Posted on: Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Longer road for UH football in '03
Advertiser Staff
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The schedule is tentative and subject to change based upon the conference's television contract with ESPN.
The Warriors, who won three of five road games this year in a 10-3 regular season, play at Southern California, Nevada-Las Vegas, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech, San Jose State and Nevada.
The USC and UNLV games will come back-to-back on Sept. 13 and 20 and, combined with a Sept. 6 open date, mean the Warriors will play at home just twice in the first 42 days of the season.
But the home schedule will feature games with WAC contenders Fresno State (Oct. 11) and Boise State (Nov. 6), as well as non-conference games with Army (Nov. 15) and Alabama (Nov. 29).
"I think from an interest standpoint, having both Boise State and Fresno State at Aloha Stadium is very good for us," UH athletic director Herman Frazier said.
To maintain an eight-game WAC season, UH and Southern Methodist will not meet for the next two years.
Games with Akron and Army will be firsts for UH, as will the road trip to Ruston, La., home of Louisiana Tech. UH played a nonconference game against the Bulldogs in 2000, but this will be the Warriors' first trip there.
