Big 12 First Game Stuff...

Johnson, Potts, Jones, and Griffin have all seen substantial playing time. Would Griffin be considered a 3 year starter, since he really sat most of last year out?

Just looking at that list, it tells me that QB play will look much different than it has the past few years with guys like McCoy, Harrell, and Bradford leading the packs.

I’ve said it before, I really think that this year will be more defensively driven across the conference. I believe there will be more low scoring games, than blowouts. Also, I believe there will be a number of games won by the defensive play.

I think our opponent was probably in the top 2-3 out of everyone the Big 12 played. I don’t know enough about some of those schools to rank them all against each other. A sample size of 1 is not all that useful .. I think we’ll start to get a better feel for comparisons between offenses and QBs in a few weeks. Right now I feel alright about our position with the understanding that “Tubby Tommerville” is on the case.

   8 Texas
  16 Oklahoma State
  18 Missouri
  26 Oklahoma
  27 Kansas State
  28 Colorado
  29 Nebraska
  37 Texas Tech
  51 Iowa State
  56 Texas A&M
  77 Baylor
 121 Kansas

And he has last week’s opponents ranked as follows:

48 N Dakota State
70 Utah State
74 UCLA
79 SMU
87 Illinois
92 Rice U
122 Washington State
126 N Illinois
138 Colorado State
139 Western Kentucky
169 Stephen F Austin
186 Sam Houston

I think last week’s opponents’ ranking helps me get past my own bias and see that we played a pretty good team last week. At least to the degree that these rankings have validity…by his admition, early rankings according to his algorithm are shaky. We can also validate outside our own bias to some degree that some of the teams putting up big numbers last week end, should have !!!

Coach Leach made it clear that a good running game starts with a good passing game. I think the big difference here is that Tubberville tried to use the run to set up the pass. It is clear to me that Batch and Stephens are great in the open field. Linning up with a two back set usually means handing the ball off between the tackles. I don’t think we have a runninb back geared towards running between the tackles. Leach was genius in getting Bath the ball in open space and running past the defense when they least expected it. I hope that Tubberville goes back to a one back set and lets Batch and Stepehens do what they do best. Run in the Open Field. Go Red Raiders.