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LSU, Missouri, Ole Miss…who’s next OU, Tenn? A&M loss to Notre Dame will hurt them in CFP rankings

CFP Worthy
Texas
Alabama

Not sure:
Georgia
Tennessee
OU

No chance
Missouri
Texas A&M
South Carolina
Florida
Kentucky
Arkansas
Auburn
Vanderbilt
Miss St

Are we on 4th string TE?

21-10 smu 2nd Q

Did not realize Shough is 25. Herbert, Shough once his backup, has been in the nfl for 5 years.

Why is Louisville in the Top 25? Looking at their schedule this year they sure don't deserve to be.

Just got fired from Purdue.

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Baylor has looked like the stronger team through the first quarter. Robertson is playing exceptionally well, and has a ton of time in the pocket to make his throws. He’s also really mobile. It’ll be tough to watch a highly recruited Lubbock native come back home to face the team that passed on him. While I’m confident we’re the better team, that storyline concerns me. They’ve shown up tonight with a different intensity and are surprisingly dominating a top 20 team on the road. Need their demise to get back on track…

Spoke with new offensive line offer Aiden Martin out of Tulsa (OK) Berryhill for his thoughts. He plans to visit for the game vs Baylor on the 19th.


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How’s everyone feeling? Good day with the families I hope.

+4 staying at Westin La Paloma.

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Rece Davis picked us as his Super Dog.

They actually had us as a game to pick at the end of the show. Marshawn Lynch picked us to win and then there were a couple of chuckles.

Both getting blown out at halftime by Vandy and WVU.

I think one or both of them come back to win their games outright, and if one doesn't win they'll be within 7 points.

Kind of a hot/warm/lukewarm sports opinion.

Game six, the mid-point of the season is already here. It’s gone by very quickly, but it’s reality. Tech is on a trip to Tucson, Arizona for a tough matchup. Let’s jump into what I’m expecting from the Wildcats on Saturday night.

The TMac Show

Hard to call the offense anything other than the TMac show. Tetairoa McMillan gets the ball more than anyone in the offense and its justified. He is the best offensive weapon Tech has faced thus far, and probably is the best one you’ll see until the Colorado game.

McMillan is a 6-foot-5 freak athlete that has a background in volleyball, which is apparent due to his very good ability at the catch point. He is a good mover as well, pretty much the complete package, and is a massive test for Tech this Saturday.

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McMillan has a great chemistry with Noah Fifita, the quarterback who stands at 5-11 and is dynamic within the pocket. Fifita is not a major threat to run but is an elite scrambler at the college level.

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Outside of those two, the ball will get into Quali Conley’s hands in the run game, who has taken a nice step up after Jacory Croskey-Merritt was ruled out due to NCAA questions. Dynamic runner but no better than what Tech has already seen.

The rest of the receivers are mixed bag, with the next best being Montana Lemonious-Craig, who is a vertical threat, but not a dynamic playmaker by any stretch. This offense really feels like it is TMac or bust, and that’s scary but also possibly good. We will all find out together.

Trenches

I’m a massive fan of the right tackle, Jonah Savanaiiea, who is without a doubt the best offensive lineman on this line. He is an NFL body with refined technique in pass protection, easy to project him to the next level.

The rest of the line is a mixed bag for me, Arizona’s interior is dealing with some injuries and went down to the third string right guard last week, with the best being the left guard Wendell Moe, a solid pass protector with a good frame.

My personal opinion of LT Rhino Tapa'atouati is that he is too slow to win outside of his frame while having some limitations with his length and arm size. I am personally not a fan, but he’s a polarizing topic in the scouting community.

On the D-line, my favorite is #3 Tre Smith, an NFL body who is having a nice start to the season after following his coach from San Jose State to Tucson. He has a pretty good get off and has very lengthy arms, allowing him to win with long arms and power rushes against tackles.

Defensive tackle #92 Chubba Ma'ae is a large body up the middle who plays pretty strong, but obviously isn’t like what we saw last weekend with Corleone.

Defense

The two best defenders are in the secondary, one much better than the other, in cornerback Tacario Davis and nickel Treydan Slukes.

Davis is going to be a high draft pick, an elite mover with a rare body type. It’s not every day that you see a 6-3 corner who can move, plays with physicality and is a menace to opposing receivers at the catch point.

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The nickel, Slukes, is an interesting player. A strong run defender and a pretty good athlete who is pretty active when defending screens. Physical player, and one that should be on the radar.

Arizona plays plenty of middle field closed defense from their 4-2-5 structure, lots of cover-1 and cover-3 with around a ~35% blitz rate, with not a whole lot of variances on down & distance.




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My wife and I are going to Tucson next weekend for the game and I’m putting together our agenda for the long weekend (Fri - Mon). For those that are familiar or those that are going, what’s on your agenda?

I pivoted our hotel reservation from one of the resorts in the Catalina Foothills to staying at Graduate Tucson right by UA. I wanted closer proximity to game, Saguara West NP and restaurants / bars.

I think I’ve got Friday / Saturday largely accounted for with reading by the pool, hiking in Saguaro NP and football. I’m mainly curious about restaurant recs and activities for Sunday. I’m debating driving up to Mount Lemmon on Sunday as I read the temps are 30 degrees cooler than in the desert floor.

Curious to hear what the rest of y’all are doing. Any hiking and / or food recs? Also, we are not golfers.

Curious how bad it’s going to get.

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They’ve already turned down 50% increase in pay and triple retirement contributions. Unions are legalized extortion.

I'm so used to Gundy turning it around after a bad start to the season that I just expect it. Ok State once again struggling down 17-0 in Stillwater to WVU. Amazing how much their O has regressed with pretty much same lineup as last year.

It goes without saying that Texas Tech since Joey McGuire took over has been less-than-perfect on the road. 3-8 is a ghastly tally that has gotten worse and one that we have to look at each week that this team prepares to embark to someone else’s house. It is almost like this has become the unthinkable, an unfathomable task that the Red Raiders go on the road and put together a complete game and walk out with a victory.

Early in Joey McGuire’s second season at the helm, he went forth to newly-minted men’s head basketball coach Grant McCasland looking for advice on being successful away from home. In his six seasons in Denton, McCasland’s teams went 43-32 when not playing at The Super Pit– this included a 10-3 mark in McCasland’s final campaign with the team.

Tighter huddles. More self-manufactured energy. Things to that nature. This was the response that McGuire got from the basketball side of things on campus.

The Red Raiders went until the penultimate week of the 2022 season without winning away from The Jones before finally exorcizing this demon and taking down Iowa State in a rough game in Ames.

Last season, the wait was much shorter as Tech took down Baylor in the best road showing the team has put up since McGuire took over, 39-14. A real drubbing in Waco.

The Red Raiders again got some sense of road magic when they went into Lawrence and defeated a ranked Kansas side on a last second field goal from Gino Garcia.

Tighter huddles, more self-manufactured juice. And truly, some luck and a vicious deep ball in the final minute to help you win against the Jayhawks.

Still, though, Texas Tech has been largely unsatisfactory on the road and this sent McGuire hunting down answers again. This time he went to Dan Campbell’s door, now-fourth year head coach of the Detroit Lions. Last season, which saw the Lions finish 1st in the NFC North for the first time in God knows how long, Campbell led the Lions to a 6-3 record on the road, including wins over the Chiefs and divisional rivals, the Packers and Vikings.

Make practice as much of a pain as you possibly can.

I may be paraphrasing, but this was essentially the result of said discussions between McGuire and Campbell. Calling flags at the most inconvenient times, for either side of the ball, making up rules, doing whatever you can to try and throw off the rhythm. Simulating what to expect on the road and doing it like twenty steps further.

Goes to show that McGuire went searching for answers in the right places.

So far this year, Tech has only had to make one trip away from the confines of West Texas, a disastrous loss to Washington State where the now-remarkable Red Raider offense only managed 16 points. But when the dust settled from the affairs in Pullman, McGuire’s main message was more focused on being better defensively.

It seems like every time this team has to make a trip, we as a collective make it out to be some sort of spectacle. I say all this above to conclude that taking this show on the road and winning is not some gargantuan task. But, the object of winning and winning on the road will be a concern until it isn’t. Do we collectively make too big a deal about this team playing on the road?

It is obviously a major concern within the building and this is evidenced by McGuire’s relentless hunt to give his team any sort of psychological advantage when they’re on the road.

I don’t think anybody will argue that Tech is likely the more talented team when comparing it to Washington State. That night, no Tahj Brooks was detrimental and in the weeks since I think we’ve all come to realize even more how much his presence actually means to this offense.

Tetairoa McMillan and the various playmakers at both tight end and in the backfield are going to be a problem. I don’t see any way McMillan doesn’t have a monster game, especially if the secondary is without Bralyn Lux.

It's all going to boil down to if this offense can play clean football and if your physicality is going to be up to the bar that UA set when it took down Utah in Salt Lake City. This offense has played plenty efficient at home, and you're ultimately looking to see if this can translate on the road, even more so now since Brooks is back at full tilt.

Talking about road games around here is like some sort of taboo. And maybe that won’t change until there starts to be more success in that regard. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for these kinds of contests to not be looked at under that gloomy umbrella.

10pm kick. What’s everyone’s plans for the game?

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So last Sunday I noticed a sore spot on the right side of my throat. It was noticeable but nothing major, felt like a canker sore. On Monday the entire right side was mildly painful and I figured it was a typical sore throat that would run it's course. It wasn't until last night that it became so painful I literally couldn't stand it.

Went to urgent care this morning and was diagnosed with strep and scarlet fever. Rosy cheeks and red splotches all over.

I'm on antibiotics now and already am feeling better, but I figured I'd throw out a PSA: If your throat hurts don't be like me and ignore it thinking it'll run it's course.

On TCU tickets begin… because I’m here for it!!!

Fvck the frog

There are some really good current and former coaches on here so I’d love your insight. So this has bugged me for a while, but I really noticed it this morning watching games. Keep in mind I could be the idiot here 🤣. Why do corners playing man seem to make no attempt to play the ball instead waiting until the receiver has caught it or about to catch it and try to strip it or knock it out of their hands? They are being coached this way because you see it everywhere. They are being coached to face guard on the fade and never get their head turned around. Why?