Interesting game. I watched UAB play Rice and was not impressed. UAB was the bigger, stronger, faster team but Rice just outplayed them when it mattered. I had rice +11 and was worried at half time because UAB was doing literally whatever they wanted, but UAB just disappeared in the second half and Rice hit some big plays.
UAB coach is on record saying their QB is the most accurate he has coached. He seems pretty good, I suspect he will play a lot better at home against us. UAB has some nice sized WRs as well. I could see them abusing our secondary but not as much as UTSA did. I would say this game was winnable if MT didn’t have such glaring holes on offense and defense.
we essentially have zero interior linemen it appears. I have never seen our interior line dominated like that in a conference game since I started following the team 20ish years ago. I don’t know how UTSA was able to essentially run by our interior linemen without ANY resistance. Insane. Jordan Palmer has to play better and we have to find some guards that can at least cut someone. Expect UAB to attack our OL and especially the A gaps. Chase will be running for his life again. UAB has grown ass men on the DL and they will be hunting him.
secondary problems and OL problems will be too much to overcome and thoroughabused by UAB.
lines about right at 9. MT will have some success on offense because chase and our WRs are pretty good, defense will have some moments thanks to our front 7, but in the end UAB takes this one due to MTs mistakes, poor secondary, non-existent interior linemen. And I don’t think UAB is even that good of a team, but neither are we.
