Speaker 1: What us up?
Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into another edition of pig Skin and Burnt
Ends right here on the College Gridiron Coast to Coast
Network in partnership with fans Stream Sports. I'm Tim, IndyCar
Tim to my friends. Welcome into episode two of this
little journey around Texas College Football for twenty twenty five.
Had a fun win last week, enjoyed John Gerber Jeff
died off from ninety seven to one, the fan up
in Columbus, spouting off his Ohio State knowledge. He'll be
back with us on a later episode, as will Johnny.
But big, big week here for Texas College sports. Texas
college football, Texas rebounds kind of along with Arch. We'll
do and we'll have an update on Marcel Red, quarterback
at Texas A and M who was injured and they're
big win.
Speaker 1: You had the SMU.
Speaker 2: Mustangs playing their old Southwest Conference rival and look, there
is nothing I enjoy more than an old Southwest Conference
rivalry renewed. I was part of the Southwest Conference. I
grew up around the Southwest Conference and I missed the
Southwest Conference. I'm not gonna lie, but Baylor and SMU
matching up for I believe just like the seventh time
since the Southwest Conference folded after the ninety five season
Texas Tech without a weather delay. Who's gonna stop that offense?
I mean, I'm sure we'll find somebody, but good Lord.
And then Houston Connor Wiegman rolling again against crosstown rival Rice.
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some college football, shall we, though. Let's start with the Longhorns,
of course. After the fiasco in Week one at Ohio State,
there was a lot of criticism on not just arts manning,
but the offense in general, the play calling, the offensive scheme,
and I said at the time, the demise of Arch
Manning in the Texas Longhorns has been greatly exaggerated. There's
nothing wrong with the Longhorns right now.
Speaker 1: Guys. Look, first year quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know he's played games, but he is the
starter for the first time this year, going into the
raining national champions to their house, and not just any
reigning national champions house, the Big House. Oh sorry, the
Big House. They're gonna hate me for saying that. The Horseshoe.
I just the horseshoe up in Columbus as a first
time starter, I don't care what your name is. With
that defense, oh, by the way, led by Matt Patricia,
who's got some Super Bowl rings in the NFL, who
knows defense all right. Wasn't a great head coach in
the NFL, but no one can argue that he is
not a more than adequate defensive coordinator. And now he
brings his knowledge to college football. And he masterminded the
absolute perfect defensive scheme against a first time starter in
college football. I don't care if it's the SEC, the
Big Ten, wherever you're playing. It was a masterclass in
defense that I'm sure every defensive coordinator that plays Texas
the rest of the way will try to duplicate, but
that's not always easy, especially with a Matt Patricia defense.
Texas rebounds thirty eight to seven over San Jose State.
Arch Manning through four touchdown passes as number seven Texas
rolls past the Spartans, and look, there's still some things
to criticize an arch Manning's game, but he's getting there, guys,
all right, just give.
Speaker 1: Them a minute.
Speaker 2: It's been two games, one against a really good opponent,
one against a not really good opponent, and he's showing
signs of progress. He's getting some confidence. Who's not gonna
get confidence against the Spartans, right. He went nineteen of
thirty for two hundred ninety five yards. He had one
interception in his second game as a starter. He also
scrambled for a twenty yard touchdown run in the third
quarter for the now one in one long Horns.
Speaker 1: If you remember last.
Speaker 2: Week at Ohio State, he was just ten of seventeen
for one hundred and seventy yards. He did have a
touchdown along with a pick in the fourteen to seven
loss there at the Horseshoe. Parker Livingstone was the beneficiary
of most of those passes, most of those yards tight
end Jack Injuries two touchdown catches. In the first half,
Manning and Livingstone combined for an eighty three yard touchdown.
It was the longest pass play for the Longhorns since
twenty seventeen. Livingstone finished with four catches and one hundred
and twenty eight yards. Manning also had long completions of
thirty six, thirty three, and twenty two yards. After the game,
coach Sarks said that he was happy with Manning's play.
Was happy with the aggressiveness in his game, which is
really part of his game right and that's what Ohio
State took away from him. He threw the ball downfilled,
He was accurate, He did a great job extending plays,
Sarkisian said, and he used his arm to create explosive plays,
used his legs. Sarkisian had nothing but good things to
say about Manning against San Jose State. Manning, though was
less impressed with his own performance. He cided the interception
that he threw in the second quarter. Manning said, he
played sloppy. He said, you know, you can't turn the
ball over in the red area. I think he meant
the red zone. He said he made a few more
plays than he did against Ohio State, but once again
he did not think he was very efficient. And I
will concur with Manning's evaluation of himself more than I
will Sarks. And you know, there's not gonna be a
bigger critic for arch Manning than arch Manning. Maybe his
uncles who claimed he was adopted after that game. Oh,
I'm just kidding. Those were pretty funny memeso, weren't they?
In the AI generated videos Tayton Manning say he must
be adopted. Those were pretty funny. But again, the demise
of arch Manning was greatly exaggerated. I thought, you know.
Earlier in the week, the Longhorns boasted about having their
twenty four game streak of forcing a turnover snapped during
the Ohio State game. That changed really quickly as they
started a new one. In the first quarter on Saturday,
safety Jelani McDonald tipped Walter Egot's pass, and Jalen Gilbo
made the first interception of his career, the first of
four turnovers by San Jose State. Of course, he took
the ball with him, Gilbo did to the postgame news conference.
He was so excited he get though on the San
Jose stide completed twenty one to forty two passes for
one hundred and eighty eight yards with the one interception.
Speaker 1: San Jose State did not play horribly.
Speaker 2: They just cannot get past the long Horns defense, and
that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But look, the Longhorns are gonna be the long Horns.
Speaker 2: They've they can only play who's on the schedule, Ohio
State to start San Jose State last week, coming up UTEP.
I think UTEP's gonna be a little bit more of
a challenge than San Jose State, but I don't know
how much of a challenge they got Sam Houston the
following week. You've got at Florida the week after that,
and to be quite honest with billion apre over there,
I don't know how how much of a challenge that's
gonna be after we saw what they did against USF.
And then of course Texas, Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl
for Texas OU Weekend or I'm sorry, you're from Oklahoma,
oh U Texas Weekend, but we're from Texas, so we
say Texas OU Weekend of course at the Texas State
Fair at Fair Park. Moving on, let's talk a little
Houston Cougars as the Houston Cougars find their way past
Rice thirty five to nine at Rice against their crosstown rivals,
Age transferred Connor Wigman through for one hundred and eighty
eight yards and a touchdown, and he rushed for a
score to lead Houston passed Rice on Saturday night. He
had a nine yard rushing touchdown in the third quarter
that extended Houston's lead fourteen to three. He then connected
with Stefan Johnson on a seventy four yard touchdown pass
in the fourth. And I think we're seeing here in
Houston the Connor Weigman we thought we would see at
Texas A and m got a little bit of confidence.
Now he seems to be healthy at least through the
first two games here, and that's kind of what we
thought we would see in College station. But I don't
think he ever got nearly as healthy as he is now,
and that was unfortunate. Of course, it was Connor Weigman's
injury last season that brought Marcel Reid to this starting job,
who then just lit things up and the riding was
on the wall that Connor wigman Day's days may be numbered.
Before he transferred, and by the way, he had a
lot of offers, a lot of opportunities to transfer, much
like Haines King did earlier before he transferred out of
A and M. So think good things for Connor Weigman,
even if you're not a Cougar's fan, if you're a
Texas college football fan, we think the good things for
Connor Wigman. Dean Connor's to transfer from Rice also rest
for one hundred and thirty two yards and two touchdowns
on thirteen carries. Connors has now won both sides of
the annual Buy You Bucket Game after Rice won two
years ago.
Speaker 1: So changing schools, he's still there.
Speaker 2: He's still winning too and zero now in that Buy
You Bucket game between the Cougars and Rice.
Speaker 1: You know, the Cougars.
Speaker 2: Really have yet to play anybody, and I'm not sure
how They're season is going to pan out, how it
may finish. But coming up, of course, the big win
over Stephen f. Austin, You're now beaten Rice on the road.
You've got Colorado next week and I believe that's a
Friday night game, but it's at home for the Cougars.
That'll be one to watch against Dion and his new
team up there without any of his kids playing for him.
So we'll see how that goes against Colorado and then
at Oregon State. That'll be a tough one, and then
they host number twenty one Texas Tech before traveling to
Oklahoma State. So the schedule for Houston gets considerably tougher.
But Connor Wigman, you know, and again, you haven't seen
the Cougar's defense really be tested yet, so we will
see where they stand here early in the season. Next week,
I believe we'll get a little bit better indication of that.
Up in College Station, Marcel Reid sort of gave Aggie's
fans a little injury scare, as literally every breath was
taken out of Kyle Field when he went down with
an apparent injury in the third quarter against Utah State,
the Aggies versus the Aggies. But he did share some
good news via Instagram Live when he came back and said,
I'll be there for Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: I'll be there for you, Thank you man, Jovie.
Speaker 2: But so yes, apparently the injury scare was just that
it was a scare, and if you were watching the
game on Saturday against Utah State, it looked like he
was already coming out of the game anyway, just because
of the score, and O'Neill was already warming up on
the sideline, and after the injury, he didn't need any
extra warm up time because he was already warm because
he knew he was already coming in the game. So
good news out of College Station, Good news for Marcel Rea,
as he should be available for the big game at
Notre Dame. This one's going to be a tough one
next week for sure, coming off a game where he
threw four touchdowns to lead A and M forty four
to twenty two.
Speaker 1: Over utass State. He left again.
Speaker 2: He left late in the third quarter and with the injury,
the apparent injury, but he he'll be back for Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the important part. I think.
Speaker 2: He threw for two hundred twenty yards and four touchdown passes.
He had touchdown passes of forty thirty four and twelve
and eight before leaving. He left in the third quarter.
He kind of fell awkwardly after you got hit by
a defender. He walked off the field, he got checked out,
He spent time in the medical tent, and then he
was able to jog to the locker room. That was
our first indication that everything was probably fine. After the game,
Mike Elko, the coach, declined to say what he hurt,
but did indicate that he was a expected to play
against Notre Name, which was also good news. But you know,
until you get that later in the week, until you
get that confirmation on Monday or Tuesday, you kind of
hold your breath a little bit with it. The aggies
of Texas A and M, by the way, is really
funny here in the announcers because you can't really say
aggies because they're both aggies. So you would hear them
catching themselves, as I've already done here during the show.
Once they would have to say, of course Texas A
and M or Utah State, or when they would slip
out the aggies, you would hear them catch themselves. They
go of Texas A and M or of Utah State.
It was pretty funny, but the Texas A and M
defense dominated most of the game. Cash's House sacked Bryson
Barnes on three consecutive plays to single handedly force a
punt in the second quarter. It's the first time a
player has had sacks on three straight plays since Jack
Sinchi did it for Wisconsin against Southern California in the
twenty twenty fifteen Holiday Bowl. According to research by the
Texas A and M Communication staff, Cash is how's a beast,
you guys, and he's gonna be trouble for Notre Dame.
Barnes had one hundred and sixty nine yards passing with
two touchdowns for Utah State, but was sacked six times
and hit six more times. Back up Miles O'Neil threw
for ninety nine yards, including a seventy two yards touchdown
pass after Reid went out. Elko could not have been
happier after the game about the throws that his quarterbacks
made down filled and if you'll remember, even going back
to the Haines King era, in Zach Calzada, Calzada still
not sure how to pronounce his name, even though his
dad corrected me one time on X I think when
it was still called Twitter, But now I can't remember
if he said it was the hard the long a
or the short a. So we'll go Isza Calseta, because
I think that's what he said. But even going back
to those days, and even with Connor, the deep ball
was not the Aggie's strength, but I feel like with
Marcel Reid and even now a little bit with with
Miles O'Neill, we've seen a little bit of that come
into play. Both of those guys extremely accurate downfield and
that is good to see for the Aggies. The offense
needs that case Conceptsion had another big game for A
and M on Saturday, after scoring a touchdown on a
punt return and grabbing a TD catch in his debut
last week after transferring from NC State, He had six
catches for seventy three yards and two touchdowns. His second
TV came on an eight yard catch and extended the
lead to thirty seven to fourteen with about six minutes
left in the third quarter. Mario Kraver, another transfer in
his first year at A and M, had one hundred
and fourteen yards receiving in a touchdown after grabbing two
touchdown catches last week. So all in all, a good
performance by the Aggies. The defense dominated again a week opponent.
We will find out a lot more about the transfers,
about Marcel Reid and the offense, and about the defense
as a hole against Notre Dame next week. I cannot
wait for Notre Dame and Texas A and M next
Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium.
Speaker 1: That'll be a big one to watch. Let's head over
to Lubbock.
Speaker 2: Now if we can. The Texas Tech Red Raiders rolled
once again, sixty two points twenty one in the first,
twenty seven in the second, and they eased off the
gas pedal a little bit with just seven in the third,
seven in the fourth over Kent with a sixty two
to fourteen win. If I'm not mistaken, and if my
math tells me correctly, and there's a good chance that
it doesn't, because I did this math yesterday and I
may be remembering wrong, but that would be what one
hundred and twenty nine points in two games for the
Red Raiders against what was the score? Pine Bluff had seven?
So one hundred and twenty nine to twenty one. Does
that seem right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So again, you played Kent State in Arkansas, pine Bluff
both at home. The Red Raiders will wrap up their
three game home stand to start the season next Saturday
against Oregon State, which will be more of a test,
I think than anything we've seen for the Red Raiders,
both offensively and defensively, but you have to credit Texas
Tech with what they've done. Again, you can only play
the opponents that are in front of you, So based
on the level of competition, I'm still pretty impressed with
what's going on. But again you'll have a bigger test
against Oregon State the week after that you're at number twenty,
and then at Houston the week after that. So the
Red Raiders, although they've proven quite a bit here, I
still think they have a lot to prove. They have
a lot more to show against some strong talent. But
the game against Kent State could not have gone better.
It was not a surprise. Baron Morton, again on fire,
threw for three touchdowns. Skyler Gil Howard had a pick
six fifty five yards in the blowout, Cameron Dickie two
rushing touchdowns, Reggie Virgil two receiving scores. The Red Raiders
led forty eight to nothing at half, which was one
point better than their forty seven to nothing halftime lead
last week against Arkansas Pine Bluff, So you expected what
she saw in the second half. And you know, after
Morton left last week with an apparent knee and he
came back this week nothing to worry about no issues
with the knee. The knee looked good for Kent State.
Drew de Shields threw for a touchdown and ran for
a score in the fourth quarter for the Golden Flashes,
who ended a twenty one game losing streak with a
twenty one to seventeen win over Merrimack and the opener. Well,
now they can start their losing streak all over again.
Kent State had negative total yards early in the second
quarter until Gavin Garcia ran for thirty eight yards on
a screen pass in the team's sixth sixth It's easy
for me to say sixth offensive possession. Two plays later, though,
is when Gil Howard took that interception the other way
for thirty eight to nothing. Texas Tech lead. Of course,
he's part of that highly touted transfer class and this
Tech defense. After a few years under Joey maguire, you know,
we haven't seen the defensive prowess that maybe we needed
to go along with that high powered offense. I mean,
think about the opener. Was it last year against Abilene
Christen when he almost lost that game at home because
your defense couldn't make a stop. I think we're seeing
a much improved defense. You've got some transfers that have
come in that are making a huge difference immediately from
McGuire and the team, and things look really really good
here for Texas Tech early in the season. Again, you've
gotten much bigger tests coming up for your defense in
Oregon State, Utah, Houston, and then Kansas of course coming
up later down to schedule. But you gotta love what
Texas Tech is doing out in Lubbock. We'll see how
they play on the road after their game this week though,
finishing that home road road the homestand to start the season,
which it seems like they always do, which is weird.
Speaker 1: Boys. Our final game on the dock at today.
Speaker 2: One that had my interest as an old Southwest Conference rivalry.
I love the old Southwest Conference. I grew up with
the old Southwest Conference living in Dallas with SMU there
the Pony Express with Eric Dickerson, Craig James back in
the early eighties before the death penalty. You had the
rerecon crew of the Aggies throughout the eighties. Of course,
he had Texas Baylor right down the road from US
in Waco. SMU was literally right down the road from
US in Dallas, and you just had the the awesome
setting of all Texas teams in the Southwest Conference except
for Arkansas was the outlier there for a long long
time until they bolted for the Southwest the Southeast Conference
in I believe after the ninety one season, and then
things kind of started going downhill for the Southwest Conference,
and especially things didn't help that SMU got the death
penalty there in the eighties, but that was kind of
the start of the demise of the conference. But man,
anytime two old Southwest Conference teams get together, you know,
including Tech and Baylor a lot here still in the
in the Big Twelve, I love it. I love when
those two teams, any two teams from the old Southwest
Conference get together. It gives Mitchills sometimes. Sawyer Robertson had
a big day for Baylor as they upend number seventeen SMU.
It took two overtimes. Sawyer Robertson throws for four hundred
and forty yards four touchdowns. He threw two of those
four touchdowns in the final five and a half minutes
of regulation before red shirt freshman kicker Connor Hawkins kicked
a game ending twenty seven yard field goal in the
second overtime. The Bears rallied to beat SMU forty eight
to forty five on Saturday. Robertson was thirty four of
fifty eight passing with four hundred and forty yards for
the Bears. They've now won fourteen meetings in a row
against their former Southwest Conference rival since nineteen eighty six.
Bryceon Washingon ran for one hundred and fifteen yards and
two scores, including a two yard TV in the first overtime.
SMU kicker Colin Rodgers was well short on a fifty
seven yard field goal attempt at the end of regulation
that would have won the game, but then in overtime
in the first the second overtime period, he goes wide
right on a thirty eight yard try when they had
the ball first in that second overtime period, but the
SMU offense failed to get a first down in that
overtime period, and then of course Rogers missing the kick,
and that was all.
Speaker 1: She wrote.
Speaker 2: Seems like games are coming down to missed kicks, not
just in college, but.
Speaker 1: Even in Week one of the NFL.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of missed kicks, and I always
excuse that more in college you know, these are kids,
these are just kids playing.
Speaker 1: I get it. But still you're there.
Speaker 2: You got one job, you got one job, especially in
the NFL. The poor Cleveland Browns. We're not getting into
the Cleveland Browns right now, but good lord, they're just
going to Cleveland. Kevin Jennings threw for two hundred and
ninety six yards and three touchdowns, with two seventy five
yard scores and then a twenty five yard or to
Romelo Brinston on the Mustang's first play, and in overtime.
Brinson had one of the seventy five yarders on the
first play of the game, and then Jennings hit freshman
Jalen Cooper in stride for the other long score when
he got opened behind the secondary late in the second quarter. So,
you know, we know what SMU did last year in
the ACC, their first year there. I don't know if
they're going to have the same success in the ACC
this season. I believe the ACC is just better this
year than they were last year. Clemson's better. I know
they lost to LSU, but the LSU is a national
title contender. I don't think Clempson is. Miami certainly is better,
which is weird to say without Cam Hoard, but Miami
is certainly better than they were overall as a team
this year. Florida State is definitely better than they were
last year, the two win season. So you know, we
hope good things for SMU. I haven't seen the polls
yet this week. I don't know they've fallen completely out
of the top twenty five. I'm not sure they should
be there right now, but you know, we'll see how
things go for SMU the rest of the way, and
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