2011 UH Cougar Watch-Critical Game With East Carolina

The last time the Cougars tangled with the East Carolina Pirates was in 2009 and it is not a pleasant memory for many of us in Cougar Nation. 

It was in the C-USA Championship Game and the then number 18 ranked Cougars came out on the short end of a 38-32 game in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium after blowing them out earlier in the season.  


This one is in the friendly confines of Robertson Stadium and starts a critical month of three C-USA home games with an open date mixed in.  

The Cougars and Pirates are on different levels this year.   The Pirates played a brutal non conference schedule with BCS big boys South Carolina, Virginia Tech and North Carolina with their lone win being a 28-23 Conference USA one versus UAB. 

UH has raced out to a 5-0 start for the first time since 1990.  They opened the season by avenging last year's loss to UCLA and won their conference opener last week in a 49-42 shootout with UTEP. 

Despite their gaudy record, the Cougars can't sleep on East Carolina nor afford another slow offensive start.  The Pirates will bring their 'A' game because they want to prove they are a contender for the C-USA title, and if they can do it at the Coogs expense, even better.

If the Coogs want to kep their hopes of being a BCS buster alive they must match that intensity and keep winning. 

And we Cougar fans want to remind the offense that kickoff time for this game is at 6 PM CDT.

Repeat after me, score early, score often. 

Eat 'em up!