The School: Middle Tennessee State University
Record: 1-0 (0-0 in Conference USA). MTSU was 7-6 in 2015. That year, they lost to the only successful Johnny McCrary two-minute drill in college football history.
Ranking: Unranked in the AP Top 25 and Coaches' Poll. The formulas have Middle Tennessee rated 69th in the Real Time RPI (Vanderbilt is 124th).
Mascot: The Blue Raider. Typically when you see an utterly generic nickname like this preceded by a color, it’s an indicator the previous mascot was super racist (Marquette Golden Eagles, St.