Stanford to face UC Davis without Love
Ninth-ranked Stanford will be without running back Bryce Love when facing UC Davis on Saturday.
UC Davis (2-0) may be scoring 49 points and averaging more than 500 yards on offense, but the Aggies also allow nearly 30 points and more than 430 yards.
Love apparently suffered an undisclosed injury late in the 17-3 win against USC last week.
He also missed 1 ½ games last season with an ankle injury.
If Stanford (2-0) can hold the Trojans to three points, what does that mean for the Aggies?
When the teams last met in 2014, Stanford walked away with a 45-0 victory in an 8-5 season.
Razorbacks return home to face Mean Green
Arkansas will look to bounce back from a 34-27 loss at Colorado State when it hosts a talented North Texas team on Saturday.
The Razorbacks (1-1) allowed 25 straight points in a second-half collapse last week that quickly put an end to any honeymoon for firstyear coach Chad Morris.
The Mean Green (2-0) won nine games a year ago, a jump from just five wins in coach Seth Littrell's first season in 2016. North Texas has won its first two games in a season for the first time since 1994, and Littrell— a former Oklahoma fullback— is hoping to use the experience of a close loss at Iowa last year to help the Mean Green put an end to an 0-9 record against the Razorbacks. North Texas is 4-37 against the SEC.
"When it's all said and done, there's a lot to be proud of," Littrell said. "We always love challenging games and facing great opponents."
North Texas quarterback and former Locust Grove standout Mason Fine is tops in school history in passing efficiency, and he leads a Mean Green offense that leads the country with an average of 457.5 yards through the air this season. The junior is third nationally with 862 yards passing through two games this season.
Houston’s Applewhite knows what to expect vs. Texas Tech
Houston coach Major Applewhite knows what to expect against Texas Tech after facing the Red Raiders as a player, assistant coach and a head coach over the past two decades.
"They always score points, have a great tempo, and they take the ball away," said Applewhite, who at Texas was a Big 12 quarterback at the same time as Kliff Kingsbury. "Defensively, they're holding you under 400 yards, and they have nine starters returning on defense. They're a very good football team."
The Red Raiders (1-1) are coming off a 77-0 win over FCS team Lamar, their highest-scoring game in their six seasons with Kingsbury as coach of his alma mater — or as a record-setting quarterback for the Red Raiders from 1999-2002. It was their first shutout since 2006.
Houston (2-0) is scoring at a nice clip itself in Applewhite's second season, with 45 points in each game. The Cougars jumped out to a 38-0 lead last week against Arizona — and their former coach, Kevin Sumlin — on the way to a 45-18 victory.
Houston also has 6-foot-3, 292-pound defensive lineman Ed Oliver, a junior who has already declared for next spring's NFL Draft and has had 1.59 tackles for loss per game in his career.