Wednesday: UTSA/Temple Preview

The Roadrunners take their 2-game win streak to Philly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
UTSA has Temple this weekend. Conference play begins Temple this week,
Rice next week, then on the road at North Texas.
Then they get another by and they have back to
back Thursday night games at home with Tulane and on
the road in South Florida, and then finish up the
season with a road game at Charlotte and home games

(00:25):
with East Carolina and Army. That's the next eight games
until we get through the eight weeks up to Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
By the way, Andy, tomorrow you're talking about homecoming next week. Tomorrow,
we will be giving away a four packet tickets. Yes,
we will send homecoming next week.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
So state you want to go to the Rights game,
you have to listen tomorrow so you can win tickets.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Not today, not toy tomorrow and the next few days
after that as well.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Correct. And by the way, Jay Howard and Tim Merriman
will be there on Friday, and I think they'll be
giving some tickets away too.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
As long as Shane remembers, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
So anyway, where was I here? Okay, I get to
do this because I'm not a player a coach and
this is kind of a nutshell of the season.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Don't violate it.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, I get to violate culture pillars all I want.
So there's there. Of the eight games UTSA has left, yes,
there are five teams that I think they will be
the favorites in and anywhere from six to however many
points depending on how they play the rest of the way.
And those five games are the first two Temple and
and I think there are six and a half point

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favorite against Temple, and they got Rice next week, and
then the the the last three games Charlotte, East Carolina
and Army. Now I'm not saying that UTSA couldn't lose
to those teams, but I'm gonna get to a point
a second. The other three at North Texas, at South
Florida and Homa Tulane. That's the gauntlet because they're back

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to back to back. Now there's a separation between North
Texas and Tulane by a couple extra days because they
get that next weekend off after the North Texas game.
Uh so there's there's that second bye week in there.
But I believe that if you're if you're going to
win your league, you have to beat the teams that

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your quote unquote supposed to beat. And if you are
truly a conference contender in the same breath as South
Florida and Tulane UH and Memphis, maybe a couple of
other teams in there. North Texas UH. Then you gotta
beat You have to win those five games, and if
you don't, you're probably gonna you can still have a

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decent season, and I think you still get BAWL eligible
and win seven or eight games, but you're gonna have
to go eight O, seven to one in league play
to have a chance to be in the in the
final game, in the championship game, and and more than
likely you're gonna have to be eight to o because
Memphis U T. S A doesn't play them. So I'll
see how this plays out. But these are games coming

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up that you have to figure out a way to win,
and the really good teams do it. Same thing with Texas.
If Texas is going to win the conference or be
in the conference playoff, the Ford is a game they
have to win. Normally it would be a fifty to
fifty game, but it's this year. It's a game you
have to win because they've struggled. And the same thing
I think with UTSA in the Temple game. Temple's far

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better than they've been in the past. UTSA beat them
rather relatively easily last couple of years. But this is
a better Temple team. Casey Keelers their coach. He's won
two hundred and seventy three games. He's a run heavy team.
He's going to make you earn every yard you get.
They have not turned the ball over this year. UTSA
is a defense that thrives on getting takeaways. That's one

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of the goals is to get takeaways in this game
against the team that doesn't do it. They put it
on the ground two or three times, but they haven't
turned it over, and so that's another key there. But
these are the games that you have to be in
position to win if you're really going to be a
conference contender, and is always no matter who you start
your conference with. If you don't in the first one,

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you're playing from behind for the rest of the year,
and then your marchin of Varro becomes even even lesser
because you have to be able to win out to
hope the and hope every anybody else loses. And then
if you have tie breakers, one of the tie breakers
is strength the schedule and how you did against the
good teams. And the bad teams, and that can come
back to bite you a little bit too. So this

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is a huge game coming up for UTSA from the
standpoint that the boys in the Desert think they're the
best team and they need to go out Saturday and
prove that they are.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, and you know when it comes Saturday that I
don't doubt that head coach Jeff Traylor and the road
Runners will be ready to go. You know, I don't
think that. I don't think that any team at least
that coach trailer has been a part of, is going
to take for granted or just assume, hey, just because
on necessary coach ever does well. You know, I would

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say Nick Saban probably.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well maybe bread Vtables thinks he's got it easy with
can't state this weekend, but he won't rest, he won't
he won't breathe normally until at least.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Halftime exactly exactly. So, yeah, you are correct that the
you know, the line still right now is UTSA favored
by six and a half. The defense played a little,
has been playing. I would say week to week better
every week. Maybe not the giant improvement that fans want,
but it is slowly but surely getting back into rhythm

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and not to ask much, but again, coach trailer, let's
try to get Robert Henry, or as the UTSA social
media's Robert him Ree two hundred plus yards so he
can retake the rushing title so far to be the
the nation's leading rusher and potentially maybe you know, get
that hashtag Henry for hiding. Yeah. Again, I know it's

(05:50):
a vast long shot, but you want to talk about
how cool that would potentially be.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
He needs to run. He'll have to rush for twenty
five one hundred yards. I'm not saying you can't do that,
but when you play, when you're at the level that
he's at. Uh, And I think the NFL scouts know
who he is, and they're gonna they're gonna probably draft
him a lot higher after this year, assuming he stays healthy,
then they would have had he tried to go into

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the NFL this past year. He's improved so much. But yeah,
you want to get as many yards as you can
so that you can start being in that conversation.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah. I mean the analytics right now, the dreaded analytics
that you and I can't stand. If nothing else, the
analytics says that Robert Henry Junior. Well, and we are
gigantic swing and a miss by Aaron Judge that he
should get at least another seventy yard touchdown run.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
All right, I'm all in for that. Yeah, all right,
let's talk about analytics next on the ticket