Game Week Thread Game Week- Iowa State

[Wulaw Horn 18980]

What a joyful week this is to be a longhorn fan. 

What we just did to OU is illegal in 38 states. They’ve lost 3 in a row and are staring at 4-8. I fully expect them to be a dog to a Kansas team that doesn’t even have their starting QB ready to go. 
 

aggy has lost their last 2 and goes into their bye at 3-3. They just played Bama with Bama starting a shitty 3nd string QB, the woefully inept BOB calling plays, were absolutely gifted a shitload of TO’s, watched Bama miss two chippies and still they managed to do what aggy does and cocktease their fan base before ultimately failing to win. It’s a long turdition for those jokers in dysfunction junction. 
 

But, most importantly we are seeing what it looks like when an elite play caller in Sark  (1A or 1B to Lincoln Riley) has a serviceable OL to go along with future day 1 draft picks at LT, TE, RB, WR and most importantly QB. Do you realize we haven’t had a first round draft pick on offense since VY went #3 overall in 2006?  Yeah- that’s about to change and in a big way.  We saw it for a quarter against Bama, who was absolutely shredded by the mulleted one before he got broken in half. Now- we saw it against our biggest rival, who had no answers for what was coming and decided to open up a can of quit and run clock from the beginning of the second quarter on. 

if you want to feel joy about the defense I’m not going to stop you. The guys on the headsets are still on probation in my mind, and unlike the Offense that has day 1 draft picks everywhere I don’t see a ton of talent. Except maybe on the interior DL- which is really playing pretty good football. We shut out OU. That was awesome. They are awful offensively. Like I said- I’m not going to steal anyones joy that wants to be excited about the defense but I still see no more than good as their ceiling/upside whereas that’s the absolute basement for a Quinn Ewers led offense. 
 

Next up?  Corn aggy. I have no hate for ISU. They are my second or third favorite team in the conference alongside Gundy at OSU. But we owe them a smooth buttfucking. They’ve been chirping about 5 star culture while we’ve been down. We aren’t down on offense anymore. It’s time that we reminded them what 5 star talent really looks like. They haven’t seen that at Texas in 15 years. They’ve forgotten. It’s cute they think they have a pretty good little defense. If measured up against their farming peers at Iowa and KSU I guess they can put the clamps on inept offenses. We aren’t their farming peers. We won’t be stopped. I anticipate (if we stay healthy) a minimum of 42 points. I don’t think they can score 42 points if you gave them a month. They are garbage on offense. We should win this game really really easily. 
 

Lets shuck the corn, enjoy another afternoon/evening of watching games after we’ve put our hay in the barn, and then get ready to roll into stoolwater for the top big 12 match up of the year. 
 

Game Week thread people- let’s Hook ‘Em high like an Eagle soars and enjoy the most satisfying in-season win in 5 years, and hopefully one that will portend great things for us going forward. 

[LTtxfan 48972]

Cross-post...

Defense travels.  Cyclones did give up 31pts to Baylor.  But Kansas only scored 14pts and K-State scored 10pts on Cyclones defense.

Klieman said that Cyclones rush defense is one of the best in CFB this year.  

Regular Season
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Sat, 9/3	vsSEMO	W42-10
Sat, 9/10	@IOWA	W10-7
Sat, 9/17	vsOHIO	W43-10
Sat, 9/24	vs17 BAY	L31-24
Sat, 10/1	@KU	L14-11
Sat, 10/8	vs20 KSU	L10-9

[Steelers Roll Left 1142]

The challenge for the coaching staff will be convincing the players that they can’t just show up and beat the Texas Tech’s and Iowa State’s of the world, an unfortunate trend that seems to have been part of this program’s identity for a decade.  They’ve proven that they can get up for and compete with the Alabama’s of the world.  Now it’s time to prove they can bring the effort in less celebrated matchups.  I also think the coaching staff will be walking a fine line between allowing the OU performance foster team confidence while also getting the players to understand that the OU team they faced in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday was a shell of their former selves.

[fatheryeet 1531]

Billingsley makes his debut this week

[Codaxx 5602]

7 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Cross-post...

Defense travels.  Cyclones did give up 31pts to Baylor.  But Kansas only scored 14pts and K-State scored 10pts on Cyclones defense.

Klieman said that Cyclones rush defense is one of the best in CFB this year.  

Regular Season
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Sat, 9/3	vsSEMO	W42-10
Sat, 9/10	@IOWA	W10-7
Sat, 9/17	vsOHIO	W43-10
Sat, 9/24	vs17 BAY	L31-24
Sat, 10/1	@KU	L14-11
Sat, 10/8	vs20 KSU	L10-9

ISU defense is legit. I am glad Quinn got to look at a shitty version of the drop 8 vs OU, before facing a legit version. This is going to be a big test for Quinn. 

[Horn Dogg 3808]

Fuck ISU, time to mudhole that ass!

[Wulaw Horn 18980]

2 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

Fuck ISU, time to mudhole that ass!

This is actually the kind of game that the mud hole post was originally intended for. When our fan base would start to fret about a middle of the road team that we should clearly pound. 

[Horn Dogg 3808]

36 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

This is actually the kind of game that the mud hole post was originally intended for. When our fan base would start to fret about a middle of the road team that we should clearly pound. 

Yeah, our fan base loves to lose its mind.  I think there are active threads for “show me another win” and “show me another loss” from this season.  We tend to get way too worried about whoever we play the week after OU. Should the team take them seriously? Sure……but us fans can sit around and yell mudhole all week because ultimately that’s what’s gonna happen!

[Fud 9546]

SP+ update has Texas at #5, at #7 on offense, and #23 on defense. Reminder that it had us at #86 on defense at the end of last year

Preseason: 22, 8, 51

Post Week 1: 18, 8, 47

Post Week 2: 16, 7, 40

Post Week 3: 14, 8, 35

Post Week 4: 11, 7, 33

Post Week 5: 5, 7, 23

Post Week 6: 5, 7, 16

[Fud 9546]

1 hour ago, Fud said:

SP+ update has Texas at #5, at #7 on offense, and #23 on defense. Reminder that it had us at #86 on defense at the end of last year

Preseason: 22, 8, 51

Post Week 1: 18, 8, 47

Post Week 2: 16, 7, 40

Post Week 3: 14, 8, 35

Post Week 4: 11, 7, 33

Post Week 5: 5, 7, 23

Post Week 6: 5, 7, 16

That top line is supposed to be #16 on defense, obviously 

[texifornia 56519]

 

[LTtxfan 48972]

2 hours ago, Fud said:

That top line is supposed to be #16 on defense, obviously 

Where's Iowa State defense rated ???

[taybo20 2815]

Let’s go Horns!! No let downs!!

[Fud 9546]

1 minute ago, LTtxfan said:

Where's Iowa State defense rated ???

#40 overall, #70 offense, and #17 defense

[MirrOlure 14625]

Yeah, our fan base loves to lose its mind.  I think there are active threads for “show me another win” and “show me another loss” from this season.  We tend to get way too worried about whoever we play the week after OU. Should the team take them seriously? Sure……but us fans can sit around and yell mudhole all week because ultimately that’s what’s gonna happen!

Maybe…but just don’t try to tell me they are terrible and we should win convincingly!

[Valmy77 13094]

Kansas can clearly move the ball so the fact they only got 14 points against ISU gives me pause. 

Glad this game is at DKR. The fans should be fired up after that OU game.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Valmy77

[LTtxfan 48972]

6 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Kansas can clearly move the ball so the fact they only got 14 points against ISU gives me pause. 

Glad this game is at DKR. That fans should be fired up after that OU game.

Yeah, Cyclones gave K-State offense a lot trouble this past Saturday...  

[Huckleberry 32701]

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's press conference because of the interesting matchup between Sarkisian and Heacock. Should be some good questions on how we'll approach a defense that's playing so well. 

I'm sorry, I blacked out for a second and was dreaming that there were competent journalists on the Longhorn football beat. Probably only 20% of the media members there even know who Heacock is. 

[Surly Bevo 24696]

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's press conference because of the interesting matchup between Sarkisian and Heacock. Should be some good questions on how we'll approach a defense that's playing so well. 
I'm sorry, I blacked out for a second and was dreaming that there were competent journalists on the Longhorn football beat. Probably only 20% of the media members there even know who Heacock is. 

You’ll get “So Steve did you have a Fletcher’s corn dog and are you a mustard or ketchup man?” and like it.

[TexEx15 17482]

9 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Cross-post...

Defense travels.  Cyclones did give up 31pts to Baylor.  But Kansas only scored 14pts and K-State scored 10pts on Cyclones defense.

Klieman said that Cyclones rush defense is one of the best in CFB this year.  

Regular Season
DATE	OPPONENT	RESULT
Sat, 9/3	vsSEMO	W42-10
Sat, 9/10	@IOWA	W10-7
Sat, 9/17	vsOHIO	W43-10
Sat, 9/24	vs17 BAY	L31-24
Sat, 10/1	@KU	L14-11
Sat, 10/8	vs20 KSU	L10-9

RE: the run defense have they seen a QB anything close to Ewers that should help soften that up?

[Braff Zacklin 13418]

4 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

You’ll get “So Steve did you have a Fletcher’s corn dog and are you a mustard or ketchup man?” and like it.

I'm confident Sark would respond that he's a Bijan Mustardson man, all the way.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Braff Zacklin

[Valmy77 13094]

23 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

RE: the run defense have they seen a QB anything close to Ewers that should help soften that up?

Daniels is a pretty good QB but the stats from that game are really weird. Kansas only ran 46 plays in the entire game and Daniels only threw it 14 times. That is a very weird stat line. Did anybody see that game? Iowa State threw it mostly so it wasn't like they were just grinding it out and running clock.

Also it looks like Iowa State only lost that game because their field goal kicker had a disastrous day, missing three kicks in a three point loss.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Valmy77

[Sir Ulrich 5187]

27 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

RE: the run defense have they seen a QB anything close to Ewers that should help soften that up?

Shapen threw for 238 on 9 yards an attempt and they still held them to 2.9 a carry. The 31 Baylor put up was their most allowed by far. But QE should have enough success to open up Bijan as the game wears on. 

[Rimbo 25779]

10 hours ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

The challenge for the coaching staff will be convincing the players that they can’t just show up and beat the Texas Tech’s and Iowa State’s of the world, an unfortunate trend that seems to have been part of this program’s identity for a decade.  They’ve proven that they can get up for and compete with the Alabama’s of the world.  Now it’s time to prove they can bring the effort in less celebrated matchups.  I also think the coaching staff will be walking a fine line between allowing the OU performance foster team confidence while also getting the players to understand that the OU team they faced in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday was a shell of their former selves.

[sidis 9750]

It’s so utterly fucked up and unbelievable to me that one can truthfully say out loud that Iowa state has a three game winning streak against us. Fuck. 

[Knighthawk 284]

7 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

Yeah, our fan base loves to lose its mind.  I think there are active threads for “show me another win” and “show me another loss” from this season.  We tend to get way too worried about whoever we play the week after OU. Should the team take them seriously? Sure……but us fans can sit around and yell mudhole all week because ultimately that’s what’s gonna happen!

Well back in the day we played piggy the week after ou.   There was no surprise or trap game there.   We were always ready to play but in some cases a little beat up from the game in Dallas.   
 

this should be an ass kicking.   We are healthy and getting better week to week on both sides of the ball.  
 

campbell and his five star culture bs is about to fafo.    

[Rimbo 25779]

22 minutes ago, sidis said:

It’s so utterly fucked up and unbelievable to me that one can truthfully say out loud that Iowa state has a three game winning streak against us. Fuck. 

Not for long. In one week's time, that will have finally ended.

Because they'll have a four game winning streak then.

 

 

 

 

😉

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

maybe even more important than victory over ISU would be having no ABC cameras trained on the 'Hellraisers', easily the ugliest people in the stadium, who somehow get prime seats.  This needs to end. 

[Rip76 4914]

Another F’ing 11am game.

[Knighthawk 284]

19 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Not for long. In one week's time, that will have finally ended.

Because they'll have a four game winning streak then.

 

 

 

 

😉

Fuck this shit.  Can’t tell if you are trying to make a joke or not … their scheme is designed to keep the score down but I think we have too many dudes.   They won’t be able to keep this game in the teens.    In summary - They are fucked.  

[Valmy77 13094]

6 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

Another F’ing 11am game.

I know. I have something to do that day so I was hoping it would be a 6:30 kick so I could watch it but no.

Damn it, 

47 minutes ago, sidis said:

It’s so utterly fucked up and unbelievable to me that one can truthfully say out loud that Iowa state has a three game winning streak against us. Fuck. 

It's not unbelievable at all. We have sucked shit. Lots of people have winning streaks against us going into this season. We ended one yesterday, hopefully end another next Saturday.

[Sal 1088]

I assume Iowa St will expect to stop the run and thus will throw some funky coverages at Ewers this week. I think it’s a great test for him and the offense; Quinn can shows what calibre of player he is

[Funk Doctor Spock 11923]

Ewers is going to carve up that fucking defense. Their offense is shit, and our D will do work. It's time this team continues on to its revenge tour. Fuck ISU (love our ISU posters, so no offense). 

[Hagbard Celine 10762]

[Hagbard Celine 10762]

we've lost 3 in a row to these fuckers

love al4isu, but this is business

[orangebird 1079]

I think Iowa State will be a much more challenging test for Texas than OU.  It's actually unbelievable to me that I can say that after over 30 years of watching Texas football.  A bit of a post-OU hangover for Texas wouldn't surprise me, either.

However, I also don't think that Iowa State has seen a QB like Ewers yet this season.  Shapen at Baylor is probably the best QB they have faced up to now.  Hard to gauge how good their defense is based on the level of competition they have played.  If they sell out to stop the run, Ewers will abuse their secondary and make them pay dearly.

Something like a 31-17 win for Texas seems about right to me here.

[Modessit 5596]

I'm sorry, I blacked out for a second and was dreaming that there were competent journalists on the Longhorn football beat. Probably only 20% of the media members there even know who Heacock is. 

[CHIP]Who's cock?[/bROWN]

[Rimbo 25779]

6 hours ago, Knighthawk said:

Can’t tell if you are trying to make a joke or not

the 😉 wasn't a dead giveaway?

[JGrayDBU 336]

yeah, this is not your grandpa's Arkansas piggie game after OU.  The problem is that we have not been here before.  We have never been in the land of total domination of OU including a shut out to fat and happy, ready to be slaughtered the next week.  I suspect there to be some hangover, but hopefully we will have turned the corner and we can win both the 3rd and 4th quarters.  We are probably a 10 point favorite, which is too much, imo.  

Obviously the big match up is our O vs our D.  I saw most of their game the other day.  They had a very good FG kicker, and that's about it.  I have no idea where their offense was.  One thing is for sure, the Big 12 refs will be out for blood in this game.  Expect big numbers called against us.  

 

 

[Bevo&Pevo 5027]

15 hours ago, Fud said:

SP+ update has Texas at #5, at #7 on offense, and #23 on defense. Reminder that it had us at #86 on defense at the end of last year

Preseason: 22, 8, 51

Post Week 1: 18, 8, 47

Post Week 2: 16, 7, 40

Post Week 3: 14, 8, 35

Post Week 4: 11, 7, 33

Post Week 5: 5, 7, 23

Post Week 6: 5, 7, 16

What site are you using?  There are some differences I notice with the one I generally look at.

NCAA College Football FBS Stats | NCAA.com

[Rimbo 25779]

30 minutes ago, JGrayDBU said:

We have never been in the land of total domination of OU including a shut out to fat and happy

yeah we're usually a few days' journey south of that happy kingdom, in the dark, volcano ash-covered deserts of Don't Let Them Beat You Twice-dor.

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

11am games have the advantage of no rollover from earlier broadcasts.  Remember how painful that was with the TT game? 

No cut-ins with All Rise either! 

[LTtxfan 48972]

6 hours ago, orangebird said:

I think Iowa State will be a much more challenging test for Texas than OU.  It's actually unbelievable to me that I can say that after over 30 years of watching Texas football.  

 

[Rockethorn1978 6061]

I think with Quinn we are a different team and we won’t have a letdown. I’ve been the a harsh critic but I was at the game Saturday and felt something shift. I bet we win Saturday 35-7.

[Kennythetiger 9334]

8 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

maybe even more important than victory over ISU would be having no ABC cameras trained on the 'Hellraisers', easily the ugliest people in the stadium, who somehow get prime seats.  This needs to end. 

I wonder what that redhead’s up to these days. 
Game’s in Austin. Never mind. 

Edited October 10, 2022 by Kennythetiger
Really am a retarded tiger.

[Enchubben 5509]

6 hours ago, orangebird said:

Something like a 31-17 win for Texas seems about right to me here.

Vegas has us pegged as 14.5 pt favorites with the O/U at 49.

[LTtxfan 48972]

 

[Wulaw Horn 18980]

10 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

I think with Quinn we are a different team and we won’t have a letdown. I’ve been the a harsh critic but I was at the game Saturday and felt something shift. I bet we win Saturday 35-7.

45-10

[LTtxfan 48972]

[Huckleberry 32701]

1 minute ago, Enchubben said:

Vegas has us pegged as 14.5 pt favorites with the O/U at 49.

Yeah Circa initially posted a 55-1/2 total which seemed really high.