Preview TEXAS TECH VS OU

She came from Oklahoma and the end of the world is on its way. In a Chevy nova. 

Oklahoma by Bob Schneider 

Where Norman

When Sat 7pm

TV ABC

Line OU  -28.5

Weather 60s w scattered showers

Well lets see if this team can flip the usual road woes that have bit the red raiders in the rear repeatedly can somehow pull a HUGE upset in Norman and beat the Sooners. Vegas did not think too much of this as the line opened at OU by -25 and the public seems to think that was not enough and the line has continued to move against the red raiders.

But before we get into this week, let’s look back at the last two weeks as I missed updating this

AGGGIES - for all that happened it was a pretty good showing by tech. You take away a horrendous special teams gaff resulting in a blocked and returned field goal and a dead ball play that blew up Stephens knee ending his season, this could have been a win. But the Aggies held on to finish this series with a win.

WILDCATS - speaking of special teams there is a huge turd in the punch bowl for tech and it’s the special teams. If memory serves Tech had the same issues last year and they haven’t been fixed. TWO blocked field goals and a kickoff return will tend to force you into a loss. And then, wait for it, the Tech offense disappeared in a key game in the second half gaining only 6 pts.

At least it can’t get worse, oh wait it can. Tech gets to go on the road and head to Norman where the Sooners have a 39 game win streak. OU is a monster on both sides of the ball.

Offensively they have unreal talent at QB w Landry Jones and his key receiver broyles just set the ncaa career reception mark last week in their whuppin of kansas. Defensively they are just as good. 

The good news for the Red Raiders is that offensively(minus that 2nd half) are still the number 9 offense in the country and Doege is making defenses look silly. And Crawford and Washington have stepped up on the ground to make up for Stephens absence.

I believe that this will be a shootout but that OU comes out with 14 pt win.

BEST GUESS

Tech 34

OU  48

FUN WITH NUMBERS

26 of 29. Number of losses for tech on the road against ranked teams

13 points special teams cost Tech against KSU

8 number of field goals Donnie corona has this year through 6 games 

GUNS UP!

PREVIEW: TEXAS TECH VS AGGIES

Lets just say adios with a kiss and a sighGet your tongue outta my mouth cause I'm kissing you goodbye.

Ray Stevens

Where:  Jones Stadium, Lubbock

When:  6:00pm Central

TV:  FX

Weather:  High 60s, cloudy with possible showers

Line: Tech +9

Saturday is going to be the 70^th time the Red Raiders and Texas A&M Aggies have met since 1927. When they meet for the 71^st time, who knows, maybe the Cotton Bowl next year given that the Ags are off to the SEC. So lets do this one more time and see what happens.

Before we get to that, let’s look to last week….

The Raiders just keep trying to make their games more interesting than they need to be. Nothing like spotting the other team (who you are visiting by the way) a nice 20-0 advantage in the first quarter. Now Tech proceeded to outscore the Jayhawks 45-14 the rest of the game, but good lord the habit of spotting the bad guys a lead has got to stop.  The good news is that Doege continued to put up big numbers (366 and 3 TD) and a running game showed up, with Eric Stephens picking up over 120 yards and two TDs. That’s great, cause we’re going to need it against the Aggies.

If you have turned off the Aggie games the past two weeks at half, you’d think A&M is undefeated and probably a Top 5 (top 10 certainly) team. The only problem for them this season is that like there are two Os in Goose, there are two halves in football boys. The second half of both the Oklahoma State and the Arkansas games have just been train wrecks. And as a farily biased fan without any stake in those games, it looks like the offense tends to panic and get away from running the ball and that’s what’s led to the losses.

I don’t know if you can install the wishbone offense in a week, but if I were the Aggies, looking at Tech’s horrendous defense I’d say “we are running this play on first down, second down, third down. Hell we may even run on fourth down”. I honestly don’t know why you would not put the ball in Cyrus Gray’s or Christine Michael’s hands on every play. They combined for 381 yards and 5 TDs on the ground against Arkansas. And ok, if they want to throw it, its not like they don’t have a good QB Tannehill has over 500 yards in the air the past two games and he has a few weapons, none better than Swope (go chaps) to go to.

Tech’s won 11 of the last 16 matchups between these two teams, but the Aggie’s are riding a nice two game streak over Tech. And for all the changes Tuberville has brought to Lubock, it really seems like he just doesn’t get the importance of this game and the UT game. I think its safe to say that Tech going 10-2, but losing to UT and A&M is a bad year. Going 2-10 but beating UT and the A&M will get you a contract extension and a raise.  Bad news for Tuberville and Tech is they are young and probably don’t have the horses to keep up with the Aggies this year.

But there is always the SECOND HALF! Whoop!

BEST GUESS

TECH      34

Aggies   42

FUN WITH NUMBERS

35 – Zach Thomas’ number while at Tech. His INT turned the tide in this series

10 – number of times the Tech/Aggie game has  been decided by 3 points or less

475.4– Average offense per game in 17 games under Tuberville (6 more yards than last 17 under leach) for what that’s worth Tech PR department

GUNS UP!