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The Labor Day holiday completed one of the more promising opening weekends in C-USA history, despite a couple of notable stumbles. UAB won on the road at Baylor. Louisville handled Kentucky on the road. Houston opened with a rout of Rice and defending co-champs TCU and Cincinnati had big wins.

And after a couple of years of defenses dominating the league, the big offense might be coming back into vogue. Four C-USA teams scored 40 points or more over the weekend. The Big 12 was the only other conference in the country with at least four teams scoring 40.

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The Black Knights were the only C-USA not to play last weekend, but they'll begin their final season in C-USA on Saturday when they face Connecticut. After watching what Connecticut did in last weekend's impressive win over Indiana, the opener against the fledgling Division I-A program figures to be a fight for the Black Knights, who have lost six straight openers after winning seven straight through 1996.

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