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you know it was a weird wacky week in Texas
based college football.
Speaker 2: This week you.
Speaker 1: Had some unbeatens rolling into their games with different expectations,
maybe different goals. But we had of course Texas A
and M unbeaten. We had the North Texas Mean Green unbeaten,
and then we had some some other other teams of
course here around the state that are are having good
seasons but didn't know what to really expect rolling into
their games. TCU, SMU Baylor, of course don't want to
leave out Texas Tech as the unbeatens as well. We're
gonna get into a lot of Texas Tech talk. Let's
talk about the teams though that did not fare very well,
and we'll start with the TCU horn Frogs as their
high flying offense was grounded by Kansas State's defense in
a forty one to twenty eight stunner. As for the
second straight week, the TCU horn Frogs found their rhythm
too late in the game. Despite a monster performance from
quarterback Josh Hoover, the Frogs fell forty one to twenty
eight to KSE stay on Saturday afternoon. What did them
in turnovers and a relentless Wildcats defense that scored twice
so Hoover put up some big numbers, completing twenty two
six to forty seven passes for three hundred and seventy
six yards and three touchdowns, but he also threw two
critical interceptions to des Pernell, including a twenty five yard
pick six early in the third quarter that broke the
game wide open. K State capitalized on nearly every mistake,
turning defensive chaos into points and therefore momentum. After Hoover's
first half backward pass was ruled a fumble and returned
for a touchdown by Wesley Fair, TCU found itself traveling
fourteen to seven at the half. Hoover later tried to
rally the offense, engineering a lightning fast, seven plays seventy
five yard drive that was capped by a two yard
touchdown to Chase Curtis, But each time the Frogs got closer,
K State had an answer, first with a seventeen yard
touchdown pass from Avery Johnson Dick Garrett Oakley, then with
a twelve yard strike to Durend Bentley I'm sorry, durn
Bradley to extend the lead to thirty five to fourteen.
Johnson was efficient, though, finishing sixteen to twenty six one
hundred and ninety eight yards and three touchdowns, all while
k State's defense kept Hoover under constant pressure. Hoover's late
eighty five yard bomb to Eric McCallister provided a highlight,
but for Now's second interception in TCU territory sealed the
game and set up a final Kansas State field goal.
The horn Frogs will return home to face Baylor this week,
and they'll need to find some answers fast before this
mid season slump turns into a full blown spiral. And
things don't get easier for the horn Frogs of course
after you face Baylor just to the south. This has
been a roller coaster of a season so far for
the horn Frogs. I don't see much light on the horizon.
This is not a team that seems to overcome, seems
to be able to overcome adversity, and usually that are
adversity is caused by themselves. So it's hard to pick
yourself up and dust yourself off when you're the one
that keeps knocking yourself down. So TCU will look for
better things, certainly against Baylor next week. Now, the other
team out of our our grouping here in Texas that
had big hopes for a win, undefeated and maybe the
marquee matchup that was, you know in the state of
Texas here, at least here in North Texas where those
North Texas Mean Green. However, U in a big matchup
against South Florida, number twenty four. South Florida comes into town,
into Denton, as North Texas looked to go six and
oh for the first time since nineteen eighty nine. It
was a huge marquee matchup. It was billed as such,
and I really thought that we would see this game
go really the way it went in the first half, right,
but North Texas gets crashed back to earth as turnovers
really doomed the Mean Green in a blowout sixty three
to thirty six against USF And it was supposed to
be a statement night in Denton, a national showcase for
a red hot North Texas team. They canceled classes for
the students at North Texas there in Denton all day
on Friday so that they would have time to tailgate,
get their affairs in order, get to the stadium early.
And what a scene it was too. They're at DAKU
Stadium full, just full. I don't know that I'd ever
seen that stadium that full before and it was a
great sight to see. And you know, you and t
looked pretty poised early. They traded punches with the Bulls.
You get to halftime, you're tied twenty one to twenty one,
after a muff punt led to a late USF touchdown.
You had you were supposed to walk into the half
with a twenty one to fourteen lead before that huge
mistake just before the half. Then that second half quickly
spiraled into disaster. Is that mistake right before the half
set the tone for the entire second half as the
Bulls exploded for three touchdowns in just over three minutes,
capitalizing on North Texas giveaways to blow the game wide open.
Byron Brown was unstoppable. He threw for two hundred and
forty five yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for
eighty two yards and two more scores. It marked his
second straight five touchdown game as the Bulls piled up
five and eighty yards with their defense forced forcing five turnovers,
including a thirty four yard fumble return that really buried
North Texas midway through the third quarter. They really had
no answer after that that early spurt there in the
first half or the second half rather of USF the
Mean Green. Of course, you still have Drew Mestimaker. He
hadn't thrown in an interception all season long.
Speaker 2: Well that did not.
Speaker 1: Last, as he threw three all night, despite finishing thirty
of forty six for three hundred and twenty six yards
and two touchdowns. It was a sellout crowd, as I mentioned,
thirty three and eighty six was the announced attendance in
that crowd was electric very very early, but the crowd
thinned out there in the second half as USF cruised
to its fifth straight win. North Texas now faces UTSA
on October eighteenth, hoping to prove that Friday's collapse was
just a one night nightmare and not an unraveling of
the rest of the season. So think good thoughts for
North Texas those Mean Green as they look to put
this behind them after facing USF again. It was a
fun game to watch in the first half, but things
got out of hand very very quickly there in the
very early in the third quarter and North Texas just
had no answer. Just with too many mistakes seems to
be the theme in the losses even with TCU here.
Speaker 2: But let's get to some of.
Speaker 1: The good news, because we had some teams that looked very,
very good this week, and you.
Speaker 2: Know we'll start. Let's start with the team.
Speaker 1: The big game, the biggest build game probably in the
state of Texas. Even after I said that North Texas
was because we had action in the Red River rivalry,
say that three times really fast. I still liked it
when it was the Red River shootout. It seems like
it was easier to say. But you had the annual
meeting of the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners there
at the Cotton Bowl in fair Park during the State
Fair of Texas. And a while we've heard reports of
the attendance of the State Fair of Texas being down
due to what many consider overpriced tickets and concessions and
events and activities. There was no shortage of red or
I guess it's Crimson and ore and burnt orange at
the Cotton Bowl as that place was to the hilt
as it always is for this game. Texas, coming off
the lost to Florida, needed a bounce back game, not
just as a team but for arch Manning, who still
is trying to figure out the offense behind a just
an underperforming offensive line that he has struggled behind all
season long against well, I'll say it again against good
opponents again. I don't want to call back to the
fifty five to nothing Sam Houston State fiasco. As everyone announced.
Arch is back after that win, and then they roll
into Florida and get slobberknocked. But you do roll into
Dallas and beat maybe an overrated number six Oklahoma, but
a number six Oklahoma nonetheless, as the Golden Hat now
is staying in Austin behind a breakout performance from arch
Manning in a game breaking punt return from Ryan Niblet
to takes down number six Oklahoma twenty three to six
on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl, snapping the Sooners perfect
season and reviving its own college football playoff hopes. As
narrow as those college football playoff hopes are there still
alive down in Austin, arch Manning was sharp.
Speaker 2: He was steady.
Speaker 1: Completed twenty one to twenty seven passes for one hundred
and sixty six yards, including a go ahead twelve yard
touchdown strike to DeAndre Moore Junior early in the third quarter,
a drive that flipped the tone of the game. The
Longhorns trailed six to nothing early before controlling the second half,
led by a defense that forced three interceptions and held
Oklahoma at just two hundred.
Speaker 2: And fifty eight yards.
Speaker 1: Malik Muhammad picked off two passes, including a red zone
interception at the end of the first half that coach
Stark called a momentum changing play. In Boy Howdy, that's
the understatement of the weekend. Ryan Niblett delivered the knockout
blow midway through the fourth quarter, returning a punt return
or returning a punt seventy five yards up the sideline,
bouncing off teammate Marshall land where before sprinting to the
end zone for a twenty to six lead, And that
was really the strike that put the game out of
reach for Oklahoma. I think at that point, John Mattier
and the Sooners still hadn't really figured out what was
what had hit them, as nobody expected to see that
type of offense from the Longhorns against I don't know,
maybe an overrated Sooners defense, although they'd performed pretty admirably
throughout the season. I don't know that we really knew
what we had with the Sooners offensively or defensively. Of course,
he had a banged up John Mattier, who was returning
from that thumb surgery maybe too soon. Matier did not
have the game. I don't think that he thought he would,
But after that Niblet punt return, it was pretty much
church for the Sooners. Matier played again just seventeen days
after surgery on his throwing hand. He went twenty of
thirty eight two hundred and two yards and three interceptions
and later admitted, of course, that he just did not
play well enough. Guess what, John, We all watched it,
we all saw it.
Speaker 2: We know.
Speaker 1: Mason Shipley added three field goals from twenty two to
forty eight and thirty nine yards, helping the long Horns
retain the Golden Hat for a second straight year. The win,
of course, will do well for the Longhorns put them
back in the college football playoff conversation. Maybe more importantly,
it proved Sarks team can respond to adversity for the
first time this year. They did punch back here against
a feisty Oklahoma team that, of course most predicted to win.
But I think Texas showed a lot of grit. I
still don't like the way the offensive line played. I
still think you need to see more from that. I
still think you need to see ours. Although he no
doubt gained a ton of confidence, we need to see
if that's going to carry over to next week for
the Longhorns, for sure. So big showing by the law Horns.
Was that going to be matched by the Red Raiders,
Well it was. Cameron Dickie had the game of his life.
Will Hammond had to step up as the number nine
Texas Tech Red Raiders just crush Kansas forty two to seventeen.
I think the Red Raiders now have proved that they're
built for chaos and they're built for championships because they're
certainly on their way to the Big twelve title game
here as we can if we can say that it's
still early, but they certainly looked like they're training in
that direction. They lost Baron Morton to a leg injury
in the second quarter, did not stop the steam rolling
offense out in Lubbock behind a record setting ground game
and a breakout performance from Cameron dicky He was unstoppable
two hundred and sixty three yards and two touchdowns on
the ground, including a seventy one yard sprint on the
first play of the game. He also added a fifty
five yarder in the fourth quarter that pretty much sealed
the deal for the red race. Tech piled up three
hundred and seventy two rushing yards and never looked back,
even as the Jayhawks clawed back from a twenty one
to nothing hole to make it twenty one to seventeen
by the half. Red Shirt freshman quarterback Will Hammond had
to replace Morton. Started kind of slow. He threw a
pick there early on, but he settled in after the
break scored two rushing touchdowns, including a twenty yard scamper
to open the second half. This was a third time
this season that Hammond has been called in for now
for an injured Morton. He's battled a knee issue, he
had a head injury early in the year, but Hammond
has been strong every time he has had to appear.
Kansas moved the ball pretty early behind quarterback Jalen Daniels,
who had two hundred and twenty eight passing yards and
two touchdowns, but the Tech defense turned ferocious after halftime.
And I don't know that anyone has ever uttered those
words about a Texas Tech defense, but as I've mentioned
on this show and over on our Texas Tech Red
Raiders Daily Blitz podcast. This thing's built different this year.
Nio and the Transfer portal has done the Red Raiders
well as their defense is just ridiculous this season and
they finally have the defense to match the high powered
offense and we're seeing the result of that in just
about every game this season. The Red Raiders sacked Daniels
eight times, with David Bailey accounting for three of those.
They forced five second half punts as the Jayhawks momentum
disappeared after they had narrowed that first half lead from
twenty one to nothing to twenty one seventeen. So with
the win, Texas Tech stays undefeated. They're climbing in the
AP top ten for the first times it's twenty thirteen,
especially after Oregon's lost to Indiana earlier in the day.
Coming up next for the Red Raiders it is number
twenty one Arizona State and another chance for the Red
Raiders to prove that they're not just hot, but they're
for real stay in the Dallas area. Excuse me as
we'll save the Aggies, myaggies for last. But another impressive
performance from SMU with a nineteenth straight acc conference win,
as the message from the Mustangs to the acc should
by now be loud and clear that they belonged there.
Behind a pair of electrifying touchdowns from Chris Johnson Junior
in a stifling defensive effort, the Mustangs rolled past Stanford
thirty four to ten on Saturday at Gerald J. Ford Stadium. Again,
it's its nineteenth consecutive regular season conference victory. Of course,
the Miami transfer Johnson made the highlight rul twice. He
had an eighty seven yard touchdown run and later a
forty two yard catch and run from quarterback Kevin Jennings.
Jennings was twenty two to thirty for two hundred and
forty seven yards and two touchdowns. Linebacker Justin Medlock sealed
the win with a ninety six yard interception return in
the fourth quarter, his second score in as many weeks.
Stanford kept it close before halftime, as a seventy five
yard drive cap by a fourteen yard touchdown passed to CJ.
Williams narrowed the lead, but the Cardinal could not overcome
six sacks and Medlocks picked six down the stretch. With win,
the SMU Mustangs remain unbeaten in regular season conference place
and joining the ACC last year, and they will look
to extend their streak at a struggling Clemson team that
is not the Clemson team we thought we were going
to see before the season started. Of course, they were
preseason number four, and we're not able to live up
to that, as we had a couple of teams that
were not able to live up to their preseason rankings,
of course, the Longhorns being one of those. But all
in all, a good showing by the Mustangs at home,
and we'll see what they can put together against Clemson.
The the big game of the week, at least for me,
were the Texas A and m Aggies remaining perfect to
roll to six and oh over Florida, the team that
had just knocked off the Texas Longhorns the week before.
And once again, I say it every week, whether it's
right here or on the Texas A and m Aggie's
daily blitz on fan stream Sports, that Marcel Reid continues
to lead this team like a seasoned veteran as the
Aggies keep finding ways to win. And Saturday night, it
came with another statement. Reid's poise its playmaking led the
charge with that thirty four to seventeen victory. The Aggies
are now six and OH for the first time since
twenty sixteen. Reid was in control all ninety through for
two hundred and thirty four yards in a touchdown. He
added another score on the ground. The Aggies came out
swinging with two touchdowns on its first three possessions, captain
by Levion Moss's twenty two yard run early in the
second quarter. Moss exited before halftime with an apparent ankle injury,
and that brought in Reuben Owens to finish the job
with fifty one yards rushing in a late two yard
touchdown that sealed the game. Florida briefly showed some signs
of life. They tied the game twice in the first
quarter and cut the lead to twenty four to seventeen
late in the third after a forty five yard field goal,
but the Gators and head coach Billion Napier could not
sustain drives when it mattered.
Speaker 2: The Aggie's defense was just too much.
Speaker 1: Napier now falls to oh to fourteen on the road
against ranked teams, as turnovers and red zone miscues proved
costly once again for the Gators. And I think it's
safe to say the seat is getting warmer and warmer
and warmer in Billion Napier's office, and it probably should
don't know that he'll make it to the end of
the season. The state of Florida now with the Gators,
and even with Florida State Mike Norvelle's seat getting hotter
and hot and hotter as they lose a pit this week.
But could be some job openings coming up in the
Sunshine State, maybe before the end of the season. And
the Aggies continue to roll. Deyon Hayes' strip, sack and
fumbles set up the Aggie's final points while the defense
bottled up DJ Lagway, who threw for two hundred and
forty five yards and two touchdowns, but he had no
answer for the Aggi's defense. Of course, with Oregon's loss
earlier in the day, the Aggies climbing in the standings
are at number four. And this is the way that
we've seen the Aggies grind out wins all season. And
I've said it over and over again, This Aggi's team
is different. This is not Arci Slocum's Aggie's team. This
is not Jimbo Fisher's Aggie's team. This is not Kevin
Sumlin's Aggie's team. This is not Mike Sherman's Aggie's team.
This one's built different under Mike Elko, and they seem
to be finding ways to win these games that in
the past, under past regimes and even as recently as
Jimbo Fisher, they have just found ways to lose, where
it's at home or on the road. The game is
against Mississippi State, I thought had every chance to be
an Aggie's loss, but this team, again is built differently.
Same thing with this Florida Gators game. The Aggies had
every opportunity to let the Gators back into it. But
this defense keeps rolling, the offense keeps rolling, and it's
a It's different. It's just built different. And if you're
not an Aggie's fan and you're listening to this every week,
then I apologize. As soon as the Longhorns start doing something,
then I'll praise them, to praise them for a win
this week didn't I. And again, if you're not new
to the program, then you know I'm an Arch Manning fan,
being a fan of the Manning family my time in
New Orleans. But I'm ready to praise arts. I'm ready
to praise the long Horns when they do something that's praiseworthy.
And yeah, they got to win over Oklahoma. It is
what it is. It was a big win for the program.
It's a big win for the Aggies program this week
against Florida, and I can't wait to see what these
Texas based college teams can come up with here on
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