Nice write up. I am excited for this game, and I hope our rush offense gets going again. While it wasn’t as affective against UT I think it can help us out in the rest of our games.

1) Their defense is undersized but opportunistic. Probably won’t hold Potts & Co. to below 30 points, but could take advantage of a turnover or two at an inconvenient time.
2) Houston’s offense kind of looks like what Oklahoma’s offense has been the last few years and was advertised to be this year: Extremely efficient combination of run & pass that will quickly light a soft zone defense ablaze. Keenum is a crazy good passer in this system and can scramble for a 1st down if no one’s open.
3) Houston’s special teams could be vulnerable to some big returns by Stephens, or maybe Dez Bryant is just really that good (and he probably is).
4) Oklahoma State didn’t lie down for Houston, they just couldn’t keep pace in a shootout and had most of the toss-up plays that could have gone either way go against them. If Tech isn’t careful, Houston could wipe a promising season out for us too.

I live in Houston now, and have never seen a team that hypes themselves as much as the coogs. Its no stretch here that they are talking about wanting to crash the BCS this year…. Gimme a break.

They are notorious for this though, they get a big surprise win and let it get to their heads, and they have had 2 weeks to sit and think about how great they are. Ya, they did beat the most over-rated team in College Football this year, but we aren’t OSU.

Houston is the type of team that emplodes as soon as they are faced with adversity… the other week they played with a lead the whole game…. its easy to kinda sit on that and not worry too much… but when Tech starts trading blows with them they will do the same thing every other UH team has done… FOLD, then get personal foul penalties, then fight.

Tech MUST take this game very seriously, regardless of how good or bad UofH really is. They have been known to whip Tech at inopportune times (re: 1976). If Techis as good as we all hope they are after standing toe-to-toe with UT, then they can win this game fairly easily. By that, I mean that by playing hard, with purpose, they can obtain and stretch a lead in the game. But, as said before, they had best take this UofH team seriously from the start.

I see my raiders hanging 24 on them. Tech isn’t going to go soft after the UT game. That might have been true if we beat UT but look for an impressive win Saturday night. This time next Monday Tech will be ranked AP 23.

I’m pretty scared about this game, too. More than most games down the road. OTOH and not to minimize the risks, UH did get awfully lucky in their win over OSU. They let the Cowboys come storming back after an early lead and then won on an INT and a fluke tipped pass for TD.

We have a little payback to give these guys, too, although it’s before your time if your under 40-ish. I forget the exact years, but UH joined the SWC right after Arkansas defected. That was right about the time when UH started the then-revolutionary run-and-shoot offense. That was also at a time when Tech actually had a pretty good chance of getting a SWC crown. But UH came in and kicked everybody’s butt with that offense (and the key personnel to run it). For a few years they were the terror of college football and even got a Heisman out of the deal. But then things kind of fizzled, the SWC broke up, and we haven’t heard from then since.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

There will be a substantial contingent of Texas Tech fans at the game Saturday simply because so many alums live in Houston. I’d expect a lot of RAIDER POWER this Saturday. Compared to the Texas game, the environment is going to be a LOT friendlier.

I agree that OSU was overranked and hyped at the beginning of this season and had no business being in the top 10. This TTU team is fighting to get any respect (…again…) and the guys will come into town hungry this week.

If we play like we did in Austin this week there’s no way they can beat us.

They lost to Texas in Austin by 4, then proceeded to loose 3 of their next 5.

There’s still work to be done.

Is a Team that is the preverbial snake in the grass. If you not careful you get bit. But the truth is that they are overrated. But if Tech does not respect them like a snake you will get bit.

OSU is extremely overrated and to be honest, I did not think they were as top 20 team coming into this season. Its just hype from all that money that has been flowing.
The problem is that they have not improved but are exactly where they were 5 years ago. An Average team that picks of a game against better talent to seem better than they are. They are an 7-5 8-4 with the occational 9-3 season. They are dangerous if you over look them.

Thus Tech just needs to go in and do the 70 points lights out of the 80/20 principle.
If you play to hang 70 points on every team then you can not let down during the game because it takes 4 quarters to actually put up 70 points in 1 hour of play. Football is 80 percent mental and 20 percent nasty big bad boy smash mouth attitude of knocking the snot out of everyone.