Texas Football By The Numbers, Week 3
by Peter Bean on Sep 10, 2008 2:33 PM CDT
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Print0 -- Second half points allowed by the Texas defense through two games.
14 -- Minutes longer than Texas the Miners had possession of the ball.
2 -- Weeks in a row Texas' opponent has converted just 2 of 4 trips to the red zone into points.
12 -- Scores in 13 trips to the red zone for Texas.
0 -- Fumbles by Texas this season.
14 -- Team high number of tackles by Roddrick Muckelroy Satuday against UTEP.
7 -- Tackles by Texas' second leading tackler, Blake Gideon.
19 -- Official Quarterback Hurries applied by Texas' defense.
2 -- Number of same by UTEP.
4 -- Number of times in the last three years the Longhorns have drawn an opponent's largest-ever home crowd: UTEP 53,415 (2008), Texas A&M 88,253 (2007), Nebraska, 85,187 (2006), Texas Tech 56,158 (2006).
9 -- Consecutive non-conference road wins for Texas, a school record (UTEP '08, UCF '07, Rice '06, Ohio State '05, Arkansas '04, Rice '03, UNC '02, Tulane '02, Houston '01)
2 -- Punts partially blocked by freshman DB Aaron Williams at UTEP Saturday.
50 -- Blocked punts kicks by Texas since 2000, tops in the nation.
8 -- Receptions by Quan Cosby at UTEP.
131 -- Career receptions by Cosby after Saturday, moving him to fifth all time at Texas, ahead of Limas Sweed (124) and Eric Metcalf (125).
17.1 -- Yards per reception by Cosby in '08, up from 11.3 in 2006.
185.2 -- Quarterback Rating of Colt McCoy after two games.
4 -- Big 12 quarterbacks with an even higher QB Rating than McCoy (Freeman, KSU 209.3, Bradford, OU 189.4, Arnaud, ISU, 187.6, Griffin, BU 187.1)
82 -- Wins for Texas under Mack Brown, against 2 losses, when accumulating 400 or more yards of total offense.
0 -- Turnovers forced by the Arkansas defense in 2008.
3 -- Turnovers lost by the Razorbacks' offense.
2.5 -- Average Arkansas margin of victory in two games over W. Illinois and LA-Monroe.
7.14 -- Yards per rush for Arkansas' junior tailback Michael Smith.
37.5 -- Pass attempts per game in 2008 for Arkansas quarterback Casey Dick, up from 20.2 per game in 2007.
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Just Curious
“82 — Wins for Texas under Mack Brown, against 2 losses, when accumulating 400 or more yards of total offense.”
Which two games would that be? My guess would be that one of them was the KSU game when Colt got hurt and we made Freeman look like Brady? The other???
"Superman play" is also a good hint.
by TheElusiveShadow on Sep 10, 2008 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Ahhhh
My mistake. Yes, even worse than that.
Let’s think of other phrases or terms. Meltdown. (word that starts with Q) controversy. Roughing the kicker. Collision of the fates.
For some reason, I feel like doing this to myself right now.
by TheElusiveShadow on Sep 10, 2008 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Surprisingly, KSU 06 was not one of the two...
I figured it was too, but it was the ’01 Big XII Title Game, and ’02 at Tech.
by Sweed4Heisman on Sep 10, 2008 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Both devastating losses.
Those two or up there on devastating losses since 2001. I’m not saying that whenever UT losses it is devastating, because I feel sick for about a week after every loss. But for me, my number 1 loss is meltdown in Dallas. I still, to this day, feel that if we won we could have given that Miami team a good game. Not saying that we would have won, but we had the athletes and the offense to maybe hang with them.
‘02 Tech was ugly because that was one of the better “big” games that seems but we just could not stop Kingsbury. If we won that game we could have played for a Big 12 Title. I don’t feel so good right now.
The jerk store called and they are running out of you!!!! - George Costanza
Unexcusable lose in '01....
…But boy was Miami good that year. Scary good. On the other hand though, I bet we would have damn sure given them a better game that Nebraska did. Those two loses they had to end the year were major blowouts. Don’t know if we could have pulled it out, but it would have been nice trying. That’s why you play the game right?
by Not Now Chief on Sep 10, 2008 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions
PB: Isn't
that 50 blocked PUNTS actually 50 blocked KICKS (total)?
it's amazing that...
…the 50 blocked kicks since 2000 is still a record, considering we didn’t have a single one last year. 2000-06 must have blown the doors off the rest of the competition.
oh, and this makes the phrase “beamer ball” even more ridiculous.
bleeding orange up in nyc. get a rope.
by cwofford on Sep 10, 2008 5:22 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Speaking of quan Cosby.....
anyone else getting tired of paid annoucers calling him Quan “Crosby”? For the love of Quan! His names written right on the back of his jersey.
On another note. Heard an interview with Brent Musberger this morning on SportsCenter discussing the upcoming USC/OSU game.
Dear Mr. Musberger:
I agree with you that USC will probably win the game this weekend; HOWEVER, noone gives a shit about your biased opinion about how great USC is every year. Tell your all your other Los Angeles based college football commentators THE SAME.
With all due respect,
512
"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me and he said: "Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren’t any good.
- Walt Garrison
The number 4
But only one has had two games that were each better than Colts 2 games. Freeman against UNT and Montana State.
by BoddickerIsClutch on Sep 10, 2008 4:50 PM CDT reply actions
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