Did you watch that Washington-Baylor game last night. That was amazing. It wasn't a game, it was a pinball machine. Here are some of the amazing stats from the game. There was a combined 59 first downs, 17 touchdowns, 123 points scored and 1,397 total yards. Heisman Award winner Robert Griffin "only" had 295 yards passing and 1 touchdown. He had 55 more yards rushing. Baylor had 3 100 yard rushers and RG3 wasn't one of them. That Terrance Ganaway is a man, 240 pounds of brute force. He rushed for 200 yards on only 21 carries, a rushing average of 9.5 yards per carry. And oh by the way he rushed for 5 touchdowns, including the one that gave Baylor the victory. Jarred Salubi and Tevin Reese were Baylor's other two 100 yard rushers.
Washington's Keith Price was the offensive juggernaut of the game though. He was 23 of 37 passing for 438 yards. He also threw for 4 touchdowns. On the ground he rushed 5 times for 39 yards on his way to 3 rushing touchdowns.
Obviously the theme of this game was great offense at the expense of two pathetic defenses. It was an exciting game but it continues another theme. This third loss in 3 bowl games continues to expose the Pac 12 for how pathetic of a football conference it is. I'll save how bad of a basketball conference it is for another blog. In their 3 bowl games the Pac 12 have lost all 3. It's obvious that defense isn't a forte in their conference. In the Pac 12's three bowl losses, they've given up 21, 56 and 67 points.
The next bowl game for the Pac 12 is when Utah plays the high powered Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Utah has a bruising, crushing defense so they'll be giving up a lot less points than either Washington or Arizona St. I guarantee that. However Utah has been operating without an effective quarterback all season so I have no idea how many points they will score. That should be a pretty good game, two evenly matched teams.
Another good game should be today's BYU-Tulsa game. BYU is easily the worst 9 game winners in the nation, I say that as an obsessive BYU fan. They've truly played some terrible teams this season, especially at the end of their schedule. Tulsa on the other hand has played some truly amazing teams this season. Tulsa has given up 47, 59, 41 and 48 points in games this season. Of course in those games they lost to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Boise State and Houston. All 4 teams were in the Top Ten at the time Tulsa played them. Those games where they gave up all those points were against amazing teams, way above the caliber of BYU. But Tulsa still has averaged giving up 4 TDs in points a game. Of course Tulsa scores 34 points a game. BYU has a better defense but a worse offense. They give up 2o.3 points per game and score 30.6 points per game.
I predict that both teams will score at least 21 points each, but wouldn't be surprised by a 38-37 final score. The game is about to start, Go Cougs!
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