ADVERTISEMENT

State of the New Big 12

New Big 12 standings with P5 OOC wins in parentheses:

13-1 Cincinnati (Notre Dame, Indiana)
12-2 Baylor (Ole Miss)
12-2 Oklahoma State (Notre Dame)
12-2 Houston (Auburn)
10-3 BYU (Utah, Arizona St, Arizona, Wazzou, USC, Virginia)
9-4 UCF (Florida)
7-5 K-State (Stanford)
7-6 Iowa St (-)
7-6 Texas Tech (Miss St)
6-7 WVU (VaTech)
5-7 TCU (Cal)
2-10 Kansas (-)

It’s gonna be a tough league. 16-7 in OOC games versus the P5 (losses to Bama, Louisville, Maryland, Minnesota, Duke, Iowa, and Clemson) - I did not count Baylor/BYU or TTU/Houston.

We’re going to need every bit of Gus’ recruiting prowess to compete here. Thankfully he’s got the 2022 class and presumably a little help from the future 2023 class to get us ready.

Jerry Rice's son just put his name in the portal

Good size and dynamic...would be a great bookend with #4 and #1. A top target for many programs...his HS was the biggest rival of Mikey's HS so they know each other. Played every year, close games and lately Mikey's school won. Go get him Gus! https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/01/cu-buffs-receiver-brenden-rice-puts-name-in-transfer-portal/

Freshman and Sophomores currently on the roster...

Since this will be a slow few weeks and the biggest bonus to playing in a bowl game is to get the young guys on the roster some extra work, just wanted to look at some guys who we may become more familiar with next year.

We know the guys who are playing this year already (Keene, Titus, Brandon Adams), does anyone have any thoughts on some of these guys?? Alphabetical order along with their 247 ranking coming out of HS.

Matthew Alexander(FR) DL 6-3 280...(.8322)
Patrick Barnett(FR) OL 6-6 300...(.8322)
Charlie Browder(FR) TE 6-7 260...(.8485)
Kervins Choute(SO) DL 6-3 285...(.8343)
Dallas Corbitt(SO) DL 6-5 240...(.8706)
Keenan Culpit(FR) DL 6-2 255...(.8269)
Jordan Davis(FR) TE 6-4 250...(.8342)
Jaiden Francois(FR) DB 6-0 190...(.9047) transfer from Nebraska
Jordan Johnson(FR) WR 6-2 185...(.9822) transfer Notre Dame
Cole Joyce(FR) LB 6-1 235...(.8560)
Malachi Lawrence(FR) DL 6-4 270...(.8477)
Kadeem Leonard(FR) LB 6-3 230...(.8390)
Adrian Medley(SO) OL 6-5 305...(.8654)
Ethan Mort(FR) OL 6-6 290...(.8526)
Quade Mosier(SO) LB 6-2 225...(N/A)
Paul Rubelt(SO) OL 6-10 330...(.8572)
William Wells(FR) DB 6-2 185...(.8336)
Leander Wiegand(FR) OL 6-5 290...(.8449)
Anthony Williams(FR) RB 6-0 215...(.8389)

At first glance I am a little worried about depth behind Bethune and Jean-Baptist at LB and who steps up at OL with 3 starters leaving?? Thoughts??

Hearing Sam Jackson is coming back for super senior year.

2 players on the team are from Venice Mort and French. My employee is friends with Mort and he told him that Sam Jackson is coming back to be a super senior. He wants another season to try and improve his draft stock so if true we might be in better shape on the OL then we thought. I will take all the good news I can get :)

WR Transfer to Watch

He was a HS QB that went to Illinois because he thought he'd get a shot there, then was moved to WR prior to this season. He was called Illinois' top big-play threat and potentially the fastest WR on the team (story below).

Login to view embedded media

ADVERTISEMENT

Filter

ADVERTISEMENT