Longhorns romp over Oklahoma; UTSA suffers gut punch in Houston | College Football Week 7 in review

The college football season and it looks like (with much caution) that the Texas Longhorns might be the best team in the country. Army and Navy fresh into the Top 25. What in the world is happening in this crazy sports world? KENS 5’s Vinnie Vinzetta looks around the great state of Texas and has this recap!

Who had both the Roadrunners and Rice Owls at (2-4) through six games on their bingo card? That was a gut punch Saturday night loss in Houston with no punch to the guts worse than Rice’s game winning TD pass that left four seconds on the clock, and that was after the ‘Runners had rallied for 14 points in the fourth quarter points to take the lead at 27-23. But, it was another loss when all was said and done, their fourth in five games. UTSA would need some serious miracles now to even qualify for the AAC Championship game. Army, Navy, North Texas, Charlotte and Tulane are all off to undefeated starts in league play. Anything can happen with six games in the books and still six to go, but the mission now might be to focus on becoming bowl eligible and then see if you can get help from other games. #BirdsUp

It wasn’t one of the 63-10 Red River finals during the Mack Brown years where Boomer Sooner Nation was laughing all the way back to Norman. No, this one was dominated by the Longhorns on the Texas State fairgrounds over the weekend. Maybe it was that 2:30 p.m. time slot compared to 11 a.m.? Whatever it was, it worked. Quinn Ewers was rusty early on, but certainly worked his way through that enough to dawn the Golden Hat at the game’s conclusion. To be honest, the final score and game flow didn’t surprise me. The Sooners are nowhere near contending this season. They’d been shaking at best entering the day, and Texas is stacked, especially on offense. They won going away, and they should have. The outcome was what I would have expected. And now comes the one that WE CAN’T WAIT FOR! The Georgia Bulldogs in Austin this weekend. ESPN College Gameday will be on site. The ATX is gonna be the center of the college football universe this week. It is gonna be something! Texas is that standard field goal favorite (as of 11/13) for that Saturday night primetime showdown at DKR. #HookEm

The Aggies were on their bye week, so they had plenty of time to watch the other enjoyable SEC games. That began with the Mississippi State vs UGA game. The maroon Bulldogs didn’t play half bad in Athens either. They put up 31 points that was highlighted by more than 300 yards passing. MSU is only (1-5) overall and winless in the conference, but as we’ve discussed before, even the cellar dwellars in the SEC aren’t “that” terrible. It’s the Southeastern Conference, which comes with the territory. Mike Elko is not gonna let his Aggies sleep on ol’ Mississippi State. Next week is on the road in Starkville, and that by itself is scary enough week in and week out in the premier college football conference in the land. #GigEm

The Red Raiders were on the bye week at (5-1). They’re quietly having one their best seasons in recent memory that nobody around the nation is talking about. They are talking about it in Lubbock, just not really outside the South Plains. They host (2-4) Baylor this weekend and are healthy touchdown favorites over the Bears. TTU has an awesome opportunity to have seven wins against one loss over the next two weeks that potentially sets up a massive showdown in Ames the first weekend of November. Iowa State is undefeated at (6-0) with UFC in their backyard before welcoming Tech. #GunsUp

The Bobcats have been back on track the last two weeks with conference wins over Troy and Arkansas State, both blowout wins. And that’s great for them considering that devastating loss against Sam Houston in week four could have taken life right out of the program. It has not. Good on them for not letting that happen. And I’m certainly not fully up on my Sunbelt Conference football action, but I’d give Texas State an opportunity to win the rest of their games and be in position for some bowl games possibilities that have some really nice prestige. We’ll see what happens. And if that does happen, good luck to TX State athletics admin in keep G.J. Kinne on staff. His name will be on the hot prospects assuming they win the ones they should the rest of the way. #EatEmUpCats

The Cardinals won again! The score was 55-10 over Nicholls. QB Zach Calzada once more time put up big offensive numbers…five touchdown passes! UIW is (4-2) and trending up after starting the year (1-2). They have three of their next four at home, so I’d expect the ‘Cards to stockpile some wins and try to impress that FCS selection committee, who it seems at times is almost impossible to impress. It is imple math though at this point after losing two early in the year, WIN. #TheWord

TCU was off this week. That was a win for them. Baylor was also off and that was also a win. Houston was off, too. Everybody wins!