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The Brian Allen strip/missed tackle was partly fogals fault. If Mwilliams was in that play would have been stopped.

Fogal is supposed to be over the top on that play but takes an atrocious angle to the catch and then runs full speed at the WR to make up for the bad angle and then makes a weak arm tackle attempt.

If Allen had just gone for the…[Read more]

Urbans teams are almost always some of the most heavily penalized teams. When he was here it was the same way. Like Utah said its a fine line between aggressive play and penalties. Urbans would much rather have tight coverage every play and a possible penalty than loose coverage. Same with oline play, his teams get called for holding much more…[Read more]

I think the key to winning this game is about establishing the run and TO margin.

If we can get the run game going early we can keep the ball out of their hands that is how you limit a fast scoring offense. That is always the best way to keep teams like that out of the game. That is what we typically try to do as much as possible against these…[Read more]

The real answer to that is because people from utah don’t bet enough we end up giving the other team a few extra points on the spread in order to entice utah fans to bet more.

The point spread is not really a prediction of the game, it is designed to draw equal betting on both sides so that the sports books make money.

In most statistical…[Read more]

The adjusted scoring offense and defense numbers should directly address strength of schedule issues. For example, to better explain that number if UCLA scored 40 on a team that usually gives up 40 that not really a great game for them even though usually their offense scores 26 so it seems like they outperformed their opponent they really only…[Read more]

I don’t think the defense got shredded. It wasn’t the best game they played. I think if you discount turnovers as luck then it’s a little easier to think we got shredded. But realistically turnovers are a skill that is enhanced or degraded by luck. There are teams that are good at generating tos and teams that aren’t. TOs are a part the game plan…[Read more]

That game was actually pretty weird all around.
Remember the first quarter when we returned a fumble for touchdown and Orphey dropped the ball after getting hit just prior to the endzone but was never reviewed. The pass was labeled backwards so it was fumbled. Free 7 pts for us. The same thing happened later in the game but for USC but was…[Read more]