Houston saved its best for last on Friday, scoring 29 points in the fourth quarter to complete an improbable 35-34 victory over Pittsburgh in the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth. The announced crowd at Amon G. Carter Stadium was 37,888. But as you can see from Wiz correspondent Greg Laughlin's photos, the actual number was considerably less.
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Houston played its first game in the 40,000-seat TDECU Stadium on Friday night, but the Cougars turned the ball over six times and lost to Texas San Antonio, 27-7. Wiz correspondent Greg Laughlin was in attendance and sent along several photos. There are more images after the jump.
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Houston moves to the American Athletic Conference and with it comes an upgraded schedule. It's especially true in November when the Cougars play at Central Florida, at Louisville and home against Cincinnati. Houston closes the month at home against Southern Methodist, a team that scored 72 points against it in 2012.
Not much went right last season. The team finished 5-7 in Tony Levine's first season and he fired offensive coordinator Mike Nesbitt after the season-opening 30-13 loss to Texas State. The team has new offensive and defensive coordinators for 2013 and it will move into a $105 million on-campus stadium in 2014.
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It's a different ballgame at Houston, which will be without Case Keenum and Kevin Sumlin for the first time in a long time. Keenum, the primary starter at quarterback since 2007, exhausted his eligibility and is in camp with the NFL's Houston Texans. Sumlin, who won 35 games in four seasons as coach, left for Texas A&M. David Piland is the new starter at quarterback and Tony Levine is the new coach. Piland started eight games in 2010 after Keenum was injured and Levine replaced Sumlin in time to guide the team to a 30-14 victory over Penn State in the TicketCity Bowl. Houston is playing its final season at Robertson Stadium, which will be torn down in December to make way for a new 40,000-seat facility at a cost of more than $100 million.
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The Texas A&M Board of Regents has called a meeting for Monday where it is expected to end its 15-year union with the Big 12, according to Brent Zwerneman of the San Antonio Express-News.
The move would clear the way for the Aggies to become a member of the Southeastern Conference. School officials are hoping to begin play in the SEC in 2012.
Zwerneman writes that SEC officials plan to meet this weekend "to essentially rubber-stamp A&M's admittance."
Adding the Aggies will boost the SEC's membership to an unbalanced 13 teams, and the league is expected to add another member. Florida State appears to be at the top of the list. The Palm Beach Post reported Friday that Florida State has been in discussions with SEC officials for several months.
"This is real," a source close to Florida State told the newspaper.
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For Houston, it all starts with the man in the middle of the poster, Case Keenum. The quarterback suffered a torn right ACL in a September game against UCLA and was lost for the remainder of the 2010 season. The Cougars staggered to a 5-7 finish and Keenum appealed to the NCAA for a sixth season of eligibility. He got it, and Houston is back to thinking big for 2011.
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