(12-03-2018 09:12 PM)Dorrej Wrote: (12-03-2018 08:07 PM)Dawgxas Wrote: (12-03-2018 03:13 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote: (12-03-2018 03:06 PM)_sturt_ Wrote: ... on another forum, fwiw...
https://csnbbs.com/thread-865101.html
First post reads like this...
(12-01-2018 07:02 AM)Carolina_Low_Country Wrote: Can’t believe that game is on CBSSN. That game use to be on ABC back in the day. CUSA has been passed by the sun Belt now. Their championship game is on ESPN at noon.
Not throwing shade or anything but it is just shocking that game did not get at least an ESPN2 time slot.
Hey! This NIU guy pines for the "good ol' days" a la USM!
"Oh the days of CUSA title games on ABC! It was just this decade (2011) when Kevin Sumlin’s 7th-ranked Houston Cougars hosted Larry Fedora’s 24th-ranked Southern Miss on ABC for CUSA Title."
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7 short years ago in real time, 7 million years ago in football time.
Yeah those CUSA teams were vastly overrated, Tech led Houston by 20+ and led Southern Miss. CUSA was so weak UH and USM just ran through the conference.
No BCS teams from CUSA during that stretch, WAC was a tougher conference
I don’t think this is the year to dump on 2011 CUSA. The last two years have been the worst seasons in the conferences history.
And using tech losing two games that they led as your evidence. That’s weak.
He might want to look at the CUSA record books for that era, too. Particularly QB for Houston. And those Houston teams for a couple years there were beating P5s. No doubt had they won the CUSA championship game they would have gotten the BCS berth. In fact, USM fans take as much delight from denying Houston as anything else they did that year.
Any one of us would be proud of that schedule that year:
2011/09/03 Houston 38 - UCLA 34
2011/09/10 Houston 48 - North Texas 23
2011/09/17 Houston 35 - Louisiana Tech 34
2011/09/24 Houston 56 - **Georgia State 0
2011/09/29 Houston 49 - UTEP 42
2011/10/08 Houston 56 - East Carolina 3
2011/10/22 Houston 63 - Marshall 28
2011/10/27 Houston 73 - Rice 34
2011/11/05 Houston 56 - Alabama Birmingham 13
2011/11/10 Houston 73 - Tulane 17
2011/11/19 Houston 37 - SMU 7
2011/11/25 Houston 48 - Tulsa 16
2011/12/03 Southern Mississippi 49 - Houston 28 ** C-USA CHAMPIONSHIP **
2012/01/02 Houston 30 - Penn St 14 !! TicketCity Bowl !!
And USM did not run through the conference...they lost to Marshall and UAB. We were one win behind in conference and had the head to head against USM, but Houston had already demolished the Herd and would have likely done so again.