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CINCINNATI -- Sure, the Big 12 will be watching when two of the American Athletic Conferences top teams kick off on Thursday night. No. 6 Houston and Cincinnati havent hidden their desires to jump to a Power Five league.And now they get to show head-to-head how they match up in football, which is the sport driving conference realignment.I would imagine all those decisions are already made, Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville said. I dont think that (game) has got a lot to do with it. This is one game, the third game of the season. A lot is on the line for us, obviously, but we dont look at it that way.The Bearcats (2-0) have a chance to make themselves relevant again after a 7-6 season. Theyre coming off a 38-20 win at Purdue, Cincinnatis first victory over a current Big Ten team in 59 years.The Cougars (2-0) have a top 10 ranking in September for the first time since 1980. They started the season with an attention-grabbing 33-23 win over No. 3 Oklahoma and are trying to open AAC play with their first win in Cincinnati since 1971.You embrace it, Houston linebacker Tyus Bowser said. We have worked so hard to get to this point. We prepare and train for this type of moment.Some things to watch at Nippert Stadium on Thursday night:WARDS WEEK OFFHouston quarterback Greg Ward Jr. was held out of a 42-0 win over Lamar last Saturday because of a sore shoulder. Hes expected to be back to full strength against Cincinnati, looking for another big game against a defense that had five interceptions at Purdue. Ward has developed from a run-first threat into an all-around quarterback. He completed 23 of 40 throws for 321 yards with a pair of touchdowns in the win over Oklahoma.Hes a quarterback that extends plays, Tuberville said. This is a Big 12 offense. When I was at Texas Tech, you saw this every week. They have it all.CANT RUN ON THE COUGARSHouston has held its last four opponents under 100 yards rushing, the longest such streak in the country. Lamar managed only 73 yards in all -- the best showing by a Houston defense in school history -- and failed to cross midfield. In the last four games, the Cougars have held Temple, Florida State, Oklahoma and Lamar to a total of 199 yards rushing. Cincinnati rushed for 262 yards at Purdue, with dual-threat quarterback Hayden Moore throwing for three touchdowns and running for two more.GET USED TO ITThe Cougars play the first of four weeknight games. They also host Connecticut and Louisville in Thursday night games. They finish the regular season at Memphis on a Friday night.I understand why they do it, coach Tom Herman said. The (television) ratings are off the charts when you play these Thursday night games, and were in the entertainment business. But we play four of these. ... Were playing four games in 20 days. You do the math. Thats a lot of pounding on a young mans body in a short amount of time.BEARCAT SELF-DESTRUCTIONDuring a 33-30 loss at Houston last season, Cincinnati had a punt blocked, fumbled into the end zone, botched an onside kick, got tackled for a safety and gave up a 51-yard interception return for a touchdown. No surprise, then, that one of its main points of emphasis this week is to keep its composure.CAN MOORE ELEVATE HIS GAME?Moore, a redshirt sophomore, has never face a defense the caliber of Houstons unit. He was ragged in the first half of a season-opening 28-7 win over Tennessee-Martin, but showed a lot of poise during the win at Purdue. Moore completed 19 of 32 passes for 250 yards and three touchdowns, and he ran 13 times for 71 yards and two more scores. 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The curse of Rio, otherwise known as Australian cyclings 2016 Olympics campaign, dealt perhaps its most vicious blows at BMX.Unlike the luckless road and track campaigns, everything had gone flawlessly for the BMX riders through qualifying and the mens quarter-finals.And in Fridays racing, Caroline Buchanan, Sam Willoughby and Anthony Dean won their opening semi-final races.But just as the Australian cyclists thought their fortunes might be in for a belated change, everything unravelled.After finishing fourth in the second ride, Buchanan crashed in her third semi-final and missed the medal race on a countback.Teammate Lauren Reynolds also failed to qualify.That left Willoughby, the 2012 London bronze medallist, and Dean.They were outstanding in the semi-finals, winning all their races and holding the best two start positions for the final.Willoughby mistimed a crucial jump and finished sixth, while Dean crashed and did not finish.The words cut-throat, cruel and unforgiving featured repeatedly as the five stunned Australians tried to explain what happened.It is cruel in the respect that you focus on yourself, you do your own thing all day, but theres no lanes, its full contact, Willoughby said.You watch other sports, track and field, swimming, something like a little mistake, you can recover from it.But here, its a shit show - thats what we all signed up for and thats what makes it good when you win.Willoughby admitted he had felt the pressure of being a medal contender.He also revealed a training crash six months ago left him with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in a knee, which he said was dangling.ddddddddddddIts been tough, Ive had to change the way I approach everything and Ive kept it under wraps, he said.I feel like I did everything perfect until the last hurdle.Once you were behind on this track, it was chaos.It was a day of wildly-fluctuating emotions for Willoughby and Reynolds, given American Alise Post won silver behind Colombian great Mariana Pajon, with Venezuelas Stefany Hernandez third.Post will marry Willoughby next year and Reynolds is her training partner.A tearful Buchanan admitted her disaster had shades of London four years ago, when she finished fifth after qualifying fastest.It does feel like a little bit of a repeat of London, but a different story, she said.I can hold my head high that I am a champion and Ive done everything I can.Im a fighter - Ive come back from London and I will come back again.Dean was similarly inconsolable, despite the London team reserve starring until the final.Its heartbreaking to end it like this after I was in the best form of my life, he said.American Connor Reynolds won the mens gold medal ahead of Dutch rider Jelle van Gorkom, with Colombian Carlos Ramirez taking the bronze from US rider Nicholas Long in a photo finish.Olympic cycling ends on Saturday and Sunday with the mountain bike races, where Australians are not expected to feature in the medals. 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