Rice and Houston postponed home games scheduled for Saturday, and Texas A&M has pushed up its game against Texas State, in anticipation of Hurricane Rita reaching the Texas Gulf Coast this weekend.
The Aggies will play Texas State tonight instead of Saturday.
Rice was scheduled to play Navy, but on Wednesday the game was rescheduled for Oct. 22. Houston was to play Southern Mississippi on Saturday. No makeup date was announced, but school officials said they were looking at Nov. 12 or 13.
To make room, the SMU-Houston game scheduled for Nov. 12 was postponed to Nov. 19, when both teams have an open date.
The Golden Eagles play at Marshall on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
“We are getting a lot of practice addressing hurricane-related contingencies. Fortunately, we have had excellent communication and we are getting great cooperation from our members,” Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said.
Southern Miss already has had a game against Tulane postponed by Hurricane Katrina.
The Division I-AA game between Northwestern Oklahoma and McNeese State scheduled to be played in Lake Charles, La., was canceled.
The Category 5 storm, packing winds of 165 mph, is expected to make landfall somewhere on the Gulf Coast of Texas early Saturday.
Texas A&M’s bye week came early this season and the Aggies didn’t want another one.
“We need to play,” Aggies coach Dennis Franchione said. “We don’t need to play a game, take a week off, play a game, take another week off. That’s not a very good schedule for us.”
Texas A&M (1-1) opened at Clemson, then had a bye week before hosting SMU on Saturday. Tonight’s game will be played at 5:30 and will be televised on Fox Sports Net.
Texas A&M president Robert Gates said fans not living in the College Station area should not try to attend the game because no hotels will be available.
Boise State: Jared Zabransky rushed for three touchdowns and threw for another, and the Broncos (1-2) extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 26 games with a 48-20 victory over Bowling Green (1-2).
Boise State’s starters scored on eight of 10 possessions and were stopped only by a fumble on fourth down and halftime. The Broncos had 499 total yards at the end of the third quarter and didn’t punt until the 8:26 mark of the fourth quarter.
Syracuse: Freshman wide receiver Lavar Lobdell will have to undergo shoulder surgery to repair an injury he suffered in high school.
He aggravated the injury during preseason camp and injured it again last week in practice despite wearing a brace.
“He barely touched up against somebody and it popped out,” coach Greg Robinson said.
Robinson said he was confident the NCAA would allow Lobdell to redshirt, even though he played in the Orange’s first two games.
Also, tight end Joe Kowal- ski is day to day because of a shoulder injury.
“Thank goodness we have a bye,” Robinson said.
The Orange visits Florida State on Oct. 1.
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