Most of the bowl projections by the so-called experts have Houston beating Temple and earning the AAC’s slot in a New Year’s Six bowl. To borrow a phrase from ESPN analyst Lee Corso, “not so fast, my friend.”
Two or three games into a 12-game season, comparative scores hardly seem like a good way of picking a winner but that equation all changes 12 games into a season. Those scores appear to point to Temple as the winner over host Cougars (noon, ABC-TV).
Both teams played Memphis and UConn recently and Temple performed significantly better against similar opposition in two games than Houston.