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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has approved the use of video replay review of on-field officials' calls during all 28 Division I-A bowl games.

The NCAA is allowing the use of video replays at all schools and conferences this season after the Big Ten used it for the first time last year.

Mark Womack, chairman of the NCAA's postseason football subcommittee and executive associate commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, said Thursday the use of replays during bowl games would create consistency with regular season games.

``It is the goal of everyone to have the best officiated bowl games as possible and we think instant replay will assist us in reaching that goal,'' he said.

Nine of 11 Division I-A conferences are using some form of video review this season. In July, the Collegiate Commissioners Association asked the NCAA to permit the use of the Big Ten's video review system in all bowl games.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE

(Conference USA games in bold.)

Saturday, Sept. 24:

   East Carolina at West Virginia 12:00 PM
   Marshall at Central Florida 6:00 PM
   Memphis at Tulsa 7:00 PM
   Southern Miss at Houston POSTPONED
   Tulane at Southern Methodist 8:00 PM
   Navy at Rice POSTPONED
   New Mexico at Texas-El Paso 9:05 PM

STANDINGS (through games of Sept. 17, 2005)

EAST DIVISION

TEAM                  C-USA ALL
UAB                    0-0   2-1
East Carolina          0-0   1-1
Marshall               0-0   1-1
Memphis                0-0   1-1
Southern Mississippi   0-0   1-1
Central Florida        0-0   0-2

WEST DIVISION

TEAM                  C-USA ALL
Texas-El Paso          1-0   2-0
Southern Methodist     0-0   1-2
Tulsa                  0-0   1-2
Tulane                 0-0   0-1
Rice                   0-0   0-2
Houston                0-1   1-2

LAST WEEK'S SCORES

(C-USA teams in bold; ECU opponents in red.)

Friday, Sept. 16:

Texas-El Paso 24, Houston 21 (2OT)

Saturday, Sept. 17:

   Wake Forest 44, East Carolina 34
   Texas A&M 66, Southern Methodist 8
   South Florida 31, Central Florida 14
   UAB 35, Jacksonville State 28
   Southern Mississippi 48, McNeese State 20
   Tulsa 54, North Texas 2
   Texas 51, Rice 10
   Memphis 59, Chattanooga 14
   Mississippi State 21, Tulane 14
   Duke 40, Virginia Military Institute 14
   West Virginia 31, Maryland 19

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