Last year was a huge one for Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech. He needed to win some games and he was going to have to figure it out without Patrick Mahomes II at QB but instead relying on 5th-year senior/stopgap Nic Shimonek. That necessarily meant that Texas Tech was going to need to play defense … [Read more…]
Undersized DL are becoming a pretty common theme to college football these days. Over at Inside Texas, Scipio Tex recently broke down how much Texas was getting out of their three-man DL fronts in the dime package they’ve ridden to dominance in the second half of this season. In that front Texas regularly relies on … [Read more…]
The year before Lincoln Riley took over the Oklahoma offense the Sooners were a primarily 21 personnel team, putting FB Aaron Ripkowski and TE Blake Bell on the field in order to help their massive OL plow the road for Samaje Perine. Riley took his Air Raid background and diversified the Sooner attack without going … [Read more…]
Kyle Whittingham has always coached great defenses and his coaching tree extends to multiple programs across the country now. The offense has been slower to come along, but now they’ve hired an up and coming guy who made his name coaching high schoolers like Jake Browning and then leading Eastern Washington to a ridiculous season … [Read more…]
It’s a make or break year for Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech and that’s evident in this recruiting class, which features 11 early enrollees and nine total JUCO transfers in a group of 19 total players. I wondered if Kingsbury’s recruiting would fall off a bit here given the hot waters he’s treading in Lubbock … [Read more…]