{"id":390,"date":"2010-09-18T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2010-09-18T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T01:17:45","slug":"temple-owls-flying-high-but-tough-road-lies-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Temple Owls Flying High, But Tough Road Lies Ahead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/breaking\/sports_breaking\/20100918_Undefeated_Temple_upends_UConn__30-16__for_third_victory.html\">Temple Owls <\/a>are off to their best start since 1979, as they tamed the Connecticut Huskies 30-16 to increase their record to 3-0. It&#8217;s probably the biggest win in Al Golden&#8217;s tenure as head coach at Temple, and it&#8217;s Temple&#8217;s first win over a BCS team since beating Syracuse in 2004. Best of all, it&#8217;s sweet revenge over a Connecticut team that beat Temple in overtime two years ago and on a\u00a0controversial\u00a0out of bounds call three years ago. In addition, it&#8217;s great to beat a team from the Big East, which kicked Temple out of the conference a few years ago. Perhaps the best sign for Temple was the reemergence of Bernard Pierce, who exploded for 169 yards and three touchdowns. It doesn&#8217;t get easier for Temple, which plays three straight road games, including a really tough one next week at Penn State. So can Temple shock the world next week against the Nittany Lions? Please comment below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_K18DEOZD3Ko\/TJUbYb-Oe7I\/AAAAAAAADys\/B2hL58AuAro\/s1600\/Bernard_Army2009_005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_K18DEOZD3Ko\/TJUbYb-Oe7I\/AAAAAAAADys\/B2hL58AuAro\/s320\/Bernard_Army2009_005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temple Owls are off to their best start since 1979, as they tamed the Connecticut Huskies 30-16 to increase their record to 3-0. It&#8217;s probably the biggest win in Al Golden&#8217;s tenure as head coach at Temple, and it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}