05-07-2025
Memphis Football Preview 2025: Can the Tigers Break Through in a Rebuild Year?
You can't call an 11-2 season a disappointment, so let's take it somewhere was frustrating. Memphis football was frustrating, but only because it was all supposed to blow up last his fifth season, head coach Ryan Silverfield had the team, schedule, and talent to go to the College Football Playoff, or at least win the AAC title. But it didn't, and even with all the positives and all of the wins, Memphis flew under the radar. But that's nothing new.
X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN Memphis Offense BreakdownMemphis Defense BreakdownSeason Prediction, Win Total, Keys to SeasonConsidering it's the second-winningest school in the College Football Playoff era that hasn't yet played in the tournament, Memphis continues to go beat Tulane, took down USF, and it even went into Florida State and came away with a 20-12 win, but it all fizzled away with losses to Navy and UTSA. Beating a depleted West Virginia in the Frisco Bowl was nice, but …
It was the second-winningest season in school history, and it became an afterthought in a State with the big flagship school going to the College Football Playoff, and with Vanderbilt pulling out one of its most impressive seasons in a long now Silverfield has to keep on grinding out Memphis coach has ever won 21 games over two seasons like Silverfield has. Last year was the program's winningest season behind the massive 12-2 2019 run under Mike Norvell, and there's the bowl thing.
Memphis has won eight bowl games, and Silverfield has four of the victories, going 4-0. Norvell was now there's work to do. This year's team is undergoing an overhaul of talent; it'll need fall camp to get all of the pieces together, and as good as Memphis has been, it has to be even schedule works, and there are pieces, but … Memphis Offense BreakdownMemphis Defense BreakdownSeason Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season
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