Hurricane Harvey forces college football schedule changes: Houston heads to Austin


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DATE: Aug. 26, 2017, 7:33 a.m.

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  1. Storm Harvey is hurtling toward the Texas drift and is compelling school football projects to change how they work as the season moves close.
  2. Houston reported Friday evening that it will hone on Texas' grounds in Austin on Saturday and Sunday. The Cougars could remain through the start of one week from now as they proceed with arrangements for the season opener Saturday, Sept. 2 at UT-San Antonio.
  3. "We are thankful to the University of Texas and its football program for opening their ways to us," Cougars mentor Major Applewhite said in an announcement. "We are likewise grateful to alternate projects from over the territory of Texas that offered safe house to our program amid this time. We are confident for the best in Houston however are getting ready for each circumstance. We solicit everybody to keep the city from Houston, every single influenced range over the Gulf Coast and its inhabitants in their musings and supplications."
  4. Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle takes note of that Houston got offers from Baylor, SMU and TCU.
  5. Somewhere else, FCS control Sam Houston State, which is positioned third in the NCAA's preseason FCS survey, had its season-opener versus No. 7 Richmond - at first planned for Sunday night - put off uncertainly.
  6. "These tempests can be hard to anticipate and we need to have however much data as could reasonably be expected to settle on a choice," said Sam Houston State games executive Bobby Williams. "I need to thank everybody associated with this procedure as this is not a simple choice to make with the majority of the elements included."
  7. LSU and BYU are booked to meet in Houston's NRG Stadium Saturday, Sept. 2. The Tigers discharged an announcement Friday evening expressing that the amusement is on as booked until further notice however that they will keep on monitoring the improvements as diversion time approaches one week from now.

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