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Arizona, where we do our own thing! We don't do the Daylight Savings one hour switch, so right now we are on California time (3 hours behind EST). When everyone does the Daylight Savings thingy we will be on Colorado time (2 hours behind EST). Unless of course you reside on the Navajo Reservation, where you do observe Daylight Savings, I think because their headquarters is in New Mexico even though most of the Rez is in NE Arizona. So the OU game will be on at 12:30 here.

The numbers are mostly lower than what he did last year at Auburn (see graph below). When I brought this up last week I was told not to worry, that guys like (either Golden or Mitchell, forgot which) had slow starts after transferring in but came on strong later. But both those guys had Quinn at QB and ran a lot of shorter and intermediate routes, so somewhat different situations. Teams seem to be either playing the 3 high safety look to take away the deep ball or blitzing and giving Arch little time to throw (haven't watched for this in detail but that's my impression). Anyway, table below shows Cam's numbers for 12 games at Auburn and 4 at Texas - multiply the Texas stats by 3 and you end up with 60 targets, 36 receptions (fewer than Deandre Moore had last season), 624 yards (!!) and 12 TDs. The TD number is excellent but the others are disappointing. There were two long passes that could have been big catches - the INT he tipped up against OSU and the play against Tennessee where the CB snatched it from him for another INT. Had he caught one or both of those that would add a lot of yards to his numbers. It's reasonable to speculate that he'll get better as the season progresses, more in tune with Arch, but I agree with you that he hasn't produced as expected thus far. Unleash Cam Coleman!

Announced that Mateer was fully healthy and guaranteed to start and the line shifted ?

Bringing them in for that marquee game vs Arkansas, I see. Clever. And if they enjoy that then they can return for the game against the Citadel in two weeks! Good times in College Station.

This post is from December 2025 so why are you digging it up now? Has nothing to do with our current CFP odds

I also wondered about the numbers, the sheer tonnage of data they collect and analyze in such a short time, so I dug into it a bit. 138 FBS teams and these are graded first. So a max # of 138 games if each played the same day against a non-FBS team (which is unlikely, but a hard ceiling). 69 games if all 138 played other FBS teams but there are usually a few teams with bye weeks or the games are spread across different days. And the games are spread across 3 or 4 viewing windows during the day so they can finish say an early game while the 2nd window game plays, then work on the evening game. So probably need roughly half as many graders as games played on the busiest day. You ask "Do they employ 1000+ skilled tape watchers?" Check this PFF Player Grades link (free), scroll down to the "Who is doing the Grading?" block and it says they have "600 full or part-time analysts, but less than 10% of analysts are trained to the level that they can grade plays. " So 60-ish graders and another 9-10 support guys per grader. What do the support guys do? I guess they do the grunt work of chopping up the videos so the grader can simply grade, maybe IDing players and formations, breaking plays down into run vs pass etc. I've exchanged messages with a guy who works part time for PFF and he said he was responsible for one task on every play - with multiple guys doing this it would free up a grader to simply evaluate by position. How much actual time is taken up by active plays in a 60 minute game? I've heard 12-15 minutes, surely less than 20 minutes. So if the All-22 is broken down right they can probably grade two games a day. You mention "100 total players in each game" but they would only do 22 per play and somewhere in that link I gave you it says most plays grade as neutral for most of the players so they can probably rip thru it pretty fast. I was skeptical at first but I can see how they can pull it off. Hope this helps. Not trying to carry water for PFF, just trying to understand it better. This was something I dug into a little (I had the same concerns you raise) and now I can see how it makes sense that they could do it that quickly with 60 trained graders. Whether you agree with their ranking results is a different topic.

From the free side of their site (I think) - "How PFF grades pass protection". Not what might seem intuitive to the casual viewer like me, but it's worth understanding what and why they are doing even if you disagree. I just started a subscription to PFF earlier this year and am still learning how they grade ... it's frustrating at times but usually there's a method to their madness.

Far too nuanced for your average Fan Site Expert, alas! Burn it down!

I agree we have a much better team than OU. They looked comically inept at times vs Georgia. But they hate us and will likely come out against us fully focused, angry and embarrassed, with a few tricks up their sleeves. if we are overconfident or caught looking ahead to Florida and LSU or a little flat - well it’s hard to imagine us losing but it will take longer to finish them off. Us old timers remember big games we should have won and didn’t. My worst memory as a fan was the year we went undefeated in the regular season, ranked unanimous # 1, had the Heisman and Outland Trophy winners plus Coach of the Year. Sports Illustrated posed the question “Is Texas the best college team ever?” We ate the rat poison and came out flat, fumbled several times and got crushed in the Cotton Bowl.

Rat poison

Are Aggies extending Elko if they cover the spread?

God might forgive Colin but 10% of the OTF subscribers apparently never will.

He got banged up (I think on the INT) and it looked like they were screening for possible concussion. Bishop played well in his place

And sports gambling, you can take credit for that too Bobby !

Tech seems willing to pay well-over market value when they ID a guy they really want. Recent examples include transfer edge David Bailey, whose offer was triple what most schools offered, and 5* OT recruit Felix Ojo. Supposedly Ojo was offered $5.1 million for 3 years even though he will most likely sit and “develop” for 1-2 years, and he was embarrassed by good edge rushers at camps before his senior season. No idea what the deal is with Edwards but that’s been the recent trend