Speaker 2: Welcome in Texas.
Speaker 1: This is Pigskin and burn INDs with me Indy car Tim,
where all the text are hot and the briskets hotter.
The third ranked Texas A and M. Maggie stay perfect,
Texas Tech drops a top ten anvil on BYU. Houston
escapes the bounce house, SMU avoids the letdown, and TCU
get stung by special teams. Played it up, folks. We're
cutting into all of it right here on Pigskin and
burnt Ends. What a weekend it was of Pigskin and
burn Ins and Texas college football on the menu for today,
all of the highlights. Marcel Reid cooks, Ruben Owens closes,
Mike Elko talks big ceilings. Tex defense smothers again, the
Cougars win ugly, the Mustangs light up up the red
Bandana game, and TCU season hopes take a hit, rate review,
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Here on Pigskin and burn INDs, Texas A and M
thirty seven Missouri seventeen. The Aggies keep the undefeated season
briskly smoking. At nine to zero six and zero in
the SEC. They're number three in the college football playoff pole.
Marcel Reid had two hundred and twenty one yards two touchdowns.
The Aggi's defense absolutely hounded Matt Zoehlers in his first
career start, holding him to seven of twenty two for
seventy seven yards, two sacks and a fumble that absolutely
flipped the game. The turning point was right before the
half Damian Sandford blitzed, knocked the ball out. Dalton Brooks
scooped it up and rumbled it back close to the
end zone to set up e J. Smith for the
touchdown plunge. From there, Reid hit Casey's concepts. He on
on a full screened, beautiful time screenplay for forty eight
yards against a blitz to make it twenty one to
nothing right after halftime. That sequence right there absolutely broke
Missouri's back. Ruben Owens iced it with one hundred and
two yards and two fourth quarter touchdowns. And if you
listened to Mike Elko in the post game, he just
said that that performance is what the Texas A and
M program is fully capable of. He talked about the
ceiling of the program being even higher than where they're
at now.
Speaker 2: And you know what, I don't think that's just coach speak.
Speaker 1: I think that's a team leaning into a November with
an identity or relentless defense, patients with the run and
with timely explosives. But you know, credit to Missouri's ground games.
Jamal Roberts had one hundred and ten yards and a touchdown,
a mad Hardy one hundred and nine and a TD,
but the pass game just was not there. Eli drink
Which said it, quote, that's one of the toughest locker rooms.
Speaker 2: We believed we were going to win end quote.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they fought the Aggies a little bit, but they
did not nearly have enough pressure won at late even
with eight penalties for sixty five yards and Texas A
and M was absolutely just too much for the then
number seventeen ranked Missouri Tigers. And the Aggies now will
continue their quest for the undefeated season South Carolina, you
know what, Aggie's, handle your business and keep stacking college
football playoff equity. Also in top ten play, the number
nine Texas Tech Red Raiders twenty nine over the then
number eight BYU Cougars seven twenty eight, twenty nine to seven.
As I don't know that anybody expected this out of
the Texas Tech defense, or I guess you could say
they didn't expect this out of the BYU offense, as
Tech just dominated this one sided top ten fight BYU,
previously unbeaten. I really expected them to be a much
tougher matchup than this, especially at home at home. Stone
Harrington sets the school record five field goals from forty
nine or forty seven, thirty nine, thirty four, twenty nine,
and twenty seven. He was automatic all night. The offense
stayed on schedule with Baron Morton back under center, two
hundred and sixteen yards with a nine yard touchdown to
Caleb Douglas. Cameron Nicky dominated one hundred and twenty one
yards in a score And how about the Tech defense
maybe out shining at some points the Texas Tech offense.
I won't say the first time in program history, but
that's not what we're used to seeing in the last
couple of decades in Lubbock. An absolute choke call on
by you held to two hundred and fifty five totally yards.
That's a season low for them. Jacob Rodriguez with all
the moment and plays. A third quarter interception led to
Harrington's fourth kick, and then a late backwards pass recovery
to set up the final points, and that, my friends,
is how you close down a top ten team. On defense,
bear Bachmeyer went twenty three to thirty eight FO one
hundred and eighty eight yards in a late touchdown, but
the two giveaways hurt his team dramatically. Starbuck L. J.
Martin was bottled to just thirty five yards on ten carries.
Tech then heat checked him at the line of scrimmage
all night. They had nowhere to go. Why does this
matter so much? Well, it's the first top ten scalp
of this magnitude for the Red Raiders since two thousand
and eight. It keeps the Big twelve title path wide open.
As UCF heads to Lubbic next with a chance to
cap an unbeaten home slate for the first time since
nineteen ninety five, Jones At and T Stadium is going
to be rowdy.
Speaker 2: And that's not a.
Speaker 1: Guess, that's a fact, folks. Houston thirty, UCF twenty seven.
As we stay in Big twelve play, the Cougars leave
Orlando with a win and a warning, four turnovers and
still a thirty to twenty seven roaw w Connor Wigman
was chaos personified two hundred and twenty three yards, two touchdowns,
three interceptions, plus eighty two rushing yards on twenty two
carries that saved multiple drives. La Trevion McCutcheon jumped a
route for a forty five yard pick six for the
Cougs the tie. Late in the game, the O line
and backs DJ Butler and Sean Conners smash of fifteen
play sixty two yard closing drive capped by Ethan Sanchez
from twenty two yards out with eleven seconds left. Ken
Trell Webbs sealed it with his first career interception, a
clutch play for web Back to back weeks with three
Wigman giveaways though is not good. That is something that
desperately needs to be cleaned up. But the defense, red
zone composure and the trench finished a travel game here
eight and two. Now are the coops five and two
in the conference and a bye before TCU on November
twenty second, coming up. A big game for both teams
for sure, said to some acc action as SMU hits
the road to head to the Northeast to face Boston College,
SMU on top forty five to thirteen. No letdown for
the Mustangs. After that big Miami win, Kevin Jennings dials
up three hundred twenty six yards, three touchdowns. Derek McFall
adds three rushing scores and that is a forty five
to thirteen thumping on BC's Red Bandana Game, a powerful
tribute to Wells Crowther red lashly with the thesis he said,
college football has turned into a game of explosive plays.
If you're explosive and you can run it, you control
the game. End quote, and SMU did both. The backbreakers
were a sixty one yard strike to Ya Mirror Knight
and a thirty seven yard bomb to Matthew Hibner before halftime.
Defense days take away happy, and the Mustangs are suddenly
an ACC chaos agent. With number fourteen Louisville coming into
town on November twenty second. SMU not able to match,
of course, their undefeated ACC run that they had last
year in their first year in the conference, thanks to
that just inexplicable loss to Wake Forest. But man, it
seems like they've got things back on track now with
big wins over Miami and now Boston College.
Speaker 2: Is they prepped for Louisville. Louisville. Louisville or Louisville. So
I hear people up there.
Speaker 1: Say it kind of makes me gag a little back
in the back of your throat when you say it
like that. Louisville, I can't even do it without gagging.
Not gonna do it. Back to big twelve plays. Iowa
stayed over TCU twenty to seventeen in a game I
did not see coming for the hornfe TCU is coming
off a bye and they get absolutely snake bitten by
their special teams in a twenty to seventeen loss. Early
picks from Josh Hoover, a short, a miss, short field goal,
and then when they finally seize control eleven unanswered in
the fourth, it just unravels. Back to back gut punches,
Carson Henson punches in a score, defense forces a three
and out, and they walk on Aid and Flora and
then walk on Aid and floora houses seventy nine yard
punt return. Sunny Dyke said they out kicked the coverage,
a common term, and that's the difference in a tight
one here for the horn Frog, the bright side is
the defense spot. Rock o'beck was only nine for twenty
three with one hundred and eleven yards and two picks,
both to Bud Clark, who had six tackles, but eight
for sixteen on third down and two for three on
fourth down kept the Cyclones keeping TCU on the field
too long. With that loss, the Big Twelve title hopes
are of course basically toast two left the salavage momentum
and this and fix these self inflicted wounds for the
horn Frogs. Just a season unraveling before their eyes. And
I know, you know, playoffs were a long shot for
those boys, but you cannot have losses like this to
Iowa State. And look, Iowa State, we thought was gonna
be up near the top of the Big Twelve this year.
They themselves have come unraveled as the season has gone on.
Tc you could not take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the Big Twelve Awards,
because we had several teams here in the Big Twelve
Awards presentation for.
Speaker 2: For Week eleven.
Speaker 1: As TCU runs or I'm sorry, Texas Tech runs away
with the headlines.
Speaker 2: Along with.
Speaker 1: Iowa State, Arizona, UCF, and West Virginia all sharing some
of that spotlight, Texas Tech set the pay in the
Big twelves Week eleven football Awards, claiming four honors and
the Defensive Line of the Week as the Red Raiders
in Iowa State joined Arizona UCF in West Virginia as
this week's standouts. Arizona running back Quincy Craig and Texas
Texas Cameron Dickey split Offensive Player of the Week after
clutch workman like efforts in statement wins. Craig needed only
five touches to change Arizona's twenty four to twenty game
against Kansas, scoring twice, including the twenty four yard game
winner with just thirty nine ticks left. His receiving score
also rode shotgun with program history as Noah Fafia tied
the Wildcats career passing TV record at sixty seven. Dicky
bludgeoned BYU with twenty three carries for one hundred and
twenty one yards in a touchdown. Moving atop the Big
twelve rushing chart with eight hundred and sixty seven yards
on the season and eleven rushing tds, Dicky is tracking
to become just a ninth Red Raider to eclipse one
thousand yards in a single year. On defense, UCFS, Philip Dunham,
author of First in Knight's history with three interceptions in
one game, snatching passes from Houston after Cougar's quarterback Connor
Wigman had thrown only four picks all season. Texas Tech
linebacker Jacob Rodriguez repeated as defensive Player of the Week
and collected his third this season by filling the stat
sheet in the Red raiders.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine to seven win over BYU.
Speaker 1: Fourteen tackles, an interception, and a fumble recovery for Jay Rod,
and were allowed to call him that Jay Roy. I
don't like I hate when we short names like that,
so I'm not gonna do it. I take it all back.
I didn't say Jay Rod, I said Jacob Rodrigaz, who
by the way, is already the nation's leader in forced fumbles.
He became the first FBS player since twenty thirteen to
post at least five forced fumbles, three interceptions, and two
fumble recoveries in the same season. Special teams swung results too.
We just talked about it. Iowa State's Aid and Flora
houses seventy nine yard punt return in the fourth quarter
to beat TCU, the Cyclone's first punt return touchdown since
twenty seventeen. He is averaging a blistering forty one point
four yards per return. Texas Tech Kickerstone Harrington repeated a
special team's Player of the Week after drilling a school
record five field goals from twenty seven to twenty nine,
thirty four to thirty nine, and forty seven and the
BYU win. The BYU win, it's easy for me to say,
joining a short lift of FBS kickers with five plus
makes in a game this season. West Virginia redshirt freshman
Dewor Hubbard claimed Freshman of the Week with one hundred
and fifty eight all purpose yards in a twenty nine
to twenty two victory over Colorado, including the Mountaineer's longest
play from scrimmage this season on a sixty nine yard
reception in the trenches. Iowa State earned Offensive Line of
the Week by paving one hundred and sixty one yard
rushing day and allowing just one sack, while Texas Tech
captured Defensive Line of the Week after holding the then
top ten Cougars to seven points, sixty seven rushing yards
and one hundred and eighty eight passing yards with a
sack of Bear Bockmeyer. So what are our our biggest
takeaways this week boys and girls. And yes we did
have a number of teams that were on buys, obviously
Baylor North Texas.
Speaker 2: We did not get into any of their action.
Speaker 1: We will be happy talk about those boys coming up
again next week on Pigskin and burn Ends. But let's
talk about some of the takeaways here. For the Aggies,
their November DNA has been defense and did I just
say defense? God, Defense and patience. You got to keep
feeding Owen's late. You got to protect Marcel Reid to
keep his confidence up. And those boys are going to roll.
For the Red Raiders, They're on a title game trajectory.
Harrington's reliability changes the in game math. Rodriguez is a
burgeoning star for the Cougars. You got to clean up
the turnovers and you can be scary once again. Your identity, takeaways,
a crunch time, ground game, all of those things will
benefit you. You got to get connor Wick and back on track.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: For the Mustangs, explosive passes plus the run game equals
an acc spoiler for somebody. Louisville on the calendar is
circled in red right now. And for TCU Special Teams
Focus Week, you cannot gift hidden yards and expect to
survive one score grinders. That is enough of that. They
have got to get back on track to and again,
I don't know what kind of run you're gonna make,
but you got in the season on a positive note
for sure. So that is the plate on pig Skin
and Burnt Ends. This week, you guys meet sweats, victory
laps across the lone Star State. Drop your team's hottest
takeaway in the comments and tell me which unit impressed
you the most this weekend. Was it the Aggie's Front,
Texas Tech's defense, Cougar's Lake Game juice, or SMU's fireworks.
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