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Huckleberry

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  1. This is absolutely true for the P4. But ESPN has never given and will never give the Big 12 a fair evaluation. The ACC was easily worse than the other 3. It was the SEC, then the Big 12 and Big Ten were pretty much even, then the ACC. Meanwhile the narrative is that the Big Ten is in the top 2 with the SEC and the ACC is a bit better than the Big 12. Both of those are laughably wrong. Revenue doesn't win football games, ask Texas fans over the last decade plus.
  2. SMU is definitely getting whipped in the trenches but it would be 14-10 with competent QB play for SMU. That failed 4th down was an easy touchdown if the throw wasn't 10 yards too far behind the TE (10 yards versus where a properly led throw would have landed). Sure he could have easily run for the first down but it was an easy TD. That's 7. Take away the pick sixes and Penn State is down to 14. Then the stupid throw in the red zone when the slant was blanketed cost them a field goal.
  3. The SEC isn't down this year. It's actually deeper than usual. There was just more attention on the full depth of leagues and conference schedules because of the stupid huge divisionless conferences.
  4. They actually got the participants exactly right. Arizona State should be higher than Boise State and Clemson is correctly the 12th seed. Really the main issues are caused by the conference tiebreaker mistakes. With a second loss they would have had Penn State behind Ohio State. Other differences are SMU higher, again can't say anything about Indiana being lower because they have an extra loss here. All in all their rankings algorithm is a shitload better than their gameplay.
  5. Honestly not as bad as I thought it would be.
  6. So I had too much time on my hands today and started a new dynasty where I forced the actual W/L results from the entire season. I will paste the final CFP rankings after the CCGs are simulated, here are the tiebreaker issues for CCG weekend: Big 12 - Arizona State is playing BYU instead of Iowa State in the CCG. MWC - Boise State is playing Colorado State instead of UNLV in the CCG. B10 - Oregon is playing Indiana instead of Penn State in the CCG Fortunately the winners are all correctly in the games so I will of course force them to win. Let's see how EA does on the final CFP rankings, so far they've been somewhat close with some strange errors here an there. For example right now Texas is #1 and Oregon is #2.
  7. So 513 in regulation? There are only 50 yards available in multiple overtimes with the current rules.
  8. They need to start calling unsportsmanlike conduct when tacklers stand over the opponent.
  9. They absolutely can run against Georgia. Texas fans have a seriously inflated view of Georgia's defense because of our two games.
  10. The percentage of times that defenders fall for the athletic QB reverse spinout is crazy.
  11. They can win a low scoring game against a Georgia team with an inexperienced QB. Not saying they will but they can. At least if the normal Georgia team shows up and not the defense that plays against Texas.
  12. To be a goal line DT sub you have to run at least 30 yards from the sidelineto team area to get in position.
  13. That's 95% on kev, but he would have never believed it for a second if it was most other coaches. So let's agree to always blame Lincoln Riley at least a little.
  14. Whoa that's a call I had not heard of. In college you're down when a non-hand or foot hits the ground. Had not seen that interpretation before.
  15. Yep, this exactly.
  16. Hahaha. Now they have a couple of plays. That should be reviewed. Clock was at 12 seconds when the play was over. Possession changed so it's a stopped clock.
  17. Wow what a terrible decision to slide.
  18. Yep, should have used a timeout there as soon as the play clock was behind the game clock.
  19. So do our opponents. Tremendous insight as usual.
  20. None of them. There was one possible outside zone that got blown up but I called it an inside zone for counting because it was hard to tell what it was supposed to be because the OL got beat so bad. Really our outside runs were pin and pull sweeps, a toss sweep. I also didn't count the snap through Manning's legs run for either category because it was clearly a one off kind of trick play. Also didn't count the outside zone that lost two yards because Wisner messed up the playcall. I counted three inside zones that were pretty clearly inside designs but others may disagree.
  21. The mugged LB is playing draw, the off ball LB has Wisner in man, and the walked up safety is reading run at the snap, he doesn't even look at Helm. As I said they were playing run at the LOS and deep pass behind it. I already stated what inside RB runs were. 14 for 56 overall. 5 for 0 on outside. The source is my eyes watching the run plays. And we have already agreed that the OL played terribly in the game. All I said was that if our OL played like they're capable of and we focus inside then we can run 30 for 120 on Georgia. Your argument is essentially that if you take out the most successful run and also mix up the stats with the terrible outside runs then that proves that Texas can't run inside on Georgia. At least that's the best I can guess at your point. By the way, if you take out the best outside run then Texas ran outside 4 times for -6 yards. There was clearly a difference between run targets.
  22. Look two plays before our only TD. I believe that was our only man-blocking-run-straight-at-them play all game (not zone, not power, no pulling OL). The only wrinkle was Helm crashing inside to double the DT. 7 yards. They didn't move the LOS 5 yards or anything but each one executed their block and it was an easy good gain. Two plays later three defenders are sucked up by RPO action and we score. It's not that our OL is completely physically outmatched against them. They can block them straight up or at least hold their own. What they can't do is block them while trying to read them on the move.
  23. Georgia did not concede that run. That run gave us 3 points to open the scoring. They had 3 down linemen, a mugged LB, an off ball LB, and a walked up safety who all were playing run at the snap to keep us out of field goal range. There is zero chance Smart conceded that, he wasn't going to be dumb and give up the first down but he was playing deep pass defense and run at the LOS. And even taking that out, we went 13 for 41 on inside runs with three of them blown up by complete OL whiffs. My initial point was that we can run for 4 yards a pop inside against Georgia if our OL gets their heads right and we've both just proven that. This team can't run for 6 yards per carry against them but you don't need to do that to win.
  24. We ran inside 14 times for 56 yards in the SEC championship game. We ran outside 5 times for 0 total yards. Drives were blown up by running outside for losses on first down, sacks, and penalties.
  25. Some of them are physically overmatched but they're also in their heads. They are waiting for something bad to happen so it does. It was clear early in the game that spreading them and running at them was the best chance we had on the ground. We were never going to run for 200+ like we do against lesser opponents, but running for 120 at 4 yards per carry would have been enough to win the game. We are not beating Georgia 41-30, we need to control the game and beat them something like 24-17. Which we can absolutely do but the OL needs to get their heads straight, WRs need to catch the ball, and if those two things happen then Ewers has a chance to play better which he also needs to do. Now let's all just hope we advance to where a third matchup would be a possibility.
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