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The one that gave up 348 yards was facing the top returning RB in the country and the most accurate returning QB in the country, playing on the team that's eveyone's favorite to win their conference. The team that gave up 95 yards was facing a total shit team that was 2-9 last year in the country's weakest football conference.
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
Well, as long as you have nothing to back up your statement except your gut, then I feel much better.
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inVINCEable
Booyakasha!
Somehow Mili...your ability to predict how well Wolfe would do just isn't very good to say the least...
He was well over 150 and close to 200!
Now wait a minute...didn't you see that Wolfe ran for 148 yards against Michigan and 245 yards against Northwestern last year?
On this post, you made the brilliant guess that Wolfe would rush for 30 yards! I may be faulted of misinterpreting your sarcasm on some of these posts...I certainly hope that was the case.
I'm not going to argue that Texas didn't play a shit team. However, it's also pretty clear OSU's defense is nowhere near on par with the level it was last year or the years before (the same can be said of Texas's offense). What I would like to know is how much did you predict Young and Charle's to run in this years game? If Wolfe was predicted to run a "nearly impossible" 100 yards by you (and actually got 171-well over your prediction...that doesn't even count his catches), what do you expect S. Young and Charles to get running behind what CFN denotes as the top O-line in the nation?
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BrianO
OSU Grad in FL
good football
I expect some good football next week! It should be exciting, hopefully mostly for tOSU.
It is tough to make predictions. Texas is going to score and Smith and the boys are going to get in the end zone as well. Somebody is going to make more plays and make less mistakes. Finding out who that somebody is will keep me glued to the HDTV in Florida.
To those making the trip, travel safe and be as loud as possible!
Damn!, did anybody see that tackle on the USC kick returner delivered by a Ark special teamer. That guy's kids are going to feel that one.
I expect some good football next week! It should be exciting, hopefully mostly for tOSU.
It is tough to make predictions. Texas is going to score and Smith and the boys are going to get in the end zone as well. Somebody is going to make more plays and make less mistakes. Finding out who that somebody is will keep me glued to the HDTV in Florida.
To those making the trip, travel safe and be as loud as possible!
Damn!, did anybody see that tackle on the USC kick returner delivered by a Ark special teamer. That guy's kids are going to feel that one.
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BrutusBobcat
Icon and Entertainer
xray, is there a skipping CD in the house? Aren't these the exact same sorts of things you were saying last year after UT steamrollered La-Laf?
It's pretty much a fact that Mack's teams will crush a weaker opponent while Tressel's don't. It's also a fact that the performance against those weaker opponents doesn't correlate to performance against ranked opponents.
Let's please elevate the discussion this year beyond the fallacy of football transference and evaluate actual matchups. Football is not played with sabermetrics. Even in baseball, where it is much more highly developed, statistical analysis is virtually useless when predicting individual games.
It's pretty much a fact that Mack's teams will crush a weaker opponent while Tressel's don't. It's also a fact that the performance against those weaker opponents doesn't correlate to performance against ranked opponents.
Let's please elevate the discussion this year beyond the fallacy of football transference and evaluate actual matchups. Football is not played with sabermetrics. Even in baseball, where it is much more highly developed, statistical analysis is virtually useless when predicting individual games.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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Dispatch
TEXAS 56 NORTH TEXAS 7
Longhorns might have the real McCoy at quarterback
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Todd Jones
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
</IMG> HARRY CABLUCK ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas freshman quarterback Colt McCoy showed poise in his first start. He passed for 178 yards and three TDs and ran for 78 yards.
AUSTIN, Texas — The sighs of Texas were upon Colt McCoy as the freshfaced freshman left the field yesterday after his debut at quarterback for the defending national champions.
McCoy’s steady and sharp performance in the season opener provided some relief for Texas fans, who already are frenzied about No. 1 Ohio State coming to town for the first time ever in six days to play the third-ranked Longhorns.
Questions about the quarterback position have swirled like daily cyclones at Texas since the spectacular Vince Young decided to bypass his senior season and became the No. 3 pick in the NFL draft last spring.
The pressure on McCoy was palpable among the school-record crowd of 85,123 in Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, and the heat on the new quarterback could be measured in the postgame media scrum after the Longhorns thrashed North Texas 56-7 to run their winning streak to a nation-best 21 games.
There were a few questions about Ohio State (nothing inflammatory, just respect, coming from the Longhorns on that subject) but the topic of the upcoming rematch of the 2005 game in Columbus was overwhelmed by Colt-mania.
Everyone wanted to talk about McCoy — how his second pass went for a 60-yard touchdown, how he added two other scoring tosses, how he completed 12 of 19 throws for 178 yards, and how he ran four times for 78 yards.
"Colt McCoy has started the legacy he’s going to have at Texas," teammate Selvin Young said.
McCoy, already a hero back home in small-town Tuscola, Texas, wasn’t as breathtaking as Vince Young, who finished runner-up in the Heisman Trophy voting last year while leading the Longhorns to their first national title in 35 years.
Yet McCoy displayed poise and solid decision-making in his first action at the college level, and those traits are all Texas coach Mack Brown is asking his inexperienced quarterback to provide for his veteran, talent-laden team.
"I thought Colt was really good," Brown said. "He was better than expected."
The Longhorns showed against overmatched North Texas that they have an orneryenough defense (holding the Mean Green to 95 total yards) and bevy of dangerous skillposition players on offense to make McCoy feel as if he doesn’t have to slay Ohio State by himself.
Selvin Young and Jamaal Charles combined for 124 of Texas’ 216 rushing yards, and receiver Limas Sweed — who had the winning touchdown catch against Ohio State last year — caught five passes for 111 yards and two touchdowns.
His first TD came on the game’s third play from scrimmage, a quick slant that Sweed juggled, then took 60 yards for a score.
"I’ve been dreaming about this my entire life," McCoy said. "I was ready to play."
Three days ago, McCoy told Brown he wasn’t nervous about his debut, and his calm demeanor helped push the Longhorns ahead 21-0 less than 19 minutes into the game. That early lead allowed Texas to use true freshman Jevan Snead, a high school All-American, for three series at quarterback. He completed 3 of 7 passes and had one interception.
Brown won’t reveal whether he’ll use both freshmen quarterbacks against Ohio State. "We’ll have to make that decision probably based on how the game goes," he said.
Whether Ohio State can avenge its 25-22 loss last year will be determined in large part by how McCoy performs when the national TV cameras are on and he’s being chased by the Buckeyes instead of North Texas.
"What a challenge for us to play the No. 1 team," McCoy said. "We respect them. They have a great team."
For now, the folks down here in Texas hill country are breathing a little easier about the quarterback spot as they gear up for a No. 1-ranked opponent to visit Austin for only the second time, and the first time since the Longhorns beat Southern Methodist 23-20 in 1950.
"It’ll be real fun," Texas defensive end Brian Robison said. "We’re expecting a battle out of them. I’m definitely glad we’re playing them early in the year because it allows us to see how good we are from the start. With Ohio State being No. 1 and coming in here, what better team to go against than Ohio State? "
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