Houston needs two more wins to become bowl eligible
Heading into Friday's Big 12 road game at Arizona, the Cougars are 1.5-point underdogs. Coming off a bye week, Willie Fritz's squad needs two wins to become bowl eligible, which would be a remarkable turnaround in year one of Fritz's tenure.ESPN's updated Football Power Index , which is "meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season" also thinks the Cougars are going to lose on Friday.
The Cougars leaned on their stingy defense and opportunistic offense in upset victories over Utah and Kansas State. That's a formula they will try to replicate against Arizona. Houston's defense is currently ranked No. 2 in the Big 12 in yards allowed at just 319 per game. The Houston at Arizona Big 12 football matchup is scheduled to kick off Friday at 8:15 p.m. MST/9:15 p.m. CT and will be televised on FS1.Ben Sherman has been covering the sports world for most of his journalism career, including 17 years with The Oregonian/OregonLive. One of his favorite memories was covering the 1999 Fiesta Bowl - the first BCS National Championship Game - at Sun Devil Stadium.
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