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[Lobot]

Navy defeated Tulsa in Olkahoma last night 20-17. ECU defeated South Florida on Thursday 29-14.

The big one is today at 7:00 when Houston and SMU meet in TDECU stadium in Houston. If SMU wins that game we would likely play SMU twice. Once on 11/20 and once in the AAC Championship in Nippert.
Houston is actually in first place in the conference right now due to the fact they've played one more conference game than UC and SMU have. Their lone loss was a season opening loss to Texas Tech in OOC play. UH has had an extremely soft schedule so far this season and SMU is the best team they will play all season unless they get to Nippert for the Championship game.

Here's the scoreboard:

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ntype/2/week/9

[Lobot]

After a 4 hour weather delay yesterday afternoon, Houston had to go to OT to defeat ECU 31-24. I think that game finally started around 9:30pm.

Temple went to Tampa and got beat up by USF 34-14. It will be interesting to see whether Rod Carey can turn it around at Temple or not. He probably gets another year but maybe not two.

[Cincycats93]

Picked up the targeting flag. However, they did call an unnecessary roughness penalty. If you saw the play, it was definitely unnecessary. However, the real damage appeared to be as the QB was hit, his head snapped back, and slammed hard against the turf. It appeared to me as though he may have been knocked unconscious briefly. Definitely suffered a concussion!

As for the game, I was not impressed by SMU. This was my first time seeing them play this year. They are aggressive offensively but not very good defensively. I want them to stay ranked but I feel that UC matches up with them extremely well on both sides of the ball.

[Lobot]

End of 1st: SMU 17-7. Tulane just scored on 3-play, 75-yard "drive".

Half: SMU 31-7.

End of 3rd: SMU 38-19

Final: SMU 55-26. Tulane QB got detonated trying to slide and left the field for good. He resembled the "Batman" QB in the Snickers commercials.

I just saw a replay of that hit. Almost exactly what happened to Gunner Kiel against Memphis. Went into his slide and got lit up. Flags were thrown. It's my undertsanding they picked up the targeting flag though?

[swilsonsp4]

End of 1st: SMU 17-7. Tulane just scored on 3-play, 75-yard "drive".

Half: SMU 31-7.

End of 3rd: SMU 38-19

Final: SMU 55-26. Tulane QB got detonated trying to slide and left the field for good. He resembled the "Batman" QB in the Snickers commercials.

[swilsonsp4]

Pathetic "crowd" at SMU for Mustangs' game with Tulane. Resembles Yager Stadium on a week night.

[bearcatbret]

Memphis - UCF might be interesting since they are both under achieving this year.

[Lobot]

Scoreboard for the coming weekend. No mot much going on here in the way of super important games.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...type/2/week/8#

[GoBearcats31]

https://twitter.com/American_FB/stat...23895260975107

UC at Tulane in two weeks at noon (11 am local) will be on ESPN2

[Lobot]

Not much else going on this week. Memphis defeated Navy on Thursday NIght and USF plays Tulsa. Everyone else is idle.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ntype/2/week/7

[Lobot]

Memphis goes to Tulsa and loses. The Tigers are now 3-3 and 0-2 in conference.

Looks like we can start paying attention to Houston and SMU. They play each other on 10/30. Houston really hasn't played anyone of note this season outside of Texas Tech, which was an L. If they beat SMU they're likely going to the AAC Championship. SMU is hardest remaning game on their schedule.

SMU beat Navy with a TD midway through ththe 4th after a close game where Navy was ahead most of the time.

UCF scored with almost no time on the clock to defeat ECU yesterday in Orlando .They struggled all game on offense and got lucky to get a W

[Lobot]

Week 6 Scoreboard. Looks like all the good teams in conference drew a bad team this week.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ntype/2/week/6

[Lobot]

Eriq Gilyard, UCF's leading tackler from last year and second leading tackler currently, went into the portal yesterday for some reason.

Update: Just now Bentavious Thomas, a senior runing back, is also in the portal.

[Chewbacca2099]

Memphis to announce plans to renovate Liberty Stadium. City of Memphis expects new Liberty Bowl renovation proposal next week (msn.com)

Probably adds to the rumor they will be added to the Big12 in a few years.

[cpawstoney]

September 25 - ND/Wisconsin in Chicago was a noon game (11 am local)
October 2 - Georgia played a noon game
October 9 - Texas/Oklahoma are playing a noon game (11 am local)

Sorry, I misspoke. I haven't been home for Saturday football on TV this year. I've been at the the Bearcat games.