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Sportsinteraction preseason top 25: Houston #21

The biggest banana skin in Conference USA will be divisional rivals SMU. The Mustangs took a big step forward under June Jones last season and look set to be even better this year.

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For some reason the CUSA teams have trouble on the road. The good UH teams barely won on a last-second fg at Tulsa last year and should have lost to a bad smu team the year before. You better be ready to play every week.

smuuth wrote:For some reason the CUSA teams have trouble on the road. The good UH teams barely won on a last-second fg at Tulsa last year and should have lost to a bad smu team the year before. You better be ready to play every week.

No kidding, and don't forget that we've been incapable of winning at Rice since the DP.

-CoS

Cadillac wrote:

smuuth wrote:For some reason the CUSA teams have trouble on the road. The good UH teams barely won on a last-second fg at Tulsa last year and should have lost to a bad smu team the year before. You better be ready to play every week.

No kidding, and don't forget that we've been incapable of winning at Rice since the DP.

-CoS

That has always been a mystery to me.

playing well at home (how about winning at least 4 of 6?) and beating Rice in Houston will be key if we are going to have a repeat of last year's 8-5 record. Winning 5 of 6 home games would tell me these guys are the real deal. Sure hope we can put 25k plus into Ford for every home game this year. That would make a huge difference.

Filling Ford or close to it with the wonderful atmosphere already around the blvd would dramaticaaly effect recruiting and the gameday atmosphere of what is so special about football games. I wonder how the attendance will be for the TCU game since it is on Friday night(going against high school football) and on espn. I hope we outnumber the purple horned frogs. I enjoyed them much better before they all came out of hibernation after 50 years! If playing well before that game an upset might be in the making which could give us momentum and confidence for the rest of the year.

TCu will be sold out and 50-50 split...

how about boise st, NEVER lost a conference home game... and only lost 2 games on the road, fresno st and hawaii...

you think its their smurf turf?

In part I do. Their uniforms are the same color as the turf. I have to believe that is an advantage for their defense. If you can't see the linebacker or defensive back clearly, you set yourself up to be picked off. And their QB can see opponent players clearly. Add in crowd noise, and altitude and things get a bit difficult.

Can we change our uniforms to green. It would also be another step towards Hawaii.

The key to beating Cougar High is a running attack. SMU has to keep the ball away from Keenum et al. On the other hand, Houston's defense (especially run defense) was terrible last year, and won't be better this year. If SMU can run the ball on anyone, it will by UH. SMU will miss Shawnbrey in this game.

I am so ready for college football.

NickSMU17 wrote:TCu will be sold out and 50-50 split...

Season ticket holders get first crack at general sale tix...I say everyone buy a couple extra and give em out to people who promise to wear red.

[quote="smuuth"] I hope we outnumber the purple horned frogs. I enjoyed them much better before they all came out of hibernation after 50 years! [/quote]

glad to see y'all join us in the land of the living. Pull up a chair and stay awhile. We've got a lot of old scores to rediscover, fight about, and make a grudgematch rivalry out of.

About that match in '35...