Owls, Cougars displaced by storm

The Rice football team settled in on TCU’s campus in Fort Worth after getting displaced by Hurricane Harvey and ensuing flooding around the Owls campus in Houston.

Rice opened the season during the weekend in Australia, where the Owls lost to Stanford. They arrived in Los Angeles on Monday morning before another flight to Texas and are sharing space with the Horned Frogs until things improve in Houston. The Owls have a bye before playing at UTEP on Sept. 9.

“While we would love to be coming home today, our first responsibility is the safety of these players,” coach

said. “We learned some lessons in 2008 [during Hurricane Ike] about coming home too soon.”

The University of Houston football team, meanwhile, is in Austin, where former coach is preparing for his first season in charge of the Longhorns after two seasons leading the Cougars.

Houston coach who is unsure how long his team will be in Austin, said the staff confirmed that families of all players and staff back in Houston were safe.

The BYU-LSU game, meanwhile, will be played Saturday night at the Superdome in New Orleans after massive flooding forced it to be relocated from NRG Stadium in Houston. Orlando’s Camping World Stadium was among the other sites ESPN considered before settling on the Superdome.

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