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What are Florida’s chances in 2020? Part I: The Floridian hurdle

May 22, 2020 by ianaboyd

Not the state, who’s approach to the COVID pandemic under Gov. DeSantis was one that had a sizable chunk of citizens and commentators projecting disaster up until recently. I mean the football program coached by Dan Mullen that is returning their quarterback, four starters on the offensive line, and star “space force dreadnought” Kyle Pitts … [Read more…]

Posted in: SEC football, Texas HS Football Tagged: 2001 Miami Hurricanes, 2008 Florida Gators, 2013 Florida State Seminoles, Dan Mullen, Demographics=destiny, Florida, Florida Gators, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, Kirby Smart, Kyle Pitts, Kyle Trask, Manvel Mavericks, Pro-spread, Texas, Texas HS recruiting, Texas Longhorns, Tom Herman

Is Tua Tagovailoa worth a first round pick?

April 21, 2020 by ianaboyd

Every year there’s always a lot of debate around various quarterback prospects. There’s a ton riding on these guys, if you pick the right one you may have set your franchise up for a decade and a favorite strategy these days is to take advantage of having a solid quarterback on a rookie deal to … [Read more…]

Posted in: General college football, NFL Tagged: 2020 NFL Draft, Alabama Crimson Tide, Case Tagovailoa, Clemson Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Joe Burrow, NFL, NFL Draft, Nick Saban, RPO spread revolution, The 4-down RPO math problem, Tua Tagovailoa

Who can win the National Championship in 2020?

January 15, 2020 by ianaboyd

Once Deshaun Watson dethroned Alabama in 2016, I began to develop my theory that spread passing wins championships these days at the college level. I then began to look around at the 2017 rosters for teams that could mimic Clemson’s method and take down Alabama, settling on the Sam Darnold USC Trojans who were returning … [Read more…]

Posted in: College football postseason, Theoretical ramblings Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, Clemson Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, National championship, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oklahoma Sooners, Space force, Spencer Rattler, Texas Longhorns, USC Trojans

Who’s making the playoffs in 2019? Pt. II, Dixie-land

August 5, 2019 by ianaboyd

There’s no beating the South for college football. The Midwest takes the game very, very seriously and the Big 10 has started to catch up again with the SEC since hiring Urban Meyer and slowly integrating the spread offense across the rust belt and plains. Still, there’s a number of factors working against the B1G … [Read more…]

Posted in: ACC football, College football postseason, SEC football Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, Clemson Tigers, College Football playoffs, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Miami Hurricanes, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Texas A&M Fighting Aggies

In defense of Big 12 defense…

July 10, 2018 by ianaboyd

Okay, hang on though… As a Texas guy who’s watched the Longhorns languish the entire decade due to self-made problems while the league’s reputation and leverage across the sport has declined, I’ve got a fairly good view of what exactly the Big 12 is and what it isn’t. It isn’t the SEC, the passion level … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, SEC football Tagged: Big 12, Big 12 defense, Georgia Bulldogs, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, SEC, SEC footbawl, Texas Longhorns

How Bama won…again

January 10, 2018 by ianaboyd

If you read my final preview of the national championship, you’ll notice that I got two factors spectacularly wrong while predicting a Georgia victory. The first was in assuming that it particularly mattered which LBs and Ss were playing behind the Bama DL and how much experience they had in the Saban system. They all … [Read more…]

Posted in: College football postseason Tagged: #theProcess, Alabama Crimson Tide, College Football Playoff, Da'Ron Payne, Georgia Bulldogs, Nick Saban, Raekwon Davis, Tua Tagovailoa

Don’t be shocked when Georgia wins…

January 8, 2018 by ianaboyd

I’ve done two previews of the national championship. I broke down some of the big picture trends and stats over at Football Outsiders and dove in deep on how I think Georgia will attack Jalen Hurts for SB Nation. Because I was writing on the SEC extensively this season over at Saturday Down South I’ve … [Read more…]

Posted in: College football postseason, SEC football Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, College Football Playoff, Georgia Bulldogs, National championship

How Georgia hammered OU

January 3, 2018 by ianaboyd

I broke it down over at SB Nation. Something I hadn’t thought through much was how Georgia could shift the focal point of their runs from Caleb Kelly (not that he was great playing blocks by the Dawg TEs) to the Sooner safeties. Since those two safeties were a converted corner (Will Johnson) and a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, College football postseason Tagged: College Football playoffs, Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma Sooners, Rose Bowl 2018

Looking ahead to 2018 for Oklahoma and the Big 12

January 2, 2018 by ianaboyd

My big offseason question for Oklahoma and thus the Big 12 was how their defense would fare with a retooled DL, iffy and young LB corps, questionable schematic fit in the 3-4 defense, and then iffy run support up the middle from the safeties. I even questioned if they’d be soft on defense, then had … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, College football postseason Tagged: Big 12 football, Cautious Mike, Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns

The 2018 college football playoffs

January 1, 2018 by ianaboyd

Happy New Year everyone! Today is the day of the college football playoffs (and some other games) which is always exciting. They sure make the second game end late, but that’s alright, I’ve got enough juice for at least one more late night CFB binge before the offseason. I’ve written four previews of these playoff … [Read more…]

Posted in: College football postseason Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Baker Mayfield, Cautious Mike, Clemson Tigers, College Football playoffs, Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma Sooners
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