USF vs UConn Full Game (Just The Plays)

[MaltLiquorBull]

I will gladly, shamelessly accept beers from my fellow bull fans  

Here are my thoughts....

That "Triple Headed Monster" / Inverted Wishbone is unstoppable. If we had used this in the first half, the game would have been over in the first quarter, however they did not run a single play out of this formation until the 3rd quarter. That formation and its various looks should be our base offense from here on out. It forces the opponent to load the box and keep their eyes in the backfield. Love it. Might not work as well against really, really fast LBs.

We let up a bunch of plays on D, but our red zone defense was pretty sturdy.

UConn's O-line is legit.

How the **** did Thomas catch that ball @ 5:01

We missed a TD by 2 inches on that play action to Adams.

This game actually could have been dominated by us, but as it stands, I never really felt we had lost control of the ball game. We owned our destiny the entire game. 

Agree with this.

Couple other things:

Looks like not as many of those "high snaps" as in previous games.

We got to Sherreffs quite a bit.  

Still horrible on kick/punt coverage.  Gave up lots of field position.

Uconn made some spectacular plays, but we still won.

[Ricky the Bull]

You da dwarf, gimli!  Thanks!

[Calibull]

Didn't notice until the replay, they had the incorrect score up after our 4th TD for the entire next drive (showing 27-13 rather than 28-13).  

Re-watching really does hammer home that they had no answer at all to the inverted wishbone.  That last drive they had to stop us and knew we were going to run, and didn't come close to slowing us down (easily could have scored at the end if we wanted to).  

I think they saved it for most of the second half because they didn't want them to be able to make the halftime adjustment to it.  I've noticed overtime we've run it, nobody has been prepared for it.  It was how we had that long 17 play TD drive against Maryland.  

[Calibull]

Also, we seemed more in control than I initially thought in the second half.  Had we not gone into prevent, we could have won this going away.  I thought it was actually pretty classy not piling it trying to score at the end when we had it inside the 10.  Though 35-20 would've been a lot better looking in the box score.  But hey, I'll take it though I've never really been a big fan of "classy." 

[KB]

Thanks Horny.  #21 clearly recovered that botched UConn kickoff return.  Not sure how the refs gave it back to UConn.

[horny_gimli]

Thanks Horny.  #21 clearly recovered that botched UConn kickoff return.  Not sure how the refs gave it back to UConn.

I agree... but I also probably would have called Mack out on that long tightrope run. Ya win some, ya lose some. Overall I thought the officiating was pretty good.

[El_Toro_86]

My most anticipated thread after every game.

Thanks Horny!

[Bull Martin]

Thanks a ton!  This is fantastic!!

[Bull Dozer]

Can't wait to watch this when I get home from work. Major props to you for doing this Bull brethren. 

[TExpress]

We are going to have a field position disadvantage every game if we can't find a kicker that can kick the ball into the end zone! Watching the ball not go past the 15 yard line was really frustrating to watch. But then again, this is a great sign if this is the biggest problem that I have with our team right now!