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Month: November 2019

End of year scatter shooting

November 27, 2019 by ianaboyd

Everyone should keep up over at Football Outsiders where I preview every week’s top six games and make picks against FEI’s projection model. This week I’ll have Bedlam and Farmageddon amongst the games that get previewed and picked. But I wanted to hit on a few different smaller topics around the league that I couldn’t … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Bedlam, Dallas Cowboys, Dru Brown, Lincoln Riley, Matt Rhule, Mike Gundy, NFL, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders

Who won week 13 in the Big 12?

November 25, 2019 by ianaboyd

We have our championship game contenders locked in now with Baylor vs Oklahoma now preparing to reprise their fascinating battle from the other week. Interestingly, both teams leaned very heavily on the QB run game to make round one a close battle and both teams continued to lean on that dimension of their offense to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, Baylor Bears, Charlie Brewer, Gary Patterson, Hurts the relentless, Jalen Hurts, Lincoln Riley, Matt Rhule, Oklahoma Sooners, Rhule the stoic, TCU Horned Frogs

Runnin’ Riley

November 22, 2019 by ianaboyd

One of the most impressive and interesting storylines in the Big 12 this season has been Oklahoma’s evolution into a really high level, power-option team. Since Lincoln Riley came to Norman the Sooners have been much more run-oriented than certainly I would have guessed considering Riley’s Air Raid background. From the start of the year, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5, Bill Bedenbaugh, Gary Patterson, Hurts the relentless, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Power-option, TCU Horned Frogs

Who won week 12 in the Big 12?

November 18, 2019 by ianaboyd

What a week. We got a couple of really big games with consequences for the rest of the season that are a little anticlimactic but things were no less fascinating this week. Technically Oklahoma, Baylor, Oklahoma State, and Texas are all still in the running to appear in the Big 12 championship. Both Baylor and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: Baylor Bears, Hurts the relentless, Iowa State Cyclones, Jarrett Doege, Matt Rhule, Neal Brown, Oklahoma Sooners, Rhule the stoic, Texas Longhorns, Tom Herman

Baylor vs Oklahoma

November 14, 2019 by ianaboyd

It’s easy to forget now that Baylor vs Oklahoma has really been the defining series of the 2010s in the Big 12. The 2011 Heisman bid by RG3 was propelled by a home win against the Sooners. Then the 2013 and 2014 Big 12 titles for Baylor came alongside a pair of shellackings administered to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, Baylor Bears, Blake Lynch, Boo Radley, Charlie Brewer, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Power-option, Terrel Bernard

Who won week 11 in the Big 12?

November 11, 2019 by ianaboyd

Week 11 was a great one for Big 12 football. The Baylor-TCU game took place at noon, which was a big win given the ratings bonanza taking place at 3:30 (not K-State/TX), and then the Big 12 had far and away the best primetime game in the Iowa State-Oklahoma battle. Perhaps this was inevitable but … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Charlie Brewer, Oklahoma Sooners, PFPurdy, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns

What should Arkansas do next?

November 10, 2019 by ianaboyd

Today it was announced that Arkansas is firing head coach Chad Morris, meaning that they’ll be joining Florida State and probably USC in hunting for their next head coach in the upcoming silly season. Chad Morris is a fellow who’s had a major impact on the game of football, even without having much in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recruiting, SEC football Tagged: Arkansas Razorbacks, Chad Morris, Matt Campbell, Mike Norvell, Smashmouth spread

Oklahoma vs PFPurdy and the dread-wing

November 7, 2019 by ianaboyd

Over at Crimson and Cream machine, SB Nation’s Oklahoma blog, Allen Kenney did a nice piece on Iowa State tight end Charlie Kolar. Kenney does a great job of detailing all the ways that Iowa State uses Kolar, who’s ironically a Norman, OK native that got away, before circling back to the specific matchup problems … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 46 nickel, Alex Grinch, Boo Radley, Charlie Kolar, dread-wing, Iowa State Cyclones, Oklahoma defense, Oklahoma Sooners, Pump fake Purdy

Who’s getting to the QB in the Big 12?

November 5, 2019 by ianaboyd

I was preparing for my Kansas State preview over at Inside Texas (those drop on Thursdays and I believe this one will be free) today and went down a statistical rabbit hole that proved interesting. I was looking up how much of Kansas State’s pressure comes from their DL and the DL’s share of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Inverted Tampa-2, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

Who won week 10 in the Big 12?

November 4, 2019 by ianaboyd

Week 10 was destined to be one of little consequence for this season in the Big 12 unless disaster befell some team or another. I guess there were some disastrous events for the TCU Horned Frogs, but they weren’t a team of much consequence for this season save for as a potential spoiler, a role … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5 defense, Chuba Hubbard, Dillon Stoner, Gary Patterson, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Max Duggan, Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Spencer Sanders, TCU Horned Frogs, Zone-read
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