🏈 A few thoughts from the weekend around college football...

[TerryP]

Go back five years to 2009. Do you remember Florida finishing at #3 in the BCS standings while we played Texas for the BCSNC? In that month of January, if I were to tell you Florida would be struggling to beat Kentucky, in the Swamp, how many of you would have believed me? OK, how many of you would have simply laughed in my face?

Two games I really enjoyed yesterday—both of which I thought were "things of beauty." One, Arkansas versus Texas Tech and two USC vs Boston College. Why? It was good football, in my eyes, seeing two teams say "we're going to run and while you know it, you can't stop it." (BC: 452 rushing. UArk: 438 rushing.)

Did you know...the Vols 3rd down defense held OU to 3 conversions in 12 attempts?

Several days ago I threw a rhetorical question out about the bend but don't break defense. If you've missed it, since that 12 minute mark in the 2nd quarter against WVU, the defense hasn't given up an offensive touchdown.

While we're still waiting for the secondary to exert themselves I'm still watching the yards per attempt. It ranks in the middle across the NCAA, but allowing 6.5 per shows me they're keeping the plays in front of them the majority of the time.

While you were watching...did you notice how many sacks we've given up this year? And on the same note, how many rushing plays have we had with negative yardage? (I honestly don't know this answer; just a thought that crossed my mind.)

While you were watching...have you noticed how many interceptions we've had this year?

What to watch for...how many players does Florida put within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage?

 

[TerryP]

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While you were watching...did you notice how many sacks we've given up this year? And on the same note, how many rushing plays have we had with negative yardage? (I honestly don't know this answer; just a thought that crossed my mind.)
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I had to look it up.

Southern Miss - 2 negative rushing plays, total of 2 yards.
Florida Atlantic - 3 negative rushing plays, total of 5 yards.
West Virginia - 1 negative rushing plays, total of 4 yards.

* At a quick glance, Blake has one of the six plays resulting in lost yardage.

 

[rick4bama]

I for one would have laugh.
Both game was good, I didn't see the USCw lost, I did get to watch some of the Arkansas game. did you know that Arkansas hold the most win vs Texas Tech it like 25-7, but that was when the Hogs were in the SWC.

Sack two on Coker and one on Sims?
Int. one right
That I can't wait to watch next Saturday.

 

[TerryP]

@rick4bama I know of two on Coker and one on Sims (can't recall what type of play it was where Sims had lost yardage so I'm assuming it was a sack.)

No INT's by my count.

 

[mrchase]

@rick4bama I know of two on Coker and one on Sims (can't recall what type of play it was where Sims had lost yardage so I'm assuming it was a sack.)

No INT's by my count.

Defense no INT'S

Sims threw one INT vs WVU

 

[alabama mike]

Here are a few of my observations:

Sims can move in the pocket and not take as many sacks as AJ.
Sims continues to gain confidence every game.
Defense is looking better with each game, of course it helped to have two easier games. I think we will be fine here as the season progress'.
The secondary is a work in progress. You cannot lose the number of players we have lost in the secondary the past few years and it not affect play.
Tackling is a concern. The DL does a decent job of wrapping up but our LB's and DB's don't wrap.
Kick off coverage is getting better but we still give up too much yardage.
Overall, I'd give us a solid B, almost a B+.