The Play On September 9, 2017, Louisiana Tech and Mississippi State teamed up for an event that will go down in college football infamy. And this Saturday, the schools meet back up in Starkville for the final game of a 2-for-1 and hope to try to avoid such a fiasco. Without a doubt, at some …
This Saturday, Tech and LSU are poised to meet up on the gridiron for the 20th time. But how have the last nineteen meetings gone for the Dogs? The short answer? Not well. The long answer? Umm, here’s this graph: This shows the point differential of each game played since the series started in 1901. …
Author: Nathan Ruppel | @ntruppel Special Teams are such a weird concept in football. 87.5% of the time, the game consists of an offense versus a defense. (Okay, fine, I made that percentage up.) The two sides battle it out over the course of a possession, but once the drive is over, we let the …
This Saturday, Tech opens up its season on the road against the South Alabama Jaguars. Then, next week, the Bulldogs return home to play the Southern Jaguars. That’s two straight weeks of playing a team called the Jaguars. At first that doesn’t sound too impressive, right? I mean the SEC has three teams named the …
Before the start of last season, I wrote a piece called “Do We Want J’Mar?” The idea was to try to judge what we can demand expect from J’Mar in 2017 based on his performance in the 2016 Arkansas game. Now that we have a full season of data from J’Mar, we can take a …
Tech’s 2017 football season was an odd one. The Bulldogs ended the regular season 6-6, but four of those twelve games that were decided by one point. In those games, Tech went 1-3. To put it another way: if Tech had scored 6 more points where it mattered, they would have gone into bowl season …
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On May 28, 2016, a three-year old child climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. Harambe, an adult male gorilla, grabbed the young boy and dragged him around the pen. The zookeepers then made the difficult decision of shooting and killing Harambe to save the kid’s life. Of course, you’re on the internet, …
Most of the conferences in college sports have names that don’t make a lot of sense. To start, some don’t know how to count: The Big “10” (or B1G or whatever) has 14 teams The Big “12” (or Big XII or whatever) has 10 teams Also, some don’t make sense geographically: The Atlantic Coast Conference …
Taking a look at everything that would need to go right for Tech to win it all
How Tech Lost to Rice There were a lot of (warranted) complaints about the umpire for Tech’s first game of the 2018 tournament. I don’t fault the up as much as I fault Tech’s response to his strike zone. The umpire today/yesterday was calling a “tight” zone. Which means that if a pitch is a …
