10-27-2004, 03:35 PM
Confusion In C-USA
Just when it looked like everyone's favorite dysfunctional league, Conference USA, had put together a powerful four-team vanguard in its final season before realigning, half that group gets gutted.
Memphis (34), rolling along at 5-1 and eyeing a potential showdown game with Louisville (35) Nov. 4, gets inexplicably creamed 49-10 by a bad Cincinnati team. And UAB (36), off to its best start ever at 5-1, goes AWOL defensively and loses 59-55 to a horrid Tulane team.
That leaves the Cardinals and the league's old reliable, Southern Mississippi (37), as the league's last unbeatens. (The Golden Eagles now have won 13 straight league games.) Unfortunately, they don't play each other.
<a href='http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=1910513' target='_blank'>ESPN article</a>
Just when it looked like everyone's favorite dysfunctional league, Conference USA, had put together a powerful four-team vanguard in its final season before realigning, half that group gets gutted.
Memphis (34), rolling along at 5-1 and eyeing a potential showdown game with Louisville (35) Nov. 4, gets inexplicably creamed 49-10 by a bad Cincinnati team. And UAB (36), off to its best start ever at 5-1, goes AWOL defensively and loses 59-55 to a horrid Tulane team.
That leaves the Cardinals and the league's old reliable, Southern Mississippi (37), as the league's last unbeatens. (The Golden Eagles now have won 13 straight league games.) Unfortunately, they don't play each other.
<a href='http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=1910513' target='_blank'>ESPN article</a>