This offense has a bunch of quality football players that somehow only scored seven points last week. The coaches were concerned that Rice's 3-3-5 would throw a ton of stunts at the offense and cause enough confusion to overcome the size/talent level advantage UT enjoyed. The UT OLine decided to remove any cause for worry as they finished quality blocks while giving our two RB's several untouched passages into space against the outmanned Owls. We threw the ball well, we caught the ball well, and the entire bunch blocked very well. The defense added two scores of their own to help lead by example.
Offensive Report Card
You just knew that our defensive troops would show up ready to play after spending all last week with coach Chizik. We brought tremendous pressure from our front four all night to force an outmanned Owl unit into a night where most everything went wrong. We scored a defensive td with a sack and strip and two td's on punt returns but lost one due to a penalty. We accomplished one feat that was a first for me--all four DL made the tackle on the same screen pass. We were relentless in our intensity and reduced our missed tackles with a determined effort to show strong improvement.
Defensive Report Card
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