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Colin Thompson joined us for this week's episode of The Scoop, and he's giving away two free tickets to Saturday's game at the Linc against Tulane.

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Lots of great stuff from Colin this week. We talked about last week's win over USF, this Saturday's game against Tulane, the injuries, Isaiah Wright and the potential impact of the Fair Pay To Play Act.

State Penn has their hands full against my alma mater.

Go Gophers! Its been a long time since I wanted to admit I played there.

Those fans up there can make some noise.......on ABC right now.

ARTICLE: Tracy talks Top Four

Three-star 2020 RB Kenny Tracy out of Indianapolis just released a top four that included Temple. He accumulated nearly 20 scholarship offers during the course of his recruitment.

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In case you missed our updates on Twitter, right guard Vince Picozzi had season-ending surgery today, Rod Carey said during today's American Athletic Conference coaches' call. He said the competition to fill his starting spot is "wide open."

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Carey also told me he's "hopeful" of running back Re'Mahn Davis playing Saturday against Tulane.

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Benny Walls' status, on the other hand, is still up in the air.

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When I asked him why Isaiah Wright did not see a single snap on offense last Thursday and only played on special teams, this was Carey's response:

"Well, the way he moved around today and practiced today, I think his body certainly feels better,” Carey said. “He’s in there competing. I would expect him to earn it this week and get back out there. He’s a good football player and we like using him. That would be my hope and the expectation.”

When asked if Wright being limited to return duties and not playing offensive snaps was injury-related or a result of being outworked by his fellow receivers, Carey said, “There was a lot of competition out there. A lot. And I think the combination of maybe how his body was feeling and how he worked in practice, the combination of that led to that last Thursday. So it’s probably a combination of both this week as well going forward. So I wouldn’t point to one thing. That’s a good room we’ve got at wide receiver and there’s a lot of good football players.”

It just looks like a lot of five yard passes and then screen passes . Just not much down the field . Except at the goal line very few passes to tight ends and running backs . Just a very vanilla offense .

He says he likes the way the team is playing defense this season and laughed about how he got caught sitting alone in the upper stands during the first game. Also says watching the games from the stands is a big change of pace after coaching for so long. Fran Dunphy officially a nice guy

John

Can you update us on the list of players who have played in one or more games yet remain eligible to receive a red shirt for this season?

Thank you

Temple is well coached , comes at you with a lot of playable players and defensively a good team but shooting is going to be a problem. They just remind me of USF last year who had a good year , aggressive and tough but couldn’t shoot . We are 2 and 0 but after Lasalle comes real competition. You just have to love “ Nate “ .

Quietly, our punting and place kicking have shown continued improvement from the start of the year. Barry has settled down and the snapping has been consistent. Mobley has been a pleasant surprise and has gradually been increasing his FG range. If Mobley continues his good work, he deserves a scholarship next year in my opinion.

BTW, Owls are 4 1/2 pt home dogs this week against the Green Wave. I like our Owls as the offense finally awakens.

Wow

Have nothing against Mike Uremovich. Have never met the man. Sure he is a great guy. But, I mean, has he even watched video of the 2018 offense? Why does he think having one “Centeio Series” per half is a good idea? Anthony didn’t suddenly become mediocre. Give him a better gameplan, Coach U!

https://www.theledger.com/sports/20191106/zier-usf-as-conference-champs-heres-how-it-could-happen

"The Owls haven't really beaten anybody good." What does he consider Memphis?

I posted this in the game thread, but anyone have any idea why the sound system was so awful last night? Could barely hear the PA announcer most of the game, and when you could, it was very muffled. Just sounded really awful in our beautiful arena.

Temple needs to get that fixed ASAP. We aren't La Salle.

Go Owls.

I cannot get videos to play from the Temple site but they play everywhere else, including this site. Owlscoop works just fine. Is anyone else having this problem?

Would love to see a cover here. Hopefully Tuesday was just 1st game jitters.

Our story from today's game.

Was talking to my friend tonight that has been to all 6 bowl games since the Golden Era of Temple football started... DC, ABQ, Boca, Annapolis, St Pete, and Shreveport. Anyone else here been to all 6?

I've been to 5... Skipped ABQ.

Also we were comparing total venues we've seen the Owls play. I'm at 16 or will be tomorrow with USF. He's at 13. Curious how other people are doing on their counts? I'm sure there are some people well over 20 or even over 30 venues out there?

I am happy:

"Blue and orange confetti is usually accompanied by cheers of “Go Gators” and an appearance by Albert and Alberta, but on Tuesday fans took photos with Wawa’s Wally Goose in anticipation of new stores coming to Gainesville.

Wawa, a Pennsylvania-based chain of convenience stores and gas stations, is expected to open five locations in Gainesville by 2021, store leaders announced at a groundbreaking ceremony at 1007 E. University Ave. Two stores at 2372 SW Archer Road and 1614 W. University Ave. are expected to open in spring 2020."

Beat SMU

GO Owls

good 3 and out, bad penalty. Smh

. . . takes down UCF.

It seemed to me that he didn’t play a single offensive snap. Am I right about that? What is happening here?

This is getting ahead of it in a big way, but what happens if Houston hangs on to beat UCF, we win out (including beating Cincinnati of course) and the Bearcats lose their last game vs Memphis? That would create a three way tie.

With Graham-Mobley reportedly out for the season, do we play him? He would still be under the games limit for a redshirt year.

Courtney Murphy talked to both players after Tuesday night's game to ask them about their first game in a Temple uniform and what they're working on moving forward.