What a helluva game.........I am one of the few that gave UT a chance.....IMO, UT could have won by much more. I will explain. Too often they tried to get cute inside the 5 and had to settle for 2 FGs, instead of merely using Johnson up the gut. I firmly believe Johnson would have been able to punch it in on two of those drives that we settled for 3. It could have easily been 52-35.
The Refs suck. 4 personal foul calls and all were bogus (2 on each team). 3 of them came on the sidelines when the defender was merely trying to stop his own momentum, as well as the QB. The QB hits the ground and the flag comes out......THE SEC is definitely laughing at the wimpiness of those calls. That roughing the punter penalty was complete garbage. There was a few other calls that went against both teams that were bad too.
On the first OU TD, he wasn't in. It should have been 4th and inches. Conversely, when Johnson scored that first TD for UT, he was out at about 1/2 yd line. I forgot the down, but UT should have had to lineup again. I guess each play was a wash.
Whoever has the OU kicker in their fantasy league is hating life. They don't kick FGs......all they do is score TDs.....it is unreal how much of a TD machine they are.
I was extremely impressed with the UT defense. They brought it all game. I hope they can do the same next week against Mizzou. My only beef with them came on that total blown coverage on the Gresham TD and that defensive penalty down in the red zone that kept an OU drive alive.
As far the UT running game. I have no clue why they kept trying to run sweeps and tosses to the outside on that OU defense. Those kids are too fast and swarm like angry wasps to the ball.....the best way to attack a defense like that, is up the middle with counters, draws, and dives....The loss of that LB really hurt OU in the middle. He seems to be a very good player and always around the ball.
This was Ali / Frazier and definitely lived up to the billing.
