JohnStOnge
September 24th, 2005, 07:50 AM
There's a long thread on Texas State at Texas A&M but I thought I'd start a new one to focus on the question of just how good Texas State is.
I started watching the game late in the first quarter...didn't know it was on but caught it when I flipped to Fox Sports SW. But Texas A&M could NOT stop Texas State's offense. I just looked at the final stats and they're consistent with what I saw: 493 total yards by the Bobcats and a 26 for 34 performance...including 3 TDs against 1 INT...for quarterback Barrick Nealy. His QB rating for the game is 193.1.
So now they're at 2-1 and there was no question that they were able to compete physically nose to nose with Texas A&M.
On the other end of the spectrum the Bobcats struggled with Delta State (32-25). Delta State's traditionally a good DII squad and beat 2004 DII runner-up Pittsburgh State 44-31 to open 2005 but, obviously, probably no Texas A&M...and the Statesmen did lose by 56-21 to North Alabama (which also appears to be a real good D-II this year).
I'm not voting in the poll this year but if I was I think I'd put them somewhere in the middle to low area of the top 10 at this point. For sure right now I favor them to win the Southland. Nobody else in that league has a quarterback anything like what the Bobcats have. He's a game-changer.
I started watching the game late in the first quarter...didn't know it was on but caught it when I flipped to Fox Sports SW. But Texas A&M could NOT stop Texas State's offense. I just looked at the final stats and they're consistent with what I saw: 493 total yards by the Bobcats and a 26 for 34 performance...including 3 TDs against 1 INT...for quarterback Barrick Nealy. His QB rating for the game is 193.1.
So now they're at 2-1 and there was no question that they were able to compete physically nose to nose with Texas A&M.
On the other end of the spectrum the Bobcats struggled with Delta State (32-25). Delta State's traditionally a good DII squad and beat 2004 DII runner-up Pittsburgh State 44-31 to open 2005 but, obviously, probably no Texas A&M...and the Statesmen did lose by 56-21 to North Alabama (which also appears to be a real good D-II this year).
I'm not voting in the poll this year but if I was I think I'd put them somewhere in the middle to low area of the top 10 at this point. For sure right now I favor them to win the Southland. Nobody else in that league has a quarterback anything like what the Bobcats have. He's a game-changer.