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2025 Memphis Football Predictions: Tigers Ranked 45th in RJ Young's Ultimate 136
College Football 2025 Memphis Football Predictions: Tigers Ranked 45th in RJ Young's Ultimate 136 Updated Aug. 10, 2025 9:29 p.m. ET share facebook x reddit link This isn't your average college football ranking. My Ultimate 136 is a set of rankings that is fluid, but it's my job to look ahead and make a claim for all FBS teams based on what I know and why I know it. Here are the three pressing questions I started by asking when putting together this list: Who do I think is good? Why do I think they're good? What are the chances they will finish above or below my expectations? Here is a look at where Memphis lands in my Ultimate 136. Memphis ranking: 45 Last year's ranking: 37 Top player: DB Kamari Wilson: Played in 16 games over two seasons at Florida, playing the most snaps of any true freshman in FBS in 2022; played in 13 games for Arizona State last season. [Memphis' 2025 schedule] RJ's take: There's a lot riding on transfer QB Brendon Lewis, who threw for 2,290 yards with 16 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 2024. However, this is his sixth year of college football and teams like Oregon and Louisville saw the benefit of that experience on the field last season. He'll have a veteran in Greg Desrosiers Jr. in the backfield with him, but Lewis has also carried the ball more than 50 times in a season. The bet is that with more touches, Desrosiers will be something like Makhi Hughes was at Tulane last year: Desrosiers has averaged 7.5 yards per carry over the last two years with a small sample size. ADVERTISEMENT Head coach Ryan Silverfield loaded up in the portal, especially defensively, with six new linebackers and 10 new defensive backs. Former Florida State safety Omarion Cooper could be the gem in this portal class on that side of the ball. Silverfield has won twice as many games as he has lost, going 42-21 in five years. Winning the American title this season is within reach, but the playoffs are not if they don't find a way to win at least 11 games in a slate where the Tigers' toughest game is against Arkansas. [Check out RJ Young's Ultimate 136 College Football Rankings here] Memphis Win Total Odds: Over 8.5 (+108) Under 8.5 (-130) Have an issue with my rankings? Think your alma mater is too low, or your school's rival is too high? Get at me on X, @RJ_Young , and I'll select my favorite tweets and respond to them in a future article. RJ Young is a national college football writer and analyst for FOX Sports. Follow him at @RJ_Young. FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience College Football Memphis Tigers share
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19-02-2025
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Summerside closes its sports dome after damage from generator use
Summerside's sports dome is going to be closed for the foreseeable future to let technicians assess its safety, city deputy CAO J.P. Desrosiers said Wednesday. The $5 million dome over a huge indoor turf field opened three years ago for the Canada Winter Games. Warm air is pumped continuously inside the dome to keep it inflated. But the dome, along with other large users in the P.E.I. municipality, has been using backup power from generators for over a week. That's because Maritime Electric is asking users to curtail power use during peak times — in the mornings and evenings — as it works to repair a transformer at the Sherbrooke substation that is a conduit for half of Summerside's power. "There were some concerning moments this morning," Desrosiers told CBC News, explaining that the dome was damaged after its inflation system experienced a connection disruption. The dome was "not designed to be run on generators, and the last eight days we have been doing that during peak times, to bring down the load requirements," he said. To be on the safe side, Desrosiers said, the dome now needs an assessment by specialized technicians, who must travel from out of province. Once that's done, the city will know whether repairs are needed and how soon the dome could reopen.
