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Duane Moore

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  1. I know. Kind of like the strange new respect I developed for Lincoln Riley after he left OU and took a bunch of players with him.
  2. I’ve heard over the years about how pissed Penn State is over Texas being declared the champion by Nixon, but didn’t know they turned down a chance to play the UT-Ark in the Cotton Bowl. So fuck them.
  3. That is so frustrating. I realize we give up some push and physicality with Majors and Conner in exchange for experience and cohesion, but Campbell should be a friggin’ road grader at his size and in his third year.
  4. What’s the record for most schools in a CFB career? JT Daniels has to be up there.
  5. Milroe looks like Tebow with a better arm. Which might make him Anthony Richardson.
  6. I know every team at this part of the season can engage in this exercise to some extent, but just think of how much more consistent and efficient this offense would have been with a healthy Baxter and Bond all year. I think if we had Cam Williams for the ASU game it would have helped our run game enough to stave off the late comeback. College football has always been a war of attrition, but now that it takes 17 games to win a national championship, consistently great recruiting to build depth is more important than ever. We’ve just stacked four straight top-5 classes, so we are well-positioned to keep competing at the highest level going forward.
  7. Oh God, you’re going to give me flashbacks to the 2021 OU game. Our D may have improved a little against the counter since then, thankfully.
  8. I heard on one of the OTF podcasts that ASU had a 13/2 TOP advantage in each of the 1st and 3rd quarters.
  9. Saguaro talk not going away . . . One reason I have for optimism about this game is that tOSU has developed their recent “juggernaut” reputation by blowing out two teams straight from the jump and coasting from there. They went up 21-0 on Tennessee in the 1st quarter and were up on Oregon 34-0 with 8 minutes left in the half. Texas, for all its faults putting teams away, typically gets off to good starts in games. Our defense can get worn down in the 4th quarter due to lack of support from the offense (ASU game) or give up points early when the offense turns it over and repeatedly gives up short fields to the other team (1st UGA game), but no team has just marched up and down the field on this defense in the first half all season. We have to get production from the offense in the first half and not turn it over, but if we do, it should be a game going into the 2nd half, and then things should get real interesting. There’s a reason the spread is 6 points and not 12-14 like the talking heads seem to see this game.
  10. Shaw is built like Albert Haynesworth, but to date in his career he’s played like the unmotivated Haynesworth and there hasn’t been much of the Big Bert who would show up to play his home state South Carolina while at Tennessee, or in his contract year with the Titans that got him the big deal with Washington. Early on in this season, his third year in college, he wasn’t even starting. That Chapelboro article above makes it look like the light may have finally come on for him, and if so, he’d be a great addition to this defense next year.
  11. TL;DR version:
  12. UGA looked like they figured something out on that drive.
  13. Agree, very distinctive portrayal of a character that’s been done dozens of times over the years. What you might think a medieval Magyar noble would look and sound like if he was undead. Similar to the aesthetic of Gary Oldman in Coppola’s version, but more decrepit and corpse-like. Skarsgard is even less recognizable in this get up than he was as Pennywise. Overall, I’m in the “good not great” camp as a total movie. Worth seeing if you like the original Dracula story.
  14. I mean, aren’t the “national standards” the NCAA Rules that define targeting?
  15. As others have pointed out, an interesting dynamic going into this one as it is the first game all season that we’ve been a betting line underdog going in. Were we a favorite against Washington last year in the CFP? If so, the Alabama game in September of 2023 might be the last time we were an underdog. Hoping we will respond to the challenge the way we did that night, particularly the offense, where Quinn actually hit a couple of deep balls, and we ran the ball down their throats to end the game. When our running game is clicking, our whole offense is so much more consistent and supports our defense. That HAS to happen for us to have a shot in this game. That having been said, the only defense we’ve seen comparable to this one is UGA’s and they shut our running game down, so I’m not real optimistic about this one. Jim Knowles plays the three-high look that has given Sark fits over the years, with a great DL and safeties. They also have the best passing attack we have seen by far this year, so unless they try to be stupid and prove their manhood by running at us over and over, they are going to score some points. I think they probably learned their lessons against Michigan that that approach isn’t their strength. Maybe it will help our offense to know that they can’t depend on the defense to bail them out over and over.
  16. Yormark is still a little bitch:
  17. This is where I am. It was a shit throw and if our DB’s had played even D+ defense they intercept it or knock it down, and we put the game away without another peep from Skattebo. Credit him for what he did after that point, but it all should have never happened.
  18. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like Quinn threw for 74% of his total yards on the first drive + last 5 minutes + OT. 77 on the first drive and 161 at the end. That’s nuts.
  19. Question: Are we better off going forward winning the way we did (where Quinn makes 3 clutch throws for scores in OT) rather than if Auburn had hit the game winner in regulation?
  20. There’s a good chance we win the “Most Entertaining Playoff Game” award for the postseason. Hang the banner!
  21. Damn, our defense was out there for 97 plays. Glad we have a couple extra days.
  22. Time to switch over to the Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy
  23. This game was the platonic ideal of a Quinn Ewers game. Absolutely dazzling at the beginning and end with a bunch of lackadaisical throws and head-scratching decisions in between. It’s what makes him so frustrating because you can see the talent is there.
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