Houston, Red Raiders ink home & home series- July 11, 2008 Get ready for a good, old-fashioned SWC red-out. The University of Houston has agreed to a home-and-home football series with Texas Tech, beginning in 2009. The first game will be played on Sept. 26, 2009, at Robertson Stadium, with the second game set for Sept. 25, 2010, at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock. The Cougars have not played the Red Raiders since the dissolution of the Southwest Conference after the 1995 season. Here's a little tidbit that may surprise some fellow bloggers who are..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fanblogs/conferenceUsaCollegeFootball-Fanblogscom/~3/332861... Five things I want to see this season...- July 8, 2008 Inspired by several bloggers who do their "top 100 things for the season", I'm inspired to share five things I want to see this season.... 1) Is someone ready to rise up and knock USC off their Pac10 perch Despite the recent success of Oregon (and Cal, to a lesser degree) there has not been a consistent challenger to Pete Carroll's throne. I think it's just a matter of time before Dennis Ericksson and Arizona State rise to the top of the conference, but can the Sun Devils unseat the Trojans...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fanblogs/conferenceUsaCollegeFootball-Fanblogscom/~3/329849... Who Embellishes Their National Championship Claims and Who Does Not- July 7, 2008 Faithful readers of fanblogs will notice that a lot of what this article contains has been stated by me in the past. That's because I thought it as being so well-written that I could regurgitate it once again in order to preempt any more uniform threads from popping up like weeds in the parched earth here at fanblogs during the dry season. The bee in my bonnet about national championships came last spring when Washington tried to slip one through the back door 47 years after the fact. Since.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fanblogs/conferenceUsaCollegeFootball-Fanblogscom/~3/329230... Air Force looking to reschedule Houston, FSU, Minny- July 6, 2008 Mark it down -- July 2008: The Air Force is walking away from a fight. Yep... the service with the slogon "Aim High" is instead attempting to aim... not so high. Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun wants changes in the academy's football schedule and it looks like he'll get them. According to The Denver Post, Calhoun has asked Air Force athletic director Hans Mueh to back away from future away games with upper-tier FBS teams from the first game of the season so that the Falcons can work...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fanblogs/conferenceUsaCollegeFootball-Fanblogscom/~3/328292... New SMU uniforms harken back to the Pony Express- July 5, 2008 With so much to look forward to with new head coach June Jones, the SMU Mustangs are donning new uniforms to honor the school's legendary past, complete with white helmets and uniform pants that harken back to the "Pony Express" days of the 1980s. "The fans have spoken and we have listened. Since I arrived at SMU, I have stated that I wanted to return the Mustang football program to national prominence," said SMU Director of Athletics Steve Orsini. "When people think of SMU, they think of...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fanblogs/conferenceUsaCollegeFootball-Fanblogscom/~3/328057... |