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[Lobot]

Sayonara 2020, Time for a new thread.

[Lobot]

Holgersen just signed an extension at Houston. Looks we get to kick him around for a few more years. No contract deals yet but I'm sure Fertitta backed up the Brinks truck.

[Lobot]

Someone on Reddit pointed out that Houston has only lost to teams that were formerly coached by Tommy Tuberville this season, Texas Tech and UC. So guess who they drew for a bowl game? Auburn.

[Lobot]

It's almost like the UCF coaching staff under Malzahn is happy running off all the seniors a year early. That's got to be about 4 guys on offense since the beginning of the season.

[GoBearcats31]

“NEW: UCF QB Dillon Gabriel is entering the transfer portal.”

[Lobot]

Your week 11 Scoreboard featuring UCF at SMU right out of the gate on Sat.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...type/2/week/11

[Lobot]

Houston had them selves a scare at USF. They were down after 1 and at the half and scored 21 in the 3rd to take the lead despite two 100 yard Kick returns from USF's Brian Battie. Something to watch for us next weekend is that Battie hits the coverage at top speed and if he gets through the second wave of defenders he's gone. The kicker never had a chance to bring him down on either run.

[Josh Rexhausen]

Speaking of SMU. They get Memphis in the Liberty Bowl today.

Scoreboard for this week:

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...type/2/week/10

Didn't do us any favors.

[Lobot]

Speaking of SMU. They get Memphis in the Liberty Bowl today.

Scoreboard for this week:

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...type/2/week/10

[bearcatbret]

^^ Thanks for clarifying that up. In that case, I hope that we beat SMU, and run the table, as well as Houston running the table leading into the conference championship. We have SMU at home and if we win out, we will have Houston at home.

[Lobot]

Are there AAC divisions anymore? Every conference standings I see just list winningest to losingest.
From the AAC website: [TABLE]

There are not. They dropped divisions with the departure of UConn because there are eleven teams and the divisions would be unbalanced. The AAC Title game will be #1 vs. #2. I think some of us including myself are just assuming UC is in and because of the lack of divisions that's not true. If we lose to SMU and Houston runs the table in conference, we could finish 3rd pending the results of the rest of the scheudle for all 3 of us.

[Geaux Juan]

I am pretty sure that UC will be in the conference championship game. We are not competing with either SMU or Houston in the west division. Nobody in the east division will come close to catching UC. I think the way that this plays out, we play and beat SMU. Then we play and beat UH in the championship game. This is a great way to walk into the CFP.

Are there AAC divisions anymore? Every conference standings I see just list winningest to losingest.
From the AAC website:

Houston	5-0	1.000	7-1	0.875	4-1	3-0	0-0	W7
Cincinnati	4-0	1.000	8-0	1.000	4-0	4-0	0-0	W8
SMU	3-1	0.750	7-1	0.875	4-0	3-1	0-0	L1
UCF	3-2	0.600	5-3	0.625	4-0	1-3	0-0	W2
East Carolina	2-2	0.500	4-4	0.500	3-1	1-3	0-0	W1
Tulsa	2-2	0.500	3-5	0.375	2-3	1-2	0-0	L1
Navy	2-4	0.333	2-6	0.250	1-4	1-2	0-0	W1
Memphis	1-3	0.250	4-4	0.500	3-1	1-3	0-0	L1
Temple	1-3	0.250	3-5	0.375	2-2	1-3	0-0	L3
South Florida	1-3	0.250	2-6	0.250	2-2	0-4	0-0	L1
Tulane	0-4	0.000	1-7	0.125	0-3	0-4	1-0	L6

[bearcatbret]

I am pretty sure that UC will be in the conference championship game. We are not competing with either SMU or Houston in the west division. Nobody in the east division will come close to catching UC. I think the way that this plays out, we play and beat SMU. Then we play and beat UH in the championship game. This is a great way to walk into the CFP.

[Lobot]

Half: UH 23, SMU 20. Cougars jumped up 17-zip. Neither team can cover the receivers.

What a wild one. If you didn't catch the game or the ending last night, go watch the second half because it contains not one, but two 100 yard Kick returns. It got crazy. Houston defeats SMU 44-37.

I think going into this game, most of were thinking that SMU needed to be undefeated for SOS reasons. In retrospect this may acutally do us a favor. Depending how far SMU falls in the poll, both SMU and Houston could very well be ranked at the end of the season which would give us a shot at two ranked teams our remaining games. Houston has a schedule of @ USF, @ Temple, Memphis and @ UConn the rest of the way so it's reasonably likely they could be undefeated in conference play going into the AAC championship.

UC's game with SMU just because more important. Not only do we have to beat them to stay undefeated but we'd have to beat them to make the AAC championship if SMU doesn't lose again somewhere along the line. That game might turn out to be a head to head tie breaker for second place in the conference.

[swilsonsp4]

Half: UH 23, SMU 20. Cougars jumped up 17-zip. Neither team can cover the receivers.