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Kick Coverage:

His 8 penalties lead the SEC (second in all of Power 5) - and they don't call 90% of his false starts.

Having a healthy Jordan Whittington and a stud TE in Sanders has been a huge help on third downs. Worthy was seemingly out there all by himself last year on 3rd and longs last season.

Texas - 37 OSU - 32 24 receptions for 297 yards

FWIW - Wykoff has graded out much better this year than Foster. Level of competition is certainly part of that - but Foster finished last season as shit and has continued being excrement this season.

Foster hurt too - or did they finally come to realize he sucks?

Gundy taking commitments from middle schoolers?

That should be 13th ranked Defense.

Yes - Texas has also had more 4th downs attempted against them than any other team in the country (thank you Tech). Texas .520 conversion rate allowed is 69th (nice) in the country. The absolute egg they laid in the Tech game is certainly skewing that stat. Against Tech, Texas allowed 6 out of 8 4th down attempts. The rest of the year Texas is allowing only 7 of 17 for a .411 conversion rate allowed (which would put them right inside the top 40). Texas defense on the year is 8th in Points Per Play Allowed. So while they do give up third downs (88th) - they have been able to limit explosive plays and force teams into long methodical drives.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say those two performances 'skew the numbers'. OU, maybe, just because their offensive game plan was shit and they basically gave up. But the performance against Alabama is close to what we've seen pretty much every other game except Tech. ULM - Texas gave up 10 points to ULM, Alabama is the only opponent who held them to fewer (7). The rest of their competition is Sun Belt so its hard to compare, but Texas defense went out and did their job. Alabama - Texas held Alabama to 20 points, that's 29 points below any other game this year where Bryce Young played. Alabama scored 24 in a game where they started a QB who had three turnovers and couldn't complete a pass. UTSA - Texas held UTSA to 20 points, 10 points below their second worst offensive performance and 16 points below their average for the season. Texas Tech - Texas defense shit the bed. Texas allowed Tech more than their average and couldn't get a stop at any point. West Virginia - Texas held West Virginia to 11 fewer points than the Mountaineers second worst offensive performance and 19 below their season average. Oklahoma - total fucking domination. Iowa St - was rough at times but Texas defense came up with stops and turnovers when they absolutely had to. Offense didn't have it this week and the defense did enough - kept it to 20 points.

Generally, yes. Prior to Iowa St Texas hadn't given up a 100 yard receiving game. Despite what gets posted in the game thread - this is a good defense. For all of the platitudes for Iowa St and Hutchinson, Texas only gave up 21 points. And on the season is only giving up 18.3 (good for 20th). Texas was 8th in DFEI prior to the Iowa St game. This defense isn't perfect and with true freshman in the two deep is going to give up some oops plays (like Austin Jordan allowing the long touchdown). But on the whole this defense has been very effective through 7 games.

His ability to get open is why he's a 'game-changer'. Finding soft spots in a zone defense is a skill. And he's got no problem beating man coverage when teams decide to go that direction.

No - because they are still all referring to the 'Defenseless Player' portion of the rule - which Dekkers was not.

This is all Big12 (min 20% snaps)

Texas through 7 games:

Texas vs. Iowa St.

JT Sanders was facing the Iowa St bench and possibly saying shit after the first kneel down.

Is this the dumbest bama team Saban has coached? They might drive him to retire.

Coach Choice not fucking around.

Already cost us the Tech game. And maybe Alabama.

Didn't he come back in on that last drive? Or maybe I heard the announcers say that.

Jamison and Watts are two of the better rated DB's in the Big12. I'll be interested to see the 'Time to Throw' numbers for Dekker - but on first watch it looked like he had all day to throw back there - not much a DB can do in that situation. The one big beat for the TD was on a true freshman. Quite a few of the XH receptions were him settling into the empty space in the zone.

99% sure he was yelling at JT Sanders. JT was facing the Iowa St sideline talking a little after the first kneel-down.

Also - our DL (at least on first watch) got zero pressure. Third down conversions are easy when you've got no one in your face (and Xavier Hutchinson).