One of the very difficult things about prognosticating in the Big 12 is how close the mid-level teams are to one another. This decade has typically included 3 teams at the top that were safely better than most of the league (generally OU plus 1-2 other squads) and then a wide morass of mid-level teams … [Read more…]
Over at SB Nation I did some deep diving on Rudolph’s performance in the Ok State offense last year and how prepared he might be for the NFL. Oklahoma State’s offense is really kinda similar at this point to “pro-style” offenses like USC but there’s a major difference in where the Cowboys put their emphasis. … [Read more…]
Oklahoma Oklahoma had their spring game this last weekend and Allen Kenney of blatant homerism had some interesting notes up on it. Ironically, his thoughts are more objective and less homerish than what you sometimes get from pay sites where people have financial incentive to give you news you like paying for. I didn’t catch … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I explain why the QB run game at K-State isn’t going away and how it forms the underpinning of the passing game. Too often you read criticisms from K-State fans that seem to think that the success they have here and there in the passing game can be divorced from … [Read more…]
The 2017 Kansas State vs Oklahoma game was a really impressive contest between what I’m now delineating as a “spread-option” team and a “spread-Iso” team. I may have to further adjust those terms but the idea is that OU will create multiple stress points with their scheme and then “send it where you ain’t.” K-State … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I was describing the great riches of experience and talent in the Longhorn secondary returning next season ($) and included some research I did on B12 secondaries over the last five years. What I found was that the defenses that have ranked in the top 40 per S&P+ in the Big … [Read more…]
With the season and recruiting classes firmly in the rearview mirror I was keen to check in on something I didn’t devote much time to previously, the status of the #RhuleofLaw defense. I studied Temple fairly intensively last offseason partly because they were an interesting team that won a fascinating league and partly because Baylor … [Read more…]
I don’t know that I want to try and rank them all again. Last year I developed a system for weighting the grades I handed out and then added it all up. This year I think I’m done with that. It’s fun content and makes for good debate but I’m not sure how valuable it … [Read more…]
The average pundit said that Matt Rhule was going to struggle to recruit Texas replacing Art Briles and coming in to a program that had just endured a PR nightmare but that he’d be able to win early by utilizing Briles’ players. I had a very different sense of things, I was never terribly worried … [Read more…]
I overlooked TCU in my preseason prognostications of the 2017 Big 12 football season. I probably oversteered a bit for having missed West Virginia the previous season and I also underestimated Gary Patterson’s ability to fix the defense with so many returning starters and Sonny Cumbie’s ability to mold Kenny Hill into a good game … [Read more…]