The Houston Cougars went 8-5 overall and 5-3 in the newly formed American Athletic Conference last year. The 2014 Houston Cougars are looking for bigger things as they have 17 starters back and will have an offense that can rival that of East Carolina. Let the fireworks begin. Schedule & Prediction below.
The Cougars like to spread the field and throw, throw, throw. The last 2 years they have averaged in the low 30’s but this year they should get back to producing 40 ppg. John O’Korn had solid freshman year and will only be better this time around. 5 of his 6 top pass catchers are back, including Deontay Greenberry, who had 1202 yards receiving and 11 TDs last year. This team can also run the ball pretty well and their top 6 ballcarriers are back from last year, including Ryan Jackson and Kenneth Farrow, who combined for 1175 yards and 12 TDs. The OL returns 75 career starts and looks to once again be a solid unit. In 2012 the defense was 118 the in the Nation and allowed 36 ppg, but last year they chopped 15 ppg off of that and it was mainly due to the fact that they led the nation in takeaways, with 43. This year they have 9 starters back, including 3 players that had at least 109 tackles on the year. Efren Oliphant, Derrick Mathews and Trevon Stewart, combined for 359 tackles, 10 sacks and 16.5 TFL last year. This defense has playmakers all over the field and has a chance to be a bit better than last year.
The Houston Cougars look to be set up for a nice year. They do have road games vs SMU and Cincinnati to finish the year, but they also avoid East Carolina, have both Tulsa and Central Florida at home, and get easy road games vs Memphis and South Florida. The Cougars have plenty of talent on both sides of the ball and I would not be surprised at all if the game vs Cincinnati to end the year was for the AAC Title. I will call for a 3rd place finish though. Key Trend: The Houston Cougars are 9-0-1 ATS in their last 10 games against Tulane.
2014 Houston Cougars Football Schedule
Sat, Aug 30 TX- San Antonio
Sat, Sep. 6 Grambling
Thurs, Sep. 11 at BYU
Sat, Sep. 20 BYE
Sat, Sep. 27 Tennessee Tech
Thurs, Oct. 2 UCF
Sat, Oct. 11 at Memphis
Sat, Oct. 18 Temple
Sat, Oct. 25 BYE
Sat, Nov. 1 at USF
Sat, Nov. 8 Tulane
Sat, Nov. 15 BYE
Sat, Nov. 22 Tulsa
Fri, Nov. 28 at SMU
Sat, Dec. 6 at Cincinnati
Info gathered From Phil Steele's CFB Preview and Athlon Sports
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