Football Defense dominates Ole Miss with unheralded recruits, walk-ons
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USA Today’s top takeaways from yesterday
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Opinion: No reason to believe Alabama-Georgia II will end differently, nine other takeaways from Week 7
Alabama's offense chugs on. Georgia's QB situation needs attention. Is Heisman race already decided? And Arkansas' Twitter win among Week 7 takeaways.
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Pittman, who hadn’t been a head coach since his Hutchinson Community College days in 1992-93 but built his reputation in FBS as a veteran offensive line coach and recruiter, ended up getting the Arkansas job mostly because he really wanted it. Not a lot of flashy up-and-comers did, given that the Hogs ended last season on a run of four wins in their previous 27 games. From the outside, it looked like an impossible situation. A coaching graveyard.
But remarkably, Pittman has the Hogs sitting at 2-2 after a 33-21 win over Ole Miss — and they’d be 3-1 if not for an unfortunate mistake by the officials against Auburn last week when an inadvertent whistle negated a fumble that would have ended the game.
The Razorbacks are playing extremely hard under Pittman, and that accounts for a lot. But the biggest difference is defensive coordinator Barry Odom (the former Missouri head coach who was fired last December), who has transformed Arkansas’ defense into a very salty unit. Arkansas limited the same Ole Miss team that put up 48 points on Alabama to three scores and 4-of-16 on third down. They also forced seven turnovers, including six interceptions of quarterback Matt Corral.
Some Arkansas blurbs on ESPN.
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Alabama remains the SEC king, Trevor Lawrence remains unstoppable and more from Week 7
Saturday was business as usual for No. 1 Clemson and No. 2 Alabama. But is there cause for concern for Auburn and Notre Dame?
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The Razorback portions were about Catalon under the "Not quite Heisman 5" and Pittman/Arkansas in the "Under-reaction of the week."
5. Arkansas S Jalen Catalon
With all due respect to Grant Morgan, the Arkansas senior linebacker who had 19 tackles, three tackles for loss and a pick on Saturday, there's a good case to be made that the biggest difference in the Razorbacks' defense in 2020 is the addition of the redshirt freshman safety. Catalon had nine tackles, a pick and a fumble recovery in Saturday's win, and his 45 tackles puts him near the top of the SEC leaderboard. A year ago, Arkansas' secondary allowed more than 8 yards per pass. So far this year, they're allowing just 5.5.
Sam Pittman is the coach of the year, and it doesn't matter what happens from here. Sure, it'd be tough to vote for a guy who could still finish 2-8, but we'd do it anyway. Arkansas beat Ole Miss 33-21 on Saturday, winning its second SEC game of the season, something that hasn't happened since 2016. In fact, from 2017 through 2019, the Razorbacks won just two games total in SEC play. And had it not been for a controversial call a week ago against Auburn, Pittman's team would be 3-1 right now. Short of UTEP making a late playoff push, there's no chance anyone is writing a better comeback story than Pittman is at Arkansas.
Mike Leach EXPOSED
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That wasnt Bama's defense, or Georgia's, or Auburn. That was 
. Odom shut his $hit down from start to finish. Few things i noticed:
1. Leach did not adjust his play calling AT ALL. He was so stuck in his system, he refused to run the ball. He had 5 man boxes all night, and when he did run it, they gashed us. But he wouldnt do it.
2. There is now tape on how to shut the air raid down, and the more talented teams in the west will see it and eat Leach alive. Bumper Pool and Grant Morgan were tackling machines, and Joe Fouche looked like an All American. Imagine the defenses loaded with 5 stars is gonna do.
3. Costello is not a great qb. He will throw a bunch of yards bc they wont run the ball and the system is designed for the qb to be the whole offense. LSU never adjusted and he still threw picks in that game. We had a good gameplan and got 3 picks and held them to 14 points.
4. Their defense is NOT good. We lost our best 2 players and we arent good on offense, so we made them look better than they are. The good offensive teams in this league will ROAST them.
Leach wont last 5 years at MSU. Book it. The only thing that might save him is the contract.
. Odom shut his $hit down from start to finish. Few things i noticed:1. Leach did not adjust his play calling AT ALL. He was so stuck in his system, he refused to run the ball. He had 5 man boxes all night, and when he did run it, they gashed us. But he wouldnt do it.
2. There is now tape on how to shut the air raid down, and the more talented teams in the west will see it and eat Leach alive. Bumper Pool and Grant Morgan were tackling machines, and Joe Fouche looked like an All American. Imagine the defenses loaded with 5 stars is gonna do.
3. Costello is not a great qb. He will throw a bunch of yards bc they wont run the ball and the system is designed for the qb to be the whole offense. LSU never adjusted and he still threw picks in that game. We had a good gameplan and got 3 picks and held them to 14 points.
4. Their defense is NOT good. We lost our best 2 players and we arent good on offense, so we made them look better than they are. The good offensive teams in this league will ROAST them.
Leach wont last 5 years at MSU. Book it. The only thing that might save him is the contract.
