You could say the same about my Pokes, the noncon schedule has proven to be putrid. The win at Baylor is impressive but their offensive style fits into our defensive strength, and it took hobbling their QB to slow down a Tech team that was throwing haymakers. But those two wins are def more impressive than TCU’s overall resume given OU (their signature win) is sheep-fucking baaaaaadd (hats off to y’all for Red River Shutout but damn I’ve never seen a sadder attempt at wildcat in my life).
TCU is another air raid team and Mason the DC better implement some press coverage because CMU/Tceh showed that a QB who can make quick reads against soft zone negates our strength at the DL. The defensive backfield is young and suddenly banged up, and continued the tradition of letting a backup QB in their first start look like Omaha Manning out there. So Duggan must be salivating.
Then again Sanders seems to finally be hitting his groove with a stable of WRs and a passable OL (both also banged up), and won’t wilt at the pressure of playing on the road. Suspect running game as Jaylen Warren ain’t walking back through that door, may be time to give Ollie Gordon some more snaps so long as he doesn’t fumble again.
I trust Gundy over whoever the coach is at TCU to make sound decisions under pressure so long as he can resist the voice of Les Miles School of Clock Management For Coaches Who Don’t Count Good. Special Teams are suddenly a strength as seen in the punt-driven safeties, KO TD and heads-up fair catch Saturday. Our S&C continues to be excellent as seen in the fourth last weekend. So the intangibles are there in a close game, as shown in recent years’ road-dog performances ATS.
Overall -3 TCU seems about right, essentially pick-em + home field for frog. It’s a huge game early in the conference season. Beating OU propelled Frog into the conversation but that’s suddenly about as impressive as banging FitLump. I’m suddenly worried about injuries and our performance against a motivated, aggressive Air Raid team was not confidence inspiring. However good teams find ways to win when everything isn’t going their way, and I actually consider this a tougher test than Baylor given offensive style…so it’ll tell us a lot about both teams.