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Goal Line Stand: Regular season isn't a playoff
The announcement that Oklahoma had surpassed Texas in the BCS standings and would play in the Big 12 title game Saturday night rendered every shaky argument made by BCS supporters laughable, including the talk about the regular season being a playoff.
Week 14: Houston at Rice
Here's the marquee matchup in Conference USA with the outcome providing several potential scenarios. If Houston can defeat its crosstown rival, the Cougars win the league title and play host to East Carolina in the Dec. 6 title game. If the Cougars lose, several doors open.
Week 13: UTEP at Houston
In a rare gathering of Conference USA teams in Houston (Marshall and Rice play at the same time several miles away), UTEP will be fighting to become bowl eligible and Houston will be fighting to retain the inside track to the West Division title.
Week 12 National Notebook
Vanderbilt became eligible for its first bowl since 1982 and Baylor knocked off Texas A&M for the second time in five years. Mitch Light looks at these teams and more in his Week 12 National Notebook.
Week 12: Tulsa at Houston
With a BCS Bowl out of the picture, Tulsa will focus on an unbeaten C-USA season and a berth in the Liberty Bowl. Several formidable tests stand between the Golden Hurricane and an early January trip to Memphis, starting with the Cougars.
Week 11: Tulane at Houston
For Houston to remain in the hunt for the West Division crown, it will have to get past a slumping Tulane squad minus its best offensive player.
Week 10: Houston at Marshall
Marshall, which had such a promising start, is reeling as it prepares to play a Houston squad heading the other direction.
Under The Radar: Week 9
The Big 12, Big Ten and SEC all have marquee match-ups this weekend. But the battle for Pac-10 supremacy will also take place in Tuscan, Arizona. Mike Stoops and Co. are set to take on the USC Trojans late Saturday night.
Under The Radar: Week 8
The Big 12 continues to be the conference to watch on Saturday's with marquee match-ups in Austin, Texas and Norman, Okla. However, there are a few other games to watch this weekend that aren't necessarily getting the national hype.
Week 6: Houston at SMU
In what seemed to be, at least on paper, a lopsided matchup a few weeks ago, Houston vs. SMU suddenly looks as if it could be competitive. The young Mustangs nearly upended the league's best team, Tulsa, last weekend.
Week 7: UAB at Houston
On paper, this should be a lopsided affair. Houston is coming off an upset of No. 23 East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., two weeks ago. UAB, owner of one of the worst defenses in the nation, have only one victory — against Alabama State.
Under The Radar: Week 6
The upsets continue as Pitt took down South Florida Thursday night. Are there any other teams that need to be on upset alert? Penn State travels to Purdue, Texas heads to Boulder and the 5-0 UConn Huskies are on Tobacco Road this weekend.
Under The Radar: Week 5
Oregon State has thrown the first wrench into the BCS landscape with their 27-21 victory over USC last night. The Horned Frogs of TCU will try their best to do the same Saturday against the Sooners.
Week 5: Houston at East Carolina
This game will match two of the league's premier quarterbacks in Houston's Case Keenum and East Carolina's Patrick Pinkney.
Five burning questions: Week 5
Has the Big 12 North caught up to the Big 12 South? Will a Conference USA, MAC or Sun Belt team ever reach a BCS Bowl game? Athlon's editors debate these questions and more in the Week 5 edition of Five Burning Questions.
Week 4 Waiver Wire Report
Need some help for your team going into Week 5? Our waiver wire report has some pickups and players to watch that will help get your team on the right track.
Under The Radar: Week 4
This is easily the biggest slate of games thus far in 2008. SEC powers will be on display all over the schedule but it doesn't mean that there aren't solid match-ups elsewhere this weekend.
Week 4: Houston at Colorado State
Perhaps football life will return to some form of normalcy this week for Houston, which heads to Colorado State after moving to Dallas last Saturday to avoid Hurricane Ike.
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Game Day, Part III
In prime time, Oklahoma kept a Big 12 South three-way tie intact with a high scoring shootout win at Oklahoma State.
Game Day, Part II
This afternoon, Alabama and Florida took care of in-state rivals Auburn and Florida State, keeping alive the de facto BCS semi-final match-up in next week’s SEC title game.
Game Day, Part I
So far today, the Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech defeated Georgia between the hedges in Athens, while Virginia Tech clinched the ACC Coastal Division title.
| Houston 2008 Schedule | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Result |
| 08/30 | SOUTHERN | W, 55-3 |
| 09/06 | @ OKLAHOMA ST | L, 37-56 |
| 09/13 | AIR FORCE | L, 28-31 |
| 09/20 | @ COLORADO ST | L, 25-28 |
| 09/27 | @ EAST CAROLINA | W, 41-24 |
| 10/09 | UAB | W, 45-20 |
| 10/18 | @ SMU | W, 44-38 |
| 10/28 | @ MARSHALL | L, 23-37 |
| 11/08 | TULANE | W, 42-14 |
| 11/15 | TULSA | W, 70-30 |
| 11/22 | UTEP | W, 42-37 |
| 11/29 | @ RICE | L, 42-56 |
| Houston Standings | ||
|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCEUSA Standings | ||
| WEST | CONF | OVR |
| TULSA | 7 - 1 | 10 - 2 |
| RICE | 7 - 1 | 9 - 3 |
| HOUSTON | 6 - 2 | 7 - 5 |
| UTEP | 4 - 4 | 5 - 7 |
| TULANE | 1 - 7 | 2 - 10 |
| SMU | 0 - 8 | 1 - 11 |
| EAST | CONF | OVR |
| EAST CAROLINA | 6 - 2 | 8 - 4 |
| MEMPHIS | 4 - 4 | 6 - 6 |
| SOUTHERN MISS | 4 - 4 | 6 - 6 |
| MARSHALL | 3 - 5 | 4 - 8 |
| UAB | 3 - 5 | 4 - 8 |
| UCF | 3 - 5 | 4 - 8 |
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