re: A&M fans (regarding Texas)

All of those schools hand off out of the gun, and seem to have a threat of the run from the QB, so if the linebacker isn't spying in some instance, and purely playing man on the running back, the zone read is based off the defensive end, correct? If your QB is immobile, throw that wrinkle out. In fact, if your QB isn't Tim Tebow or Cam Newton, you probably aren't going to win much. And Tebow even lost like 4 games his first season at it.

Houston's offense never really impressed me. My biggest problem with the Houston offense is that it utilizes mismatches that I don't think will be there in the SEC. In fact it is completely predicated on that. More so in the red zone. Even in Sherman's early years, we went 5 wide in the red zone and were stomped on. If we are doing this Houston offense, and we don't have the ability to run the option in the red zone, we simply won't be successful. What do I hope?

I hope we at least see the current incarnation of the Okie State offense, where the diamond formation and the pistol are used. But to my knowledge, Houston never ran any of that when it was putting up 70 on Tulane.