That’s probably who would have been in. But you never know what those clowns would have done.
And I agree, I’m sure the “bye weeks hurt” crowd will be out in full force.
Yeah I’m not buying the “bye” argument, especially in college football. These teams have 3 or 4 week layoffs every year between their last regular season game and bowl game.
Stockton threw the ball better than I expected, but his inability to identify pressure was a large reason Notre Dame won.
You have already surrendered, eh?
ETA: I have had enough of this targeting “controversy.” The latest article said it was a pro-SEC no call. By Big 10 officials? There was no flag on the play. The primary contact was with Taaffe’s chest, and face mask to face mask contact too. Once upon a time that was a perfect form tackle, but now it generates conspiracy theories.
They also did not call targeting on the ASU hit on Bond as the ball was being intercepted. Watch that one on replay. No media outrage on that hit, and there has been no mention of 77’s picking Mr. MVP up and throwing him into the end zone in OT1.
Fuck the haters. I am going to stop reading.
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I haven’t. Texas has not been at their best on offense. Ewers frustrates me because he often refuses to unleash the ball instead of throwing the floated passes. But Texas defense is the best one Ohio State will have seen. Peak Texas is every bit as good as Ohio State. The only question is will peak Texas show up?
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And, I guess, will peak Texas show up for all 4 quarters. They dominated the first half against Georgia and Clemson, had a big lead vs ASU, all 3 they let it slip to different degrees. Georgia they didn’t take advantage of their dominance. Clemson they took the foot off the gas. And ASU the offense couldn’t stay on the field. Do that against Ohio State and they will lose.
No argument from me.
Ewers is widely condemned, but he won that game.
Bring on Ohio State. I want to see our secondary matched up against their wide receivers. I highly doubt Coach K will allow Smith, Egbuka and company to have free releases and run wild like Lanning and Oregon did.
If the Texas’ offense from the Clemson game shows up, it will be a very good game.
If both teams play their very best game, Ohio State wins.
But Ohio State’s variance has been a whole lot wider than Texas’s. There’s a much better chance of the Horns showing up with their best game than there is for the Buckeyes.
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I don’t think I agree with this. If Quinn Ewers plays his best game, at Alabama last year, Texas can absolutely beat Ohio State. Will he, there’s no indication that he will but it’s possible.
I think it’s a combo of Sark not going in to his “run on first down, 2 long passes” gameplan when Texas gets ahead and Ewers playing to his strengths more than anything else.
The short to mid passing game is where Ewers is at his absolute best, and Sark gets away from that every game Texas gets a decent lead. Starts taking shots and panic plans when the run gets stuffed on first down. This team has weapons everywhere, and Happy Feet Ewers panicking when pressure gets close while trying to develop long routes and lobbing the ball 40 yards downfield is the worst way to use them.
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Having rematches of the SEC/B1G Conference Championship Games would have been weird.
I realize many football people consider Sark to be a savant, great play caller etc., but it’s my impression that defensive coordinators too often seem to have Sark dialed in. That offense likely has 7+ future NFL players on it, but the results don’t reflect that.
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He gets way too cute way too often
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Sark is a good offensive mind, but he’s a lot like Kyle Shanahan. Like Shanahan, Sark loves his eye candy, misdirection and creative formations, but he falls in love with it at times.
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Dang, how can you be such a downer and so wrong? Football coaches say one thing about him, and you say the opposite. I cannot decide what or who to believe.
You really think he gets the most out of the talent on that offense? Just saw that Texas’ ranking for points/quarter are:
Q1 - 9
Q2 - 9
Q3 - 65
Q4 - 61
Seems to support the idea that DCs figure him out as the game progresses.
Or that they have held many halftime leads and are trying to grind out the clock.
The goal is not to score as many points as possible, it’s to have more points when the clock hits 0:00
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A similar goal is to not give the other team a chance to catch up to your number of points
The only game this season in which Texas didn’t have the lead at halftime was the regular season Georgia game, and Texas outscored Georgia in the second half (and still didn’t come close to beating Georgia’s first half scoring).