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The media’s preseason All-Big 12 teams

July 16, 2020 by ianaboyd

They’ve been released, here’s what our votes amounted to… Offense QB: Sam Ehlinger, Texas RB: Pooka Williams, Kansas RB: Chuba Hubbard, Oklahoma State FB: Nick Lenners, Kansas State WR: Andrew Parchment, Kansas WR: Charleston Rambo, Oklahoma WR: Tylan Wallace, Oklahoma State OL: Sam Cosmi, Texas OL: Teven Jenkins, Oklahoma State OL: Creed Humphrey, Oklahoma OL: … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: All-Big 12, Chuba Hubbard, Darius Stills, Joseph Ossai, Preseason All-Big 12 2020, Pump fake Purdy, Sam Ehlinger, Spencer Rattler, Tylan Wallace

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 won week 6 in the Big 12?

October 7, 2019 by ianaboyd

The weekend slate before the Red River Shootout is often a strange and overlooked one within the Big 12 conference. Even though Texas has been truly good in only one of the years since the exodus of Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, and Texas A&M, it was clear when that happened that things were shaping up to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Chris Klieman, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas State Wildcats, Les Miles, Matt Rhule, Matt Wells, Neal Brown, Pump fake Purdy, Red River Shootout, Tyquan Thornton

Who won week 5 in the Big 12?

September 30, 2019 by ianaboyd

The action is really starting to heat up in the Big 12 now. We got three particularly clarifying games in the second week of in-conference play and then a customary but likely satisfying (for the winner) blowout of the Kansas Jayhawks. The national scene was pretty interesting too. Mack Brown’s UNC nearly upset Clemson before … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Alex Grinch, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Charlie Brewer, Inverted Tampa-2, Iowa State Cyclones, Jalen Hurts, James Lynch, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Pump fake Purdy, Texas Tech Red Raiders

Previewing week 5 in the Big 12

September 27, 2019 by ianaboyd

Week 5 is the first real slate of Big 12 football games that will start to shape the conference race. Obviously Oklahoma State had a big chance in week 4 to catapult to the top of the league with a victory over Texas but I suspect that only people living in Oklahoma really thought that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Inverted Tampa-2, Iowa State Cyclones, Jalen Hurts, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Pump fake Purdy, Spencer Sanders, Texas Tech Red Raiders

Big 12 schemes for 2019: Iowa State’s flex TE sets

July 1, 2019 by ianaboyd

Matt Campbell has been pretty excited this offseason about four developments within the Iowa State program. First, they have their OL more or less set with all five starters from 2018 returning. The lineup they relied on down the stretch was solid and all returns but they also have potential upside if some of their … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: 12 personnel, dread-wing, Flex TE, Iowa State Cyclones, Key schemes for 2019, Matt Campbell, Pump fake Purdy

Sorting out spring storylines in the Big 12

March 21, 2019 by ianaboyd

There hasn’t been too much information flowing yet from the spring practices taking place across the Big 12. Lots of programs are fairly quiet either because they are looking for new QBs and key players, they are naturally secretive by nature, or it’s simply early and they expect things to shake out over the course … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 2019 spring football, Big 12 football, Iowa State Cyclones, Mike Collins, Oklahoma Sooners, Pump fake Purdy, TCU Horned Frogs

Breaking down Iowa State’s 2019 recruiting class

February 11, 2019 by ianaboyd

Yes, I’m going to volunteer for this annual beating once more and break down every recruiting class in the Big 12. I started with the Texas class, which you can read about over at Inside Texas, next I move through the Big 12 going from north to south. This is Matt Campbell’s highest rated class … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 2019 recruiting, Big 12 football, Big 12 recruiting, Inverted Tampa-2, Iowa State Cyclones, Matt Campbell, Pump fake Purdy, Spread-Iso ball

Scattershooting the B12 heading into week 12

November 15, 2018 by ianaboyd

Week 11 was fun, Oklahoma State came within a missed extra point or converted two point conversion of beating Oklahoma and then Texas Tech raced back from a 34-17 deficit to force a game-winning drive from Texas. The RRS rematch is still in play. Here’s Max Olson’s helpful breakdown of the B12 from here: I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Big 12 championship game, Big 12 football, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Pump fake Purdy, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

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