Mitch Cumsteen

Watching Newsmax and their snap poll had Trump winning the debate 93% to 7%. Ballgame.

Anyone who was on the fence before this is an actual moron.

Is Anderson really benched or are they just load managing a vet's snaps against a scrub team in a blowout? Brooks didn't get many snaps at S, either. I can't imagine they both don't play a ton against Florida.

They started out as a 19.5 point favorite against Tulane, and it's down to 14 now. You usually don't see lines move that much unless there is an injury to a QB. There has been a massive market correction on Oklahoma. I'm not even sure that offense can score 14, much less cover it.

That's not real. Legon Hoops vs. Legion Hoops.

I appreciate your passion about this but Sark said post game that the wind was costing them something like 7 yards on kicks and they wanted the wind at their back in the fourth quarter just in case. It made me appreciate his attention to detail and forethought. It also made me realize that we have come a long way since Charlie Strong kicked off both halves.

Even if they get past Florida, which I think is a coin flip, Arkansas is a hundred times better than they were last year. They are finally going to get one on a&m. After watching their first two games, I'm actually concerned that our game against them is going to be a bit of a dogfight. I know they lost to Okie lite, but they outgained them by 250 yards. Their qb is a problem especially if he gets out of the pocket. He accounted for almost 500 yards total through the air and on the ground. There may not be anything more hilarious this entire season than watching Bobby Petrino run a wide ass open offense up and down the field on a&m while the aggie faithful wonder where the hell that was all last year.

Michigan alum, right? Better than zero chance Sark killed Darth Vader Saturday afternoon. He saw that shit and noped the fuck out of the rest of the season. RIP

I'm not sure why we even play the starting QB at all. We should just go with the backup to avoid the threat of transfer and if he gets hurt, we can just put the starter in.

I don't care how terrible Florida looked against Miami or how much trouble their coach is in, A&M is absolutely putrid on the road. The last true road game A&M won was against Missouri in 2021. I can't believe they are laying more than a FG on the road against anyone, much less in the Swamp against a desperate Florida team that doesn't lack for athletes.

I would argue that he wasn't showing up OU that day. We could have put 70 on them if he wanted to.

Somebody mentioned up thread about how the timing of coaching changes and other teams shitting the bed has worked out for Sark in recruiting. FSU obviously being the latest example. But fucking A, how many other schools (I'm looking at you Bama, Ohio State, LSU, Georgia and even the fucking Aggies) benefitted from Texas sucking and botching coaching hires for a decade. This ain't luck, it's karma.

That route was nasty. He starts out with a little head fake toward the slant seemingly to set up the fade, and then breaks the fade off into an out. All of which creates separation and enough depth to drive the defender back into the endzone and still have room to come back for the ball. They ran that whip route with Worthy down there a few times, too. Just multiple ways to torture a corner who is singled up near the goal line. And the throw by Ewers is absolutely elite. He's sprinting out to his left and has to throw it across his body, and somehow places it into that window perfectly. There aren't many QBs who can make that throw when they're set. You can't throw that ball any better - perfect placement, perfect timing. Good luck to any corner trying to defend that. Beyond that, that play was a dagger. The game was for all intents, over. At 17-3, Michigan is probably thinking, "Ok, we had a bad half but we can regroup at halftime. We get the ball after the kickoff, and if we drive down the field and score a TD, it's a one score game." At 24-3, you start to think about how bad is this going to get in the second half and what do we have to do to avoid getting embarrassed.

The best part of their schedule bitching is after next year, when it rotates they are going to get Bama, Georgia, OU, Ole Miss, Tennessee and presumably us all in the same session. They got the cushiest sec schedule imaginable this year, avoiding 5 of the 7 currently highest ranked teams and catching what looks like a down lsu at home.

Tired: 10 year head start on playing sec big boy football. Wired: got to play in big dumpster fire but recruit under sec banner.

I'll be there close to halftime. I'm getting a hangover iv in my hotel room in a few minutes and watching the first quarter from my bed with the drip going. Watched texas best bama last year here too. Let's fucking go!

Vegas has them at 35 or 36, depending on where you look. That probably seems about right. I have no idea what to expect. If they played in the east, I'd predict a .500 record and playoff appearance but the west is too deep. Only Portland will be outright tanking from day 1. Obviously if Victor misses any significant time, they jump with both feet into the tank. And he's been playing essentially non-stop for almost two years running, so even if he's healthy I can see them load managing him and erring on the side of caution with even the most minor bump or bruise. But if he's healthy and continues on his trajectory, and they get 65-ish games of Chris Paul actually playing worth a shit? Then I think a playoff/play-in berth is on the table. I would be completely and utterly stunned if they made any significant trades to immediately improve the team. Anything they do will have the long game in mind. Along those lines and I hate to say it, but probably the best thing for them to do this year is another tank. Or even better, strike gold on the Atlanta pick. There looks to be potentially 5 franchise players in this draft. You put Flagg, Traore, Edgecombe, Harper or Bailey next to the young pieces they already have and you're set up for a dominating 10 year run.

Pretty stoked I can still sport my Brandon Paul jersey. If they could only sign another Poeltl who wears 25...

Say what you will about the Michigan writers being homers (and who isn't that covers college football), but they put out more real football content than any opponent I can remember. It's refreshing and appreciated. And they do have a point about their DTs. We saw last year what a dominant duo up there can do to an offense. To me, that's the ballgame. Handle those two, don't turn the ball over and don't do stupid shit on special teams and get the fuck out of there with a W.

Yeah, that 2022 Bama team had Will Anderson (#3 overall pick), Dallas Turner (#17), Terrian Arnold (#24), Koolaid McKinstry (#41), Chris Braswell (#57), Jordan Battle (#95), and Byron Young (#70).

Not only that but it wasn't the same combo. The route concept that Fresno ran, where the inside receiver also runs a curl allows the defender to come off his man and jump the route. In that same alignment against Texas, he would have had to follow the inside receiver downfield and cleared out the area.

I absolutely expected the LSU offensive line to control the game. It seemed like they finally started to get their running game untracked about midway through the third quarter, and then it just fizzled out. Maybe having Jayden Daniels doing crazy shit play after play last year covered up some of their weaknesses? I do think USC has made some major strides on defense. If they can be that competent week in and week out, I like them as much as anybody in the Big 10. They are always going to scheme well on offense, they have some real playmakers catching the ball, and Moss was impressive. The pieces can change so quickly in college football through graduation eligibility running out, early draft entrants, transfers, coaching moves, and straight up voodoo that it amazes me every year what I think I know about teams vs. what actually shows up on the field.

PSA: they sell Central Grocery's olive salad at HEB. At least they do at the one in San Antonio in Lincoln Heights on the rare occasion that they are open.

Their defensive line not dominating against the inexperienced ND offense has got to be an eye opener. If there was one thing that you thought you knew you could hang your hat on, it was that front being good. Especially after it was bolstered by the Purdue transfer. In the meantime, former 5-star Aggie recruit Anthony Lucas was doing this for USC against one of the more hyped tackles in the country: