Glass Joe

Aggy has to beat both Texas and UGA in successive weeks in order to make the playoffs. They can’t make it as an at-large, only as the SEC Championship game winner. This aggy team has lost its last two SEC conference games to So Carolina and Auburn. So, good luck with that.

Nah, his mother decided he’s going to play for Bo at LSU.

Hilson is also a Rosenhaus NIL client, correct?

This is the new late cycle go-to move by the NIL agents representing highly ranked recruits. Threaten to make a late cycle visit to a school with NIL coffers, and force the current school to pay-up to prevent the violence from happening. We paid Ffrench and Myron Charles not to visit Florida this weekend, and LSU just did likewise with Phillips and Zion.

JJ Kelly and Limas Sweed holla!

“Truth” - Jaden Rashada

I don’t think that is what the Committee is saying at all. I think the Committee is saying the 1-loss Big Ten teams are more deserving of a playoff spot than the 2-loss SEC teams. And as long as the Big Ten has four teams that all finish at 11–1 or 12-0, than those four teams are getting into the Playoffs.

Again, look at Penn State. They have 1-loss (to OSU) and they are still ranked #4 and ahead of all the 2-loss SEC teams. Indiana’s resume will be exactly the same as Penn State’s after they lose to Ohio State this Saturday. Why would a 1-loss Indiana with the exact same record and loss as Penn State fall behind all the 2-loss SEC schools. And do you really think the Committee (a TV-based organization) is going to allow 5 SEC teams in and only 3 Big Ten teams, especially by purging a 1-loss Indiana? I sure don’t.

You could apply to same logic to Penn State as well. One loss @ home to Ohio State, and zero wins against any ranked opponents while not even playing Oregon or Indiana. That said, the Committee has Penn State sitting at #4 (ahead of many 2-loss SEC teams) and Indiana at #5. That suggests to me that even if Indiana loses to Ohio State, they will still be in line for an at-large spot with only one loss and being from a P2 conference.

D.Moore never came back in after the 3rd down pop pass (for a 3 yard loss) in the first quarter. I do believe he was injured on the play. At halftime, he came out early to work with the Texas trainer to test if he could go in the second half, but they decided “no”. He was stretching both his hamstring and neck, so I assume it was one of those things injured.

All Drew Rosenhaus clients.

Maybe the DK Moore nugget makes a bit more sense now?

Maybe we can get his mother to do another thought-provoking interview with DK and post it on ON3 network to clear things up. 😂

While I agree with what you’re saying (it’s the crew, not necessarily Mar personally), the pattern I’ve always noticed with Mar’s crew is they throw way too many flags early in the game (which irritates all parties very early in the game), and therefore the bad vibes get more pronounced as the game goes on. Then, the boiling point is achieved. Last night, BYU’s Sitaki through a career-best tantrum at Mar for the way the first half ended. But, by games end, the Utah AD was publicly questioning his school’s membership in the Big 12. Let that sink in. And all of it lands at the feet officiating crew leader - Kevin Mar. Yet again. At some point, you have to question whether Mar & crew bring a uniquely incompetent approach to officiating a football game, or it’s something more nefarious (a crew following the wishes of their conference leadership)? Either way, it can’t be a recurring coincidence that it’s always the same crew. Every.Single.Time. Assuming it’s not the more nefarious cause, Yormark has to seriously consider not allowing Mar and crew to call another game for the Big 12. It’s gotten to the tipping point of compromising the integrity of the game, and that is a line the Big 12 can’t afford to cross (lest their TV partners abandon them). Mar & crew have single-handily inflicted incalculable brand damage to Big 12 football. Again.

Maybe this is why Brett Yormark dispatches the Kevin Mar ref crew to the most critical Big 12 games down the stretch. Kevin Mar is an insurance policy against the Big 12 getting left out of CFB Playoffs and the paycheck that goes with it.

Never allow Kevin Mar to referee a college football game at any level.

Bruce Pearl…perfectly on brand. It’s amazing they still allow that scumbag to represent an institution of higher learning…even Auburn.

Cecil Cherry? 😂

Texas beat #10 Notre Dame in September 2016, so the graphic above isn’t accurate. 8 years * 365 = ~ 2,900 days

Something to keep in mind with ADOT…it only measures the vertical yardage of a pass target. For example, a 15-yard seam pass from the QB to a WR inside the hashes is roughly a 15-yard ADOT pass by the QB. However, it doesn’t measure horizontal distance of a pass thrown.. For example, on Quinn’s 3-yard TD pass to Matthew Golden, he threw the football on a dime from a distance of 36 yards to Golden. The far hash to the front pylon of the end zone = 36 yards. However, ADOT only counts 3 yards of those 36 yards, while the other 33 yards are not counted in ADOT. While fans talk about ADOT and Ewers, it’s probably worth noting that opposing defenses need to defend the entire field (horizontal and vertical). The swings and check downs to RBs outside the numbers (hitting them in stride) are typically longer distance passes than many of the slants, RPOs, Mesh routes, skinny posts, and seam passes that so many other college QBs get much of their ADOT credit for. If you measure the average WIDTH of a pass target, it’s still yardage that the defense must defend against. I think Sark understands this, and leverages it. (Note: nobody understood the geometry of offense better than Mike Leach). Texas is currently #17 in college football in passing yards per attempt at 8.5 YPA. Last season, Texas also had 8.5 YPA for the season. On Saturday, Quinn was averaging over 10 YPA for 3 TDs in the first half (then fell off in the 2nd half to finish at 7.7 YPA). We are also the #14 passing efficiency offense in college ball. For me, it’s certainly informative that Quinn’s YPA is down by 25% since he returned from injury (to 6.4 YPA), which may point to (1) lingering injury, (2) opposing defenses now playing 2-deep Safeties, (3) poor pass protection in the last few games, or (4) some combination of all of the above. Personally, if we are a top 17 team in producing yardage every time we run a pass play (YPA), and also a top 14 team in passing efficiency, than I really don’t care if we generate those yards by throwing more risky downfield passes against two high Safeties or by throwing swing pass / check downs to RBs in the flats and letting them get the YAC provided by the defense’s two high Safeties playing so deep. The net result is 8.5 yards, and how you achieve them really doesn’t matter.

Texas fans need to root for Penn State over Ohio State this weekend, and SMU over Pitt. Sure, an unexpected upset always helps (SCar over aggy, Louisville over Clemson, or even MSU over Indiana), but the top two games would go a really long way to helping a 10-2 Texas get a playoff bid. I think a worst case scenario for Texas will be battling a 10-2 Tennessee for the final at-large spot. I’d narrowly favor Texas in the scenario, but it’ll depend on if there is even an available final at-large to apply the comparison.

I assume aggy will be hard to beat if Fasusi drops OU?

If Texas finishes the regular season as the #2 team in the SEC, but then loses in the SEC Championship game to UGA again, I highly doubt Texas would get jumped by LSU (as the #3 regular season finisher in the SEC). I really don’t think the Playoff committee will penalize a team for a loss in a conference championship game. The Committee is not obligated to use the team’s overall record as the decision making criteria, particularly when one team has earned the extra game by making the conference championship game (13 games played versus only 12). The challenge for LSU when it comes Playoff time is that they may be 10-2 with a neutral site loss to a bad USC team and a road loss to 10-2 aggy, while their best wins would be over 3-loss teams at home (Ole Miss, Bama). That would put LSU behind Texas, UGA, and likely Aggy in the SEC pecking order…competing with a 10-2 Tennessee for a 4th spot for the SEC in the playoffs.

Maybe two Boobie visits?

KD made it to the Colorado - KSU game last night, so he should be able to make it to the Texas - UGA game too.