Texas football is a mess. I get that Baylor is a 1-loss, 10-win team that Oklahoma needed a miracle of a second half—offensively and defensively—to beat. I get that Matt Rhule is probably gonna win every National Coach of the Year award there is because he’s a nice guy, and his team should not be anywhere near this good in 2019. I get that Charlie Brewer is THAT dude, James and Blake Lynch are elite hunters in a target rich environment and Brayvion Roy is an actual man-eater. But with the 24-10 loss in Waco to the Bears in their mustard unis, Texas fell to 6-5. For perspective, Arizona State is 6-5. Kentucky is 6-5. Tennessee is 6-5. Florida State is 6-5. Miami is 6-5. Washington is 6-5. California is 6-5, and Illinois is 6-5. Is it time to fire Tom Herman yet? You be the judge.
As the clock ran out on No. 6 Oregon, which endured the only top 10 upset all weekend, my mind ran to last April.
My OKC Thunder had clawed back into an elimination game against the Blazers. Dame Lillard checked his watch, it read Dame Time, which something a little more savage than game time. It’s more like Tupac’s opening line to “Hit Em Up” where a man’s sliced twice like he’s been hit with the V in dystopian British comic book after taking the whole bank of Cready’s bullets in closed subway. You can’t kill a man who has already killed you before you could’ve hoped to even think about defending yourself. Dame knew that when he hit the 37-footer from the sticker. Then Logo Lillard hit me with the walk-off wave after soul-snatching the Thunder like his middle name was Shang Tsung.
Last night Oregon checked the scoreboard and it read Sun Devils 31, Donald Ducks 28. Those are the mystical powers of a Sun Devil on display, and you have to consider that.
Forget that LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire carried the ball just six times for 188 yards in a 56-20 win against an SEC West team. Forget LSU put up over 600 yards of offense on an FBS program for the second-straight week. Just remember Ed “Roll What, F-U” Orgeron refused to celebrate beating Arkansas because, and I quote, "They haven't beaten anybody in a long time, so we were supposed to win that football game and onto Texas A&M." I haven’t seen that much shade since the total solar eclipse. Yolanda Taylor, get ready to raise your flag once again.
The second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes gave the No. 8 Penn State Nittany Lions three turnovers. They ate those delicious treats to close a 21-0 Buckeyes lead in the third quarter to 21-17 with 5:06 left to go in the quarter. The Nuts looked drained. But they took some time, focused and then went on to pounding Pennsylvania’s favorite kitties 28-17. Chase Young sacked Sean Clifford three times, and now has more sacks than any other Buckeye, including Vernon Gholston, Joey Bosa and Mike Vrabel. No word yet on whether there’s a Big Ten West team with enough sack to stop the Nuts. And let’s not forget Ohio State dragged their nuts across Penn State’s run defense. Forget that the Buckeyes rushed for 229 yards. Forget that J.K. Dobbins had 157 of them on 36 carries. Just remember Penn State had given up just 76 yards rushing a game before they walked into The Shoe, and Ohio State rushed for 91 yards on its opening drive.
Jalen Hurts: He became just the third player in the history of the sport to reach 3,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing by the 11th game of the season behind Johnny Manziel in 2012 and Lamar Jackson in 2016. Manziel and Jackson won the Heisman Trophy in those years.
Hurts also hit just 11 of 21 passes for 145 yards, which is the fewest number of passing yards by an OU quarterback with at least 20 attempts since the 2014 Russell Athletic Bowl against Clemson. Trevor Knight passed for just 103 yards on 17 of 37 in that game.
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