First, we absolutely dominated that game in the trenches. Travis had time to throw, and Booker had lanes to run in. Our D-line dominated was somewhat neutralized by Goff’s talent, but it still played a big part in how he played. We butchered their o-line. You do that, you will have a good chance to win a lot of games. Our secondary was GREAT in 1v1 coverage. Something I talked about before the game was how much zone we had been running, and how I expected us to switch it up. From what I could tell, we were mostly in man defense last night, and did VERY well. Very happy with the play on the back end. We did, however, get burned on screens and rubs ALL F#(*#NG NIGHT. I feel like without those 2 plays we hold them below 300 yards.
Like I said, O-line was great, Booker was incredible. Travis and the WRs were not great. I dont think I really need to go into this. They need to be better, and im sure they know that.
I’ve been thinking a lot about why this game was so close, despite being +3 in the TO column. It had me worried last night, thinking that we are not nearly as good as our ranking because of this. As I thought about it today, it wasnt as damning as it looked. What ive come up with, is we simply did not capitalize. We need to take advantage of those opportunities. You can win games largely by winning the TO battle if you just take advantage. We also had some untimely mistakes. We also had some killer turnovers that handed them 10 points, and missed a field goal ourselves. We had some killer penalties on offense in the second half that killed drives when we had a chance to go up 2+ scores. Clean that up, add some more timely execution, and we easily win going away.
Travis and the WRs need to be better if this team is going to be special, but I have no doubt in my mind we can win 10-11 games dominating in the trenches, playing great defense, and riding Booker on offense. This team still has a lot of potential. Time to get better, on to ASU.
Utah @ 
Baylor .
