Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into another edition of pig Skin and
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wherever he gets your podcasts. But welcome into a fun,
an exciting week of Texas college football. The Texas a
and m Aggie's were off resting getting ready for the
Missouri Tigers this upcoming week. We had some very very
impressive shows by well, we'll say an impressive showing by
the Red Raiders once again as they continue to stay
on track.
Speaker 2: The Texas Longhorns.
Speaker 1: Squeak one out. Are you happy about that? Longhorns fans?
I don't know, It's been the story all season. And
then you add those SMU Mustangs looking like the old
early eighties Pony Express as they steal one. They're on
the hilltop of Gerald J. Ford Stadium from the Miami
Hurricanes in an ACC matchup, and that one was a
fun one. We had some losers as well. We had Baylor, well,
Baylor was a winner over the UCF Knights, big winners
over the UCF Knights, and of course the Houston Cougars
inexplicably losing to those West Virginia Mountaineers, a program that's
a little in shambles right now and not what we expected,
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But let's start with the big one. There on the hilltop,
as the Mustangs in overtime stun Number ten Miami, as
the students there storm of the field at Gerald J.
Ford Stadium, SMU continue to shake up the acc race,
and they're doing it with flair. With a twenty six
to twenty overtime grab.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: It's their thirteenth straight home conference win behind a walk
off one yard plunge from TJ Harden and a defense
that delivered when they needed at most. A mad Moses
set the table with his second interception of the night,
jumping Carson Beck just shide of the goal line on
Miami's first overtime snap. Four straight hardened runs later, SMU
lit the fuse, untouched left edge.
Speaker 2: Ball game and bedlam.
Speaker 1: It was a cathartic response just one week after a
last play heartbreak loss at wake Forest. The Mustangs regathered, rebound,
and they grinded. SMU had negative rushing yards entering overtime.
The twenty five yards on the winning drive pushed the
total to twenty three, all heart all situational football. The
finish was pure Dallas Theater. SMU students poured over the
wall behind the Miami bench toppled the goal posts in
the end zone where Harden scored. The base wouldn't budget,
but the uprights did, including one the one that was
involved in that fourth quarter controversy with Sam Keltner's would
be tying forty two yard was ruled no good. It
sold over the upright that is not reviewable, and rhtt
Lashley kind of laughed it off. In the post game,
he said, hope there's one in deep Ellum and one
in downtown.
Speaker 2: Dallas talking about those uprights.
Speaker 1: Kelner got redemption though with a calm thirty eight yarder
equalizer at twenty five seconds and kick made possible by
a critical unnecessary roughness flag on Marquis's lightfoot after a timeout,
gifting SMU a first down on fourth and nine. Kevin
Jennings authored a gutty knight, throwing a touchdown running for another,
returning after an apparent lower leg left injury to Steer
the late drives, Miami also had its chances. Beck through
for two hundred and seventy four yards. He tossed scores
to Jossa Trader and Alex Bowman, but threw two picks,
both to Moses and the Canes blinked at the end
of regulation with twenty five seconds and a timeout after
a touchback, Mario Cristobaul chose to kneel and Beck felt
the sting there and because from there it was all SMU,
they finished. Harden's overtime hammer punctuated a night that kept
the Mustangs worrely in the conference mix there at six
and three, four and one in the ACC, even after
last week stumble stacked their long ACC Street Jennings toughness,
Moses takeaways, Keltner's clutch swing, and one delirious field storm
turned a top ten up set into a love letter
to resilience. The Miami Hurricanes will try to regroup. They
will face Syracuse on Saturday. Should be an easy win.
Nothing against you, Syracuse Orange. Of course, SMU heads north
to Boston College on Saturday as well, and this was
a at least in my opinion, this was a program
I don't want to say defining, but if you want
to talk SMU football over the last i don't know,
thirty years, certainly a statement game, right for those boys,
for Kevin Jennings, for Rhet Lashley, and yes, I was
supposed to be there and I missed the game. One
of those things like, man, I could have been there,
I should have been there, I wasn't. Maybe I'll just
light everybody and tell everybody I was there. Now, of
course we're not gonna do that. But yeah, one for
the ages, one for the program, and again Miami will
have to regroup now and try to get caught back
up in the college football playoff talk. Another program that
impressed this week, and more so maybe than I thought
it would, was the Red Raiders as they roll into
Manhattan in power themselves to a forty three to twenty
statement win over k State. It was a turnover tsunami
as Texas Tech snapped an eight game skid to Kansas
State bagged its first win in Manhattan since two thousand
and eight, thumping the Wildcats behind a takeaway frenzy and
helping QB one in a bruising ground game at Bill
Snyder Family Stadium. Maren Morton returned from injury to throw
for two hundred and forty nine yards two touchdowns to
Kobe Williams ripped one hundred and thirty five yards and
another score. The Red Raiders now moved to eight and one,
five and one in the Big Twelve. They forced five
turnovers to overwhelm What was that day of a very
mistake prone kse State who falls to four and five,
three and three in the conference. Head coach Joe Joey
McGuire after the game talked about what a huge win
it was, and he's not wrong. Interestingly, he arrived. If
you haven't seen it, Joey McGuire arrived at the postgame
press conference stand the podium wearing a T shirt that
featured current Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt when he
played for Kansas State. When he played linebacker at k State,
he commented. McGuire commented on he said, it's no disrespect
to k State. It's a tip of the hat to
my ad who played linebacker here. It's been a long
time since we beat K State. YadA, YadA, YadA. As
a matter of fact, it is it's the first time,
as we mentioned, since two thousand and eight since the
Red Raiders have rolled into Manhattan and gotten a win.
It was a sloppy game for both sides, and Morton
threw an early pick. Avery Johnson answered with one of
his own. Tech finally settled in. They were able to
take advantage of some k State mistakes. And you know,
watching this game, this is almost one of the infuriating
aspects of Texas Tech football, and you don't like to
see it. But it's the slow starts and it's you know,
it's happened the last couple of weeks with Hammond under center,
and of course he's out for the year. Morton comes back,
and you wanted to see a quick start. You didn't
want to see Texas Tech go down early. They go
down seven to nothing. They come back and get things
together in the second quarter thanks to some KSE State mistakes,
but you don't like the sloppy slow starts. Brown fumble
set up a touchdown for a nine to seven lead,
a late three and out became a booming fifty five
yard field goal. Then on the fourth play of the
second half, Garrett Oakley fumbled that turned into a Williams
forty one yard house calling silenced the crowd at nineteen
to seven, but Barren Morton steady hand kept the pressure
on with a dark to Caleb Douglas and then a
field goal drive from Stone Harrington stretched the lead to
twenty nine to fourteen. Entering the fourth k State tried
to claw back, but the Texa Tech defense slammed the
door a two point try with stuff to fourth down
stop near midfield and a brief offensive miss. Q later
made another fourth down stonewall. With under six minutes left
for Tech, John Curry put the exclamation point on it
scooping Johnson's late fumble and sprinting in for the dagger
with just under five minutes left. Johnson total one hundred
ninety nine yards passing with a touchdown in eighty six
rushing yards with two scores, but those two interceptions in
the late fumble headlined a brutal night of miskies for
the Wildcats. They finished oh for four on fourth down
and literally key drops across a bunch of drives did
them in as well. Just a ton of errors, unforced
errors for KSE State. Not like, not what you want
to see from those boys if you're a k State fan.
But give full credit to the Texas Tech defense and
the Texas Tech offense for being able to take advantage
of those. So the win pushes Tech into its best
Big twelve starts since eight. The Mike Leach Cotton Bowl
season showcases a defense that flips fields and it's a
balanced offense that travels well. We can now see glad
to have Baron Morton back. Cameron Dicky added a touchdown
run to the party, and you know again, I think
the return of Morton kind of lifted everybody up a
little bit on the offense. Nothing against will Hammond, but
when you got your starter back. Morton's kind of the
heart of this thing. We all know that. And now
Tech will get ready to face number ten b y
you and maybe their biggest test of the year.
Speaker 2: On Saturday.
Speaker 1: Case State is off for a week before they head
to November, head to Oklahoma State on November fifteenth, looking
for a rebound game. You hat to have that week
off after lost, because it really just sort of sits
there and you're crawling. Doesn't make you feel too good.
And you know what, the coaching staff makes sure that
the boys remember those losses too. And you've got a
week off for sure. So let's talk some Longhorns, kind
of hook them horn, I guess maybe a little bit.
As the long Horns escape Vanderbilt after blowing a twenty
four point lead.
Speaker 2: Should anybody be celebrating here? I don't know. I don't
think so.
Speaker 1: If you are, I'd love to hear why and how
you think this was a good win. Look, I know
a win is a win, is a win any given Saturday.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: But you can't sit there as a long Horns fan
and tell me that you feel that you still feel
good about this thing.
Speaker 2: You know, if you.
Speaker 1: If you just watched the first forty five minutes of
this game, he'd probably think the long Horns had finally
turned a corner.
Speaker 2: They're back. Arch is back, the long Horns are back.
But that was not the case.
Speaker 1: Up thirty four to ten in the fourth quarter, they
were cruising behind a freshly cleared Arch manning until well
they weren't a desperate Commodore's rally. Diego Pavia's TD run,
a sixty seven yard strike to Eli Stower's in a
final touchdown to Richie Hoskins with thirty three seconds left
turned a laugher into a near collapse that required the
onside kick to trickle out of bounds for the Longhorns
to survive. And boys and girls, if you didn't see
that onside kick, it was so close. It was within
six inches of a Vanderbilt player collecting that thing. Now,
I know they would have still had to go score,
but the the on side kick was the first step
in that and man, they were so close. Steve Sarkesan
after the game called it a great win. And my
question to coach sark could be, really, I guess I mean,
it is a win. I won't argue that is a
great win. I mean, I get it. Vandy was what
number nine in the country at the time, and well
the Longhorns weren't.
Speaker 2: So it's a win, all right.
Speaker 1: But I still don't know how long Horns fans can
feel good about where this thing is as we get
closer and closer to the real goal for everybody here
in the college football playoff. And you know, Manning struggled
a little bit in this game, as he's done all year.
His return from concussion protocol looked like a Hollywood rehab reel.
He went twenty five to thirty three for three hundred
twenty eight yards and three touchdowns, including a seventy five
yard catch and run to Ryan Wingo on the game's
first snap. He had its scoring throws to C. J.
Baxter and him at Moseley. He popped up after a
hard shot in the third and for once was able
to enjoy clean pockets. Sarks said it was the best
protection he's gotten all year, and it certainly looked like it.
Wisner turned eighteen carries for seventy five yards in a score.
Wingo needed only two grabs to post eighty nine yards.
So why the side eye to the Longhorns here, Well,
because the top ten road scalp shouldn't require a near choke.
Texas defense bullied Pavia for three quarters, six sacks, bottled
up scrambles, and then promptly let him stack a career
high three hundred and sixty five passing yards and four
hundred and eight total by the buzzer. Vandy missed a
forty eight yard field goal in the third quarter, and
they were that and a few inches on an on
side kick away from erasing a twenty four point fourth
quarter deficit, which sounds familiar because this program's margin for
error keeps shrinking the moment the game pressure hits.
Speaker 2: Uh. You know Texas took the bump up in the rankings.
That's fine.
Speaker 1: You have the whole cliche that November matters, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Since they fell out of the polls. They've won four straight.
It's went over a top ten of point opponent. It'll
keep the college football playoff dream on life support for now.
Speaker 2: But the film's not nice. The film is not kind.
Speaker 1: Soft zones, late, leaky tackling a defense that went inexplicably
from suffocating to scrambling in just minutes. Many looked at
the part complimentary complimentary football did not. Sarks said, he'll
have something to rip their butts about, and he won't
have to look too far. There's plenty there. Style points
are gone. Georgia awaits on November fifteenth. If the long
Horns are gonna be real and they want to be
taken seriously and they want everybody to say that they're back,
that's the game. Be Georgia on November fifteenth. If they
bring the last five minutes version of this team to Georgia,
look out, this thing's gonna get ugly.
Speaker 2: Look. And I'm not a Georgia lover.
Speaker 1: I don't think Georgia's all that either, but they're better
in Texas. Vanderbilt falls to seven and two, three and
two in the SEC. They will host Auburn on November eighth,
and we'll wonder how different this looks if the on
site kick state in bounds at least I am Texas
approves to seven and two, four and one in the SEC.
Call it resilience, call it whatever you want. I'm a
little bit of a Texas cynic right now. And I'm
calling it a warning for you long horns out there.
I don't know what else to tell you. The Aggies,
of course, were off as they prepare the eight and
O Aggies, by the way, prepare for number nineteen Missouri
coming up this weekend. It's two thirty kick on ABC.
If you are like me and you don't have ABC
anymore or ESPN because you have YouTube TV like me,
well then I'll join you at the bar up the
street to watch some Aggi's and Tigers on Saturday. More
on A and M next week probably, and we'll have
a little bit of the recruiting news too for all
of the programs. So we're gonna get into some recruiting
talk coming up here shortly on the show. But let's
get some kudos and maybe a sicken to those Baylor Bears.
If Sorrier Robertson throws for three touchdowns, Cayden Knight rushes
for one hundred and four yards, and Baylor beat UCF
thirty to three, and I didn't see this coming. I
thought these two programs were pretty evenly matched, and just
the pure domination by the Baylor defense on the Knights.
I did not see this coming at all and what
a shocker look. And I expected the offense to be good.
I expected Robertson to throw for three touchdowns. I expected
Knighting to rest for one hundred and four yards. I
did not expect Baylor to get back in the win
column with a thirty to three victory over the Nights
On Saturday, Baylor improves to five and four, three and
three of the Big Twelve. They scored points on four
of their first five drives, including a pair of touchdown
passes from Robertson to former USC and Old Miss tight
end Michael Trigg and wide receiver Josh Cameron. The Bears
built a twenty three lead at the half. Connor Hawkins
drilled his third field goal late in the third quarter
to put them up twenty. Hawkins made kicks from forty one,
forty and twenty eight yes. He continues an impressive campaign
this year. Robertson completed twenty nine to forty passes for
two hundred and sixty seven yards, but coughed up his
first fumble of the season on a strip sack late
in the first half. He has twenty seven hundred and
eighty yards and twenty six touchdown passes.
Speaker 2: Overall, both marks ranked near the top of the FBS.
Speaker 1: UCF scored its only points as time expired in the
first half. They followed a four and four one and
four in the Big twelve. They were set up by
a short field goal set up with a short field
goal after Robertson's fumble. No a rule has drilled that
forty five yard field goal. The Knight's other drives ended
in four punts, three turnovers on downs, and a missed
field goal, along with two interceptions, one of which was
set up by baters only touchdown of the second half,
Tavan Jackson was eighteen to twenty three for one hundred
and fifty one yards with two picks. For UCF, Dwayne
Thomas Junior rushed eight times for seventy seven yards. It
was the first time since November twenty sixth, twenty fifteen,
that UCF did not score touchdown, snapping one hundred and
twenty one game streak. That said, Scott Frost was the
most frustrating part of the offensive performance that he saw.
Speaker 2: The takeaway here look.
Speaker 1: Baylor coach Iran and the Bear secured a much needed
win following a two game skid. Baylor's now one went
away from Bowl eligibility. Randa improved to thirty six and
thirty four in his six season leading the program for
the Knights. A week after the overwhelmed Western Virginia with
forty five points, they struggled to muster any offense against
a Baylor defense that's given up over four hundred and
thirty yards per game in conference play. Uc F finished
with just two hundred and twenty five yards of offense
despite averaging four hundred and forty two in league play.
Entering Saturday, the Knights must win two of their final
four games to secure Bowl eligibility, and now our disappointment
of the week. At least for me, I expect a
little bit more from those Houston Cougars, especially at home.
Right against a program that has struggled. They fired their coat.
West Virginia improves the three and six. It was their
first Big Twelve win of the year. Houston falls to
seven and two four and two in Big Twelve play,
as West Virginia ten better than Houston forty five to
thirty five. Scotty Fox Junior accounts for three touchdowns in
the process. He threw four one hundred and fifty seven
yards and accounted for three touchdowns as West Virginia snaps
its five game losing streak over Houston. Fox was thirteen
to twenty two and threw a touchdown pass to twenty
four yards to Cam vaugh He also rushed for sixty
five yards and a touchdown. Run of at two touchdown
runs one of six, one of thirty four yards your
Hubbard rushed four hundred and eight yards in a touchdown.
Bowers added sixty five yards rushing and a touchdown as
the Mountaineers out rushed Houston two hundred and forty.
Speaker 2: Six to eighty two. Good God.
Speaker 1: West Virginia also forced four Houston turnovers converted those into
seventeen points. That was your difference in the game, right there,
Boys and girls. Houston had committed just four turnovers combined
in the first eight games this season, including three in
the team's other loss against Tech. Connor Wigman was twenty
five to thirty five for three hundred nine yards, four
touchdowns two interceptions for Houston. He also rushed for a
touchdown and lost one of his three fumbles. Dean Connors
rushed for seventy one yards and Marii Thomas caught ten
passes for ninety nine yards and three scores. You know,
this game was tied twenty one at the half, and
I already didn't feel good about it. This game should
not have been this close. West Virginia then outscored Houston
twenty four to seven to start the second half, took
the lead on a field goal Struck Scrugs, putting the
Mountaineers up by ten. With an eighty yard interception return
for a touchdown with six and a half minutes left
in the third, the Cougar's cut the lead to three
on an eight yard touchdown pass from Wigman to Thomas
Fox rushed.
Speaker 2: For his thirty four yard score.
Speaker 1: Hubbard rushed for an eleven yard touchdown midway through the
fourth to put West Virginia up by seventeen, but it
was not to be for the Cougars. The Mountaineers staved
off bowl elimination and beat a ranked team for the
first time since the thirty eight thirty one win over
Iowa State back in twenty twenty one. Houston's chances of
reaching the Big Twelve Championship took a big hit with
the loss, and we will kind of see how Look,
they're just two losses, all right, But you've got better
teams in the conference. Of course, with Texas Tech BYU,
Houston was right after with them. This loss is going
to Sting West Virginia hosts Colorado this Saturday. Houston travels
to see those nights in Central Florida in a Friday matchup.
I don't feel about these Friday college games. I'm not
so sure actually how I feel, especially with these bigger programs.
Speaker 2: I don't like the Friday you know, if it's.
Speaker 1: The smaller programs, I don't have a problem with it
because I don't mind watching TV on Friday, watching some
college football on Fridays, but I do not like the uh.
I don't like the Friday night. I've got better things
to do on Friday night than watch college football. You guys,
I don't know about y'all, but that's where I'm at
on it.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I've got a ton of recruiting stuff with some recruiting
rankings nationally where the Texas teams fall into those. Tell
you what, I will do a special episode of of
the show and we will talk recruiting. I don't want
to combine that with this. I was going to, but
I don't want to know I changed my mind. I'm
allowed to do that. But so that means we will
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