_Fan I have an observation that I would like you to confirm is right or wrong, I am not all techie so I have no links. On some of our QB read option plays last weekend it appeared the guard let the DT go by untouched so he could go block the LB. I believe we do this every time for this particular play and Klien is supposed to do read the DT's angle of attack and decide whether to hand off or keep. The TCU players seemed to just blast through and make the tackle where most DT's before would break down trying to figure out who had the ball causing them to be on their heels and us to run by them. I ask this because I had some KSU fans telling me it was just because our OL was sucking.
Also, if I am correct with the above observation are you worried that Baylor and Texas now have the new "mold" for beating our run game?
You are 100% correct. I highlighted that in the final paragraph with links to a couple of those plays. Meshack also did it one time to TCU's read option.
That said, I really don't think its a mold for beating the read option run game, though I don't think we anticipated it vs TCU and because of that they kept Klein off balance with is reads. The advantage though is this; if we know teams are going to do that, we can trap the heck out of that read player if he comes up the field. And if defenses do that sporadically like TCU did, they are essentially "guessing" that they will have the right defensive call (TCU seemed to guess right a lot), but the problem is if they are wrong it will lead to a big offensive play. The reason you don't see college football teams, especially defensive linemen, just "run up the field to the football" is exactly that; good college offenses will gash you because that technique creates huge vertical creases in a defense if its blocked well. A defense simply cannot be gap sound consistently if their players get too far up the field.
This week I think we'll anticipate that and have some tweaks in our scheme. Baylor will be trying anything and everything, and Bennett is agressive by nature anyway. I expect you'll see Baylor "guess right" a few times and that will lead to negative plays, but more often we'll gash them. I'm guessing we'll see a bunch of 10+ yard gains on runs and passes against Baylor because of that.