You are still missing the point. Strength of schedule is underweight and team statistics are overweight. Strategy changes late in the game when one is playing a decent to really good opponent. ou's best opponent is Cincinnati which is a bottom tier team in the b12. Texas 2 weakest opponents have defeated bottom tier b12 teams in Tceh and Houston. Baylol took Utah to the 4th quarter.... The level of competition isn't close. Texas plays smart football when playing decent competition. When we take the lead, we pound the rock. Like I said, ou continues to throw because it's level of competition is so poor. It's called padding the stats.
Those are some major league mental gymnastics lol. Outside of Alabama, who Texas is given a ton of credit for beating, I didn’t see Texas’s strategy change as you suggest it did for any other opponent.
Texas was tied against Wyoming going into the 4th and had to score 21 points in the 4th quarter to beat them and Texas wasn’t even in position to start running the clock out until they got the ball back with 7 minutes left but they fumbled on 3rd down with Wyoming recovering and taking the rest of the time on their last drive so they didn’t even have the opportunity to run it down after scoring 21.
Against rice, Texas scored most of its points with the first team in the 3rd quarter. Its second team was still passing and very obviously trying to score in their first possession of the 4th in a long drive that resulted in a missed field goal and still passing on its final drive which only managed to run about 2 minutes off the clock. And rice isn’t a good team which you suggest would result in a different style of game play in the 4th…Texas only scored 37.
Against Baylor (also not a good team that would’ve dictated the change in game play you suggest), the first team played the first drive of the 4th quarter and Ewers passed several times but the drive stalled out resulting in a missed field goal. The second team took over on Texas’ final drive, only managed to run two minutes off the clock and needed to pass to attempt to get a first down before having to punt.
For OU:
Against Arkansas state, they scored the bulk of their points in the first half and started the second team on their first drive of the second half and was playing the 3rd team midway through the 4th. If the second and 3rd teams score 28 points on you…that isn’t running up the score lol.
Similar to Texas against Wyoming, SMU scored to pull it within 3 early in the 4th quarter and OU had to score 14 to close it out. 1st team played the whole game.
In the Tulsa game, OU scored most of its points in the first half. The 1st team offense played the first two drives of the 3rd quarter which pushed it to 52 points and then the 2nd team took over scoring 2 additional TDs. If some of OU’s backups on defense hadn’t had busts in the second quarter, the 2nd team offense probably plays the whole second half.
Against Cincy, OU was in control for the majority of the game and just had a bunch of slight miscues on offense (probably similar to some of Texas’ early miscues against Wyoming).
Point being, their schedules are fairly similar outside of the Bama game but the results were mostly better for OU which is why OU is a few spots ahead in the FPI and close behind in the efficiency rankings above. Texas couldn’t score in the first half and had to score in the second half to beat a bad team (rice) and was unable to score more points in the 4th when clearly still trying (missed field goals also hurt those rankings). OU hasn’t had that type of problem against the two truly bad teams it played (which are actually both 2-2 right now as is Rice). Texas took care of business against Baylor but still wasn’t as efficient as OU against bad teams (Baylor played well against Utah minus Cam Rising but are near Tulsa bad). OU was in firmer control for most of the game against SMU and Cincy than Texas was against Wyoming.
But whatever, I guess we’ll have the answer next weekend
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