2026 College Football Team Transfer Portal Rankings

Agreed. You need to look at the big picture. There was an exodus in the backfield at tu. On3 has a good system. We are currently trending at #2

We easily won the WR battle. Horton is way better than Coleman. Tu has a huge net loss this portal season. They will regret cutting Wisner and Arch's roommate. They are a 6-6 team with a much tougher schedule and Arch is still their QB.

rgag12 said:

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Teslag said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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Settle down.

https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/team-rankings/football/2026/

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Depends on which fantasy land you live in. 247 has the sips kicking out ass

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247 doesn't account for outgoing talent. Remember, the portal works both ways...

Teslag said:

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rgag12 said:

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Teslag said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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Settle down.

https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/team-rankings/football/2026/

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Depends on which fantasy land you live in. 247 has the sips kicking out ass

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247 doesn't account for outgoing talent. Remember, the portal works both ways...

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Looking at the transfer ratings of tu additions as well as loses on 247 their avergae incoming rating is 82.6 (14 total) and their average outgoing is 87.8 (22 total).

If you subtract the total points from the incoming vs the outgoing they've lost 775 points.

Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They lost a lot of talent. They are still very light at WR and RB.

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They are not light at RB. They signed Smothers and Brown off the portal. They added two in the 2026 class.

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Brown is a 165 pound Big12 scat back. That won't work well in the SEC behind a questionable interior line (Seaton is a OT). And remember, these RB's were scrambles after they lost out on their Top 3 targets.

vander54 said:

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Teslag said:

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rgag12 said:

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Teslag said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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Settle down.

https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/team-rankings/football/2026/

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Depends on which fantasy land you live in. 247 has the sips kicking out ass

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247 doesn't account for outgoing talent. Remember, the portal works both ways...

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Looking at the transfer ratings of tu additions as well as loses on 247 their avergae incoming rating is 82.6 (14 total) and their average outgoing is 87.8 (22 total).

If you subtract the total points from the incoming vs the outgoing they've lost 775 points.

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Yep, pretty clear the sips had to clear a bunch of talent and $$$ to free up money to get what they have. They've gone all in on a few high profile starters at the expense of depth.

Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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I would bet on the sips to win a natty too, if we were in a 7 on 7 league.

But we're not. Theyre going to need some luck in the injury front and they need interior OL, not OTs


They're taking a calculated risk in what theyre doing, basically concentrating the roster / NIL.

This isnt the NFL where the learning curve is for rookies so a 55 man roster makes sense

LincolnBorglum79 said:

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We easily won the WR battle. Horton is way better than Coleman. Tu has a huge net loss this portal season. They will regret cutting Wisner and Arch's roommate. They are a 6-6 team with a much tougher schedule and Arch is still their QB.

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This is how you delusion. Sip should have been 6-6 this year but us, Kentucky, and Miss State blew it.

Even if they do turn out to be bad next year (which I doubt), teams will blow multiple games and make them look better than they are.

The Arch hype will have them pre-season #1 yet again.

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It was publicized by many that the sips were going to change strategy for the upcoming year. Arch took an over 50% paycut to help tu go all in to win NC.

Sark hinted (well even stated) their intent was to do this, and many left due to renegotiated values were going to drop vs. what they were paid in the prior year. They only re-upped/increased the ones they wanted to come back.

The irony is that when it was presumed that Jimbo did this (paying for the S kids), it developed a me-only crap culture (Herbstreit was on his soapbox during an A&M game stating culture issues). Not saying it wasn't, but can Sark keep his so-called culture with a minor-league football team from across the nation? We shall see.

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Well said. We bought selfish entitled losers. Cost us more than $$

Hope same happens there

I won't root for specific player injuries, but I will root for the sips to have a rash of injuries and have to play lots of backups to a 6-6 finish

Back to Seaton. What are our chances with him. What say you Vander54?

At this point it probably wont take a rash of injuries. One or 2 on offense should be enough.

MagnumLoad said:

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Back to Seaton. What are our chances with him. What say you Vander54?

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Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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We find out next year how successful teams are.

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At this point it probably wont take a rash of injuries. One or 2 on offense should be enough.

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Exactly. Buying phenomenal starter sounds great, but when you have no depth, everything hinges on everyone staying healthy. Similar to Moss going down last year vs this year. Last year Owens was already hurt and we had nobody behind him. This year Owens, with the help of EJ and Morrow, was able to produce enough to keep us winning.

If tu wants to pay a lot to have a really solid 1-deep, I happy to watch them do it.

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MagnumLoad said:

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Back to Seaton. What are our chances with him. What say you Vander54?

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I'm leaning this way as well. But i haven't had a chance to dig into it yet.

Hill08 said:

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We wont get every player we want, but should NEVER be outbid on a regular basis from a rival

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Pony up. All hat and no cattle otherwise…

LincolnBorglum79 said:

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We easily won the WR battle. Horton is way better than Coleman. Tu has a huge net loss this portal season. They will regret cutting Wisner and Arch's roommate. They are a 6-6 team with a much tougher schedule and Arch is still their QB.

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I don't think Cam is the 2nd coming by any means, but to think Horton is way better than Cam is absurd. Perhaps I just missed on your sarcasm.

Seems like people forget that Lamont Rogers is on the team. I'll be surprised if he isn't starting next year.

vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

LincolnBorglum79 said:

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We easily won the WR battle. Horton is way better than Coleman. Tu has a huge net loss this portal season. They will regret cutting Wisner and Arch's roommate. They are a 6-6 team with a much tougher schedule and Arch is still their QB.

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Horton is not better than Coleman, but we've improved our team as a whole by spreading our resources around instead of dropping a massive amount of money on a couple of guys. From what I've heard, not getting Coleman is at least partially why we were able to go get Gibson at CB and Mims at DL, both of which are huge additions, and then we still added Horton.

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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Why didn't losing Moss and having Craver at 50% down the stretch kill us this season? Because we didn't put all our eggs in one basket.

Teslag said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They lost a lot of talent. They are still very light at WR and RB.

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They are not light at RB. They signed Smothers and Brown off the portal. They added two in the 2026 class.

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Brown is a 165 pound Big12 scat back. That won't work well in the SEC behind a questionable interior line (Seaton is a OT). And remember, these RB's were scrambles after they lost out on their Top 3 targets.

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Raleek Brown is 195. He weighs more than Wisner, their primary back last year. So yeah, it will work.

https://thesundevils.com/sports/football/roster/season/2025/player/raleek-brown

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Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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Why didn't losing Moss and having Craver at 50% down the stretch kill us this season? Because we didn't put all our eggs in one basket.

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No idea what point you are making.

eta: losing Moss hurt us bad against sip and Miami (he was not 100% and went out). If you recall, we lost both games.

Wisner was 194. He got less than 600 yards on the season. On3 has Wisner rated as an 89 transfer. Brown an 91. It's a minor push at best. Smothers is also less than 200, and consider a scat back as well. They don't have a tough yards runner.

Logos Stick said:

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Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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Why didn't losing Moss and having Craver at 50% down the stretch kill us this season? Because we didn't put all our eggs in one basket.

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No idea what point you are making.

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You said most teams, including us, would have imploded with 2 major injuries. That happened to us this year and we were relatively unaffected due to our depth.

What happened against texas and Miami was 50+ drop backs for Marcel. We manufactured 1st downs on the ground in both games. Klein just kept dialing up the pass plays instead of keeping the ball on the ground. Last year when we lost Moss we didn't win another P4 game. This year we won six without him.

Teslag said:

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rgag12 said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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If this happens, you can't deny that the sips are kicking everyone's butts in the transfer portal.

We have added some nice pieces, but no game changers. If we want to compete with the sips we'll need to go all in on Damon Wilson and Justice Haynes. Otherwise, we will have let tu step right past us. Even Arch won't be able to be able to screw up their $40M roster.

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Settle down.

https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/team-rankings/football/2026/

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Depends on which fantasy land you live in. 247 has the sips kicking out ass

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247 doesn't account for outgoing talent. Remember, the portal works both ways...

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The portal works both ways, but the ratings don't take into account players transferring out because they weren't going to play anyway and being replaced by players that are going to play.

You shouldn't be penalized for losing guys on your team that were never going to contribute anyway, but there is not way to track that. These rankings are really just for conversation, but there isn't a whole lot of substance to them in my opinion.

tu lost several expected starters. They lost all 5 RBs 2 key WR the expected starting LB and a few more.

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Logos Stick said:

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Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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Why didn't losing Moss and having Craver at 50% down the stretch kill us this season? Because we didn't put all our eggs in one basket.

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No idea what point you are making.

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You said most teams, including us, would have imploded with 2 major injuries. That happened to us this year and we were relatively unaffected due to our depth.

What happened against texas and Miami was 50+ drop backs for Marcel. We manufactured 1st downs on the ground in both games. Klein just kept dialing up the pass plays instead of keeping the ball on the ground. Last year when we lost Moss we didn't win another P4 game. This year we won six without him.

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What happened is that we didn't have a serious running threat without Moss against sip and Miami and thus were passing more than we wanted to.

Ag In A Small Town said:

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Seems like people forget that Lamont Rogers is on the team. I'll be surprised if he isn't starting next year.

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If Rogers isn't starting on THIS team, I'll be highly disappointed

Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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We had 2 injuries at RB alone. That's what killed us in 2024. In case you forgot we lost Owens before the season started. But we also had other injuries as well.

vander54 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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We had 2 injuries at RB alone. That's what killed us in 2024. In case you forgot we lost Owens before the season started. But we also had other injuries as well.

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I'm glad you agree that a couple of injuries to key players can kill a team, any team. You're arguing out of both sides of your mouth.

Logos Stick said:

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The Banned said:

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Logos Stick said:

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The Banned said:

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Logos Stick said:

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vander54 said:

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Exactly. They currently are a couple of injuries away from imploding.

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There are numerous 3 star veteran RBs still available in the portal, allowing them to replace the 3 star RBs they lost. They would have imploded regardless with 2 injuries. We would too. Most teams would!

In fact, we had just one last season, Moss, that killed us at the end.

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Why didn't losing Moss and having Craver at 50% down the stretch kill us this season? Because we didn't put all our eggs in one basket.

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No idea what point you are making.

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You said most teams, including us, would have imploded with 2 major injuries. That happened to us this year and we were relatively unaffected due to our depth.

What happened against texas and Miami was 50+ drop backs for Marcel. We manufactured 1st downs on the ground in both games. Klein just kept dialing up the pass plays instead of keeping the ball on the ground. Last year when we lost Moss we didn't win another P4 game. This year we won six without him.

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What happened is that we didn't have a serious running threat without Moss against sip and Miami and thus were passing more than we wanted to.

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I know that is said often, but a review of each drive on ESPN shows we were able to move the ball. It wasn't sexy and we didn't hit homeruns, but we could move the ball. And in both games it was Marcel's turnovers that sealed our fate. It's not that we couldn't run. Klein just didn't have the patience needed to let a run game work. Miami stuck with it and finally busted one off in the 4th. texas stuck with it, kept our defense honest, and wore us down in the 4th. And that ignores the other 6 SEC teams we managed to beat without Moss

ETA: our RBs averaged over 4 ypc against texas. Not great, but good enough to wear the other team down if we stuck with it. Admittedly we sucked against Miami on the ground. I'd be interested to see how that game goes in non-windy conditions, but I'm willing to admit there was no ground game there

No. You're ignoring the rest of what I said.

We had multiple injuries including starting OL and WR.