- Spinning Charlie Strong’s, “The cake is baked”, the Longhorns are half-baked.
- For a defense that surrendered 34 to Maryland and was spotty against lowly Tulsa the Texas defense sure celebrates a lot.
- Keaontay Ingram looks to me like Texas’ most talented running back since Jamaal Charles. If his knee injury isn’t serious, for God sakes give him the ball 25 times a game.
- Tulsa blocked a punt and Texas punter Ryan Bujcevski looks unreliable so far. Special teams maybe a problem.
- Speaking of special teams, through two games, Texas kicker Cameron Dicker hasn’t attempted a field goal.
- Herman said after the game that, “Winning is really hard, really, really hard.” For his team apparently it is.
- Midway through the second quarter, Texas had a second and goal at the Tulsa 1-yard line but failed to score. The replay showed that Trey Watson scored on the second and one play. Stupidly, the Texas coaches didn’t protest the call. On third down, Ehlinger ran wide and lost two yards, a really dumb call with the ball inside the one. Texas failed to score on fourth down on a pass attempt by Ehlinger rolling to his left, an equally dumb play call. This was a really bad series for the coaching staff leaving you to wonder if goal-line offense is going to be a problem for Texas again this year.
- After beating lowly Tulsa in a game that was in doubt until late in the fourth quarter, Herman said he was proud of his team. Contrast that to Jimbo Fischer’s anger at his team losing by two points to second ranked Clemson.
- The timing of the Chris Del Conte interview, during the fourth quarter of the game broadcast on the Longhorn Network while Tulsa was scoring a touchdown to pull within seven, was comical, absolutely comical.
- After two games, the Longhorns have the look of a six-win regular season team.
Editor’s Note
Glad to see the readers’ engagement after the game on the Tulsa Pre-Game Post. Readers, let me know if you’re interested in the opportunity to post on a “Willie Earl Live Game Thread.”
Over/Under Results
There was an unprecedented five-way tie for first place in the 130th edition of the Willie Earl Longhorn Blog Over/Under Contest with Joe Grubbs, Mark Adams, Greg Swan, David Frink, and Clayton Frink posting seven correct answers.
After going to the tiebreaker, amazingly, David Frink and Greg Swan, were still dead-tied having accurately picking winners Houston and South Florida, and predicting the exact same 38-20 score for the A&M-Clemson game. Joe Grubbs also accurately picked South Florida and Houston but his score prediction of 35-13 for the A&M-Clemson game was slightly less accurate than Greg and David’s. This one goes down in the books as a tie.
Congratulations to Greg and David.
Mike Frank was alone in 6th place with six correct answers.
HooK ‘Em,
Willie Earl
