Towson 8/31 2:30 ESPN+

[swilsonsp4]

Live action football can't get here fast enough. I looked at a few Towson highlights from last season, so here are a few comments. The Tigers are a standard spread team and virtually their entire offense is through the air. The only run plays I saw were goal line dives, except for one in which the RB lost a fumble. The QB appears to be decently accurate. He uses the TE, who is normally outside the box, quite a bit.

On the defensive side, most of the time they employed a 3-man line, but did switch to 4-man inside the 10. The Tigers were very porous last year. The other CAA teams had no trouble getting open.

Towson finished 6-5 (4-4 in the FCS CAA) in the current head coach's first season. The Tigers opened at Maryland (their sole FBS foe), with the Terrapins dominating, 38-6, as expected. I anticipate much of the same at Nippert.

[Lobot]

If anyone is in need of tickets to this one, let me know.

[swilsonsp4]

Here's the first article out of Baltimore that I've been able to find on Towson. It doesn't surprise me that it concerns their TE, who was an FCS All-American last year.

https://pressboxonline.com/2024/08/14/position-switch-bump-up-in-competition-pay-off-for-towson-te-carter-runyon/

[red_n_black_attack]

Given Towson throws the ball a lot, and their TE is an All-American, are we thinking lots of blitz packages with a safety lined up on the TE?

[Lobot]

If anyone is in need of tickets to this one, let me know.

Tickets are gone.

[Lobot]

I've seen lines posted on this game that have UC -33.5.

[GoBearcats31]

ESPN announcers: Eric Rothman, Je’rod Cherry

[Lobot]

OK, I know it's Towson and we were bad last year but there's is no juice going into this game it seems like.

[bearcatjd]

Ok uc 82 towson 11

[Lobot]

Ok uc 82 towson 11

I'm going UC 49 Towson 7

[D.A.H.]

Tickets are gone.

i saw a fair number of them on seat geek earlier today

[Lobot]

i saw a fair number of them on seat geek earlier today

I meant my pair. But yeah, there out there if you want to head to Clifton.

[swilsonsp4]

Towson's not going to be able to stop the run. We'll see if the Cats can change a bad pattern from 2023. While being the #3 rushing team in the B12 in terms of yardage, they were #12 in rushing TDs. They must be dramatically better in the red zone.

That said, I see it the same way as Lobot: 49-7.

[Lobot]

Towson's not going to be able to stop the run. We'll see if the Cats can change a bad pattern from 2023. While being the #3 rushing team in the B12 in terms of yardage, they were #12 in rushing TDs. They must be dramatically better in the red zone.

That said, I see it the same way as Lobot: 49-7.

Don't even get me started on our red zone offense last year.

[KevMan1976]

So, Lobot, what did you think of our red zone offense last year? lol

It was bad. Real bad.