re: UCLA @ Texas A&M

Did you watch the game? no. Mazzone play calling against a stacked box defense caused lots 3 and outs. Add that to an already depleted defense that was on the field to long. Live in your stat world and you watch Mazzone for 3 years should Sumlin survive this year and we will talk.

Congrats on your loss

It'll play out like the last two openers. Much like SC in 2014 and ASU last year. UCLA is overrated, largely due to being in LA with a star QB, and significantly less talented overall. Their offensive line is a mess (like ASU's was when we got 8 sacks) they lost their top three skill position players, have a first time play caller and their defense is very small. I expect a game that gets out of hand late. If you look at their advanced stats from last year, it paints the picture of a .500 team that caught a couple breaks playing injured teams at the right time to get 8 wins. They were 42nd I'm offensive efficiency, 78th in defensive efficiency and horrid on special teams.

Of course we'll fall apart midseason like we always do, but I don't think UCLA can hang. Their style plays right into our hands, a team that leans on a star QB that can't block our DL and undersized defense that can't stop the run which we will try to take advantage of given Knight's superiority as a dual threat as opposed to a pocket passer.

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Ucla is stacked with the better QB

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UCLA's offensive line has been so bad in camp that they have essentially been running 7 on 7 regularly to allow the passing game to function in practice. We have a top 5 DL in America with two high round picks at DE.

I expect Rosen to get knocked around a lot.

Myles and Daeshon finna eat.

Kyle finna rock.

ucla finna catch this L.

Texas A&M is going to lose every game because they don't belong in the SEC, they aren't Southeastern, there is nothing but sage and sand in Texas, and they are all gay. Did I tell you that they don't belong in the SEC?

UCLA - A LOT, TAMU - not a lot.

The only reason TexAgs are favored is the fact they are in the SEC. UCLA is better in every other way.

Y'all better win, bitch.

Truth hurts huh?

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I think UCLA is a better team than A&M faced last year in ASU

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It remains to be seen, but the fact is ASU was better in 2014 by nearly every metric than UCLA in 2015. ASU also returned more starters in 2015 than UCLA does in 2016. Bercovici played GREAT in his time in 2014, better than Rosen in 2015.

Based on the prior year and returning production, projecting 2015 ASU to be very good was much more reasonable than projecting the same of 2016 UCLA. This was an 8-5 team that got thumped by Stanford and USC, beaten by TWO sub-.500 teams and almost became 4-9 Colorado's fourth conference win the last five years. They caught Utah with lots of injuries and barely won a dogfight with a BYU team playing its 9th string QB.