Also from CBS Sports Texas: Tom Herman never lost three games in a row. Charlie Strong never lost four games in a row. But after losing 30-7 to Iowa State -- and pulling starting quarterback Casey Thompson in the process -- the Longhorns are on their first four-game losing streak since 2010, the season that spelled the beginning of the end of the Mack Brown era. First-year coach Steve Sarkisian clearly deserves time to build a roster in his own image, but it has to be acknowledged that he was hired to take an already good program into greatness. Instead, the program is back at Ground Zero. The offensive performance was the worst since 2015 and there's nothing to look forward to at quarterback. If Sarkisian has success at Texas, he'll have to build it from scratch. The staff has not gotten any additional blood from the roster's remaining stones.
More from CBS Sports Dan Mullen isn't coming back from this Florida might not fire Dan Mullen tomorrow. It might not fire him at the end of the season. Regardless, a 40-17 loss to South Carolina was a point of no return for one of the proudest programs in college football. Just weeks ago, South Carolina needed late heroics just to beat Vanderbilt. Against the Gators, the Gamecocks were down to their third-string quarterback, Jason Brown, a transfer from FCS St. Francis. And yet, the 'Cocks didn't just beat the Gators. They wiped the floor with them. South Carolina outgained Florida by more than 100 yards of total offense and by more than 200 yards on the ground. Mullen's team was thoroughly undisciplined, unprepared and completely outclassed on both sides to the point that even South Carolina coach Shane Beamer sounded surprised at halftime. Earlier this week, Mullen made headlines by declining a recruiting question and declaring this time period "Football Time." After that SNAFU, all media availability was cancelled for the rest of the week. Apparently all the extra time didn't do him much good.
I saw a stat posted by a Texas fan: Iowa St has four players rated 4 or 5 star. Texas has 70. Is that article saying Sark has nothing to work with???
Some context for the poor showing by the Gators. Gators coach Dan Mullen said afterward that his roster had been depleted during the week because of the flu, noting that anywhere between 20 to 30 players missed practice. He said quarterback Emory Jones tested positive for the flu Saturday morning, and the Gators had several players not make it off the team bus to play because they felt sick.
One of the Mods at Inside Texas. There is no redeeming value that I saw in this game. Texas got whipped, badly. Period. End of story. Perhaps the only thing resolved is that anything other than a complete rebuild of the offensive line, vastly better QB and receiver play, and a complete retool of the defense, both scheme and personnel at LB and safety, will just lead to more of the same. Alas, we know none of that is possible for the remainder of this year. What a sad state of affairs for this Texas team. They got exactly what they deserved in Ames. A beat down.
Hmmm the flu thing is probably true, but it sure rings hollow after the fact. Mullen probably should have mentioned it pre game. I get the feeling he thinks he doesn't need to tell the world ANYTHING, and it's going to bite him in the butt.
I see that in addition to a very good defensive performance vs Auburn the Aggies also picked up the #1 player in the 2022 class a DL from Tenn named Walter Nolen. Sounds like Elko has indeed revived the Wrecking Crew!
I attribute a lot of the success David Shaw had early was due to Jim Harbaugh's legacy, especially in the recruiting inroads he had built.
It has to be something like that, although through the 2018 season Stanford was still playing above their historical norm, then they drop off a cliff. He did no doubt benefit from Harbaugh's legacy as in the first 3 years as he was 34-7 with 3 major bowl appearances. Then he was 48-19 in the next 5 years with only 1 major bowl appearance. But during that run his teams were really tough, t hey were physical and ran the ball very well, were physical on defense as well. Just a tough game for the Irish that's for sure, he's 5-4 vs Brian Kelly with some really big wins that hurt our seasons. More than a few ND fans longed for an offensive approach like what Shaw presented as opposed to the Brian Kelly offense. But as you noted, the recruiting has really fallen off, back to what Buddy Tevens brought in, and they had a lot of players transfer out a year or so ago. But recruiting at Stanford has always been tough, as they can't offer till they get approved by the Academic side of things and their bar is higher than even the Irish.
Washington HC, Jimmy Lake, in a bit of trouble. He's accused of punching/striking a walk-on player who had gotten into a sideline shoving match that caused a penalty on a kickoff. He claims he didn't do that and was just separating players. UW is reviewing the matter, and Lake fired his OCoord after the game for poor performance not for him shoving a player.
Oregon State fired their DCoord this weekend. "I felt it was the right time to make a change in our football program and have relieved Coach Tim Tibesar of his duties at Oregon State," Smith said in a statement. "All of us thank Coach Tibesar for his hard work and professionalism the past four years and wish him nothing but the best moving forward." Linebackers coach Trent Bray will take on defensive coordinator duties on an interim basis, while Kendrick Van Ackeren will shift from an analyst role to an on-field role coaching linebackers, Smith added.
One theory on why Cincinnati is not playing very well, last 3 games have all been sort of mediocre efforts by the Bearcats allowing inferior teams to make games out what seemingly should be blowouts? That is that they aren't a very deep team and they are getting worn down both physically and emotionally. If they end up playing Houston in the AAC Championship game, I think the Cougars will beat them. Also anybody notice that the Juggernaut known as SMU, which was blowing teams away with Tanner Mordecai at QB till Sonny Dykes name started popping up as the next coach at TCU or Texas Tech, have now lost 2 games in a row? Could they be related? Coach has taken his eye off the ball dreaming of a Power 5 job?
Texas Tech is hiring Baylor associate head coach Joey McGuire as its next head football coach, sources told ESPN. McGuire led Cedar Hill High School to three Texas state championships, 12 consecutive playoff appearances and a 141-42 record. He was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor in 2020.
He deserves everything he gets. He said he had the better team the other night. He had the better team but he lost anyway. Probably why he got fired.