Week 4: @South Carolina (9/23)

[DogsWin]

Exactly. That IS NOT THE TIME TO SPY THE QB, it is the time to PRESSURE THE QB INTO A HURRIED/POOR DECISION!

[eagle2180]

Exactly. That IS NOT THE TIME TO SPY THE QB, it is the time to PRESSURE THE QB INTO A HURRIED/POOR DECISION!

So what was the defensive call on the play before when the Qb ran for 24 yards?

[DogsWin]

I believe it was the same thing, but not having the LB filling a hole allowed the QB to run with our DBs way downfield. If he has to decide to throw or run quicker we could have reacted to it quicker to keep it from being a huge gain.

[BearDawg137]

One thing to note, in both close J'Mar games against the SEC ( Ark &USCar) we lost by 1pt and our clutch kicker missed a field goal with the winning points early in the game.

Not a criticism of Barnes, but an interesting coincidence

[THEarmada]

While terribly bummed initially, I'm happy that we actually played a decent game.

[eagle2180]

While terribly bummed initially, I'm happy that we actually played a decent game.

We did play well, except for a few plays. I can assure you no one is more bummed than the coaches and players. We are 2-2 on the season, where most realistic fans figured we would be at this point in the season. Go Dawgs keep working and improving!

[Black]

It's so easy to second guess. Had we not pulled last week's game out, there would have been second guessing of play calls. When we got into guaranteed field goal range, we ran the ball 3 straight times. The players were not able to execute well enough on those three to get a first down to kill the clock all the way down. If you throw on one of those plays 2 of the 3 things that can happen are bad, an incomplete pass to stop the clock or an interception. This is the type of game is one that we need to win to finally reach that 10 win regular season plateau. We played well enough to win, but had mistakes throughout the game the kept us from having a two possession lead in the 4th. We had the breaks turnovers and missed fg by SC, but we weren't able to make the plays needed to win. I'm sick to my stomach, but that is a team loss. Offense could have converted the fumble into points, defense was a second away from making a sack and interception, but weren't able to. We had a lead in an SEC stadium with under a minute, at some point it's on the players to make a play. If we don't get the two big sacks on D in the 4th last week, we are having this convo then as well.

[sportdawg]

I'll be surprised if we host the Cusa championship

I'll be surprised if we don't

[sportdawg]

It's so easy to second guess. Had we not pulled last week's game out, there would have been second guessing of play calls. When we got into guaranteed field goal range, we ran the ball 3 straight times. The players were not able to execute well enough on those three to get a first down to kill the clock all the way down. If you throw on one of those plays 2 of the 3 things that can happen are bad, an incomplete pass to stop the clock or an interception. This is the type of game is one that we need to win to finally reach that 10 win regular season plateau. We played well enough to win, but had mistakes throughout the game the kept us from having a two possession lead in the 4th. We had the breaks turnovers and missed fg by SC, but we weren't able to make the plays needed to win. I'm sick to my stomach, but that is a team loss. Offense could have converted the fumble into points, defense was a second away from making a sack and interception, but weren't able to. We had a lead in an SEC stadium with under a minute, at some point it's on the players to make a play. If we don't get the two big sacks on D in the 4th last week, we are having this convo then as well.

We did get a first down after getting in Fg range with Kam's huge screen play. Then we ran 3 straight, making sc burn their TOs

[FriscoDawg]

If ncaa had nfl clock rules we'd have won -

Part of the reason that college football is what it is and the other bunch is No Fun.

Next up is the USA team that just got finished losing a weather-delayed 7-hour 2OT game 29-23 at home to Idaho.

[OLDBLUE]

Mrs OLDBLUE says we should never take the lead in a game before the 4th Q. HMMMMMM

[bleudog]

Mrs OLDBLUE says we should never take the lead in a game before the 4th Q. HMMMMMM

I think it was Gregg Allman who sang that you can't lose what you ain't never had.

[qng001]

What is Skip's record vs P5?

[Black]

We did play well, except for a few plays. I can assure you no one is more bummed than the coaches and players. We are 2-2 on the season, where most realistic fans figured we would be at this point in the season. Go Dawgs keep working and improving!

Spot on. And many were predicting 1-3 after weeks one and two with another blowout loss to S. Carolina.

[TechAlum05]

What is Skip's record vs P5?

1-10.

Losses to NC State (2013 - 1st game of Holtz era), Oklahoma (2014 season opener), Auburn (2014), MS State (2015, 2017), TX Tech (2016).

Very close losses to Kansas (2013, 13-10), Kansas State (39-33 in 3OT), Arkansas (2016, 21-20), and South Carolina (2017, 17-16)

Beat Illinois in Heart of Dallas Bowl in 2014.