Around The Dog Park: Rise of The Ivy League

General G5

• Sports Illustrated goes inside the world of college football equipment managers.
• Tales of a student manager via Mountain West Connection.
• Which FBS teams will lose to FCS teams in 2018?
• CBS Sports released their preseason bowl projections.
• Roundtable: Which team will make it to the New Year’s Six in 2018
• Underdog Top 10: Preseason Rankings

American Conference

• AAC Coaches talk anonymously about conference foes for 2018
• East Carolina got a big recruiting win with the commitment of four-star defensive end (as ranked by Rivals.com) Traveon Freshwater.
• Kansas offensive lineman Larry Hughes will transfer to SMU.
• SMU’s stadium is also getting some improvements.
• SB Nation is acquiring Black & Gold Banneret: a UCF Knights blog!

• Memphis wants to average 45,000 fans per home game this season.
• Previewing the Houston defensive line.
• Tulsa head coach Phillip Montgomery and several other coaches and administrators took pay cuts to help the athletic department’s budget problem.

Conference USA

• Things are looking up for North Texas’ defense. Plus, their stadium is getting a new touchdown terrace.
• FAU just got deeper at quarterback with the addition of grad transfer Rafe Peavey.
• The fan experience at UAB home games is getting some upgrades this year.
• Quarterback Brayden Hawkins, a 2018 UTEP signee, has decided not to play for the Miners and will walk on at the University of Maryland.
• Takeaways from Rice’s team scrimmage at fall camp.
• Conference USA coaches talk anonymously about conference foes for 2018.
• Southern Miss is DEEP at linebacker this year.
• Josiah Tauaefa of UTSA has been named to the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award watch list for the second straight season

Sun Belt

• South Alabama’s radio team is changing this year.
• Sun Belt coaches talk anonymously about conference foes for 2018.
• Arkansas State 2018 season preview: Justice For All
• The Ragin Cajuns were out and about in the community.

• Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson: “good to see” people around the country recognize Sun Belt football.
• Derrick Gore is ULM’s football grinder.
• Top 100 College Football Towns in America: No. 16 Boone, North Carolina

FCS

• Stephen F. Austin head coach Clint Conque has resigned.
• It might be time for an Ivy League team to make the FCS playoffs.
• UC Davis’ Keelan Moss is definitely one player to keep an eye on this season.
• Ivy League vs HBCU in a bowl game?