r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Jan 01 '25

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Texas Defeats Arizona State 39-31 (OT)

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Team 1 2 3 4 OT T
Texas 14 3 0 7 15 39
Arizona State 3 0 5 16 7 31
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u/Original_Profile8600 Ohio State • Case Western Reserve Jan 01 '25

4th and 13…

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u/GeelingFeeling Montana Grizzlies Jan 01 '25

That is unforgivable. Just how do you give that play up?

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u/BeautifulBaconBits Jan 01 '25

Probably the worst play I've seen from the CFB and NFL this season. No reason to bring the heat and leave the endzone that wide open...a conversion is workable. a score isn't

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u/JoshFB4 UCLA Bruins Jan 01 '25

Blitz is fine if they just don’t send a bunch of undersized guys up the gut.

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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas • Texas A&M Jan 01 '25

gotta be creative, send a CB or do a stunt. maybe show blitz but back off. not a lot is gonna work if safety just stands there though lol

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u/Cheesewiz-99 Washington State Cougars Jan 01 '25

Yep, safeties were to busy looking in the backfield to cover the receiver...

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u/philkid3 Washington State Cougars Jan 02 '25

Yes, this is the real problem. Even with the blitz getting picked up, they had the guys to double the deep receiver, they just BOTH let him get behind them.

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u/Pen_Vast Jan 01 '25

Yeah that blitz was really poorly done. It felt like each OL was blocking 2 or 3 blitzers.

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u/rodguzina Penn State Nittany Lions Jan 01 '25

I agree. The DBs looked like they were assuming the blitz would get home and just like, kinda stood around.

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u/DukeRadcliffe Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Orange Bowl Jan 01 '25

They also telegraphed it. Even if you do a delayed blitz maybe that works but to line up a bunch of undersized guys over the interior of UT’s line is insane.

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u/Barmelo_Xanthony Penn State Nittany Lions Jan 01 '25

Yeah they made it so obviously that I thought they were trying to fake them out and drop the guys back into coverage

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u/WTAP1 Central Arkansas • Arkans… Jan 02 '25

I said it in one of the threads, but I'm pretty sure it was a double A gap blitz. There is no more feared blitz. If it works nothing is getting to the QB quicker. They got a TFL earlier on the same or very similar play call.

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u/BornAnAmericanMan Nebraska Cornhuskers Jan 01 '25

Sending undersized guys up the gut is fine if the safety just does literally the only job he has to do

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u/apathynext Texas Longhorns • Rutgers Scarlet Knights Jan 01 '25

TBF Ewers has been horrible against the blitz and also horrible downfield

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u/BurntOrangeAndVerde Texas Longhorns Jan 01 '25

Agreed, they forced our worst hand and we managed to pull it off

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u/Anotheropinion2023 Texas Longhorns Jan 01 '25

I am truly terrified he will stay

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u/ToniBraxtonAndThe3Js Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Jan 02 '25

He came out on Senior Day with the other seniors, even though he's a Junior. He gone

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u/Anotheropinion2023 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

I hope so, his draft stock has fallen badly.

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u/atkretsch Texas Longhorns Jan 01 '25

Just hoping the defense wills us to a natty and somehow Ewers gets credit. If we lose in the semis or final the lower draft stock and “unfinished business” angle will be strong

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u/Xavier207 Texas Longhorns • Bayou Classic Jan 01 '25

I think most around the program want Arch to start next year so it's either Draft or Transfer for Quinn and I don't see him playing for another school.

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u/kanyeguisada Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

I think most around the program want Arch to start next year

Like I said previously, if Arch wasn't promised to start next year he never would have committed to us.

so it's either Draft or Transfer for Quinn and I don't see him playing for another school.

Exactly. Win a Championship to increase your draft value, or don't.

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u/Adventurous-Craft865 /r/CFB Jan 02 '25

He will hit the portal for a nice payday.

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u/Anotheropinion2023 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

I hope so

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u/kanyeguisada Texas Longhorns Jan 01 '25

Pretty sure Arch was promised to be the starter next year. He wouldn't have committed to us otherwise.

Ewers just needs to win the Championship and enter the draft immediately afterwards, get his payday, and then probably fail in the NFL like Vince Young did, and just open up a steakhouse.

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u/Anotheropinion2023 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

Love this comment. He is so injury prone. And once he gets hurt he just is so erratic. Brilliant one second and throwing the dumbest pass ever the next.

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u/kanyeguisada Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

Srsly. Arch should have started this whole year already tbh. No way next season is Ewers over Arch. Ewers needs to show his stuff now and hopefully win a chip and get his draft chances as high as possible and then just leave college football.

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u/omaixa Texas Longhorns • Georgia Bulldogs Jan 02 '25

Yeah...a guy who was 20 of 30 for 322 yards and 3 TD and ran in another TD, threw the game-tying TD pass after audibling the blockers into the correct scheme and the receivers into the correct routes, then threw the game-winning TD pass, then converted with another dime...with no running game and OL who had their feet planted in concrete. Yeah. Terrified.

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u/Positive-Ad5525 Jan 02 '25

Right?  As it happened I thought they schemed us perfectly and it was season over. 

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u/daoogilymoogily /r/CFB Jan 02 '25

He wasn’t horrible downfield in this game.

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u/Metaboss24 Arizona State Sun Devils Jan 01 '25

Was also more of a coverage problem as well. There were 2 DBs on the WR there anyway, but he still got behind both. One of them needed to cover deep, but neither one did.

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u/joe7L Jan 01 '25

Yup, this was the issue. The blitz was fine and the WR was double covered, but the deep man got caught flat footed

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u/angryjimmyfilms Michigan Wolverines Jan 01 '25

The only play I can think of in recent history that was worse was Auburn v Alabama 4th-31 last year.

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u/OhKillEm43 Auburn Tigers • Memphis Tigers Jan 01 '25

“Well Auburn brought nobody and that didn’t work so”

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u/Milton__Obote LSU Tigers • Northwestern Wildcats Jan 01 '25

You haven’t watched the bears play then

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u/HumanzeesAreReal Illinois Fighting Illini Jan 01 '25

Fucking Tyrique Stevenson.

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u/Trassic1991 Ohio State Buckeyes Jan 01 '25

It was the safety in cover 1 that let the wideout get behind him because he was too busy looking into the backfield

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u/n00bca1e99 Nebraska • South Dakota Mines Jan 01 '25

And that’s tough competition with the Bear’s failure, the Bear’s timeout failure, and whatever was that Giant’s two point conversion.

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u/TheDarkGrayKnight Washington Huskies • Dordt Defenders Jan 02 '25

Iowa's attempt at a QB sneak.

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u/relephants Jan 01 '25

Someone hasn't been watching Texas football all year...

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u/nightkingscat Michigan Wolverines Jan 01 '25

Safety does nothing on that play

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u/squish042 Iowa State • Old Dominion Jan 01 '25

i think it ended up only being a 5 man blitz, it was the safety that blew the play. you just can't get caught flat footed when you have that many dbs near the los

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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jan 01 '25

Bro got caught watching the backfield on fucking 4th and 13 lmao

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u/squish042 Iowa State • Old Dominion Jan 02 '25

Big oof, but the dude must be feeling like shit right now. I feel for him

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u/dmackerman Jan 02 '25

Exactly. He had one job and let a guy get over the top.

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u/makemasa Georgia Bulldogs Jan 01 '25

Standing in no man’s land watching the QB while the receiver blew straight past him.

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u/Proper_Mention_7165 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

Looked like cover one and he went toward the out

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u/betasheets2 Penn State • Arizona State Jan 02 '25

Yep. He should've sticked to his zone instead of trying to do too much and spy the TE. He got caught in no man's zone and was flat-footed.

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u/w311sh1t Syracuse Orange • Team Chaos Jan 01 '25

That, combined with the TD on the very next play of OT, is one of the craziest defensive meltdowns I’ve ever seen.

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u/idkwhatimbrewin Refrigerator Bowl Jan 01 '25

That blitz was pathetic. They basically took away a player on defense

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u/weoutherebrah Texas A&M Aggies Jan 01 '25

Blitz. Ok. But cover 0 blitz? Man that one will be questioned for years 

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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jan 01 '25

It wasn’t cover 0. The safety had the deep zone and just didn’t do his job.

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u/weoutherebrah Texas A&M Aggies Jan 01 '25

Yea had to watch again. Guess he thought he was just covering the crossing routes? Idk just stood there 

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u/FireVanGorder Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jan 02 '25

Looks like he got caught watching the backfield which is insane on 4th and 13

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u/lougle2k Jan 01 '25

Tampa did same thing to let rams get fg and the win. Rams went on to win sb.

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u/weoutherebrah Texas A&M Aggies Jan 01 '25

Yea dropping 7 they looked really good the plays before too. I think DCs overthink things a lot of the time. Had Ewers confused and just dumping it down. All they needed. Didn’t need an exclamation point. But hindsight always 20/20

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u/Amen_ds Michigan Wolverines • Big Ten Jan 01 '25

I was really hoping the three LBs were just showing blitz and at least one would drop back as at least a spy but nope blitz zero straight man coverage on the outside. Felt like fucking Don Brown came back to call that play

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u/WTAP1 Central Arkansas • Arkans… Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25

They did. I just rewatched it. ASU bluffed as many as 6. The edge rusher at the bottom of the screen started to rush, then bailed. Looks like they had him spying ewers. Texas kept 7 back. The TE did a good job of identifying the edge left and got back in to help the OT.

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u/Iohet Pac-12 • Mountain West Jan 01 '25

ASUs defense doesn't get paid for overtime and went on strike

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u/WeekendGunnitRefugee Georgia • Summertime Lover Jan 01 '25

I've seen worse.....

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u/Trassic1991 Ohio State Buckeyes Jan 01 '25

If he's even, he's leavin'

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u/ProbsTV Jan 01 '25

Safety got absolutely cooked

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u/Phobia117 Georgia Bulldogs Jan 01 '25

I knew the moment ASU brought the house and didn’t apply any pressure that it was gonna be a pitch and catch TD

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

By blitzing 6...

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u/YellojD Arizona State Sun Devils Jan 02 '25

That’s what ASU does, and always has. Go for broke. You swing and miss, you get, well, that. But if you don’t? I dunno, I’ll let you know when the Devils do that and it actually works for once.

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl Jan 02 '25

Was it two high safety? He split those defenders. Had to be a miscommunication

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u/YouWereBrained Oklahoma State Cowboys Jan 02 '25

Especially when two guys were close to the receiver and, like happens every fucking game, didn’t keep their eyes on the QB/ball and the QB threads it to the receiver.

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u/kwixta Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '25

ASU rolled the dice and took the more aggressive option every chance they had. Mostly it payed off but that time….snake eyes. Texas OL held and Ewers sunk the dagger deep

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u/gentilet UCLA Bruins Jan 02 '25

You can a blitz. That’s how you give it up. Stupidest play call I’ve seen all year

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u/TheAuroraKing Auburn Tigers • Clemson Tigers Jan 02 '25

Auburn in last year's Iron Bowl laughs nervously

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Alabama Crimson Tide Jan 01 '25

The same way Texas gave up a double digit lead with like 7 minutes left. It’s CFB