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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.

Perhaps doesn’t want to be part of a 5 DT class?

Jackson Arnold and Connor Weigman will be competing for the starting QB job at Sam Houston State next season.

It’s time for us to experience the Chris Parsons Project.

As a runner, sure. As a passer, zero. Last year’s Michigan OL could probably enable Orji to effectively move the chains with his legs and dink pass his way to 20 points per game, but this year’s Michigan OL can’t maintain possessions and move the chains (to enable their elite defense to stay fresh). Not that USC is any great shakes, but I can’t see Michigan scoring enough points (24+) to beat USC tomorrow.

Florida vs. Mississippi State should not be allowed to be televised. One team has to lose though! This may be the best opportunity for both teams to get an SEC win all season, so there’s that….

This is shattering my silly hope that Cam Williams might stick around for the 2025 season at Texas. I was hoping for something of a learning curve season from Williams in 2024, enough so that he returned for the 2025 season to move up draft boards with more game experience. Alas, my hopes seem dashed. The probability that Texas has to replace all 5 starting OL next season is really increasing.

I assume the Texas OV for Owusu-Boateng is related to where Texas believes we stand with Faraimo.

He’s somewhat analogous to Isaiah Simmons from Clemson a few years ago. Simmons was a “hybrid” big Safety / OLB, and even played some ILB. Simmons was a defensive wrecking ball at Clemson but as a hybrid defender who basically didn’t fit a specific scheme / position / technique. He was basically “see ball, blow s**t up”. And Simmons, as an elite athlete with great college productivity, tore up the NFL combine and got drafted into the top of the first round. But once he landed in the NFL, he didn’t fit a fixed position and was cut by the Cardinals before getting to a second contract, and is now a back-up on the lowly Giants clinging to a roster spot.

I’d take Tennessee to cover the over by themselves.

After the home loss to Cal on Saturday, I would assume that Hugh Freeze will be doubling down on his recruiting tactics ($$$) on this one. Just a hunch.

Tennessee is likely to provide a very rude welcome to the SEC in a few weeks. And Josh Heupel won’t hesitate to run the score up on his old school given the way he was dismissed a few years ago. Should be fun times on the OU boards this season.

Why not both?? UOV one weekend, and OV the other weekend. That would give Texas fans two consecutive weeks of laughing at aggy meltdown posts.

Hudson had a varsity football offer, but chose to play JV instead (JV Joey, that is). That’s on him (and his handlers). The DoubleEagle guys funding the Tech football program are finding out that Maguire was little more than a trash talking high school football coach who talked enough smack to make believers out of them. And now the bill comes due.

ND can go to the playoffs even if they slip-up and lose one of the remaining games on their cupcake schedule, so they’re basically in the playoff at this point. Miami now gets two bites at the Playoff Apple and it’ll be interesting to see if Mario can screw them both up. Not only is Miami heavily favored to win the ACC championship to get to the playoffs (that’s the first bite), they are also likely to win at least 10-11 games with that schedule making them a potential at-large playoff team (bite #2) should Mario lose a game or two along the way. With FSU’s loss to GT, Clemson’s embarrassment against UGA, VT losing to Vandy, (and NC State likely to get crushed by Tennessee on Saturday), the ACC has almost a zero percent chance of getting an at-large playoff spot…with the exception of a 10-11 win Miami.

Maalik vs. Musk. That’s must see TV.

The weird thing about the private jet deal (Nicolas Air) is that the company is a huge NIL / booster of Ole Miss, and is based in Oxford, MS. The company has sponsorship ads all over the athletic facilities in Oxford, and have NIL deals with players like Jaxon Dart. Good for Quinn though!