Poised to take over the top spot in the West Division of Conference USA should front-running Houston (3-1, 7-1) lose this weekend at Tulsa (2-2, 4-4)? None other than SMU (3-1, 4-4), who won one game in each of the past two seasons. The Mustangs need to win their game against struggling Rice to go over .500 on the season. Three of their four remaining opponents have losing records, which should help as SMU hopes to go bowling for the first time since 1984. In the second year of the rebuilding effort under coach June Jones, the Mustangs are playing competitive ball and have already upset East Carolina and Tulsa. Amazingly they pulled off the Tulsa win despite the absence of injured QB Bo Levi Mitchell as frosh QB Kyle Padron (20-30/354y) threw two TD passes to give SMU a 14-7 2nd Q lead en route to a 27-13 win.
East Carolina (4-1, 5-3) remains the class of the East Division, although they will be greatly tested tomorrow when they host an angry Virginia Tech (3-2, 5-3) squad. The Hokies have plenty of motivation as they not only dropped two straight to go from contention to a BCS bowl game to a potential spot in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, but they lost to the Pirates 27-22 last year. The ECU win in 2008 was no fluke, however, as they were the better team for the majority of the game. No matter how the game goes it has been a pretty good week for the East Carolina program as former Boston College QB Dominique Davis agreed to transfer to the Pirates in the hopes of taking over next year for senior QB Patrick Pinkney, who has led the Pirates to a host of surprising wins during his time in Greenville. Pirate fans hope he can add to his resume tomorrow night.
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