After beating the spread in the past three games, the 1-9 Texans took a dive in front of a national television audience in the ESPN Sunday night game as their nightmare season continued. This one was over in the second quarter as the Chiefs sliced and diced the Texans defense to take a 24-7 lead before Texans QB David Carr iced it for the Chiefs by throwing an interception TD in the waning moments of the first half to give the Chiefs an insurmountable 31-7 lead. Although the Texans’ defense was non-existent, Carr was particularly bad, as was star WR Andre Johnson, who looked like a petulant jerk for most the game. The Rams come in next week for their confidence-building session against the Texans, and then its off to Baltimore and Tennessee for back-to-back road games. My oh my, this is a really bad football team, every bit as awful as the horrifying Oilers teams of the Bill Peterson era. The Texans sure could use Sid Gillman and Mike Holovak.
The 7-3 Pokes continued their impressive mid-season run with a workmanlike victory over the Lions at Texas Stadium. I still have my doubts whether the Cowboys’ mediocre offense can score enough points to win against the NFL elite teams, but there is no question that the Cowboys’ defense is developing into a devastatingly fast and hard-hitting unit. By the way, the Lions were penalized an incredible 17 times for 130 yards in the game. Got that resume updated, Coach Mariucci?
The 5-5 Cougars maddening season continued as they blew a 14-10 halftime lead to the 4-6 Mustangs despite dominating the statistical battle. Inasmuch as the loss probably dealt a fatal blow to the Cougars’ bowl hopes, the Cougars are ripe for an upset in their closing game against cross-town rival Rice in their final game on Saturday afternoon.
The 1-9 Owls almost pulled off the upset, but lost two fourth quarter leads in falling to one of C-USA’s top teams. However, the performance should give the Owls confidence going into their season-ending game on Saturday against Houston, which looks like a prime candidate for an upset.
The Texas Longhorns and Texas Aggies were off this weekend in preparation for their annual rivalry game on Friday in College Station. The betting line in this one is currently Texas minus 26.5, which is the largest line in this game that I can recall. Even at that elevated level, I don’t know of many Aggies placing money on their team.
we need to bring back warren moon and haywood jeffries.
Because the only predictability to UH football under the current regime is the utter unpredictability, I’m going to suggest that UH wins handily over Rice to close the season, something like 40-21.
There will still be no bowl game, and Dave Maggard will have to postpone his takeover of the Big 12. š
They should have an exhibition game between the 1-9 Houston Texans and the 1-9 Rice Owls. A win over a pro football team would go a long way in soothing the aches and pains of the Owls ego.
I don’t think such a matchup would be fair. I just don’t think the Texans are ready to defend the triple option. ;^)
It is funny Tom that all of the above is mentioned, I was thinking to myself, can the the Texans even beat a College team. I don’t think they could beat USC or Texas right now.
Dennis
Dennis, a good college team such as USC or Texas would be lucky to have ten of the players on their respective teams move on to play in the NFL. Although they often don’t look like it, almost all of the players on the Texans are capable of playing NFL-level football. Thus, even though the Texans are a very bad NFL team, even the Texans would beat either Texas or USC quite handily.