Part of what makes the Big 12 so tough is how much of a copycat league it is. You can stay ahead with your tactics only so long as other teams lack the personnel to mimic it. Oklahoma’s advantages from their “21 spread” sets are virtually dried up now as we saw multiple teams copy … [Read more…]
The Big 12 championship game raised an interesting question for me about Oklahoma’s 2018 season and moreso their 2017 campaign. What if Lincoln Riley had promoted Ruffin McNeil to DC sooner? Against the Texas Longhorns in a championship game with a playoff berth on the line, McNeil finally found his best 11 from the Oklahoma … [Read more…]
I’ve always loved watching Bill Snyder’s teams. I’ve particularly enjoyed the second Snyder-era for which I’ve been a Big 12 blogger and active observer of the league. His teams this decade have always been designed to try and game college football with calculated strategies and recently I’ve learned more about his original run at K-State … [Read more…]
I broke down Matt Wells’ overall philosophy that allowed him to build Utah State into a competitive unit within the Mountain West conference over at Football Study Hall. Here are the big picture themes: -Balanced smashmouth spread attack that utilizes a TE to create gaps in the run game and clear the picture for the … [Read more…]
Texas Tech has officially fired Kliff Kingsbury. AD Kirby Hocutt described the decision as being largely based off Texas Tech’s inability to field good defenses, which limited the positive impact from Kingsbury’s amazing offenses. Kingsbury’s offenses over the last several years were frankly astounding. He’s one of the best, perhaps the best, Air Raid coordinator … [Read more…]
This is probably a positive development overall, it makes Kansas more interesting and it pairs the chance for positive change in Lawrence with the presence of a young star player that might actually make a difference. This is subtly a nasty play design from the Jayhawks, they’re running a stretch play to the same side … [Read more…]
Week 11 was fun, Oklahoma State came within a missed extra point or converted two point conversion of beating Oklahoma and then Texas Tech raced back from a 34-17 deficit to force a game-winning drive from Texas. The RRS rematch is still in play. Here’s Max Olson’s helpful breakdown of the B12 from here: I … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I looked at: -West Virginia’s iso-trips formation that turned Texas’ MLB into an ATM machine that spat out easy yardage. -Pump fake Purdy and the Cyclone RPO game to Hakeem Butler -Some of Oklahoma’s predetermined passes that set up Kyler Murray to make some easy reads and fire strikes to … [Read more…]
Before this weekend’s slate I had the most likely outcomes for the Big 12 title game as: RRS rematch OU vs pump fake Purdy OU vs West Virginia I figured Texas would beat WVU at home coming off the embarrassing road loss to OSU but also knew that ISU was likely to win out and … [Read more…]
We had a few games of real import last weekend in terms of the title race. It’s important that Oklahoma and West Virginia both took care of business without slip ups, but the games that change some of the equation were Iowa State’s victory over Texas Tech and Oklahoma State’s upset of Texas. Recapping the … [Read more…]