Texas will have watched a lot of our tape and vice versa and so there are some things that I'm assuming - like our OL scheme & play is consistent.
Offense
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Offense
- Echoing a Leaism - Don't get off schedule. Penalties will kill us, let Texas make mistakes. Can't get behind early.
- Convert Third downs at 50% or higher. Texas is #10 in the country at preventing third down conversions. Imo - game won or lost here.
- Convert Fourth downs - we're good at it this year and we're going to need to take some risks.
- Convert TDs in the Red Zone, but more importantly, 100% of the time in the RZ, need to come away with points.
- New wrinkles. Have a theory that we played Ball St. vanilla as not to highlight anything we want to do to Texas. Stowers back to Pavia...coming to a store near you.
- Diego has to keep his passing percentage high - above 65%. He missed some shots at Ball St., can't do that with Texas. Going to need some explosive plays even with Texas having maybe the best secondary in the country.
- Time of Possession - Has to be above 30 minutes, and need to limit UT to under 10-12 possessions.
- No turnovers. We're one of the best in the country at limiting turnovers and UT is the top defense in the country. UT also has a bunch of ball hawks. Something will give.
- Generate pressure from the front 4 or 5. We're near bottom in the SEC conference in generating sacks and we're going up against one of the top passing offenses. Sitting back will be a disaster. You saw what Georgia did, 7 sacks. Of course we don't have the man coverage or DL Georgia does, but Clark's going to have to dial it up or get picked apart.
- Despite some injuries to the RB position, UT has some excellent backs who average almost 5 yards a carry. Challenge accepted by the front 6 - and can't let the backs get open out of the backfield.
- Somehow keep the passing explosive plays to a minimum, all while applying pressure in spots. Bond, Wingo, Golden - tough to contain all game. Limit possessions is key. We'll need some luck here frankly.
- Texas doesn't give up many turnovers (#2 in the country, #1 in conference) - we'll need some fortunate bounces.
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