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…]