In the scenario where Miami, us and GT are all 8-0, the tiebreaker would be opponents cumulative record.
us: Stanford, FSU, UL, UNC, Cal, Wake, Duke, VT
Miami: FSU, UL, Stanford, SMU, Cuse, NC State, VT, Pitt
GT: Clemson, Wake, VT, Duke, Cuse, NC State, BC, Pitt
Everyone plays VT. We have 3 good teams, 1 mediocre team and 3 of the truly bad. Miami has 3 good, 3 mediocre and 1 bad. GT has 2 good, 3 mid and 2 bad.
In that case, they should take another SEC team or Big 10 team. Miami is the only good team in the league. ACC football is ass.
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We havenāt exactly struggled on offense this year, and I donāt begrudge him his decision at all, but I would have really loved to see Malachi on this team. This shits cold and would fit in well with the current vibe floating around.
Gonna be rough when the Hoos knock the Irish out the playoff in Dec. If the Irish can make it there.
All kidding aside. Malachi would put this offense over the top with his consistency and ability to finish.
See my first thought was damn itād be great to have a red zone threat like him, but we havenāt really struggled in the red zone? I donāt have stats on it, but other than the NC State game which Iām willing to chalk up to a number of things weāve been pretty good at finishing drives. Chandlerās legs and the running game have been a huge asset in that regard even if it seems like heās going to knock himself out for the season every time he does it.
Isnāt it record against common opponents first which would give it to GT because of our loss against NC State? Or are the common opponents only counted for in-conference?
Edit: oh never mind didnāt realize itād be a 3 team tie since weād all be 8-0 carry on my b
I remember Malachi being a pretty poor blocker on the boundary, which has been a major strength for us this year in the run game with the additions of guys like Edrine and Thomas. His pure talent would obviously make us even more dangerous but to be honest I havenāt missed him too much this season, our receiving core is pretty great.
74th in red zone conversion % and tied for 50th in red zone TD %. Not bad but both significant improvements over the first three years of Elliott and Desās tenure when we were ranked outside of the top 100 in both categories.
Thatās where I fall on this. Malachi would be a nice to have and I wouldnāt turn him down if we had the option to slot him into this offense. Blocking ability or not, heās talented enough that heāll upgrade any unit. The difference nowadays is the Hoos donāt need that talent bump in this moment to be successful.
I know Iām wearing orange and blue glasses but generally speaking the offense has hummed along well enough thatā itās difficult to be too upset or overly concerned about any one aspect of it. Of course it can always improve, but itās working at an acceptable level.
Right. And also yes, only conference games count for the tiebreakers.
FWIW, I considered FSU, SMU, UL and DU good, Stanford, BC, UNC, Wake and VT bad. Everyone else mid. You could move DU and Wake to mid instead.
I wonder what itād be if we removed the second half of the NC state game. Agreed, I donāt actually think heād be a huge add to this receiving corps, Iām just saying the local kid finishing his career here on a good season would have been really nice.
I guess if the alternative is no Erdrine though, we probably upgraded in terms of scheme fit. Youāre right heās been great as a blocker.
Reflecting on Louisvilleā¦
Thought we were pretty fortunate with those two turnovers for scores. Credit to the defense but they were still a couple of boneheaded plays. Defense played much better but still fortunate.
Offensively, I thought Morris missed a ton of throws that I think he usually makes. Keeps me optimistic - think a lot of Louisville fans would still say they lost that game rather than we beat them.
If youāre a Commanders fan, this team kinda reminds me of them last season. A lot of opportunistic defense and luck, great vibes, and high functioning offense focused on ball control. (Just no Jayden, but Iāll take Chandler!)
A little off-topic, but I donāt know where else to fit it and I didnāt want to start a new thread. But hereās an off-the-wall prediction: Arch Manning will transfer to UVA next year.
His dad wanted him to come to Virginia originally so he could play with less pressure and enjoy college life, and Arch certainly seems to be showing this year that he might thrive in a program farther out of the spotlight than Texas.
Do I think itās likely? Nah. But itās the kind of longshot bet Iād throw some dollars at if I were in Vegas. Just for the hell of it.
We might be able to do better. But I think Arch would look way better with a good OL, which we should have, and not facing a legit SEC DL every week
There was a bit of discussion early on in last weekās game thread, Iām of the opinion that our coaching staff might just be fine going into next season with Kaelin as the de-facto #1 QB. They seem to think very, very highly of him.
Could always be proven wrong though, I know Arch hasnāt looked great this year but I mean he was the #1 player in the country coming out of HS. And there is clearly talent there. If Tony and Des/Lamb are willing to go that route Iād be all for it, weād almost certainly lose Kaelin in the process but the upside for our program if it does work is very high.
What exactly has Steve Sarkisian done to prove that he knows how to coach QBs?
Archās biggest mistake was hitching his wagon to Sark.
Weāve had 6 redzone possessions where we didnāt score a TD during the 4th quarter against Coastal, W&M, and Stanford. A couple of those involved us simply running out the clock at the end of the game. So I think the data is slightly misleading. Donāt think Red Zone has been an issue or anything.
Iām not sure thatās the argument to make, if thereās one thing Sark has been good at in his career itās producing good college QBās and putting them in the NFL. I guess you could make the case that their production is spotty at best once they get to the professional level, or that USC, Bama, and Texas would be putting QBās in the NFL anyway with the level of talent they get but heās certainly had a hand in developing a lot of them.
With that being said, so far the match between him and Arch hasnāt worked out for whatever reason. My guess is itās just too much expectation for a kid that didnāt play great competition in HS and was probably a little overrated as a prospect (I mean how could you not be when youāre the #1 prospect in the country and in the Manning family). Everyone thought he would be the second coming and so far heās only been pretty good. Iām inclined to agree with his dad that it probably would have been good for him to go somewhere where he wouldnāt have so much pressure on him, and maybe if he does enter the portal this offseason he decides to go that route instead.
Iām not sure Iād give him pretty good this yearā¦ If you take out the much lower level competition itās rough. Even UTEP, the best of the bad teams they played, made him look pretty pedestrian.
Iām still a believer that heāll work it out, but itās getting harder to hold that position. His o-line is a rebuild job and the receiving corps is young, but he isnāt exactly elevating anybody.
Frankly Sark has diminished a lot in my eyes as an offensive maestro since his Alabama days. The redzone stuff is a real mess, and heās had that issue before- that first year in Atlanta where Julio Jones was an all-pro and Sark held him to 3 TDs was pretty crazy. It was less an issue at Bama because those teams were about as stacked offensively as a college team could be, but youāve now seen it basically every year at Texas that when things get tighter he canāt do it for whatever reason.
All that to say- Iād take him in a heartbeat! Not that anyone is offering, but the exposure would be good for the program if he was merely average, and I think he still has the potential to be quite a bit better than that if he can adjust to a higher level game speed.