RE emotion for this game. Here is a clip from the Brooks TD that tied the game. Quinn is about as calm as they come and showed this type of emotion as did others when big plays happened.
If anybody can GIF this I would love to use it. @immamac
'01, '02, and '08 were all one score losses that kept us from winning the B12. That's as much luck as it is anything and Mack didn't have a whole lot of that as evidenced by being 1 play each season from going back to back in 08/09 and 3 in 5 seasons.
What would Saban's narrative looked like if Colt doesn't get hurt in '09, Ok State doesn't get snubbed in '11, or tOSU gets to play ND instead of Bama in '12? He would have won 0 championships in his first 6 years if the stars didn't align so perfect.
As for time remaining for OU to drive for a score, the officials made their biggest gaffe of the day when Worthy knocked Bowman out of the game. They took an officials timeout with 2:35 left but never restarted the clock once play was ready to resume saving OU a timeout and :30 seconds of game time. We all know Sark was ok with a field goal at this point so its fair to say we would have snapped the ball with around 2:05 left and either ran the same play for a sack or ran brooks up the middle. Venables didn't call a timeout 30 seconds after our 3rd down play which was an insane thing to do in its own right. So with 1:29 we run play 3 and get into FG range and kick with 1:22 left after the OU TO leaving 1:17 left. If the officials restart the clock with 2;35 left we could have been looking at taking the lead with around 48 seconds left instead of 1:17. Even with prevent defense this would have been a FG to tie at worst, sending the game to overtime if they were successful.
If the game plays out the same with Official starting clock:
2:35 Bowman Hurt
2:05 Snap 1st down
1:58 Play concludes
1:28 Snap 2nd down
1:21 play concludes and Venables calls TO #2 at 1:00
1:00 Snap 3rd down
:53 Play concludes and Venables calls TO #3
:53 Snap FG attempt
:48 FG good
NCAA rule in spoiler:
We will be dissecting this set of downs until the rematch in Arlington but running the ball there accomplishes two things which I know have been talked about ad nauseum but alas
1. They were forced to use their last timeout and make the full length drive that much harder. Which did ended up being a moot point.
2. Auburn's career long was 49 yards against Rice this year and he was 3-6 coming into this game. This also moved the ball to the middle of the field to make a FG attempt easier.
If Sark attempts a pass on 3rd and 9 and it goes incomplete then OU has one timeout remaining and it forces Auburn to hit a 51 yarder from the left hash. Worse case scenario is they bring pressure and QE has to take a sack and the FG attempt is 55+.
If either a sack or incompletion forces an Auburn miss then Sark would be eviscerated here for making those calls. Even though I do think he should have thought more about going for it on 4th down.
Herman made it through Red River with less than 2 losses exactly once just like Sark. Herman was 1-4 vs non con P5 teams and Sark is 1-2 currently with Arkansas being the only indefensible. With the Bama/Georgia wins canceling each other out I think they're in the same exact spot. Through their 3rd OU game which coaches trajectory feels/felt like it was trending correctly? For me that's Sark without a doubt.
The 5 times a B12 team has made the playoffs they've all had 1 loss. The only time a B12 champion has been left off was due to there not being a championship game in '14. That includes losses to 5-7 Texas, 7-5 ISU, 9-4 Texas, 8-4 KSU, and 10-3 KSU.
If this OU team is as amazing as they're being made out to be here then 12-1 Texas gets a top 3 seed with 0 debate.
We had 3 turnovers, twice the penalties/yardage and lost our starting center on the 2nd drive. Yet we were leading with a minute left and needed 1 play on either of the last two drives. These losses happen to everyone at some point in the college game.
They got every break imaginable from the very beginning. The fact that we had the lead with 1 minute shows this is just plain wrong. Play that game 100 times in a row and that's the only one we lose
NSIAP. The land thieves deserve an ass whooping that makes 49-0 look compassionate because of this picture alone. I would say the state of Oklahoma deserves better but blatant debauchery is right up their alley. Texas by 80.
My comp for him has always been mahomes because of throws like this. His success at the next level will be dependent on where he ends up. Somebody like the Rams would be preferable if Stafford has a year or so left and McVay sticks around long term.
Since getting back from injury in the RRS last year Quinn has now played a full season + bowl worth of games and is 10-3 while throwing for 3176/23/6 and adding another 6 TDs on the ground.
If he keeps up his current rate this season and we reach the CCG he will finish around 3530/26/3 with 13 TDs on the ground. I am assuming the rushing TDs trend doesn't hold so it will likely get to 30+ TDs in the air and ~7 on the ground.
Unless USC stumbles multiple times in the regular season the Heisman will belong to Caleb Williams again. Can Quinn get to NYC with a Big 12 title, 3500 yards and ~40 TDs, and 11+ wins?
Not so sure about that. He got a double in his salary and gets to upgrade lifestyle. He is also on the record as not wanting to coach too long. USC would have been a no brainer for any coach regardless of conference affiliation.
Was on a long drive today and ran out of pods so I listened to this all the way through. Listening to Billy talk medical is pretty painful but he said the SEC grind is to blame for the aggie QB injuries and not the OLine. No mention of Tech rolling through QBs or any other school with an atrocious line.
Even though he never quite said it his theme was in line with "if the other teams lose their QB a&m has a great shot because Max would start for more than half the SEC". That's the only hope he's holding onto that this team doesn't go 7-5.
Johnson on this aggie team will likely lose to every team that has a qb better than him. He's just not gonna be able to take over and make up for secondary/OLine deficiencies.
Remaining games and QBs
Arky- Jefferson > Max
Bama- Milroe with open offense > Max
Tenn- Milton = Max until he proves different
Scar- Rattler > Max
Ole Miss- Dart > Max
Miss State - Rogers > Max but Miss is a mess
ACU- lol
Lsu- Daniel's >> Max
They could go 5-7 in a blink. But 7-5/8-4 is most likely with the way things usually go for them.