After getting familiar again with SMU, eating lunch near campus and a quick photo op at the Big 12 HQ, I decided to head over to Fort Worth to see TCU again. I had driven over here in 2017, but because there was a football game the next day the stadium was on lockdown. Since TCU is on the road tomorrow, I thought maybe I could get inside. I was correct as it was wide open.

The stadium is beautiful, large and kind of quirky. They had some weird covering over the grass, not sure what was up with that. The prime lower seating on the home side is kind of quirky, you have a seat, tons of legroom and then a tabletop ledge with cupholder. There are also random rows that have extreme legroom. It'll be fun to see a game here in the near future.

The athletic department building and basketball area are basically connected to football. The arena lobby has a Hall of Fame exhibit and museum. UCF really needs something like this.

There's an upscale neighborhood literally behind the stadium and I'm assuming it was Gary Patterson's hood. Almost every house has a yard sign that reads, "Thank You, Gary" and many houses flooded their yard with signs or larger banners. If you recall, longtime head coach Gary Patterson was recently fired. He had been the second-longest tenured coach in FBS after Iowa's Kirk Ferentz.

Here's the full photo gallery and I'll post a few below.

Had a location across from UCF.

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Rivals has continued its partnership with Pro Football Focus (PFF) which grants me access to their comprehensive analytics and statistical tools.

After each game, two separate analysts grade every player on each play of the game and the two totals are averaged out. Obviously no subjective ranking system is perfect, but I am finding that my real world impressions of a player in a certain game usually reflects the PFF grade.

PFF Grading Scale

90 and above - Elite
80 to 89 - Great
70 to 79 - Good
60 to 69 - Average to Above Average
50 - 59 - Below Average
49 and below - Poor

Team Offensive Grade (by game)

New Hampshire - 68.4
Sam Houston - 87.1

This was the best overall offensive team grade since the 2022 Temple Space game (70-13 victory).

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Not sure how good Stanford is but TCU beat them at Stanford in a close game.


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The Knights take a pause in their non-conference schedule as they prepare to take on their first Big 12 conference game of the season at TCU. The Knights have established themselves to be a dominant running team, but they know it will be a different kind of challenge as they step up to conference play.

Interviews with Gus Malzahn, Randy Pittman Jr, and Sheldon Arnold II.

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The Knights take a pause in their non-conference schedule as they prepare to take on their first Big 12 conference game of the season at TCU. The Knights have established themselves to be a dominant running team, but they know it will be a different kind of challenge as they step up to conference play.

Interviews with Gus Malzahn, Randy Pittman Jr, and Sheldon Arnold II.

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Nice list of new amenities helping make game days even better.

Personally like all the new tv's added plus 75 new points of sale that will help cut down on some of thr major concession stand lines plus more Grab and Go stands.

Best new item:

Student $5 BOOM BOX:
Hot Dog, Water, Chips and a Brownie


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Mississippi St

I have been back and forth on posting this here, I actually wrote a post an hour or so after the game and delete it.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story?id=...igh-schooler-chance-gainer-dies-game-collapse

I am the radio Play by Play announcer for PSJ. This was by far the hardest radio call I have ever had to do.

Chance Gainer was an outstanding player, student and person. A quite young man that let his play and character do the talking. Just over a year ago Chance lost his 2 best friends in a car accident both top players as well. Chance was still struggling with loosing his best friend, Andrew Shepard...Andrews mother just this week went and gave Chance her sons bible with his notes to help Chance cope. Keep in mind this Senior class only has about 85 people in it and the football team has less than 50 people on it. They are a very close bunch... to loose 3 in a years time is just unthinkable. My daughter is also a part of that Class (she is now at a different HS)...

The day started with Chance not feeling great but after a nap was feeling better. The team traveled North about an hour to play Liberty County. It was wet and hot. Chance started the game off really well. He had a 70 yard touchdown earlier in the game. He was playing solid. Again we are a small team (1A rural) so most of our top guys play on both sides of the ball and STs. These kids are very well conditioned and Chance was one of the hardest workers in the off season. Somewhere in the 2nd quarter Chance was in coverage on the home side of the field, that play went to the visitor side so most attention was focused away from where Chance was. There was no hit on or from Chance, no contact at all. After the play as Chance look to be making his way off the field when he went down to his knees and then laid down on his stomach at midfield. At this point most of us are thinking cramps, he had struggled with cramps in the previous game. Head Coach Tanner Jones starts to make his way to him, He quickly calls for other coaches and then the EMTS. The teams defib was brought out and we knew it was much more serious. The field was wet so the EMTs could not drive on the field. The EMTs were in no hurry as I don't think they realized the gravity of what was going on. It seemed like an eternity for them to get out there then go back and get the stretcher. I can't really say more on the EMTs other than both Port St Joe and Liberty County were yelling at them to hurry. He was transported to the hospital in Blountstown where he was later pronounced dead.

At halftime I went down to the field as I always do to get updates and talk with some of the coaches. At this point the fans and players knew nothing more than the official word was he was Transported to the hospital and was being stabilized. However, the unofficial was the situation was "not good" .... Going back to that booth with my cohost, whos Son is a JR on the team, was difficult. We received a call with 7 min or so left in the Game that the Head Coach needed to come straight to the hospital. At that moment in the middle of the broadcast we stopped and prayed on air, and most that know me knew that we had received some news. A few min later we got the news that had passed. The last 3 min of that game took forever. I am far from a professional radio guy, I do it for fun and for the love of our kids and the community, I was not prepared to have to keep a gameface on and I failed miserably at my job in the moment. I don't know how people handle knowing that kind of news and not letting it come out in your voice.

As I walked out of the booth and made my way down the stands... about half way down the sound that came from the endzone where the PSJ players were was a sound I will never forget. The pain and the agony these kids were just hit was just to much. When I think of what hell would sound like that was it. There was a moment right before I made it to the players that it went dead silent for 10 seconds or so, maybe it was my brain trying to process or maybe it was really that quite, but I looked around and saw two rival communities embracing each other, parents and other adults picking these kids up off the ground and showing an out pouring of love. It was a small amount beauty in the middle of devastation.

Port St Joe is a respected but hated school for many in the Panhandle but the area schools have embraced us in this time. Schools all over the area are wearing Purple and Gold today in honor/Memory of Chance. Classes are canceled tomorrow as many area teams will be coming over for a lunch tomorrow. The rivalries are fierce in the panhandle especially for us small towns but the love and support that has come from the area is something special. It why I will always live in a small town.
Chance was you man of High Character. He comes from a great family. He was quite, always polite, but a baller on the field. He was an honors student who would have received academic scholarships. He was on the verge of getting an offer from Vandy with other D1 schools starting to show interest. Chances mom and dad are heavily involved in the lives of the young people in Port St Joe. In a moment of tragedy, Gal, Chances Mother, has been a rock for so many. She has been a mom to many that didn't have good home lives. The Gainers are a place of refuge for many young people. Now they need the love an support that they have shown time and time again. They can use your prayers now.

UCF Football coordinators Ted Roof and Tim Harris, Jr met with the media to recap the first two weeks of the season and look ahead to their first Big 12 matchup against TCU. While both Roof and Harris are pleased with parts of their units, they know the test of going on the road will be much different.

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I’ve had freeze up and buffering problems with ESPN+ during UCF football and basketball
for years. Spectrum did an in-home system evaluation and replaced the modem a couple of months ago, I replaced the router last week, and both ESPN+ and UCF Video Production say that we should be OK. Any thoughts on what I can do next? It’s very frustrating...

Big 12

Arkansas at No. 16 Oklahoma State - 12 noon (ABC)
No. 17 Kansas State at Tulane - 12 noon (ESPN)
Pittsburg at Cincinnati - 12 noon (ESPN2)
Baylor at No. 11 Utah - 3:30 p.m. (FOX)*
Iowa State at No. 21 Iowa - 3:30 p.m. (CBS)
Albany at West Virginia - 6 p.m. (ESPN+)
No. 19 Kansas at Illinois - 7 p.m. (FS1)
Colorado at Nebraska - 7:30 p.m. (NBC)
Houston at No. 15 Oklahoma - 7:45 p.m. (SEC Network)
Long Island at TCU - 8 p.m. (ESPN+)
Northern Arizona at No. 20 Arizona - 10 p.m. (ESPN+)
Texas Tech at Washington State - 10 p.m. (FOX)
Mississippi State at Arizona State - 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)

*Non-conference game

With 2 minutes before half. The concession stand in the south end zone is selling $6 hot dogs WITHOUT buns. They are also selling cold pretzels. KJ is not the only one struggling.

Not a damn one planned for Volusia County. Where is the spot to be? Thinking maybe Friendly Confines in Lake Mary because it’s closest to me. Do they normally have a good UCF crowd ?

Doesn't look like he's updated the layout of his site since the late 90s. Anyways, he's got us at #23, with a rating of 80.96

Other teams of interest:

• Utah - 86.20 (#8)
• Kansas State - 83.93 (#15)
• Oklahoma State - 83.75 (#17)
• Iowa St - 80.48 (#24)
• Kansas - 78.18 (#28)
• TCU - 78.03 (#30)
• West Virginia - 77.28 (#32)
• Baylor - 76.49 (#36)
• Arizona - 76.39 (#37)
• BYU - 74.67 (#50)
• Arizona St - 74.67 (#51)
• Colorado - 72.87 (#60)
• Texas Tech - 71.58 (#67)
• Cincinnati - 71.53 (#68)
• Houston - 69.51 (#72)

• Miami - 83.53 (#18)
• FSU - 79.58 (#27)
• Florida - 76.31 (#38)
• cows - 70.35 (#71)

With KJ averaging less than 15 attempts per game and our RBs going off for 420yards/game, can we make the case that we're the Space Force service academy? This is what Navy Army and Air Force wish they could do every game.

(obviously satire, but we do be running it)

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You guys know where this all comes from right? I understand your willful blindness. I used to be a sheep also before covid

I thought my brother’s autistic kid was genetic up to five years ago. My neighbors kid has “allergies” ADHD and will probably have auto immune disorders his adult life

But if you've been around autism you know everything this guy says is 💯. Now they're mandating c19 poison on children and infants in the care of the state of MA. All those refugees better roll up their sleeves 💰🤦‍♀️

One of the locations will be in East Orlanso off 50. (Maybe by back entrance of Avalon Park)?

Does the Big XII have a shot?

Top 15 matchup Kansas State @ Oklahoma State- likely Big XII tie breaker game

Top 15 matchup Tennessee @ Oklahoma - Heupel return to Norman

USC @ Michigan - CBS game of the week so Fox may stay clear?

Not many other options on the schedule.

Check out resale rates and make a reasonable offer. Avoid the ridiculous fees.
Willing to sell in pairs. GKCO!!

This image of Myles is a complete vibe for the 2024 season so far.

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Haven’t been able to watch them play much but reading their board a bit seems like their lines have struggled. Anyone watch some of their game last night? They only ran for about 4 YPC against Long Island.

I’m thinking you see a similar gameplan as against Sam Houston last night where we try and wear them down and control the clock.