Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into another Texas college football extravaganza right
here on Pigskin and burnt In's your Texas college football podcast.
I'm Indy car Tim, your host, and we have a massive,
massive slate of games to get to in the world
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to talk Aggie's. Of course we're gonna talk Longhorns. We've
got Baylor, We've got SMU, We've got Texas Tech Continuing Dominance,
We've got some Abilene Christian, some utsa TCU. It is
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hope that you buckled down and got your fill of
college football this past weekend, because what a weekend.
Speaker 2: It was full slates.
Speaker 1: Across the Big twelve, across the SEC with the Texas
based college football programs here, and to be quite honest,
we probably don't have time to get into everything we
need to get into, but that's okay. We're going to
hit the highlights. Like I mentioned, we've got some utsa talk,
which we don't do a lot of. We've got some
Abilene Christian and actually that's where I wanted to start
with you guys. As the Abilene Christian Wildcats roll over
those North Alabama Lions. Earl Stone throws four touchdown passes
as ACU cruises over North Alabama. Colt Copper recovered a
pair of fumbles that helped ACU in that fifty two
to twenty three win. Earl was twenty two to thirty
two for two hundred and sixty four yards and an interception.
Brian Henry had a pair of short touchdown receptions to
help the Wildcats move to three and three two to
zero in United Athletic Conference play. They took a twenty
eight to seven lead in the first half. Javon Gibson
had a thirty nine yard scoring catch and JJ Henry
a twenty eight yard opening drive of the second half.
Jordan Vaughan led a rushing attack that piled up two
hundred and thirty yards with eighty four yards, including a
seventy five yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: E J.
Speaker 1: Wilson and Grant Jones also had touchdowns on the ground. Look,
the Applene Christian Wildcats have been up and down this year,
there's no question, uh and playing against a yeah, a
lesser opponent in North Alabama, and you know, you'd like
to think these teams are a little more evenly matched,
but that's not always the case, even in this even
in these smaller conferences, as ACU just rolls DC tabscot
through two dutchdown passes for the Lions, who moved to
one and four uh oh to one in the conference.
Now they've lost. They lost four of the six fumbles
that occurred. J Von Allen ran for one hundred and
two yards in a touchdown. They did find some success
on the ground North Alabama did against ACU, but too
much for for ACU there at Wildcat Stadium. We're almost
eight thousand people watched the win. So yeah, Abilene Christian
two and oh in the conference, now three and three
overall there behind Tarleton State, who leads the conference at
six and oh overall two and oh in the conference.
Who's gonna catch Charleton State? We haven't even talked about
Charleton State this year. We've got to get in on
the Charlton State bandwagon here along with everybody else. There
are so many schools here in Texas that are doing
well this year. Like I said, it's kind of hard
to get to everybody in these shows, but we need
to make room for Charleton State. We will get in,
definitely get into some Charleton State talk next week for
you guys. The UTSA road Runners, the team in Texas.
Is this the only loss we had? I believe so
out of the teams that we are discussing this week,
UTSA falls to the Temple Owls there in the American
twenty seven to twenty one in Temple as Evan Simon
through two touchdown passes, Hunter Smith had a long touchdown run.
Temple dominated the second half for a twenty seven to
twenty one win there in the Atlantic American Atlantic Conference
opener for both teams on Saturday, Patrick Overmyer had a
touchdown on rushing and a touchdown receiving as the road
Runners took a fourteen to three half time lead, but
after the Owls had just one hundred and eight yards
in the first half compared to one hundred and seventy
eight for UTSA, offensive coordinator Tyler Walker moved from the
booth to the sidelines, and apparently that made all the
difference in the world. If he doesn't coach from the
sidelines the rest of the season, then there's something wrong,
because again, after Temple had just one hundred and eight
yards in the first half with Walker in the booth,
he comes down to the sidelines and Temple gets two
hundred and nineteen yards in the second half. The Owls
opened the second half with a ten place seventy five
yard drive cap buy an eight yard receiving touchdown for
Jojo Bermudez. One play after Jamir Jones intercepted Owen McCown,
Smith popped through the left side for a fifty four
yard touchdown for a seventeen to fourteen lead. The Roadrunners
quickly regained the lead on the Count's eighteen yard pass
to Devin McQuinn, but the Owls went thirty eight yards
to take the lead on Simon's fifteen yard pass to
Peter Clark. The road Runners held to forty one yards
and two first downs in the fourth quarter, with an
interception giving the ball up on downs twice. Simon finished
sixteen to twenty five one hundred and ninety nine yards.
McCown was twenty five and thirty seven for two hundred
and thirty four yards and two scores with two interceptions
for the road Runners. Uh, the second half just too much.
And I have never heard I've never heard of a coach. Well, obviously,
we've heard of coaches making a move. I don't know
about mid game. That's I'm sure that's happened, but that's
that's pretty rare. But especially when you get the result
that you got for the Owls in the second half,
just stick them on the sideline there at Temple for
the rest of the season. I'm sure that's what they're
gonna do for sure. Uh. But UTSA goes down, they
fall to two and three oh to one in the
American Temple, three and two one in oh in the American. There,
boys and girls, let's get on with some Texas A
and m Aggies. As you know, my Texas A and
m Aggie's are my favorite team. Of course, we've all
discussed that we've all if you've listened to the show,
you're familiar. Alma Mater family. Alma Mater definitely my favorite
college football team, and luckily for me, it's It's been
a great season so far, a long way to go here,
And as I have mentioned before, this is a different
Texas A and m Aggis team. They seem to be
winning those games that over the past few years they
very easily lost, even against the really, really good teams
over the past few years, you could put yourself in
position to win, and something always happens, either a bad play,
a misthrow, a miss block, a missed assignment, a dropped cat,
wh whatever it's been. It's it's been just horrific outcomes
in some cases for the Aggies when they are playing
elite competition, we'll put it that way. But now this season,
it seems like the Aggies are the elite competition because
rolling into this week, as you were hosting Mississippi State,
you had every opportunity for this to be a trap game.
And I don't really like the word trap game because
it's not like teams just don't prepare or they I
don't think teams overlook opponents. I don't I don't care
who you are. I don't think that happens. Coaches don't
let that happen. These these guys, you know, are old
enough to to not let that happen. But the Aggies
clearly had every reason to.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're looking opponent, if that's a thing. As Mississippi State
in a lot of cases, was favored in this game,
Mississippi State was picked by some of these so called
analysts and pundits. Yes, I said that on purpose to
beat Texas A and M. They're at Kyle Field, and
for a little while, it looked like as these two
teams struggled offensively, it looked like that everything was setting
up for a Mississippi State second half that might put
the Aggies in their place at Kyle Field. But Casey's
Conceptsion caught two touchdown passes as the Aggies dominate on
defense for the second consecutive week for a thirty one
to nine victory at Kyle Field over the Bulldogs. The
Aggi's improved a five and oh for the first time
since twenty sixteen. They're two to zero in the Southeastern
Conference now. Mike Elko proud of his team. He said
after the game, quote, We've just got to keep grinding
and continuing to get better. You're in an SEC football game,
and SEC football games are not easy end quote. Well,
he's experienced a little bit of that last year, and
he experienced that as the defensive coordinator under jimbo Fisher
for a couple of years. He's certainly familiar with the
atmosphere and the culture around SEC football. But it looks
like he's he's excelling pretty well at this point in
his second year in Aggie Land.
Speaker 2: The Bulldogs four and two zho and to two in.
Speaker 1: Conference player, still aiming for their first SEC victory, and
coach Jeff Levy's two seasons, held a three to zero
lead for most of the first half. The slow starting
Aggies finally got on the scoreboard with one fifty one
remaining in the second quarter on a thirty four yard
touchdown reception by Conceptsy On Conceptsion caught Marcel Reid's pinpoint
pass at the five and carried cornerback Kelly Jones into
the end zone on one of the day's most impressive plays.
It was an incredible throw from Marcel Reid, who is
more known as a you know, a running quarterback, but
he is more and more as this season progresses, showing
flashes of what his arm can do.
Speaker 2: And you gotta have both in the SEC.
Speaker 1: You can't just be a one dimensional quarderback either with
the legs or with the arm.
Speaker 2: You gotta be prepared to use both.
Speaker 1: The Aggi's added a touchdown late in the third quarter
conception On's two yard reception to increase their lead to
fourteen to three. They limited the Bulldogs to a lone
fourth quarter touchdown following the early field goal.
Speaker 2: Texas A and M.
Speaker 1: Now the past two weeks have limited Auburn and Mississippi
State to a combined one for twenty three on third
down conversions in its two SEC games. That is insane.
I don't care what your two opponents are in the SEC.
That stat is hard to wrap my head around. One
for twenty three in the past two games on third
down conversions is what this Aggie's defense has held its
opponent two. The Aggi's rushed for two hundred and ninety
nine yards, eighty more yards than the Bulldogs collected in
total offense. Ruben Owens led the Aggies with one hundred
and forty two yards on twenty one carries. And I
believe I said because Mississippi State heading into this game
was I think, allowing just fifty something yards per game
on the ground.
Speaker 2: It was an.
Speaker 1: Insane, an insane stat from a defensive standpoint on the
ground in yards allowed. And on my Texas A and
m Aggie's Daily he blitzed podcast over at fan String Sports,
I predicted the Aggies would rush for two hundred yards
in this game as a team, and boy howdy they
up to me with two hundred and ninety nine total yards.
I'm not gonna toot my own horn here or anything,
but I was right. The Aggie's played before one hundred
and eighty five hundred and seventy two fans. That is
the fifth largest crowd in Kyle Field history. The Bulldogs
now have lost their fourteenth consecutive SEC game dating to
twenty twenty three prior to Levy's arrival. You know, if
there's a good, something good to take away from this
for for Levy and the Bulldogs. He held Texas A
and M's offense to just one touchdown for nearly three quarters.
Now it's a four quarter game, so that doesn't really
mean anything, Although then you played well for almost three quarters,
but at some point the Aggie's offense as stout as
it is, We'll find a way. The Aggie is any
of the contest. Is one of the nation's most penalized teams,
prompting Elko to joke this week that he was going
to start a Cabo fund with penalized A and M
players helping fund A and M coaches vacation New Mexico.
The Aggie's followed with seven penalties in the first half
against MSU, a week after collecting thirteen total against Auburn,
but cleaned up the act in the second half with
just two over the final two quarters. You know it's
it's going to be interesting the rest of the way
for the Aggies. And we did have a storyline inside
the storyline here during this game that wasn't talked about,
I don't think on the broadcast nearly enough. As one
of the Aggie's most elite offensive weapons receiver Mario Craver.
Of course, he's just a year removed from being one
of Mississippi State's most promising young players. Transferred to Texas
A and M and had a big game here against
his old team. I don't think that that was talked
about nearly enough. He finished with six catches for eighty yards,
both game highs. So you know it's going to be
an interesting season the rest of the way for the Aggies,
the rest of the way for the Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: But as the Aggies.
Speaker 1: Now host Florida, coming up of the team that talked
about a great transition, the team that just stomped the
Texas Longhorns this past weekend, Mississippi State is at Florida
on October eighteenth, after a bye week. But let's get
in to maybe the most hyped game of this this week,
and I'm.
Speaker 2: Not sure why.
Speaker 1: Look, and I've tried to stay positive about the Longhorns
regardless of my affiliation with the Aggies. If you've listened
to this show, you know I'm a Manning fan. I'm
a Manning family fan. My favorite quarterback growing up was Archie.
I've got love for Peyton, I've got love for Eli.
I even named one of my kids Eli, all right,
only because the wife at the time would not allow
me to name him Archie, and though she had no
idea where the references were from, was not going to
go Peyton because I think that's a girl's name in
my brain. With all apologies to Peyton Manning, so Eli
was next on the list.
Speaker 2: We went with that. She still has no idea.
Speaker 1: He's seventeen now, she still has no idea where that
name came from. But she dug it, so that's where
we went. So look, I am not a Manning hater.
I'm not even a long Horns hater at this point,
but there has been so much discussion preseason number one.
By the way, here now, at this point of the
college football season, your preseason number one, preseason number two,
in preseason number four, all out of the top twenty
five Texas, Penn State.
Speaker 2: And Clemson. Can we just get it?
Speaker 1: Do away with preseason rankings please. I don't know what
purpose they serve other than disappointment for teams that aren't
that good. Look, and I've experienced that as an Aggies fan,
seeing the Aggies ranked in the top ten in the
preseason and then they're out after three or four games
when they got two losses. Again, that's the old Aggies
that we've been talking about. This is not, as they say,
your father's Aggie's team. It's not my father's Aggies team.
My dad played for the Aggies, by the way, That's
one of the reasons I'm I'm a big Aggies fan.
But look, this Texas Longhorns team is not good, and
it's not just the quarterback. I think the game against
Florida exposed and we've already seen it some this season.
You know what, throw the Ohio State loss in Week
one out the window. That was just an impossible atmosphere.
That was an impossible game for the Longhorns to win.
Maybe even if they were clicking on all cylinders. That
is near impossible to go into the Horseshoe and beat
Ohio State in Week one, So I'll even excuse that.
But the other games, aside from Sam Houston State, this
offense has not looked good. And it's not just because
of Arch. This offensive line is horrific. It might be
the most the most I'm trying to figure out a
way to say this politely underperforming unit on the entire team,
and I'm including the quarterback position. They can't run, block,
they can't pass block. Arch has zero time to do anything,
and when he pays annis, he makes bad decisions. Don't again,
don't forget this as his first season starting I get
it all right, but that offensive line, and I don't
understand why you knew the situation as a program. I'm
not just gonna throw Sark under the bus here, because
he's got an entire staff, an entire recruiting department, an
entire NIL department that evaluates players and makes recommendations and
things like that. You knew the situation coming into this
season that Archs had never started before. You were handing
the reins over to him with this offense, and the
most important thing for a young player, I don't care
if your high first time high school starter, first time
college starter, first time NFL starter, is an offensive line.
So I don't know if they thought as a program
they were in a better spot with the offensive line.
I don't know if they knew there were some deficiencies there,
but it's what they got. They got a roll with it,
which would have been a horrible decision if that was
the situation. I'm more likely to tend to believe that
they thought they were in a better spot, and you've
just got some guys that are underperforming. Either way, this
is not all on Arch.
Speaker 2: But he is bad.
Speaker 1: He has looked really, really overmatched, confused, just out of place.
And I said it last week that you know, especially
after the sam Houston State win of fifty five to nothing,
everybody proclaiming that Arch is back, Texas is back. That
was a bunch of bull hockey because because of the competition,
you know, yeah, you scored fifty five. Arch had a
great game against sam Houston State. As I mentioned last week,
the players sam Houston State are probably just a notch
or a tick above the level of competition that Art
had in high school. And we all know what Arts
did in high school. He dominated, So yeah, of course
he's gonna play well against those guys. But now you
go to Florida, who's not a great SEC team by
the way, they're unranked, they're two and three, And this
is what happens. And that's the type of the type
of competition. He's gonna get the rest of the way
in the SEC. And I'm a little scared for Art.
I'm scared for the Longhorn. This thing could get way
worse before it gets better. And I don't know what
the answer is. You can't make a quarterback change. You've
got to improve in other areas. You've got to give
Art some more time You've got to find a way
to get Art some confidence, and that's not gonna happen
when he's got point four seconds to throw or figure
out which way to run, it's not gonna happen. So yeah,
on the Florida side of it, Dj Lagway looked really,
really good as the as Dallas Wilson and his college
football debut just looked unstoppable. Blagway throws for a season
high two hundred and eighty nine yards two touchdowns, both
of them to Dallas Wilson, a true freshman to making
his college debut as Florida ends a three game skid
against your Longhorns. Again, it's I don't want to call
it an embarrassment. The Longhorns weren't embarrassed. Look, they lost
twenty nine to twenty one. It was a late score
that made the game look much closer than it was.
I realized that. But look, the Gators are still the Gators.
They're still playing the Swamp. That is a tough place
to go, a tough place to win. I don't care
what the Gators record is. I don't care what their
team looks like. Lagway is a good quarterback now, Dallas
Wilson is a huge weapon on that side.
Speaker 2: And you know that.
Speaker 1: I think we saw some cracks in the Texas defense
in this game as well. The Longhorn secondary looked a
lot like the Dallas Cowboys secondary at times not good.
So Texas one to one in the Conference three and
two overall, lots of places to look for improvement. Sarks
got his work cut out for him, and you can
just cross your fingers that they figure some things out
because the schedule will not get much easier for the
Longhorns now as you've got ou this weekend at Fair Park,
at the Texas State Fair, at the Cotton Bowl. Now
that's gonna o you team that's not gonna have John Mattier.
So if you've got anything going for you in this game,
John Mattier will not play the Dallas name, the little
Elm native from right here in my back yard. And
then you've got Kentucky on the road, Mississippi State on
the road, Vanderbilt at home. I don't know that Texas
can beat vanderbur I don't know that Texas can beat
any of these teams, to be quite honest. Now they
probably will just based on percentages. But then You've got
Georgia on the road and then Arkansas at home. Probably
beat Arkansas before your annual matchup with the Aggies after Thanksgiving.
This time is at DKR, so you've got that going
for you. But I'm a little scared for the Longhorns,
and I would love to hear from you. Longhorns fan
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Speaker 2: What is wrong?
Speaker 1: How can it get fixed? I appreciate hearing from you guys.
This show is free, y'all, not just me sitting here
spouting off my useless information. But yeah, we will continue
to monitor, not monitor, but yes, monitor the Texas Longhorn
situation throughout the rest of the season. We had another big,
big twelve game matchup that went down to the wire
as the Baylor Bears hosting the Kansas State Wildcats. Connor
Hawkins kick after Jacob's Redding. Jacob Redding's long pick six
helps lift Baylor pass Kansas City Kansas State thirty five
to twenty four. My very good friend with Pewter Report
covers the Bucks in Tampa, Scott Reynolds, big k State fan.
He's not had a good couple of weeks and regardless
of how well things were going in this game for
Kansas State early, you can't be too certain. Can't put
the win in the books too early with these Wildcats.
As Baylor scores eighteen outscores of the Wildcats eighteen to three.
In the fourth quarter four the win, Connor Hawkins kicked
a fifty three yard field goal with thirty one seconds left.
After that, Jacob Redding sixty six yard interception return for
a touchdown. Baylor rallied twice in the fourth quarter for
the win. Hawkins matched the longest kick of his career
after Luis Rodriguez had put the Wildcats in front with
a twenty two yard field goal with one forty eight remaining.
Case State falls to two and four one and two
in the Big twelve, they had to settle for the
kick after having a first down at the Baylor two
yard line. Rodriguez had a chance for a game winner
from fifty six, but Cooper Lance blocked it with two
seconds to go. The Bears increased to or improved a
four and two two and one in the conference. They
held on two weeks after losing to Arizona State on
a game ending field goal in their previous home game.
Michael Trick had career highs with eight catches for one
hundred and fifty five yards. Sparked Baylor's rally from a
fourteen point deficit in the fourth quarter with a forty
two yard grab before making a spectacular one headed catch
while getting one foot down on the sideline gaining another
twenty nine yards.
Speaker 2: That was an amazing play.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't seen that, either live or on
social media somewhere, that was an amazing catch by Trig.
Robertson's eleven yard scoring pass to Bryce and Washington came
on the next play. Robertson's two point conversion rather on
a run, cut Baylor's deficit to thirty one to twenty five.
Avery Johnson threw for three hundred and thirty nine yards
and two touchdowns. He ran in for another score. He
had kept the potential clock killing drive alive with two
third down conversions. He threw into traffic on first down
in Baylor territory with a six point lead. Reading picked
off the pass, ran left up the sideline and cut
back inside with the speedy Johnson pursuing to finish off.
The score untouched. The point after gave Baylor a thirty
two to thirty one lead with less than five minus
minutes to go. Johnson's twelve yard scoring pass to Jace
Brown broke a seventeen to seventeen halftime tie, and the
Wildcats went up two touchdowns on Dylan Edward's five yard
run late in the third quarter. So this is the
third time this season that the Wildcats have led or
been tied in the fourth quarter of a loss. They've
had a one score margin a nation leading five or
six five times in six games. Three of the losses
are by three points or fewer.
Speaker 2: For Baylor.
Speaker 1: Robertson had two TD tosses, ending a streak of consecutive
games with at least three scoring passes at five. It
was the longest since Kyler Murray had eight in a
row with Oklahoma in twenty eighteen. His three hundred and
forty five yards passing were almost right on his nation
leading average, so big win for Baylor, another huge loss
for the Wildcats as they are now making a habit
out of these losses. Not fun for my buddy Scott
Reynolds and U wild Cats fans, but Baylor finding a
way to get it done at four and two, now
two and one in the Big twelve. And I still
keep hearing rumblings from the Bears fans about Dave Randa
when we're gonna fire Dave Arranda. I just don't know
that there's a better option out there.
Speaker 2: For you guys.
Speaker 1: And this is true at any level. If you're an
NFL coach you don't or a fan, you don't like
your coach. As long as he's winning, there's probably not
a better option out there. And I know that the
Bears have had their issues the last couple of years,
there's no question. But right now you get rid of Randa,
who are you gonna bring in? Who's gonna be better?
I don't know. He's got to be careful with stuff
like that, and that's why programs stick with their coaches
as they should. Case in point Oklahoma State. Look how
long it took to get rid of Mike Gundy. And
by long long, I don't mean twenty years to get
rid of I mean it took it took four games
to get rid of them this year. What he probably
should have been gone after last season. But big win
for the Bears, big for the k State Wildcats, Another
big win for the now three and two SMU Mustangs
as they best the Syracuse Orange. Still weird for me
to say Syracuse Orange because they're not the Orange Men anymore,
Orangeman Orange Men, Orangeman as they rebranded to just the Orange.
I don't know ten years ago, I don't remember when
it was, but it's still weird for me to get
used to. As the Orange fall to three and three
one and two in the ACC, Kevin Jennings passed for
a career high four touchdowns as SMU gets passed Syracuse.
Jennings passed for two hundred and eighty five yards and
a career high four touchdowns in the game. Jennings completed
twenty nine to thirty five passes with one fourth quarter
interception for an eighty two point nine completion percentage, second
highest in program history for twenty plus attempts to Justin
Willis's eighty seven percent in two thousand and six when
he went twenty of twenty three, Jennings through scoring passes
of fifteen yards to Yamere Night, sixteen yards to our
j Maryland, fourteen yards to Derek McFall in, nine yards
to Jordan Hudson. As SMU broke. They broke to a
thirty one to three lead early in the fourth quarter,
and I wasn't watching this game live. I forgot what
was on. At the same time, I've had two or
three games. I was slipping back and forth, but I
saw thirty one to three and I didn't switch back.
And then as I'm watching other games and I'm monitoring
social media, of course on X, I start seeing SMU
fans panicking. I started seeing SMU fans posting that SMU
forgot to show it for the second half. They quit
in the second half. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I mean, the third quarter was okay.
Speaker 1: Syracuse scored fifteen in the fourth quarter, and based on
the tweets that I was seeing the posts on X,
I thought SMU had given up the lead. I mean,
it was dire straits for the poor Mustang fans. And
then I'd flipped back over close to the end of it,
and I saw the final score and I'm like, Okay,
come on, guys, we know this is not the best
SMU team this season. They're not anywhere near what they
did last year. But they didn't give up. They weren't
not playing in the second half. The Orange just kind
of went on a little run there in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: And it is what it is.
Speaker 1: But the SMU Mustangs, we talked about it last week
a little bit, just not I don't know if you
want to call it not having the luck that they
had last year. You know, the roster's basically the same.
I think I need to talk to my friend Rich Phillips,
who does play by play for them, maybe need to
get him on to talk a little bit about the
Mustangs roster this year what might be going wrong for them.
But yeah, it's just not they're not catching that magic,
that lightning in a bottle that they did last year.
And it's hard to do as kind of an upstart
program again your first year in the ACC. Last year
tons of success and I'm not going to say they're
not having any success. They're three and two and we'll
see where the rest of the season takes. The Pony
or else will called the Ponies anymore. Sorry, the Mustangs.
But the schedule ahead for the Mustangs. Stanford coming up
on the eleventh. You've got a man just a Clemson
team that's in shambles right now on the ACC network
on the eighteenth. Then you've got at Wake Forest, then
you host the Miami Hurricanes. Boys and girls are if
you are in the Dallas area and or if you're
not in the Dallas here, if you're within driving distance
of Dallas, do what you can to make arrangements to
be at Ford Stadium for that Miami game. If it's
not already sold out, I don't know. I'm gonna try
to be there. Number one supports your Mustangs.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: Min he's really good. If it's your only shot to
see them live, you might want to take advantage of that.
The week after Miami, you're at BC. After that you
travel to I'm sorry, you host Louisville. Louisville, then at
CAL to close out the season. So I don't know
where the Mustangs season is going to take them beyond here.
You should probably beat Stanford, you should probably beat Clemson,
you should probably beat Wake, probably lose to Miami, might
lose one of those last three. Just statistically speaking, so
think good thoughts for the Mustangs rolling forward. Speaking of
rolling forward, boys and girls, the Texas Tech Red Raiders
keep doing that. As we had a matchup in the
Big twelve of unbeatens, you had the four and oh
Red Raiders on the road at the four and oh
Houston Cougars. It was a game that as it played out,
it didn't play out the way I thought. I thought
we would have a defensive battle, which we did in
the second half, but the Red Raiders offense just finding
ways to click and the Cougar's offense behind Connor Wiegman,
did not find ways to click. Held scoreless in the
second half, held to just eleven points, as the Red
Raiders' role in Houston thirty five to eleven score could
have been bigger. Baron Morton threw for three hundred and
forty five yards in a touchdown. Jacoby Williams ran for
two scores as the Red Raiders improved the five and
oh over previously unbeaten Houston on Saturday night. It's the
first time the Red Raiders have won their first five
games since opening the twenty three the twenty three the
twenty thirteen season seven to zero. It's the eighth five
and oh start in school history. And if you listen
to the show regularly, you've heard me talk. You've heard
me use the word dominating. It's a lack of a
better word. It's the reason I use that so much.
I don't know. Stomping, obliterating, schlacking. That's what the Texas
Tech offense has been doing to opposing defenses this year.
They've won each contest by at least twenty four points,
and they have outscored opponents this year. Are you ready
for this sit down? You might need to sit down
for this. If you're driving in the car listening, pull
over before I say this, because it's going to be shocking.
Speaker 2: Shocking.
Speaker 1: Texas Tech has outscored its opponent this year through five games,
two hundred and forty three to fifty six. We say
that again, two hundred and four, twenty three to fifty six.
Wigman threw for seventy one yards with an interception in
the first half for Houston before going to the locker
room late in the second quarter with an apparent injury.
He did not return. Coach Willie Fritz did not provide
specifics on his injury, said he's waiting on more information
on the condition of him, and I have not seen
here as I record this on a Tuesday, I have
still not seen any updates on Wigman's situation on his injury.
The Red Raiders were up by six late in the
first quarter after three field goals when Morton found Cameron
Dickey on a short pass. He juked two defenders and
ran untouched for sixty nine yards and a score. The
two point conversion failled to leave Tech up fifteen to three.
Jacob Rodriguez intercepted Wigman's pass return it to the Houston
twenty five early in the second quarter. Texas Tech cashed
in five plays later when Williams scored on a five
yard run to make it twenty two to three, and
the route was on. Caleb Johnson had a season high
one hundred and fourteen yards receiving on seven catches for Tech.
Corey Ekon added ten catches for eighty one yards. Williams
had one one hundred and seven yards rushing. Dickey ran
for ninety eight on twenty one carries as the Red
Raiders piled up five hundred and fifty two yards of offense.
And it's odd because despite the perfect start in dominating defenses.
Baron Morton said he thinks that they can do better.
He said after the game, quote there's a next level
that no one has seen. End quote Baron Morton. If
there is a next level to this team's offense, I
can't wait to see it because I can't even imagine
that there is no I can't I can't even fathom
that the way this offense is playing right now.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I'm not gonna dispute him. Who
am I to say that?
Speaker 1: Xeon Chris took over after Weekman exited and scrambled for
eleven yards in his first play before throwing a sixty
four yard touchdown pass to Amari Thomas on his second
about ninety seconds. But before halftime, he connected with Stefan
Johnson on the two point conversion that cut the lead
to twenty five to eleven. But that would be it
scoring wise, as Chris throws for ninety three yards with
an interception. He also led the team despite not playing
the whole game, with just fifty nine yards rushing, and
that tells you a little bit about how dominant that
Texas Tech ground defense has been. Texas Tech missed a
field goal at the end of the second quarter before
hitting won from twenty nine in the third to push
the lead to twenty eight to eleven. The Red Raiders
missed a field goal from fifty three later in the
third before the second TD by Williams early in the
fourth ony one yard run which left Texas Tech up
thirty five to eleven. The Red Raiders, of course, they
are moving up during the top ten now in the polls.
Then that was sort of thank you to Penn State
and Texas losing. But yes, this team, the way it's
playing now is a top ten team and it's now
being reflect in the polls. The Cougars have certainly improved
from last year's four and eight squad, but when they
make mistakes, it's hard for those mistakes to be overcome
by this young team. But they are improving. I have
been impressed with Houston this year as I've talked about
them on this show, and man again, I don't know
who or what can stop this Red Raiders offensive train.
Rolling Tech hosts Kansas next Saturday. Houston's at Oklahoma State
next Saturday. You know, if you want instant predictions, I
think both teams win. I don't think Texas is any
match or Kansas is any match for the for the
Red Raiders. After Kansas, Texas Tech hosts Oklahoma State, They're
at KSU, they host b YU and UCF before ending
the season at West Virginia. This thing could go undefeated, now,
will they? Yeah, I don't know. BYU's playing pretty good
this year. They're ranked in the top twenty five right now.
UCF is always dangerous. They had a great start to
the season. They've fallen off a little bit, but they've
still got a stacked roster. Thankfully. That game is at
home against UCF in the penultimate game of the season.
But yeah, Texas Tech's got got a chance to roll
here and it's gonna be fun to watch the rest
of the way. One more game to get to here
on the slate four, the Pigskin and Burt ends right
here on the college gridiron Coast to Coast Network and
fans stream sports per Video, and that is TCU and Colorado.
The horn Frogs get past the Buffaloes at home, four
thirty five to twenty one, pushing the horn Frogs record
to four and one one in one.
Speaker 2: In the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: Colorado falls to two and four oh and three in
the Big twelve as Deon Sanders team sort of en
shambles up there. And by the way, we want to
think the good thought for coach Prime. For Deon Sanders,
as he revealed after the game that he believes he
is dealing with some more blood clots in his leg.
He's had a ton of health issues here in the
last couple of years. I don't know if that's affecting
the play on the field or not, if it's affecting
his preparation, his coaching, whatever. This team's not very good
and we want to think the good thought for Coach Prime.
As he mentioned he will see doctors about some potential
blood clots in his leg, but he appears to be
in a ton of pain and we want him to
certainly get better. Josh Hoover threw for two of his
four touchdowns to Eric McAllister and ran for another score
as the Red Raiders the horn Frogs overcome a two
touchdown deficit to beat the Buffalo's on Saturday night in
the Buffalo's first trip to Fort Worth since coach sanders
winning debut there two years ago. TCU went ahead for
good on Hoover's eighteen yard touchdown to Joseph Manjack with
five forty four left. That came only a few plays
after a disputed offensive pass interference call wiped out a
big fourth down gain inside the five yard line and
forced the Frogs to punt. That kick ricocheted off the
back of a Colorado player and was recovered by tight
end Chase Curtis. Hoover completed twenty three to thirty three
passes for two hundred and seventy five yards. McAllister had
four catches for sixty five added a twenty one yard
score on a fourth down play with nineteen seconds left.
McAllister was back after missing a game because of a
hamstring issue, since eight catches for two hundred and fifty
four yards and three touchdowns against SMU and TC's last
home game two weeks ago. The Buffaloes blew a fourteen
point lead for the second week in a row and
had four turnovers. Caden Salter was eighteen to twenty nine
for two hundred and seventeen yards with two touchdowns to
Amari and Miller. Salter also ran for a score, but
through three interceptions by halftime. The quarterback position they're in
Boulder is a mess. I'm not sure what they can
do to figure that out. Salter's first throw of the night,
as a matter of fact, was an interception. His second
pick led to mccauistra's twenty three yard touchdown for a
fourteen to fourteen tie with just one p thirty two
left before halftime and only sixty six seconds after Hoover's
one yard touchdown run. Salter's last interception came at the
goal line on the final play before the break, kept
Colorado from being able to regain the lead. The Buffaloes
made it to the TCU two after two big plays
and a pass interference penalty in the end zone, but
Salter's next throw, intended for Miller, was intercepted after being
deflected by Jamel Johnson, who had the first interception, and
that pretty much wrapped things up. You know, I don't
know what to think of TCU. They're four and one,
as we mentioned, overall, I don't know that this is
a truly a four and one team. The Buffaloes, as
I mentioned, are kind of in shambles right now. Quarterback
play nine good, offensive line play not good at four
and one for TCU. Going the rest of the way,
They're at k State coming up. They've also got matchups
with Baylor, West Virginia, Iowa State who just fell.
Speaker 2: BYU.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned top twenty five team, they're pretty good
this year. They still have Houston on the road and
then Cincinnati at home to end the season. You know,
where are we looking in the Big Twelve? I still
think you know, obviously Texas Tech is going to compete
for a Big twelve title, But behind them, I mean
you're probably looking at BYU. They're five and oero, Arizona
States four and one, Cincinnati's four and one, Iowa States
now five and one after the loss, Baylor four and two,
Kansas Foreign two, Arizona fore and one, Houston Foreign one,
Tech four and one, Utah four and one. Beyond that, yeah,
the competition seems to fade a little bit. But yeah,
this Big twelve is wide open, man, and I can't
wait for the rest of the season. His teams are
gonna tear each other up. If you need some good football,
go watch any Big twelve matchup this season and it's
gonna be exciting for you for sure. But that's going
to wrap up this week's pig Skin and Burnt Ends.
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