Time to tell it like it is....I saw this coming. Stanford dominated UCLA in the fourth a few weeks ago, but it was fairly close till then. UH came in with Kenum not looking quite up to par, but UCLA looked like a completely different team in every phase of the game. I saw some exceptionally large and talented players. I had a feeling that they were a team finding themselves, SO their domination over always overrated Texas before 100,000 fans in Austin is not really a surprise. Watch out for the Bruins, the best may be yet to come. As for the Longhorns, the usual hype, but I just don't see the talent level of years past, and whoever calls their plays needs a refresher course; you are three scores down and you are dinking and dumping, please.
The hype was semi-warranted given Gilbert's glimpse of brilliance in the title game. And I doubt talent level is ever a problem, definitely not against UCLA (no disrespect). This one's on the inexperience and coaching. I expected the early struggles and was hoping the team would improve as the year goes on. Didn't happen. Gonna be interesting seeing what Mack Brown has to say coming off defending Greg Davis and McWhorter last week.
Yup. This needs to go down as the Ryan Mallett choke game, as opposed to anything Alabama did on defense. People will talk about adjustments Alabama made at the half, but I still think they're very vulnerable on that side of the ball. Holes were there. Arkansas simply killed themselves. Dropped multiple wide open passes, committed major penalties, and Mallett threw three picks into double and triple coverage that you'd hope a pop-warner kid would have the common sense not to throw. That was as self-inflicted a collapse as I've ever seen, because they absolutely had Bama on the ropes. Devastating loss for Arkansas.
Gonna be a down year for the Horns. I'm interested to see how the offense develops of the course of the season.
yeah this is setting up to be a terrible football weekend.... c'mon Texans, for the love of all that is holy please beat cowgirl tomorrow rays
