• Miami AD says 'never again', will be Miami's lowest total attendance for '23
• Owls Freshmen are making it hard to ignore 'em
• WR and DL, yea we know.., let's move on
• Owls have extremely bad history vs 'canes and it continued
• Beat Tulsa and it's still game on

Miami 51 - Temple 3

Here’s what’s left of our schedule. We need 4 wins. I see the wins having to come from Tulsa, North Texas, Navy, USF, and UAB. Unfortunately 4 of our most beatable opponents are on the road. Thought this was a more positive approach to discussion for us than focusing mostly on what’s next. Miami. Also this is really a watered down league. Losing UCF UH and Cincinnati really hammered the American hard.

Sept 23 Miami (3-0) probably a L
Sept 28 @Tulsa (1-2) probs bottom half
Oct 7 UTSA (1-2) better than record indicates
Oct 14 @North Texas (1-2) bottom half of league
Oct 20 SMU (2-1) will probs be a bowl team
Nov 4 Navy (1-2, 0-1) beatable
Nov 11 @USF (1-2) not buying the hype
Nov 18 @UAB (1-2) looks bad enough
Nov 25 Memphis (3-0, 1-0) very solid not great

Has passed. This is wow. Thoughts and prayers for her family. She gave a lot to Temple.

Unbelievable. Actually totally unbelievable.

Here are some of the notable players that are expected to be at tomorrow's game.

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Here's this week's episode with Tywan Francis, along with a tribute to the late, wonderful JoAnne Epps at the top of the show.

Temple's spring semester officially starts tomorrow and a number of transfers, high school signees, JUCO signees and prep school signees are currently enrolled. The following players are currently on campus and will participate in spring practice.

Dante Atton - Punter
Diego Barajas - OL
Kaleb Barnett - CB
Diwun Black - LB
Peter Clarke - TE
Tyler Douglas - QB
Preston Everhart - WR
Tywan Francis - Safety
Allan Haye - DT
Ben Osueke - CB
Melvin Siani - OL
Joquez Smith - RB
Kamar Wilcoxson - Safety
Kyle Williams - RB
EJ Wilson - RB
Luke Watson - OL
Dante Wright - WR

This list is fluid so don't be surprised if there are a couple more kids that show up before spring ball.

We're talking to Tywan Francis on this week's episode of The Scoop. If you have questions for him or for us as a staff, please drop them in here by 2 p.m. today and we'll answer them on the podcast.

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Whoever put that list together needs to recheck their information.

Darvon Hubbard RB had 4 carries for 21 yards and a TD and he caught a pass for 32 yards. Yet he is missing from the list of Offensive players.

I am sure there are more players who saw action last Saturday that were also overlook and missing from the list.

(Not that I am a stickler for accuracy, but I did spend 40+ years as an auditor.) LOL

GO OWLS!!!

My condolences to President Epps' family and friends and the Temple community on her sudden passing.

May she rest in peace.

They changed the methodology and we are now #89.

Amara Kamara's brother, and as I recall, he also committed to us as well. Does anyone recall what happened? Anyway, he's killing it for Colorado State against Colorado.

We know the opponents for Temple but will find out the Owls schedule tomorrow.

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Massive leap. Tied for #89 in national universities, Tied for #45 in public schools. National ranking is tied with SMU and USF. Ahead of Drexel. Within distance of PSU (#60), Pitt and Villanova (tied at #67) and Delaware (#76)

Next step, AAU status and crossing the billion dollar endowment threshold. Despite everything people say and leadership ineptitude it’s truly a great place

• Owls are angry, and put on an awesome display
• The Freshmen continue to excel and develop
• How exciting to have so many freshmen foreshadow the future of TUFB
• Defense stuffs the run, 2nd half turns into a sack-a-thon
• Team benefits from the Zoom class Drayton took on timeouts
• Dominating win and no significant injuries

Owls 41 -10

Come on

Saw he was dressed but don't think he got on the field. Still hurt? I thought Drayton said during the week that he was good to go.

Considering UD's potential upgrade to FBS, I appreciate the immediate appeal of a nearby opponent, but I'm not so sure another FBS mouth to feed in the region would be beneficial to Temple. How might this impact TU's market share, recruiting, fanbase? Potential for a more geographically favorable conference home ? ...What if it's in a new eastern flank in the MAC with UMass and UD?

There's a number of complexities in play, but ultimately, do you think UD's upgrade would be a good or bad for Temple athletics? Here's a poll to gauge where the fanbase stands....

Good morning, everyone. We're taking mailbag questions for this week's episode of The Scoop until 3:30 p.m. today.

Whether it's a question about last Saturday's loss at Rutgers, this Saturday's game against Norfolk State, the roster or something off-topic, drop it in here and we'll answer it on the podcast.

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Good morning, everyone. We're taking mailbag questions for this week's episode of The Scoop until 3:30 p.m. today.

Although this will be a football-centric episode, we're happy to talk some hoops as well.

Thanks as always for listening!

Nice D. Offense looks so out of sync.

• Again TU players are dazed out of the locker room. This time by the disparate images (TU home attendance vs B1G at night)
• TU lack of depth on both sides of the line of scrimmage kicks in during the 2nd half
• Continued pedestrian play at the RB position equals another game < 100 yds rushing
• WRs get hammered after the catch, one or two go down
• Temple D can't contain the RU mobile QB, leading Withers to wits end
• Drayton uses a timeout in the first qtr just to figure out how to use the remaining TOs
• Rigby does another great impression of the human tackling machine, Tyler Matakevich

RU wins 27-16

• The RU loss means <10K in the seats for Norfolk St as only a few BOT members will actually attend the game
• Who cares, is anybody home, and please keep the lights on?
• BOT lack of support, in person attendance must be documented and published. Who are these people in positions of power and what are they doing/not doing to support TUFB?

Diego Barajas is not in uniform for today's game, so we'll keep an eye on who starts at left tackle for Temple. Barajas came back into the game last Saturday, but he's not in the lineup today. Melvin Siani obviously stepped in for him last week when he got hurt, but I don't think it's a given that he'll get the start today.

Here's our preview from Zach Silverstein, along with a link to this weeks podcast.