Zaire Williams asked to leave the football team and is no longer with the program. Williams, as you may recall, was Temple's leading rusher as a freshman in 2013 but was switched to linebacker during the offseason.

Williams is still enrolled in the university but, as of now, is not on the team.

Moved from ESPNNews.......

http://sportsnola.com/network-shuffle-results-in-tulane-temple-move-to-espnu/

Like I posted in the Zaire Williams thread, there are some seriously good things happening to Temple University.

But here's another one for you, the two highest ranked recruits in the last recruiting class, Kareem Ali and T.J. Simmons are probably looking at redshirts this season.

Who would have thought that they would see the day when two four star recruits would be unable to see the field for our mighty Owls.

Beat Tulane!

After talking to a few people familiar with the situation, it sounds like Temple could be in pretty good shape to land a verbal commitment from Prep Charter defensive lineman Karamo Dioubate, who is currently committed to Penn State.

Dioubate is ranked as a 4-star recruit, 11th nationally at his position, fifth in the state and 156th overall in the 2016 class.

http://sports.yahoo.com/bwi/football/recruiting/player-Karamo-Dioubate-167687

The linked temple news article says Dion Dawkins and Hasson Reddick are going to face a trial on first-degree felony aggravated assault. It also quotes a university spokesman saying their status on the team remains unchanged.

http://temple-news.com/news/2-football-players-to-face-trial/

When renewing my season tickets I realize that I'm going to miss most games due to a family member going through cancer treatments and my kids both heavily involved in extracurricular activities. Most years I make all the games. Is anyone interested in purchasing purchasing games or possibly the season? Section 103, down low and awesome seats. I have 4 total tickets and would like to sell a pair for a half or full season. I'm not putting them on stub-hub and only want to sell them for what they cost me. My goal is to make sure that the seats are filled every game with Temple fans. I've had these season tickets for a long time and most everybody in my section are longtime true die hard fans. That's why I'm hoping to have the seats filled every game with Temple fans instead of having empty seats or obnoxious fans from another team buying the seats off stub hub or a broker. If anyone is interested reach out to me.

who is all tailgating Saturday? What time you heading down, and what time does lot open

Saw we got a verbal from the 6-4, 190-pound QB from Antelope, Calif.

Anyone know anything about him?

Great read, Kyle! Evan Cooper is worth his weight in gold!

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13823064

Temple is no slouch.

There is a question on Fran Dunphy and how the Owls will do this year.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...mailbag-will-chris-mullin-succeed-at-st-johns

Owls hunt knights http://www.owlsports.com/news/2015/10/5/FB_1005153622.aspx

I love pj BUT this team needs a QB

Temple, the coaching and game management played a near perfect game. The weather was soo, soo, horrible, could not even see it on TV. The players stayed composed, coaches called conservative plays because of the horrible conditions, yet they grinded it out and WON big.

Yet there were so many people on this board who complained about everything. Yes it was a tight game but the Owls kept grinding it out. Made so many BIG plays. Congratulations to play calling and executing and winning big.

GO Owls!!!

Of course this means very little, but for all our misery for so long- this is a moment to enjoy...

http://warrennolan.com/football/2015/npi

with all these undefeated and ranked teams losing do we have a chance to get ranked?

FYI: Temple -15

Improvement is evident across the whole team 1/3 of the way through the season; which has improved the most.
We'll revisit this topic later in the season.

I see that it is being reported that this is our first 4-0 start since 1974. I thought I would look into this. I did note the following interesting points:
(1) Actually, we started 6-0 in 1974 with wins over Rhode Island, Boston College, Marshall, Southern Illinois, Holy Cross and Delaware.
(2) At that point, we cracked the Top 20 at # 19.
(3) We then lost the next two - to Cincinnati and Pitt.
(4). We won the final two - against West Virginia and Villanova - to finish 8-2.
(5). As there were only 11 bowl games in 1974, we did not make it to a bowl.

I was just watching some highlights of ECU. It looks like former UNC 4 star commit James Summers is going to be the starting QB going forward. Looked good and it will be a tough matchup. I know we have two games before them but this development is going to make this a very tough matchup. Temple has struggled with dual-threat QBs in the past.

We are still "under consideration" with 16 votes - tied for 6th in the "under consideration" category. Interestingly, Memphis is Ranked 25th, and Notre Dame fell to 15th.

From Yahoo sports---Every week, I will play Selection Committee member, take a look at the College Football Playoff picture and offer what I believe the bracket should be if the season ended today. Call it Forde’s Fab Four, and feel free to disagree.

This week is the Blow The Whole Thing Up And Start Over Edition:

COTTON BOWL: No. 1 Utah vs. No. 4 Baylor
ORANGE BOWL: No. 2 Northwestern vs. No. 3 Florida
Also considered: Oklahoma, TCU, Clemson, Ohio State, Michigan State, Texas A&M, Florida State, California, Stanford, Iowa, Temple, Houston.

Who would have thought as a Temple fan we would even be mentioned in an article like this? We run the table and go undefeated that will give us lots of options! So good to be a Temple fan these days!

Episode 5 is on the front page and here's the link to iTunes.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/owlscoop.com-the-scoop/id1044911931?mt=2

We are 4h in the "under consideration" category with 23 votes. Notably, half the AAC West are also "under consideration" - Houston - 31 votes, Memphis - 19 votes, and Navy - 19 votes. Also, it is notable that Toledo has cracked the top 25 (# 24).

If you listen to TALKING ABOUT CHARLOTTE on the front page of OWLSCOOP, you'll hear Coach Rhule lay the groundwork for a medical RS for the freshman RB.

Nice work by JDC.