Holly Anderson is a staff writer at Grantland,
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6. The American is developing a personality. The defining feature of the former Big East has been its indeterminate character. The post-2013 realignment has been distinguished, in its first few years of existence, by the aphorism that if you can’t remember which conference a given team is in, there’s a high probability it belongs in the AAC.
Enter Temple. The Owls made a delightfully profane early statement in Week 1 by knocking off Penn State for the first time since 1941 — and followed that up Saturday with their first win over Cincinnati since 1985. They were joined this week in their anti–Power 5 uprising by the Houston Cougars, who went into Louisville and put Bobby Petrino’s team down at 0-2. Between these two, Memphis, and whatever madness Chad Morris is brewing at SMU (to say nothing of the Keenan Reynolds record-book watch at Navy), there’s much to love about the league whose membership you still haven’t quite memorized.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/college-football-week-2-wrap-its-always-the-quiet-ones/
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6. The American is developing a personality. The defining feature of the former Big East has been its indeterminate character. The post-2013 realignment has been distinguished, in its first few years of existence, by the aphorism that if you can’t remember which conference a given team is in, there’s a high probability it belongs in the AAC.
Enter Temple. The Owls made a delightfully profane early statement in Week 1 by knocking off Penn State for the first time since 1941 — and followed that up Saturday with their first win over Cincinnati since 1985. They were joined this week in their anti–Power 5 uprising by the Houston Cougars, who went into Louisville and put Bobby Petrino’s team down at 0-2. Between these two, Memphis, and whatever madness Chad Morris is brewing at SMU (to say nothing of the Keenan Reynolds record-book watch at Navy), there’s much to love about the league whose membership you still haven’t quite memorized.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/college-football-week-2-wrap-its-always-the-quiet-ones/
