When SMU hired Chad Morris I began to suspect that the Mustangs might be on their way up again in the Texas football scene. I reasoned that Morris knew the Texas landscape well and wasn’t going to attach his rapid rise to the program if they weren’t finally re-committing to the program after being gutted … [Read more…]
No doubt Lincoln Riley has been winning every round up till now. Dana Holgorsen went 0-7 against Oklahoma as a head coach and the scores after Riley joined the Sooner staff went: 2015: OU 44, WVU 24 2016: OU 56, WVU 28 2017: OU 59, WVU 31 2018: OU 59, WVU 56 That last one … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I propose that the G5 get out ahead of the coming shifts and changes in college football and establish their own playoff to determine a national champion.
I speculated around this point over at SB Nation. It’s obviously very difficult to know the answer, just as it’s hard to really know whether one of the better Boise, TCU, or Utah teams of the past that went undefeated might have been able to win a playoff. The committee is designed to give everyone … [Read more…]
They released them the other night I think. Me and the wife have been watching “Stranger Things” recently so we aren’t super up to date on the World Series or this playoff show. The whole goal of these weekly rankings is to amp up the anticipation and talk around the sport and maintain the entertainment … [Read more…]
At football study hall I explained some of Montgomery’s fun run game tactics at Tulsa and how they’ve been using the veer and shoot offense to torch opponents in the AAC. There’s a pretty good chance he’s the head coach at Texas Tech in 2018 so Big 12 fans may want to read up on … [Read more…]
The Briles-era Bears were defined more by anything by Art Briles’ own, unique “Veer and Shoot offense.” There wasn’t another offense quite like it across college football and his disciples still have particular access to some of its secrets even as some of the tactics and style of it have proliferated across the country. I … [Read more…]
Because of the nature of Briles’ Baylor program towards the latter end of that regime, before things went horrifyingly wrong, it has become a bit easy to forget how Briles built that program in the first place. After consecutive Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2014 the Bears were cruising in recruiting, snatching up highly touted … [Read more…]
I was honestly a bit surprised that Charlie chose to bring Sterlin Gilbert and Matt Mattox with him to USF and it should be very interesting to see how they adapt to making the most of athletic quarterbacks there like Quinton Flowers. I broke down what they’re facing in terms of turning the USF Bull … [Read more…]