Today’s Memphis Tigers vs Temple Owls college football game has a start time schedule of noon eastern time and airs on TV channel ESPNU. For one reason, he also had an idea of which direction the Owls would take.
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Against Temple, Memphis rushed for 76 yards, a 2.2 average.
Tavon Young, CB, Temple: Helped slow down the prolific Memphis passing attack and made a number of huge tackles in run support despite suffering a minor injury in the first half.
The Owls return to Lincoln Financial Field to host CT in their regular season finale on November 28 at 7 p.m. A Temple win wouldn’t exclusively clinch the division, it would mark the second 10-win season in team history (10-2 in 1979).
Chavious scored from 1 yard on the Pioneers’ first possession of the third quarter. “It doesn’t matter what position we get put in, we tell Coach Rhule, ‘We’ve got this”. P.J. Walker also threw for his fiftieth touchdown pass of his career, setting the Temple record for most in a career. David Hood would punch in a run from 14 yards out to add to the Owl lead. Tyler Matakevich led the way with 11 tackles, giving him 107 for the season. “We just have the mentality that if you get into the red zone, we are not going to let you score”. Temple next drive would result in another turnover as PJ Walker would have his pass picked off at the one yard line, The Tigers would makes Temple Pay as they would drive down on a 15 play drive and connect on a 31 yard field goal for the early 3-0 lead. Quarterback Paxton Lynch appeared to injure his ankle on a play late in the half, and looked hobbled for the rest of the game. Memphis did put up three points thanks to a 31 yard field goal from kicker Jake Elliott but they were the only points seen in the first quarter. “They came out and kept a pretty good offensive football team from scoring a touchdown”.
Apparently, it was not easy. “But”, Matakevich said, smiling, “we weren’t having it”.
Instead, the Owls worked … and worked to within 60 minutes of the right to play for a conference championship.
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“You have to remember I coached a lot of years in the Pac-10 conference when we had first-rounders every year”, Snow said. “Most of the guys on the team were energetic”. “We had it in us all along and unfortunately the previous two weeks we weren’t clicking”. “You have to drive down the field at least once or twice and punch it in”. “We just did not come out and execute”. The Owls’ defense yielded a combined 75 points (out of a total of 84 against) and 953 yards the last two games – 60-40 win at SMU and a 44-23 loss at USF.Kip Patton’s 15-yard touchdown run on a jet sweep, the first touchdown of the tight end’s career, gave the Owls a little breathing room at 24-12 on the first play of the fourth quarter.
