Every Longhorn player echoed a similar tone following the 50-47 win against Notre Dame.
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“We still have two very good quarterbacks”, Kelly said. “The change is to allow the replay booth to come down and, so to speak, create the foul from the booth if they deem appropriate”. We’re going to be obviously looking at those things today. You have to grow from game to game, and you have to get better from game to game.
Kelly pointed to the youth injected into this year’s defense, with four new starters in the back seven, to explain the poor performance in Austin, Texas. 10 Notre Dame on Sunday signaled the team is ready to be back in the national conversation. The possibility of an upset, the kind the Longhorns pulled off against Notre Dame, is one of the sweetest victories in sports. Returning starting quarterback Tyler Stewart completed 17 of 23 passes for 189 yards and two touchdowns last week. If you caught any of the game then you saw Charlie Strong swapping the two out for various plays, especially when it called for Swoopes to plow through a defensive line filled with guys smaller and slower than him. The Irish failed to score on the three possessions Zaire played. “There’s no real timeline when you start to expect somebody to clear. Right now, as I said (during Monday’s teleconference), I think you all (in the media) should relax a little bit”.
But let’s say for the sake of argument that you know your beloved Southern Illinois Salukis or Idaho State Bengals aren’t going to be playing a big bowl game this or just about any other January, but you really want to root for one team this year because you love football so much. “So anything that we do from a defensive standpoint has my signature on it”. Additionally, No. 20 Texas A&M and No. 25 Miami were ranked for the first time this fall. “I haven’t made a decision”.
“Our defense is going to be fine”, Kelly said.
So if you’re looking for a team to cheer for, especially a team with games coming up against rivals (most importantly, the Red River Rivalry game against the reeling Oklahoma Sooners – ask a UT fan what they think about that team), now might be the best time to jump on the Texas Longhorns bandwagon for the rest of the year.
Kizer clearly outplayed his longtime competitor, Malik Zaire, on the big stage Sunday night. Kizer almost beat Texas single-handedly in Sunday’s double-overtime loss, going 15-of-24 for 215 yards and five touchdowns with 77 yards and a score on the ground.
Two days after his team’s season-opening loss at Texas, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly remained evasive when discussing the direction of the quarterback position.
“I haven’t sat down and talked with to either one of them, so before we do that we don’t have any plans to make any decisions”, he said.
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“It’s always frustrating when you don’t get what you’ve been working for but they told me that I’d get the chance to do the package that I have and just be ready when they need me”, Swoopes said.
