Tuesday Play Tracking: We Are We Thought They Were
Ups, Downs and Blowout Season
You can call it sweater weather. You can say we’re just coming out of spooky season. You can PSL yourself until the cows come home.
No.
We are in blowout season.
6 of our 7 teams were in blowout situations.
Good and bad; for them.
Last week:
Now, to this week:
Let’s go line by line:
-Army not enough change to move the needle on plays but shorter game time.
-LSU down a play and a minute and we will talk about the power of the blowout.
-Miami more plays but less time to lose.
-Michigan is having to play more plays than their first month.
-New Mexico, another blowout talk for this post and they lose time while adding plays.
-Texas Tech with minimal increments in plays and time.
-Western Kentucky with 52 plays is absolutely wild, including the 5 minute time drop in the win over UTEP.
No overtimes but big blowouts. Army blows out Air Force. LSU gets blown out by Alabama. Miami is a very slow blow out, same with what Western Kentucky did to UTEP. Michigan, clear blowout. New Mexico on the receiving end of a massive blowout courtesy of UNLV.
Blowouts with no hope, LSU, NM, Army, Miami they can walk your time down. Michigan is so used to blowouts that their time goes up since they had it so easy early in the season with that schedule. At least a conference blowout isn’t like playing ECU.
And Western Kentucky made my “no hope" blowout list, but I figured I wouldn’t throw that in because it was “close” but when you have to score 2 twice in the backend to get it to a 1 score game, it isn’t really close. In a low scoring game UTEP didn’t quite have the horses.
Going to take epic things to move data points, at this point. Overtime. Super fast games. We are who we are and time is down for all but New Mexico.
Stick a fork in it.
Cheers!!