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a win, I don't know. Over the Kentucky Wildcats, I
guess an SEC game is an SEC game. Of course,
We've got SMU Clemson on tap for you, TCU, Baylor,
Texas A and M in Arkansas. That was a very
sketchy proposition for those ags. Arizona State over Texas Tech.
That one's gonna hurt sting a little bit. We'll get
into that for you, Houston over Arizona. We've got the
mean green of North Texas here in Denton rebounding a
little bit, and we might even get into a little
bit of Applene Christian and their loss to the hated
team from Southern Utah might get into a little bit
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you know, Boys and Girls, I debated on what game
to get started with this week, and after much debate
with myself, I don't know if you guys ever argue
with yoursels much. I don't know if you talk to
yourselves a lot, or if you're like me, you do
both and typically you lose arguments with yourself. That's what
we do here on Pigskin and Burnt Ends. But I
wanted to start with the Texas Longhorns, who really walked
in to a game that you felt good about, maybe
especially coming off a win there, and you felt you
felt good about heading into Kentucky. It's an SEC game. Yes,
it's an SEC road game. We know those are always tough,
but are they? And you expected you certainly expected a win,
like there is no question about expecting a win by
the long Horns, But I don't know that you expected
to have any trouble. And that's kind of what we found,
boys and Girls. And look, after a big victory a
week ago, it was going to be interesting to see
how the Longhorns approach this game, how they were going
to react to respond against a Yeah, I'll say it,
I'm sorry Kentucky fans against a lesser opponent. You kind
of expected them maybe to come out swinging in this
favorable matchup, but the Longhorns looked anything but ready to play.
Maybe there's some hangover from the week before because you
had to go to overtime and you had to come
back to go to overtime and then kick an overtime
field goal for a sixteen to thirteen win. Yes, it's
an sec road win and it will go down as such.
But man, if you're a Long Horns fan, you just
cannot feel good about this win. And I've seen a
lot of conjecture. Yes, a win is a win, is
a win, but you can't feel good if you are
if you're well, I'll take that back. You can feel
good about one thing. You can feel good about your defense,
as has been the case all year long. The Long
Warns defense came out to play. The rest of it
was not impressive. I'm not gonna throw Arch under the bus.
Although he did not have the game we all expected
him to have. But as I've mentioned on this show
and on other shows, it's not all his fault. Not
gonna throw Arch under the bus for the season, and
I'm not going to throw Arch under the bus for
this game. But there are certainly circumstances that are out
of his control that may indicate why he's having the
season that he's having. In one of those reasons is
the offensive line. We've talked about it at nauseum here,
but I think it's a real thing. And once again
you saw circumstance where the offensive line once again broke
down in front of him, especially coming off of a
week where they looked like they improved. The offensive line
allowed just a single sack a week ago of arch Manning,
but against Kentucky on the road, they went right back
to struggling. They had a hard time in pass protection
now for the second time in three games, and really
you've had that issue all year. Really, three sacks, eight
quarterback hits and that led to a long, long night
for arch Manning. Again, you get the win, but I
don't know, the offense fails to really get off get
out of the blocks here early, and blame that on
the offensive line. You had a solid showing last week,
but the offense reverted against Kentucky. You came out slow
to start and that's been a recurring theme for the offense.
At halftime, you had ninety three yards of total offense
compared to the Wildcats one hundred and eighty. They just
about doubled you up in the first half. That is
not Texas Longhorns football on the road. I don't care
who your opponent is, especially against Kentucky. I want to
take anything away from Kentucky. They played really well and
they should have won. But the second half was just
a repeat of the first. The Longhorns total just seventy
three yards of offense to the Wildcats one hundred and
ninety one. Art struggled twelve to twenty seven passing for
the out forty four point four percent completion percentage. He
had a streak of eight incomplettion and nine passing attempts,
and it was held without a touchdown. The offense was
not helped by the ground game thirty seven yards on
twelve attempts for Quinn traveon the only touchdown. He did
have the only touchdown of the game. Christian Clark had
three carries thirteen yards. Manning carried eleven times for minus
one rushing yards. Now keep in mind that's skewed because
in college football they count sacks as negative rushing yards,
So I hate that that that's a thing, but it
skews the rushing stats for arts, but it is what
it is. Eleven carries for minus one yard. Maybe don't
get sacked so much and that will help that stat
for sure. But man, the defense, that was your bright spot.
If you need a bright spot for the Longhorns, it
was your defense trying to help out a struggling offense.
But it can only do so much. It held the
Wildcare to thirteen points. That should be enough to win,
and it was, but it should have been enough to
win by a lot and that was not the case.
The defense was forced to be out on the field
for most of the game. The Wildcats commanded the time
of possession with nearly forty minutes to the long Horns
twenty minutes, and when needed the most, the long Horns
defense came alive to make a crucial stop. In overtime.
Kentucky had four attempts from the Texas one yard line
to punch the ball in, and fortunately for the Longhorns,
each time the defense came up with a big stop,
including the fourth down, forcing them to come up empty
in overtime and gave the offense a chance for the win.
Look again, I'm not gonna sugarcoat this. It was a win,
it was an sec road win. It will go down
as such. But if you're a Longhorns fan, I don't
feel good about this at all, and I don't know
that you should either tell me Longhorns fans, how do
you guys feel about this? At any cartoon If you
find me all across social media or if you are
watching the video on fans stream sports, comment in the
comment section of the video, let me know what your
thoughts are as a Longhorns fan on the win at Kentucky?
Do you feel good about this team as has this
teammate made any progress really throughout the whole year, Because
I don't know. I'm not seeing it, boys and girls.
I'm very confused and very curious here by what's going
on down in Austin and what's going on in arts
Manning's head, and what's going on really with Sarks offense here.
I'm a bit at a loss. I don't know what
to think now. The Longhorns do find themselves ranked depending
on where you look. I believe on the AP they
were at number twenty two. You're five and two. You
dropped just a spot next game. You are at Mississippi
State Newton Central game, you and another another game, another
SEC road game. You should dominate. Mississippi State is not good.
But what will happen with the offense? Those are the
big questions there for you long Horns. Now moving on,
as we bring back our woof sound, you can find
something a little more aggressive when I change topics, I
might need a bell. I don't know that I'm completely
happy with the woosh. SMU thirty five Clemson twenty four
is Kevin Jennings throws two touchdown passes in a revenge game?
Kind of is it a revenge game if it's not
the title game or a playoff game. SMU avengers their
ACC title game lost to Clemson from last year, their
sole loss before you get into the playoffs for I
guess before they hit the juggernaut that was Penn State
last year. Kevin Jennings had two hundred ninety yards two touchdowns.
Chris Johnson Junior put the game away with a late
six yard scoring run. SMU defeats Clempson thirty five to
twenty four on Saturday again to kind of avenge a
heartbreaking loss in the ACC Championship game. And I don't
know that a regular season. I know they always say that, right,
even in the pros and whatever, Oh, you avenged the
playoff lot, Well you didn't because that was in the
playoffs and it ended your season. You're not going to
avenge that until you beat that team in the postseason
or in the ACC title game or whatever. Never liked
that when people write about that anyway, I digress. Jordan
Hudson finished with seven catches, one hundred and thirty one
yards and a touchdown for the Mustangs move to five
and two overall, three and oher at ACC play. They've
won three straight now. Clemson played without their first team
preseason All American quarterback Cade klub Nick, who sat out
with an injury. Christopher of Isena made his first start
for the Tigers and completed twenty nine to forty two
passes three hundred and seventeen yards with three touchdowns, including
two to TJ. Moore. The Tigers followed a three and
four overall and just two and three in the ACC.
Moore had five catches for one hundred and twenty four yards,
including a one hand snag on the sixty two yard
touchdown reception. It was a beautiful, beautiful catch. Rhet Lastly
called it a big win for the SMU program, considering
Clemson has won eight of the last ten ACC championships,
and that is correct. Rett, Lastly, that is a big
win for your program. But let's keep in mind Clemson
is way way down after being the what the preseason number,
what were they four? They have been out of the
rankings here for a while, along with those Longhorns and
those Penn State Nitney Lions. But yeah, a good win
overall for SMU. Any win for SMU right now is
a good win. You're at five and two, three and
zero in the conference. You need to keep stacking up
these wins, There's no question. And Lastly is preaching right
now the power of confidence, and that is what he
is instilling in his players in his program, and I
believe it. It's it's making a big difference. And I'm
not one hundred percent sure why not that I want
this to happen or I want to will this into
place or anything. But with all of the college coaching
opportunities that are popping up the availability of Wrett Lastly
to one of these big name programs, I'm not hearing
a lot of I've heard a little bit of chatter.
Of course, the Florida Gators job has just opened, depend
state job is open, Virginia Tech is open, the CLA
is open, the Florida state jobs about to be open.
If you know, you know, I just I haven't heard
a lot of redd lashly discussion and his name connected
to anything. And again, not that I want him to
leave SMU by any stretch, but I'm a little surprised
I haven't heard more of that. And maybe I'm just wrong,
Maybe I'm over evaluating his value in the college football landscape.
I don't think so. So this is the first time
Clemson has lost five straight games to power conference teams
since I was born, going back to nineteen seven to
seventy seventy one season. Boys and girls, that's a long
time ago. I can't believe we've been at football back then.
Dabos when he said after the game, it's jarring, it's disappointing.
We have to get better. You think, if you're a
Clemson hater, you're loving this season right now. If you're
Dabo Sweny hater, you are loving this season right now.
Of course, if your memory banks serve you correctly, Clemson
beat SMU thirty four to thirty one last December the
ACC title game in a walk off field goal. This
one provided a little bit similar drama, although not in
the same setting. SMU led twenty nine to seventeen. In
the fourth quarter, Ricardo Jones intercepted Jennings near midfield with
ten minutes remaining. On fourth and twenty one, Vezina found
a leaping Tristan Smith for a twenty three yard touchdown
strike between two defenders to cut the lead to twenty
nine to twenty four with six forty four left, bumping
new life into the home crowd. SMU drew a crucial
pass interference penalty on a fourth and three at the
Clemson thirty nine to move the chains. Jennings followed with
a twenty six yard strike along the right sideline to
Hudson on a third and ten. Clemson needed a defensive
stop to force a field goal and keep it a
one possession game, but Johnson plowed into the end zone,
carrying players with him with one oh three left in
the game to seal the victory. Gotta love late game
drama in college football. I love it, I love it,
I love it. SMU outgained one hundred and thirty nine
to thirty five on the ground. The ground game was
not friendly to the Tigers. On this day after the game,
Hudson said, they've won a lot of championships in the ACC.
We're trying to get on that level. So we just
put our head down all week and worked hard. And
I will tell you that it obviously panned out. And
I think Clemson is or SMU rather is on the
rise in the SEC. Clearly, you're in the title game
last year, you still have yet to lose. And you're
two or you're one and a half seasons in the conference,
still have yet to lose a regular season ACC game,
and that is a big deal for the for the
SMU Mustangs, and for rhet Lastly, is I think they
were Clemson was out coaching this game. They were out efforted.
That's the thing. They were outplayed at. The games did
not have been as close as it was save for
a couple of SMU mistakes. That stuff you got to
clean up, you know. Aside from his one interception, I
thought Jennings was on target for most of the game.
He made some good decisions while he was in the
pocket and it's keeping SMU in the discussion for another
ACC title game. Jennings has been a stud this season
and the team cannot be happier with it. Clemson, I'm
sorry SMU has Wake Forest next on Saturday. Clemson will
host Duke on November first. But for the Mustangs, I
think they are setting themselves up very very nicely to
continue this role through the ACC. If you're an SMU fan,
and if you live locally here in the Dallas area,
I implore you get out to Gerald J. Ford Stadium.
Support the team, Support those kids, support the program because
it is some exciting, exciting football point being played out
at the Hilltop right now. For the SMU Mustangs, let's
keep it local here in the DFW area. As the
Baylor Bears went to Fort Worth, we're gonna do a
swoop sing. Yeah, I don't like that. We're gonna have
to find something else. You'll tell me what I should
have for a segment breaker. I don't like that. Hoover
throws three touchdown passes as TCU beats Baylor forty two
thirty six and a game delayed more than two hours
by lightning, which is not something we've heard recently. About
Fort Worth. I mean, I live in the DFW area,
and yeah, we've had a lot of lightning. We've had
some storms here recently, but normally here in the Big Twelve,
and we're talking about lightning delays. It's been out in Lubbock,
but not the case this weekend as Josh Hoover again
throws three touchdown passes, Warning Barnes ran for one hundred
and six yards and two scores to help TCU hold
on to beat their in state rival. There. They're not
the crosstown rivals that SMU are. That SMU is, but
you know, Waco's right down the road down thirty five
w UH to the TCU. So it's it's always been
a big rivalry going back to the Southwest Conference. Uh.
And it's a game that matched up the top two
FBS passers all although being delayed by more than two
hours in the fourth quarter, Man, that's just brutal when
you're that deep into the game. At least it's not
like the Red Raiders game here what a few weeks ago,
when they literally had four snaps in the game before
they were delayed two hours. I don't know which is worse,
being delayed late in the game or early in the game,
I don't know, it doesn't matter, but the horn fogs
when it went ahead to stay on a five yard
touchdown run by Barnes that made it for teen to seven.
In the second quarter, two plays after a brief heavy
rain down pour and a lost fumble by the Bears,
Barnes took a direct snap for a fourteen yard score
to make it forty two to twenty one on the
first play. When the game finally resumed and it was
finished in the bright, humid sunshine, it was brutal man
on the field, that heat, that sun coming up from
that wet turf ugh Baylor's Keaton Thomas returned to fumble
twenty four yards for a touchdown. Sawyer Robertson threw a
thirty five yard touchdown to Kobe Wilson with thirty seconds
left before the Bears were covered an on side kick.
You had an interception with thirteen seconds left to finally
clinch the win for TCU. The end of the game
occurred five hours and fifty minutes after kickoff. That's brutal.
That's just too long. Robertson, of course, is the national
passing leader. He went twenty five to fifty two for
three hundred and eighteen yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions.
All the picks came after the resumption of play of
the delay. He is now at twenty three hundred and
seventy six yards and twenty one tudies on the season.
Josh Hoover went twenty two to thirty one for two
hundred and thirty one yards. He threw a six yard
touchdown pass to Jordan Dwyer with eleven seconds left in
the first half, and a three yard er to tight
end Kimorian Pimpton on the opening drive of the second
half for a twenty eight to ten lead. Hoover is
now at twenty almost said twenty one hundred and twenty
four twenty twenty four yards and twenty one touchdowns this season.
There's no comment there on on my type here. TC
had just gone up thirty five to twenty one on
Trent battles sixty five yard touchdown run with thirteen forty
six left. Would play with stop for the first time
because of lightning. Even though the rain had stopped in
the skies were starting to clear before that fifty eight
minute delay, play resumed for only about fifteen minutes, but
soon after Sawyer was stuffed for no gain on a
fourth and three play from the Bears. With six forty
four left, the game was stopped again for another seventy
eight minutes. Both teams had come out and were completing
warm ups to resume when officials sent them back to
their locker room was because of another lightning strike detected
within eight miles of the stadium. And that's got to
be brutal on the players and on the coaches. You
lose all of your rhythm, you get cold, you know,
your body's not warmed up anymore, and they allow them times,
I know, to warm up. But it's, uh, it's pretty crazy.
It's a crazy thing for those for those guys up next,
Baylor plays at Cincinnati on Saturday. TCU is at West Virginia,
both winnable games for both programs. We will of course
recap those for you next week. Uh TCU not in
the rankings, but they did receive votes. I believe they
received two votes out of the top twenty five. Houston
and Olgan into Houston here shortly reserved received thirty four
votes in the ap Top twenty five for you. But
but let's get into a game that I think surprised
a lot of people. And we are talking, of course
about those Texas A and m Aggies, those seven now
seven and zero four and oh in the SEC, the
last remaining unbeaten SEC team. As you head into Arkansas,
yes it's a better rival. Yes, it's been a rival
for decades and decades and decades. Going back into the
Southwest Conference, you of course, the last what five years
had the neutral site game played between these two programs
at AT and T Stadium in Arlington before that contract ended.
That was the Southwest classing. It was fun because it
was right here in my backyard and I was able
to go. But they are now back to back to
campus games, which is good too. I like that for
the program. It's a good look and the student body
gets more involved, I believe. But you head into Fayetteville
and you don't expect to have troubles with a program
that's just made a coaching change, that has struggled on offense,
that has struggled on defense. It has all kinds of issues.
They were two and four headed into the game, oh
to three in the conference. You're undefeated, You're a top
ten team. There should be no issues. But boys and girls,
that's as they say, that's why they play the game.
And you, if you're an Agguis fan, you gotta feel
good about it. Marcel Reid throws for two hundred and
eighty yards and three touchdowns. He ran for another fifty
five yards in a score as the Aggies had to
hang on late to beat Arkansas forty five to forty
two on Saturday to keep its perfect season going. The
Aggies have opened with seven wins for the first time
since nineteen ninety four. Golly, I was on my first
wife still in nineteen ninety Four's how long ago that was.
They finished that season ten to oh to one. Number
nine Georgia's forty three to thirty five win over Mississippi
earlier on Sunday, A and M is the only remaining
unbeaten team in the SEC. As we mentioned as the
number five, then number five Old miss goes down to Georgia.
Mike Alco could not be happier. He says they're making
when he plays, and he believes his team is finally
learning how to make the plays you need to win
football games. And I've said it before on this podcast
and on my Texas A and m Aggie's Daily Blitz
podcast at fansteringsports dot com that Mike Elco has changed
the culture here in College Station. He has changed the
culture of the program, games that this team would go
into with chances to win, even against lesser opponents. I'm
not just talking about beating the Alabama's, the Georgia's, the LSUS.
I talked about it after the Mississippi State win, that
the Jimbo Fisher era, the Kevin Sumlin era, going back
to the rc slocom era, these guys, Dennis Francioni, they
found ways to lose these very winnable games, and I
don't know, you know what it was about the culture,
about the coaching that caused that. But Elko's Aggies have
turned a corner this season. I know it has to
do with quarterback play, but hey, we've had good quarterback
play before. Kellen Mond was an amazing college quarterback. It's
just something about what Elko has been able to do
with the mindset of the players, with the mindset of
the program that helps them finish games. And that hasn't
been the case for a long time in Aguilin. And
I'm more than happy to see it. You know, everybody asks, man,
the Aggies have had a great program for a long, long,
long time, why haven't they won more. I don't know
the answer to that. As an Aggie, I don't even
have the answer to that. I do know that a
lot of it has to do with culture and with coaching,
because Lord knows, the Aggies have the talent. They've had
the talent for a long time. This is always one
of the top recruiting schools, even here in the state
of Texas, recruiting against the Longhorns. You know, going back
to the last twelve years or so, being in the SEC,
you've bumped up recruiting. Why haven't they won before? Now?
I don't know. I think it just goes back to
coaching and culture and whatever it is that Mike Elko
has done. He's fixed it, he's changed it. And it's
it's fun to watch. It's it's fun for the Aggies fans.
A and M now four and oh in the Conference
seven and oho overall, just ahead of Alabama, who is
also four and oh in the Conference six and one overall.
Alabama is shooting themselves for that week win lost Florida State,
or they'd be right up there too. It's the first time,
as I mentioned, since nineteen ninety four wife number one,
that the Aggies have opened seven to zero. They continue
their dominance in the series, with the Razorbacks winning for
the thirteenth time in the last fourteen meetings. A and
M scored on seven of nine completed drives and totaled
fourner ninety seven yards of offense, leading thirty eight to
thirty five with less than ten minutes remaining and facing
some serious pressure. After tailoring Glean's greens four yard touchdown
pass to Jaydon Platt, Aggie's running back E. J. Smith
had a two yard conversion on fourth and one from
the thirty four to extend a critical drive. Reid then
found Ashton Bethel Roman for thirty seven yards to the
Arkansas twenty seven, and Rubin Owens scored on a twelve
yard run four plays later to extend the lead to ten.
With ten seconds to play, Green hit CJ. Brown for
four yard score to pull the Razorbacks to within three,
but A and M recovered the on side kick to
seal the win. And yeah, it was a three point win,
but it really wasn't with that late score. But this
is an Aggis team that should never have let Arkansas
be that close in the first place. You had some
breakdowns on defense that I did not like to see.
But again, not in years past, where you know you'd
have both sides of the ball maybe farting around and
losing the game and not being able to pick one
up over the other. You have the offense carrying the defense,
and some days you're gonna need that. Some days it's
gonna be the other way around. We've already seen that.
We've seen the defense carry a game when the offense
was was struggling. And on Saturday, we saw the offense
carry the defense when the defense was struggling. And that's
a sign of a great program. And that's when things
happen to the positive for your for your Aggis. Of course,
Owens has been the Aggie's primary ball carrying in place
of the injured Levy On Moss, he finished with sixty
nine yards rushing in two touchdowns. Forget you had Bethel
Roman here. He had eighty three yards receiving in a score.
Conceptsian added five catches for fifty three yards and a touchdown.
Nate Borkircher had a one yard touchdown catch no, forget
that Bethel Roman was originally a Razorbacks recruit. He had committed,
he'd made multiple visits to that campus. He's got friends
there still, uh. And he played maybe one of the
best games that he's played in a while inside that
facility and made a number of key plays. Don't forget
the twenty four yard touchdown catch in the first quarter,
and he outplayed all of his counterparts on the other
side of the field, guys that were going to be
his teammates until he was stolen away by the Aggies.
So we talked about the defense a little bit. The
A and M. A run defense gave up eight point
four yards per carry to the to the Razorback. You
can't have that, uh. And that's something Elco will need
to work on in the in the interim here before
the next game, and it's a big one coming up,
boys and girls, as A and M travels to number
ten LSU next Saturday. LSU. The Aggies are a better
team right now. They're better code. They're ready to run
Brian Kelly out of town down in back the all rouge,
and I'm okay with that. I've never been a Brian
Kelly fan, but they they're gonna play you tough. This
is a rivalry game again. It's been a rivalry game
for years and years and years, even before the Aggies
were in the SEC. But it's it's gonna You're gonna
need to have all cylinders clicking here against LSU on
the road. Your offense is gonna have to play well.
We need a big game from Marcel Reid and we
need a big game from the defense to to keep
that pristine undefeated record intact after next season. We'll talk
more about that over on the Texas A and m
Aggies Daily blitzet fanscurringsports dot Com throughout the week. You
guys can check that out over there if you need
more Aggies talk. But you know, overall, I think a
stout performance by the Aggies. And they have moved up,
of course in the rankings to number three, behind just
Indiana and Ohio State. So the Aggie's ranked higher than
they've been in a long long time. Let's keep it going.
A and M. Let's keep it going now. Let's move
on to our next game on the slate. And that
was a huge disappointment out in the Desert as the
Texas Tech Red Raiders fall for the first time this
season overall, falling to six and one, three and one
now with the Big Twelve as they lose to Arizona
State twenty six to twenty two. And this came down
to clock management. It came down to making plays at
the right time. And look, again, everybody knows I'm I'm
a Red Raiders fan as well, and I won't make
excuses for the Red Raiders for the loss. Again, your
defense is intact, and your defense has played better games
this year, certainly against lesser opponents and against better opponents. Clearly.
Not that the Sun Devils are bad. They got a
good thing going over there. They're five and two now,
three and one in the Big Twelve with the win.
But where you were a little deficient was on your offense.
This was not your normal offense. And I don't want
to put the blame on Will Hammond's shoulders. I don't
think all of this was his fault. But man, you
can't have a slow, slow start like that. And was
even a slow start. It was a slow game until
about midway through the fourth quarter. It was It was
not a good look. This was not our our Red Raiders.
High powered offense that were normal normally used to sing
and with Baron Morton out, this thing just looks completely different.
Now Hammond has come in in spells when uh, you know,
when when Baron Morton goes down, which god, he does
way too frequently in my opinion, Hammond has played well,
but he has always started slow, even when he's come
in mid game in relief of an injured Baron Morton,
he seems to start slow. And he came in knowing
he was starting. And this was not just a slow start.
This was a backward start and it lasted way too
long if you're a Red Raiders fan. But you know,
full credit to Arizona State for the win. It's a
good program, h and they played really really well at
home in front of their fans. And by the way,
that is a great setting if you've never been out
there to Sun Devil Stadium, it is a great, great
setting for college football. And you know, Sam Levitt has
a way of winning games like this. After a twelve
point fourth quarter lead turned into a deficit, Levitt just
leads his team down the field to set up a
one yard touchdown run with just over thirty seconds left,
cap in the win. And it's poor clock management by
the Red Raiders. I think in the series before that,
the running game wasn't working. The passing game clearly wasn't working,
but you kept going to the passing game, which kept
stopping the clock when you threw in completions. And I
think that was the story for Joey maguire and Will
Hammond and the Red Raiders as the Sun Devils take
advantage of Sam Levit's late game magic. He always seems
to have that. He's one of the better quarterbacks in
the conference for sure. Texas Texas offense clearly labored most
of the day without Morton, just two hundred and seventy
six total yards of offense after you've been averaging a
FBS best five hundred and fifty eight point eight through
the first six games. Now, I don't know that that
was all on Will Hammond, but he certainly was not
the catalyst for offense that we needed him to be,
that the team needed him to be early in the game.
You need to be up early and often on Arizona State,
and you couldn't do it. You're playing from behind most
of the game. It was just a game that I
never felt like the Red Raiders were in. I never
felt like the Red Raiders had much of a chance
in this one, and the score was a lot closer
thanks to Hammond sort of coming on late. But yeah,
it's it was just again a game you never felt
like they were in. You had nothing for for Sam
levitt U, and you just you couldn't get things going
on offense. And that's the bottom line. And again I
don't want to blame Will Hammond for that, because he
has certainly shown that he's capable of leading this high
powered offense. You just didn't have it on Saturday, and
that's unfortunate that you've got to go to a backup
quarterback and then you lose to keep your or to
lose your unblemished record in the Big Twelve. Now, look,
I still think that Texas Tech will be in the
Big Twelve title game. I guess this. I say that,
I guess it kind of depends on Morton's future here,
uh and when he's able to come back and how
effective he will be upon returning. But Texas Tech still
has a shot at the Big Twelve title game. I
think Texas Tech still has a shot at the College
Football Playoff, Although I really think you need to win out.
That's gonna be the only caveat now with the win loss.
You gotta win out and we'll just we'll have to see.
Don't like. I don't like the direction this thing went
during the game. You gotta be better. They've got to
be better, and especially if you're without Morton, Joey MacGuire
has to find some answers. No, I don't mean not
playing Hammond, I mean helping Hammond. I'm sure he was
about as prepared as you can be, but you gotta
do something better. As you head to Oklahoma State this week,
Arizona State hosts Houston. Look, Oklahoma State's had its issues,
but it's still a big twelve game. You're still on
the road. You're gonna need to play better. So Tech falls.
That one hurts if you're a Red Raiders fan, but hey,
that's the game. That's college football. Let's get into How
about some Houston Cougars six and one overall. Now, after
a thirty one to twenty eight win over the Arizona Wildcats,
Arizona falls to four and three. They were one and
three in the conference. Cougar's three and one in the conference.
As you again had late game drama as Ethan Sanchez
hits a forty one yard field goal as time expires
to lead Houston to that thirty one to twenty eight
win over Arizona. That field goal cap to thirteen play,
fifty two drive fifty two yard drive as Houston becomes
Bowl eligible for the first time in three years with
the win and is off to its best start since
twenty twenty one. Connor Wigman went fifteen to twenty three
for one hundred and sixty four yards and three touchdowns.
He also ran for ninety eight yards in a touchdown.
Big big day for the former Aggie. After the game,
Wigman was really proud of the performance. He said, quote,
we haven't been Bowl eligible in a couple of years,
so to be able to go back to a Bowl,
that's an awesome opportunity for this program. That was a
four quarter dog fight. They stayed in the game and
fought end. Quote yeah they did. And again, full credit
to the Arizona Arizona Wildcats defense is they gave Houston's
high powered offense everything they had, holding Houston to thirty one.
That sounds weird saying holding Houston to thirty one, but
that's that's exactly what happened. We'gman threw touchdowns of fifty
two and fifteen yards. He also rushed for a ten
yard score in the first half. Houston led twenty one
to fourteen at the half. Dean Connors carried for one
hundred yards on twenty carries for the Cougars, who out
and gained Arizona three ninety six to three eighty one,
including two thirty two to one to twelve rushing. The
Cougars have been running the ball better of late, and
I think that is helping Connor Wigman quite a bit,
taking some of the pressure off of him. I believe
that rushing attack will continue to help Connor Wigman. He
also threw a two yard touchdown pass who Mary Thomas
was six minutes left in the third to put the
Cougars up fourteen. Arizona cut the lead to seven on
a three yard touchdown run by Tray Spivey to start
the fourth quarter, and then tied it at twenty eight
on a two yard touchdown run by Kendrick Rascano with
four forty eight left. Again late game drama. You know,
Brent Brennan, the Arizona coach, had nothing else to say
after the loss, but it was just a tough day
and you're absolutely right. You know, the Wildcats had issues
stopping Houston on the ground, but also getting the Cougars
off the field on third down. The Wildcats have now
lost three of their last four games. Up next, we
mentioned Houston at Arizona State on Saturday. Arizona will be
at Colorado on November First. Watch out for this Cougar seam.
We could be looking at a Houston Houston appearance in
the Big twelve Championship. I don't know if they've got
enough to finish the schedule strong, but they're certainly on
their way. Are the Cougars Next up? Let's go take
a look at the North Texas Mean Green coming off
that horrif horrifying debacle at nat qu Stadium against South Florida.
Would they recover? Are they giving up on the season? No,
they didn't give up on the season as the Mean
Green at home. They stayed at home and they beat
the UTSA Roadrunners fifty five to seventeen. Drew Mestamaker another
good showing two hundred and seventy seven yards, four touchdowns,
three scores with one hundred and two of those yards
going to Wyatt Young. North Texan now off to its
first six and one start since twenty eighteen. It was
the third game this season in which they scored fifty
plus points. UTSA not a powerhouse in the conference, not
a powerhouse in college football. But you know, North Texas
needed a good showing. They needed to rebound after that
Bulls loss at home last week last Friday night. Uh
and you got just that. I thought the team played
well putting that game behind him. Caleb Hawkins one hundred
three three one hundred and thirty three yards on eighteen carries.
He also had eight catches for ninety yards. Cameron Dorner
added sixty three yards receiving in a touchdown. A good
game that that you needed to see from Nord Texas.
I think they needed it for their own benefit, for
their own confidence. Get that confidence back up. North Texas
now six and one overall, two and one in the
American UTSA falls to one and two in the conference,
three and four overall and uh some some uh some
tough football coming up for both teams there in the conference.
I don't have the schedule in front of me, my apologies,
but yeah, we needed to see that from North Texas
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