Houston and Temple have very favorable conference schedules. Their road games are almost a walk in the park. UH goes to UConn, Tulane, UCF, and Tulsa. The Cougars get Memphis, Navy, and Cincinnati in Houston and miss Temple. The Owls are past their biggest hurdle--UC on the road. They get Memphis and UCF at home. Only real challenge looks to be a game at ECU. Win that and I could see the Owls losing only to Notre Dame. I'm guessing UH will lose one conference home game. Memphis might win the division, but traveling to Temple and Houston is a tough deal. Their game at USF might not be easy either nor home games with Navy and UC.

As it appears today, our schedule definitely couldn't be more favorable, but what I've learned in my years of following the Coogs is that you can't ever start counting wins or assume anything will be a "walk in the park". 2009 comes to mind, when we beat back to back Big 12 teams (one being #5 OK. State on the road), only to then get ran out of the Sun Bowl by eventual 4-8 UTEP.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch

(09-14-2015 01:35 AM)Shasta77 Wrote:  Houston and Temple have very favorable conference schedules. Their road games are almost a walk in the park. UH goes to UConn, Tulane, UCF, and Tulsa. The Cougars get Memphis, Navy, and Cincinnati in Houston and miss Temple. The Owls are past their biggest hurdle--UC on the road. They get Memphis and UCF at home. Only real challenge looks to be a game at ECU. Win that and I could see the Owls losing only to Notre Dame. I'm guessing UH will lose one conference home game. Memphis might win the division, but traveling to Temple and Houston is a tough deal. Their game at USF might not be easy either nor home games with Navy and UC.

Temple - Don't discount a long road trip to SMU, especially coming off the ND game. Thursday night in Greenville won't be a walk in the park either, especially on a short week. Memphis could be a huge game if the Tigers are playing as well as last year.

UH - Schedule looks good until you get to the home stretch. Cincy, Memphis, and Navy in three of the last four. That looks like a challenging close to the season, even if they're all at home.

Our true freshman qb's will have had some time to learn by then. Our d played well against the trees until the fourth and we found our starting back. Uh always plays close games with Ucf and we have played spoiler a few times. Our season hinges on qb play

Notre Dame is on their second QB. Watching Temple on Saturday, I am not willing to say that Notre Dame can beat Temple.

#Hubris

(09-14-2015 07:56 AM)uhmump95 Wrote:  Notre Dame is on their second QB. Watching Temple on Saturday, I am not willing to say that Notre Dame can beat Temple.

Should be an interesting game no doubt.

Here's how I see the biggest remaining conference Games. Obviously this is subjective, some are here because of a rivalry, trap games, whether it's home or away, etc.

09/19 - ECU @ Navy
09/24 - Cincy @ Memphis (Thursday)
10/02 - Memphis @ USF (Friday)
10/03 - Houston @ Tulsa
10/22 - Temple @ ECU (Thursday)
11/07 - Cincy @ Houston
11/07 - Navy @ Memphis
11/14 - Memphis @ Houston
11/20 - Memphis @ Temple (Friday)
11/19 - ECU @ UCF (Thursday)
11/26 - UCF @ USF (Thursday)
11/27 - Navy @ Houston (Friday)
11/28 - Cincy @ ECU

Remaining opportunities for P5 / BYU / ND wins.
09/19 - UConn @ Mizzou
09/19 - Tulsa @ Oklahoma
09/19 - SMU @ TCU
09/26 - VT @ ECU
09/26 - UCF @ South Carolina
10/01 - Miami @ Cincy (Thursday)
10/01 - UConn @ BYU (Thursday)
10/03 - Air Force @ Navy (not P5 but a key rivalry vs MWC)
10/10 - Navy @ Notre Dame
10/10 - Syralose @ USF
10/10 - ECU @ BYU
10/16 - Cincy @ BYU (Friday)
10/17 - Old Piss @ Memphis
10/31 - Notre Dame @ Temple
10/31 - Vandy @ Houston

"Walk in the park" was an unfortunate idiom. Today, UConn and Tulsa look like tougher games than 2-3 weeks ago, and of course there are no sure wins. I was just trying to look ahead to see whose schedules looked the most favorable among the likely contenders, and it still appears that Houston's and Temple's are. That doesn't mean that Navy, Memphis, Cincinnati, et al. will be easy, just that it's better to get those games at home as opposed to on the road. Right now I'm concerned about UH playing at Tulsa. They have a heck of an offense.

I like ours

We've got Cincy, Temple, Tulsa, USF at home. Should take care of UCF and SMU on the road. UCONN on the road will be tough. Legit chance to win the division

Yeah, that does set up well for ECU. I assumed you would be down some after losing Carden and Riley, but ECU hasn't fielded bad teams for about a decade. Great job knocking off VT. Really helps the AAC.