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View from the Cheap Seats-La Tech
Holy Season Opener Batman, that was how to kickoff a season
Coach Herman and TEXAS did a couple things for the 1st time in the CTH era. For starters, he won his 1st opener at TEXAS to start 1-0. TEXAS would put a team away early and not let them up off the mat for the 1st time in the era. TEXAS would receive the opening kickoff and drive the field to score a TD on their way to a 24-0 1st half. In fact they would score TDs on 3 of their 1st four drives (one stopped due to a fumble) on their way to a 38-0 lead through 3 quarters which allowed Casey Thompson and the backups to record some much needed game reps. And to take a bit of a shot at much of the conference and nation, it's nice to see TEXAS not scheduling Division II programs. Really? Montana State, Georgia Southern, James Madison, Florida A&M Idaho and Eastern Washington among the tomato cans some of the top teams "tuned up the season" with. Yes we get then need the money but come on folks, if you need a tomato can, at least play a bowl eligible school like USF. Oh sorry, gratuitous shot at CFS from the cheap seats. Guess he needed more baking lessons.. TEXAS opened against a Group of 5 bowl winning team from 2018 with a roster full of quality players. Interesting how many of the players on the La Tech team were transfers from somewhere else.
Overall, a quality win in a game where it would have been easy to look past the bulldogs (Bevo said. . .bulldogs. . .bulldogs. . .bring'em by, he wants to meet them. . .again) with LSU on the horizon. CTH passed another coaching hurdle showing he can get his guys focused with his 1-0 mentality.
TEXAS would dominate on both sides of the ball from the opening gun through 3 quarters and Sam Ehlinger would kick off a potential Heisman season. Granted, the performance was more solid/very good than Heisman worthy but he will have more chances as the season wears on.
The offense opened the game with the Devin Duvernay show in the 1st half. He take the opening kickoff for a 28 yard return, he would take the 1st carry of the season on a jet sweep rush before catching 5 passes in the 1st half including the 1st TD of the season. TEXAS would score on 4 of 7 drives in the 1st half, taking a 24-0 lead to the locker room. They only punted once, were driving when CJ fumbled and missed a FG. It was a very impressive 1st half after struggling in openers the past 2 years. And it would lay the ground work for Casey Thompson and the back ups to log the 4th quarter snaps and nice to see Casey getting to run the offense.
RoShoan Johnson earns the selfless player on the team award. The true freshman QB went to the staff earlier and told them he'd play RB if needed. In an era where QBs are more likely to call the transfer portal than risk losing a year, he rewarded the Horns with some nifty running and much needed depth. Keotay Ingram put in a VERY IMPRESSIVE opening night, averaging 7.1 ypc on 11 totes. He looked like the RB we thought we had when we recruited him. Rounding out the RBs, we saw
Early game plan was to use the short passing game to offset the lack of depth at RB and it worked very well. Which is not to say the Horns did not push the ball deep at times. Sam logged 4 passes of over 20 yards to 4 different receivers with Jake Smith's longest catch going for 18 yards. This coupled with a 19 yard run from KI. The Horns would move the ball well, logging 5 drives of 50 yards or more, 4 for TDs and one ending in fumble.
Coach Todd's defenses are best described as chaos and Sat night was no exception. La Tech's offense was completely baffled in the 1st half as the pass rush played havoc on a team with some quality players on offense. In the 2nd half, the La Tech QB would find a better rhythm and he was aided by some poor tackling by the defense, especially from the young corner backs. Which was about the only real weakness we saw from the D, inability to make tackles in space. 3 quarters of shut out ball was an impressive start to the season. Coach Todd will be coaching his young charges up this week.
Offensive player of the game: Going to be a regular we think this year but Sam was again The Man, going 28 of 38 and 4 TDs for a 91 QBR. Honorable Mention goes to Devin Duvernan, Keotay Ingram and Malcom Eagles who recorded his 1st 2 touchdown grabs of his college career.
Defensive player of the game: Tough call this week but the nod goes to Joseph Ossai with an INT (should have been 2), 5 tackles and a tackle for loss. Honorable Mention, Caden "The Wolf" Sterns and Jeffery McCullough.
Stats that Matter
30 rushes and 43 pass attempts for the game. It was clear we were protecting our RBs and good thing as Whittington seemed to still be bothered by his hernia injury. He did show at one point why he is such a weapon, he juked an LT player so badly, kid lost his jock.
8-14 on 3rd down attempts by the offense.
5-14 3rd downs allowed by the D. We sustained drives, we stopped drives.
3.75 points per drive. Basically a TD every other drive.
Next up
LSU and their #6 ranking comes to town marking the Biggest Game at DKR since #10 Notre Dame in 2016. This time the Horns will show up with a Top 10 ranking of their own in an early showdown of playoff hopeful Top 10 teams. The hype machine is on overdrive, Game Day will be in Da House to see 2 programs chomping at the bit to get back intp the National Title mix in the biggest game in College Football so far this year. DKR under the lights, it's going to be EPIC. And it always seems like the biggest game at DKR are under the light. Most notably Cougar High in 1990 and Mizzu in 2008 (my son's first in person game) These are the types of games Tom Herman does his best coaching, national stage, considered the underdog with a big time chip on the Horns shoulder. Shhhhh, don't tell either team or staff but the loser of the game still has everything to play for afterwards, though the margin for playoff error goes to zero. #1 worry from the Cheap Seats, can our young CB tackle their WRs in space? #2 Can our front 5/6/7 (who knows the way Coach Todd lines them up) shut down their rushing attack?
This is going to be FUN.
Mack Watch
We said we projected Mack to take UNC from 4 to 5 wins total in the past 2 years to a bowl team this year and beating the Cocks was a big start to that. Yes, we understand some of you are still butt hurt at Mack but the reality is he gave TEXAS the 2nd best decade in our history and a National Title. Neither Coach Boom nor CFS was the man to replace him. CTH OTOH, might well be that guy. We'll be keeping up with Mack's chase for a bowl game every week.
Ranking the BigXII
#1 TEXAS. You want to say "homer" call, go for it. But this is most talented team in the conference top to bottom.
#2 OU Sucks to say but Jalen Hurts out of the gate with the biggest QB night in the BigXII. Over 300 yards passing and 170 rushing plus 6 TDs.
#3 Okie Lite. You move up the rankings when you shellac a Power 5 program. In fact OSU would play the ONLY Power 5 opener in the BigXII.
#4 TCU Fighten' Frogs trying to bounce back from a horrendous 2018
#5 Baylor F Rape U but Matt Rhule has done an outstanding coaching job
#6 ISU As Tuna (Bill Parcells) would say, ISU was eating the cheese this offseason and needed 3 OTs to defeat Northern Iowa
#7 WVU They are on the cusp of sliding to the bottom tier. Another team with YUGE talent losses but also a new HC.
# 8 TT. They bring back an outstanding QB but a new HC.
#9 KSU Bring on the post Snyder era
#10 Kansas New HC Less Miles wins his opener, he's got that going for him.
Sorry this got out a bit later than normal. My son broke his arm in a biking accident. Glad we had the Life360 app (free) to track him. He'd cut through the golf course and police and fire did not know where he was. Thanks to the app, we able to lead them right to him (they got their about two minutes before
Holy Season Opener Batman, that was how to kickoff a season
Coach Herman and TEXAS did a couple things for the 1st time in the CTH era. For starters, he won his 1st opener at TEXAS to start 1-0. TEXAS would put a team away early and not let them up off the mat for the 1st time in the era. TEXAS would receive the opening kickoff and drive the field to score a TD on their way to a 24-0 1st half. In fact they would score TDs on 3 of their 1st four drives (one stopped due to a fumble) on their way to a 38-0 lead through 3 quarters which allowed Casey Thompson and the backups to record some much needed game reps. And to take a bit of a shot at much of the conference and nation, it's nice to see TEXAS not scheduling Division II programs. Really? Montana State, Georgia Southern, James Madison, Florida A&M Idaho and Eastern Washington among the tomato cans some of the top teams "tuned up the season" with. Yes we get then need the money but come on folks, if you need a tomato can, at least play a bowl eligible school like USF. Oh sorry, gratuitous shot at CFS from the cheap seats. Guess he needed more baking lessons.. TEXAS opened against a Group of 5 bowl winning team from 2018 with a roster full of quality players. Interesting how many of the players on the La Tech team were transfers from somewhere else.
Overall, a quality win in a game where it would have been easy to look past the bulldogs (Bevo said. . .bulldogs. . .bulldogs. . .bring'em by, he wants to meet them. . .again) with LSU on the horizon. CTH passed another coaching hurdle showing he can get his guys focused with his 1-0 mentality.
TEXAS would dominate on both sides of the ball from the opening gun through 3 quarters and Sam Ehlinger would kick off a potential Heisman season. Granted, the performance was more solid/very good than Heisman worthy but he will have more chances as the season wears on.
The offense opened the game with the Devin Duvernay show in the 1st half. He take the opening kickoff for a 28 yard return, he would take the 1st carry of the season on a jet sweep rush before catching 5 passes in the 1st half including the 1st TD of the season. TEXAS would score on 4 of 7 drives in the 1st half, taking a 24-0 lead to the locker room. They only punted once, were driving when CJ fumbled and missed a FG. It was a very impressive 1st half after struggling in openers the past 2 years. And it would lay the ground work for Casey Thompson and the back ups to log the 4th quarter snaps and nice to see Casey getting to run the offense.
RoShoan Johnson earns the selfless player on the team award. The true freshman QB went to the staff earlier and told them he'd play RB if needed. In an era where QBs are more likely to call the transfer portal than risk losing a year, he rewarded the Horns with some nifty running and much needed depth. Keotay Ingram put in a VERY IMPRESSIVE opening night, averaging 7.1 ypc on 11 totes. He looked like the RB we thought we had when we recruited him. Rounding out the RBs, we saw
Early game plan was to use the short passing game to offset the lack of depth at RB and it worked very well. Which is not to say the Horns did not push the ball deep at times. Sam logged 4 passes of over 20 yards to 4 different receivers with Jake Smith's longest catch going for 18 yards. This coupled with a 19 yard run from KI. The Horns would move the ball well, logging 5 drives of 50 yards or more, 4 for TDs and one ending in fumble.
Coach Todd's defenses are best described as chaos and Sat night was no exception. La Tech's offense was completely baffled in the 1st half as the pass rush played havoc on a team with some quality players on offense. In the 2nd half, the La Tech QB would find a better rhythm and he was aided by some poor tackling by the defense, especially from the young corner backs. Which was about the only real weakness we saw from the D, inability to make tackles in space. 3 quarters of shut out ball was an impressive start to the season. Coach Todd will be coaching his young charges up this week.
Offensive player of the game: Going to be a regular we think this year but Sam was again The Man, going 28 of 38 and 4 TDs for a 91 QBR. Honorable Mention goes to Devin Duvernan, Keotay Ingram and Malcom Eagles who recorded his 1st 2 touchdown grabs of his college career.
Defensive player of the game: Tough call this week but the nod goes to Joseph Ossai with an INT (should have been 2), 5 tackles and a tackle for loss. Honorable Mention, Caden "The Wolf" Sterns and Jeffery McCullough.
Stats that Matter
30 rushes and 43 pass attempts for the game. It was clear we were protecting our RBs and good thing as Whittington seemed to still be bothered by his hernia injury. He did show at one point why he is such a weapon, he juked an LT player so badly, kid lost his jock.
8-14 on 3rd down attempts by the offense.
5-14 3rd downs allowed by the D. We sustained drives, we stopped drives.
3.75 points per drive. Basically a TD every other drive.
Next up
LSU and their #6 ranking comes to town marking the Biggest Game at DKR since #10 Notre Dame in 2016. This time the Horns will show up with a Top 10 ranking of their own in an early showdown of playoff hopeful Top 10 teams. The hype machine is on overdrive, Game Day will be in Da House to see 2 programs chomping at the bit to get back intp the National Title mix in the biggest game in College Football so far this year. DKR under the lights, it's going to be EPIC. And it always seems like the biggest game at DKR are under the light. Most notably Cougar High in 1990 and Mizzu in 2008 (my son's first in person game) These are the types of games Tom Herman does his best coaching, national stage, considered the underdog with a big time chip on the Horns shoulder. Shhhhh, don't tell either team or staff but the loser of the game still has everything to play for afterwards, though the margin for playoff error goes to zero. #1 worry from the Cheap Seats, can our young CB tackle their WRs in space? #2 Can our front 5/6/7 (who knows the way Coach Todd lines them up) shut down their rushing attack?
This is going to be FUN.
Mack Watch
We said we projected Mack to take UNC from 4 to 5 wins total in the past 2 years to a bowl team this year and beating the Cocks was a big start to that. Yes, we understand some of you are still butt hurt at Mack but the reality is he gave TEXAS the 2nd best decade in our history and a National Title. Neither Coach Boom nor CFS was the man to replace him. CTH OTOH, might well be that guy. We'll be keeping up with Mack's chase for a bowl game every week.
Ranking the BigXII
#1 TEXAS. You want to say "homer" call, go for it. But this is most talented team in the conference top to bottom.
#2 OU Sucks to say but Jalen Hurts out of the gate with the biggest QB night in the BigXII. Over 300 yards passing and 170 rushing plus 6 TDs.
#3 Okie Lite. You move up the rankings when you shellac a Power 5 program. In fact OSU would play the ONLY Power 5 opener in the BigXII.
#4 TCU Fighten' Frogs trying to bounce back from a horrendous 2018
#5 Baylor F Rape U but Matt Rhule has done an outstanding coaching job
#6 ISU As Tuna (Bill Parcells) would say, ISU was eating the cheese this offseason and needed 3 OTs to defeat Northern Iowa
#7 WVU They are on the cusp of sliding to the bottom tier. Another team with YUGE talent losses but also a new HC.
# 8 TT. They bring back an outstanding QB but a new HC.
#9 KSU Bring on the post Snyder era
#10 Kansas New HC Less Miles wins his opener, he's got that going for him.
Sorry this got out a bit later than normal. My son broke his arm in a biking accident. Glad we had the Life360 app (free) to track him. He'd cut through the golf course and police and fire did not know where he was. Thanks to the app, we able to lead them right to him (they got their about two minutes before
