at North Texas, UAB

Missed Teams From The West: Louisiana Tech, Rice, Southern Miss, UTEP, UTSA

Marshall Thundering Herd Football Schedule Analysis: New head coach Charles Huff gets to start right away by trying to figure out the Navy offense. East Carolina and Appalachian State are hardly easy, but there aren’t any Power Five teams in the non-conference part of the schedule.

In an awful break, the Herd have to play UAB from the West and have to go to North Texas, and to make things even tougher, the Florida Atlantic game is  on the road. However, FIU and WKU have to come to Huntington.

Get by a run of three road games in four weeks early on, and the Herd get a well deserved week off.

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BREAKING: Alabama assistant Charles Huff named head coach at Marshall

The national champion Alabama Crimson Tide lost another member of their coaching staff on Saturday when Charles Huff took over at Marshall.

The national champion Alabama Crimson Tide lost another member of their coaching staff on Saturday when associate head coach and running backs coach Charles Huff was named the new head coach at Marshall.

The 37-year-old Huff had spent the previous two seasons with the Crimson Tide.

Huff, a Maryland native, played his college football at Hampton. He began his coaching career back in 2006 with Tennessee State. He also spent time at Maryland, Vanderbilt, Western Michigan, Penn State and Mississippi State.

He also spent one season in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills.

Huff becomes the second member of Alabama’s 2020 coaching staff to depart for a head-coaching job, following offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who took over at Texas.

Huff is the fourth staff member to depart, joining Sarkisian, special teams coach Jeff Banks and offensive line coach Kyle Flood. Banks and Flood followed Sarkisian to Texas.

247Sports named Huff the nation’s No. 1 recruiter in 2020.

He replaces Doc Holliday, who spent 11 seasons at Marshall, where he compiled a record of 85-54, and his contract was not renewed.

Marshall competes in Conference USA and spent time in the top 25 in 2020.

This is an outstanding opportunity for Huff, as Marshall is a consistent winner. In Holliday’s 11 seasons, he took the Thundering Herd to a bowl in eight of those seasons.

Buffalo 17, Marshall 10: Camellia Bowl 10 Things To Know

>Buffalo 17, Marshall 10. The 10 ten things you need to know about the Buffalo win over Marshall in the Camellia Bowl.

Buffalo 17, Marshall 10. The 10 ten things you need to know about the Buffalo win over Marshall in the Camellia Bowl.

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Buffalo 17, Marshall 10: Camellia Bowl

10. It’s been a really, really rough run for Conference USA. The American Athletic Conference might be having problems this bowl season, but champion UAB got its bowl game canceled, North Texas got run over by Appalachian State in the Myrtle Beach, Louisiana Tech couldn’t handle Georgia Southern in the New Orleans, and Florida Atlantic lost to Memphis in the Montgomery. And now this – this one really hurt.

There are still chances with WKU against Georgia State in the LendingTree and UTSA vs. Louisiana in the SERVPRO First Responder.

9. In an AWFUL start to the bowl season, we’ll take this. There wasn’t any offense, the passing games struggled, and it wasn’t scintillating football, but both defenses were fine and it was close late with a whole lot of drama. It was the first bowl game out of the six played so far that wasn’t a double-digit uggo.

8. Don’t make mistakes, stay in the game, let the defense try to win this. The Marshall gameplan almost worked, but the O needed more out of QB Grant Wells. The Freshman all-star threw five picks against Rice, hit just 35% of his passes against UAB, and he didn’t take too many chances. He set up the lone touchdown with a nice throw, but he finished with just 114 passing yards and no touchdowns.

7. The Marshall offense was inept, but the Bulls was excellent at keeping control of the game when things weren’t working. They held on to the ball for way over 35 minutes, converted 8-of-15 third down chances, and they made the tempo work. It helped that the Herd offense was no threat for a huge chunk of the game, especially in the first half.

6. Now Lance Leipold needs to figure out how to win a MAC Championship. The UB head coach had the best team in the league for the last three years but went 0-2 in the MAC title game. His 2018 lost the Dollar General Bowl, but now he and UB are on a two-game bowl winning streak. On the other side, after going 6-0 in bowls as the Marshal head coach, Doc Holliday and the Herd have lost their last two.

5. It was an interesting late sequence. With the score tied at 10 in the final minutes and with Buffalo with the ball on the Marshall 2, Marshall – with no timeouts left – tried to let UB score to get the ball back, but the Bulls didn’t want to. With Buffalo’s shaky – to be kind – kicking game, it went down on first down, but ran it in on second down rather than run down the clock further. It all worked out in the end for the Bulls as the final Herd drive stalled.

4. Marshall’s offense died down the stretch this season. There weren’t any turnovers, but the production never came back after getting shut out by Rice and struggling against UAB in the Conference USA championship. There was one good second half scoring drive, and there was a chance to take over the game with the ball on the UB 1. The Herd settled for a field goal, and that was it.

3. The Marshall defense put did everything it could until the final UB games-inning drive. It got hit hard by the tough Buffalo running game and the power on the offensive interior, but it allowed just 295 yards of total offense and held up fine despite having to be on the field way, way too long.

2. Neither side had their star. Buffalo’s Jaret Patterson was the marquee name, but he hurt himself in the MAC Championship and sat out. That hurt, but UB had other options – more on that in a second. Marshall couldn’t afford to lose RB Brenden Knox from its struggling offense – he’s leaving to turn pro early – and it showed.

1. Buffalo had Kevin Marks, and Marshall didn’t. With both teams missing their star running backs. anything out of the offenses would be gold. All year long, Marks played second-fiddle to Patterson, but he always rocked when he got his shot. He got his shot against Marshall, ran 35 times for 138 yards and a score, and he carried the O that struggled throughout.

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Tributes pour in on 50th anniversary of Marshall plane crash

The Marshall football team is 6-0 heading into Saturday’s game with Middle Tennessee State. The Thundering Herd will be playing with tremendous emotion as the game is on the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that saw 75 players, coaches and fans …

The Marshall football team is 6-0 heading into Saturday’s game with Middle Tennessee State. The Thundering Herd will be playing with tremendous emotion as the game is on the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that saw 75 players, coaches and fans die.

Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field (ISO) in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS) near Kenova and Ceredo, West Virginia. At 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970, the aircraft crashed into a hill just short of the Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 people on board in what has been recognized as “the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history”.

The plane was carrying 37 members of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, eight members of the coaching staff, 25 boosters, and two pilots, two flight attendants, and a charter coordinator.[3] The team was returning home after a 17–14 loss to the East Carolina Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina

Tributes were paid:

 

College Football News Preview 2020: Marshall Thundering Herd

College Football News Preview 2020: Previewing and predicting the Marshall Thundering Herd season with what you need to know.

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2019 Record: 8-5 overall, 6-2 in C-USA
Head Coach: Doc Holliday, 10th year, 78-51
2019 CFN Final Opinion Ranking: 94
2019 CFN Final Season Formula Ranking: 35
2019 CFN Preview Ranking: 83

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5. College Football News Preview 2020: Marshall Thundering Herd Offense 3 Things To Know

– It’s not like the offense was totally awful, but it didn’t have enough pop, consistency, or scoring punch. It failed to score more than 36 points against any FCS team, and it stalled out a bit too often. However, the team was 8-0 in the regular season when scoring 20 points or more – losing to UCF 48-25 in the Gasparilla Bowl – and the program is 19-0 when scoring 28 or more over the last three years.

Eight starters are back to what should be a solid offense, even if it’s not anything amazing, starting with …

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– He’s only a junior, but does it seem like Isaiah Green has been around Marshall since the Randy Moss era? He needs to be more accurate – hitting just 56% of his passes with 11 picks – but he’s a solid veteran who can run a little bit.

He loses top target tight end Armani Levias, but he gets back just about everyone else. Four of the top five wide receivers are back – including Willie Johnson and his gaudy 26.9-yard average on just 13 grabs – but Levias was the only one who broke the 350-yard mark.

– Brenden Knox was promising as a freshman, and then took over as a sophomore with a team-high 1,387 rushing yards and 11 scores. He has help with Green a runner, and junior Sheldon Evans was able to come up with five yards a crack in the rotation.

Even with 2018 star Tyler King dismissed from the team early on, the ground game was still the best by far since 2014. It should be even stronger with four starters expected back on the line, but losing all-star center and leader Levi Brown hurts.

The line was fantastic at limiting the tackles for loss, and the slightly-high sacks allowed total is a bit misleading thanks to Green trying to make big things happen.

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