Houston hosts Temple for AAC title, prime bowl berth

Asked to clarify whether “legal action” mentioned in the statement referred to the contract with CSC or to possible assault charges, Houston athletics spokesman David Bassity replied via email, “Pertaining actions deemed assault”. This week SQ will be bringing you coverage of the numerous conference championships to be played out on Friday and Saturday. It’s not about whether the Cougars play in Atlanta or Phoenix on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. “We had a couple plays get away from us”. And the year before that, AAC champ UCF, led by Blake Bortles, defeated Baylor, also in the Fiesta Bowl.

Tom Herman was Ohio State’s offensive coordinator last season as the Buckeyes won the national title and he was frequently mentioned as coaching vacancies opened around the country this year.

“This isn’t deflating”, coach Matt Rhule said.

After the teams exchanged punts, Houston took a 10-0 lead when Ty Cummings finished off a nine-play, 42-yard drive with a 24-yard field goal. To nobody’s surprise, Ward was named the game’s most outstanding player. “To go from 2-10 to 6-6 and get to the conference championship, it is an unbelievable experience”.

However, the fans did eventually make their way to the field en masse.

The Temple offense will try and match the dynamic abilities of Houston and quarterback Greg Ward Jr who has completed 69.3 percent of his passes while rushing for 893 yards on the ground this season.

24 – The point total that Temple has reached or exceeded in all of their wins.

It’s a disappointing finish for the Owls, preventing them from going to a major bowl game, but it has still been one of the best seasons in school history.

After losing its first game of the year against CT two weeks ago, Houston rebounded against Navy.

The Cougars converted the first one for their initial score.

The Cougars then marched the ball down the field 71 yards, using an 25-yard rush by Ward and a 18-yard reverse pass from Linell Bonner to Tyler McCloskey.

Anderson scored the Owls’ lone touchdown on a 13-yard pass from P.J. Walker that cut Houston’s lead to 24-10 with 2 minutes, 26 seconds left in the third quarter.

IfTemple wants to slow down the explosive Cougar offense, it will be extremely hard to shut down Ward Jr. completely, so they might want to center their focus on Ayers.

“I felt kind of unstoppable today”, said Anderson, who has 64 catches for 873 yards and seven receiving touchdowns to lead Temple in all three categories. The Temple secondary will have their hands full trying to stop the connection between Ward and Ayers. (1) runs for a 47-yard touchdown against Temple during the second quarter of …

The Owls lost the ball on the fourth play of the game when Walker, under pressure from Houston linebacker Elandon Roberts, hurried a pass that was intercepted by Tyrus Bowser and returned to Temple 36-yard line.

A handful of college football heavyweights will do battle across the country on championship Saturday, and two up-and-coming teams will throw down in the American Athletic Conference Championship Game.

There’s plenty of parity in the American, and a lot of it comes from talented teams. Watch Temple Owls vs Houston Cougars live stream online NCAA College Football ABC TV broadcast coverage, live scores, Game Kickoff time & schedule and Radio Commentary info here.

Temple’s defense will keep the Owls in the game throughout.