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WVU - They'll be really good if literally no one gets hurt: https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/6/7/17418580/west-virginia-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster

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WVU is going to start with a pretty awesome starting 22. There is star power at QB (Grier), WR (Jennings, Sills), OL (Cajuste), LB (Long), and safety (Askew-Henry, Robinson), and another batch of exciting transfers is arriving, too.

You don’t usually keep your intended 22 on the field the entire year, though, and where the injury bug bites will determine much of WVU’s success. Depth issues are impossible to describe with certainty because we simply don’t know how much it will cost a team.

S&P+ sees two pretty likely losses (24 percent win probability against OU, 29 percent at OSU) and two likely wins (82 percent vs. Kansas, 90 percent vs. Youngstown State). The other eight games are projected within 7.1 or fewer points. A team with Grier, Sills, etc., could survive just fine — the Mountaineers had won three straight one-possession finishes when Grier went down, after all.

Because of depth and this ridiculous schedule, there might not be a more mysterious team in the country than WVU. Theoretically, 3-9 and 10-2 are on the table.

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  On 6/7/2018 at 2:02 PM, texifornia said:
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Thankfully we play them in November. They'll be the most interesting squad in the Big 12 next year. As long as Grier stays healthy, they'll put up a ton of points and if their defense stays healthy, it could be just barely be not bad enough to cause them to lose games in the Big 12. However, the odds of them all staying healthy are low and if they suffer even a couple bad injuries on defense, they'll become a total sieve.  They may have the largest range of realistic outcomes of any team in the conference. 

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The Eyes of Texas: Let’s talk a little football

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That's all I've got for now 😕 Not much summer workout news from the $9.95-ers yet

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Mike Blackwell: Texas defense should thrive against unproven quarterbacks

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Personally, I am going to be quite surprised if Kyler Murray plays a down for OU going forward. Guy just went 1st round in MLB draft, with a 4+million figure being waved at him. He is not an NFL type talent, and should take the money and run. And can't see any MLB team that would allow him to play college football with that kind of investment.

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  On 6/8/2018 at 5:50 AM, ausjala said:

Personally, I am going to be quite surprised if Kyler Murray plays a down for OU going forward. Guy just went 1st round in MLB draft, with a 4+million figure being waved at him. He is not an NFL type talent, and should take the money and run. And can't see any MLB team that would allow him to play college football with that kind of investment.

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You know, somebody ought to start a thread on this.

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  On 6/8/2018 at 1:13 AM, satyanash said:

The Eyes of Texas: Let’s talk a little football

 

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 That's all I've got for now 😕 Not much summer workout news from the $9.95-ers yet

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If the coaches want to keep everything locked down, that's fine by me. I'll be impatient, but also have to respect how well they've plugged the leaks.

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https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/6/8/17420264/texas-tech-football-2018-preview-schedule-roster

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Because of the extreme returning production on defense, and the extreme lack of it on offense, Tech’s S&P+ projections are ... interesting. The Red Raiders are expected to move up to 47th overall, which makes sense, but they’re projected to fall to 63rd on offense and rise to 39th on defense.

Based solely on recent history, it’s hard to imagine both of those things happening. But ... what if only one does? If the offense craters to average levels and the defense doesn’t make another jump, then Tech probably only wins about three games in 2018.

But if the defense is indeed at a top-50 level, combined with the typical Good Kingsbury Offense? Then basically every game on the schedule is winnable.

That makes Tech awfully intriguing, even if the overall S&P+ projection of 6-6 with a bunch of tight games (seven projected within 6.8 or fewer points) is still the most likely scenario.

It does feel like Kingsbury can’t afford another down year. With a typically good offense and the most experienced (and, sadly, proven) defense he’s ever had, he’s got a chance to finally stand out.

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  On 6/8/2018 at 1:17 PM, texifornia said:

If the coaches want to keep everything locked down, that's fine by me. I'll be impatient, but also have to respect how well they've plugged the leaks.

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There's also not much to say right now, as the summer session started yesterday and it's barely been a week since most of the players made it to campus.

That said, TFB is saying that Moro Ojomo looks college-ready already and all the sites have said that Joseph Ossai is impressing early. closetojumping was saying the same thing about Ossai based on wherever he gets his info, so take that for what it's worth.

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https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-12-football-2018-predictions

Athlon with some interesting Big 12 predictions:

  • Picks OU to win the conference, picks Texas 2nd at 9-4 (6-3)
  • Optimistic on Baylor, not so much on Tech
  • Doesn't think our WR unit is in the top half of the conference, but our OL is.
  • They seem to think highly of our LBs. All three of our defensive units are ranked first in the conference.
  • Hager, Calvin Anderson, Orlando, Herman, and Gary all get some individual appreciation
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  On 6/8/2018 at 1:04 AM, Machinator said:
 

Yes to everything but the sweet tea.. 

I'm a half n halfer if tea must be drunk, otherwise no reason to wash it down with anything but Shiner Bock.

 

 

 

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IT offseason notes:

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  On 6/9/2018 at 2:42 PM, Machinator said:

I don't care that Moro Ojomo is 16 right now. He came in at about 10% body fat. He's mature, already powerful, and very quick off the ball. It will be easy to assimilate him at defensive tackle in four-man fronts, which we'll see a lot of.

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Are folks expecting to see our defense run a lot of four-man fronts? 

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