2023-09-08 08:20:41
The Texas A&M Aggies are heading to Miami in Florida, where they will be slight favorites in the next showdown between the SEC and ACC. The game is on ran.de and DAZN transmitted. Later that night, the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide meet. The top game in College Football Week 2 will also be shown on DAZN when the current numbers 3 and 11 in the Top 25 AP Poll play once morest each other. First up, however, are the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Colorado Buffaloes in this preview.
The Buffaloes surprised many last week and are now even listed among the top 25 college teams in the country following defeating last year’s National Championship finalist TCU. Accordingly, it is now expected that the loud head coach Deion Sanders will follow up his big words with action and win the first home game of the season once morest Nebraska. Coach Jimbo Fisher also wants to make an exclamation mark with his Aggies. But we’ll get to that later.
Nebraska Cornhuskers @ Colorado Buffaloes #22
Saturday 9 September 2023
Kickoff: 6 p.m
Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado
On Saturday at 6 p.m. our time the Colorado Buffaloes will host the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Deion Sanders celebrated one of the greatest successes in the first game since his arrival in the Rocky Mountains and now has the task of rallying his young men before the Rivalry Game once morest head coach Matt Rhule and his Huskers.
The two teams from the deep reaches of the Midwest have been playing once morest each other since 1898 and have experienced many a top ten matchup in their exciting history. Since the last one Restructuring in college football However, the two opponents no longer meet as often. The last encounter was four years ago. Back then, Colorado only won in overtime.
Now the Buffaloes are starting quarterback Shedeur Sanders. When Deion Sanders announced his own son as the starter, the media laughed wearily at it. But his son has developed splendidly from Jackson State to the Pac-12 and is now also drawing attention to himself in the 2024 NFL Draft.
Sanders runs a safe offense across the field and can move well inside and outside the pocket. He has a good understanding of where to find his receivers and how to set them up. Here he wants to continue to impress once morest Nebraska.
On the other hand, Jeff Sims wants to do the same. After transferring from Georgia Tech, the transfer quarterback wants to improve his accuracy and ball placement. Outside the structure, the very well-built playmaker with his nimble legs is already dangerous. Now he wants to mature as a passer.
The Cornhuskers lost incredibly badly last weekend following Minnesota Golden Gophers receiver Daniel Jackson tied the game with a brilliant catch shortly before the end.
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— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 1, 2023
That may have left its mark while Colorado is on a winning spree. The Buffaloes should therefore make a big appearance and wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter should continue to work on his Heisman campaign.
Texas A&M Aggies #23 @ Miami Hurricanes
Saturday 9 September 2023
Kickoff: 9:30 p.m
Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
Texas A&M travels to Miami looking for its second win in a row. After a clear victory over New Mexico, they now face a more difficult task away from home. Miami had a similarly easy task last week. Both can now show where they are heading this year.
The Aggies are slight favorites in a matchup in which we want to focus less on the two quarterbacks Connor Weigman (A&M) and Tyler van Dyke (Miami) and more on a matchup at the line of scrimmage between Aggies nose tackle McKinnley Jackson and Miami’s left tackle Guard Javion Cohen.
Despite his role on the inside of the defensive line, Jackson had two sacks, seven tackles for loss and a total of 23 stops last year. For a player of his enormous size, he comes forward relatively quickly following the snap and penetrates the opponent’s gaps.
New signing Cohen was lured to Miami precisely for such matchups. The transfer from Alabama is also very lively and should be found in the second level more often if he can keep McKinnley Jackson out of the way. To do this, it will be necessary to put full horsepower on the road. Actions must be coordinated from the feet to the hips to the fingertips in order to be able to play such a matchup. That’s what scouts want to see from both athletes in this game.
In the end, it should be the aggressive offense of the Aggies’ new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino that makes the difference. Petrino already worked with Lamar Jackson in Louisville. He should now showcase the different playmakers better than last year.
Texas A&M’s firepower should be too much for Miami. Your ambitions are suddenly snuffed out. Although the Aggies will certainly find ways to keep the match more exciting than necessary through individual mistakes. Jimbo Fisher has not yet built up a title contender. It’s regarding time for that.
Texas Longhorns #11 @ Alabama Crimson Tide
Sunday 10 September 2023
Kickoff: 1 a.m
Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The ESPN’s College Gameday will be there with its tailgating party in Tuscaloosa and DAZN will broadcast the game for German television when two icons of college football meet. Nick Saban has a record of 28 to 2 once morest his former assistant coaches. Steve Sarkisian wants to wrest a win from his old boss with his aggressive and hungry style of play. There is huge interest in this pairing.
Texas might have won the game at home in the preseason and is now trying once more. Last year, Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers experienced his baptism of fire once morest Alabama. Until his injury-related loss, he played the Crimson Tide’s defense almost dizzyingly. His diverse ability to attack the field at all levels and in different ways was impossible for Alabama to defend.
Quinn Ewers is still a work in progress in terms of mechanics and downfield passing
Seems to rely more on his arm talent while battling footwork issues and consistency
Ewers played well Vs Bama last year before getting hurt Saturday will be a good test
pic.twitter.com/KTYftVtny0— Joe O’Leary (@TheHQNerd) September 6, 2023
Ewers was supported by receivers Xavier Worthy and Jordan Whittington in the narrow 20 to 19 defeat. Worthy is difficult to defend with his enormous speed and has been making a splash since his freshman year. In addition to Whittington, another player in the pass attack should not go unmentioned: tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders.
Sanders’ strengths lie in his ability to regularly break free and always appear wherever quarterback Ewers wants him. As a tight end, he can certainly improve his blocking a lot. But as long as he continues to make touchdowns and key catches, the Longhorns can ignore it.
However, all pass receivers have remarkable matchups ahead of them, both physically and in terms of speed of play. First of all, there is cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry, once morest whom Worthy first has to prove whether he can evade him with a lot of mobility in the first few yards before he can put him through the wringer. But McKinstry shouldn’t get too active with his hands. Scouts will be watching this duel closely.
But should McKinstry unexpectedly run into problems, Terrion Arnold, a highly decorated high school recruit, is waiting for his chance to prove himself once morest the Texas wide receivers. Arnold is lighter, but also much more lively in his movements and will present the receiving corps with a difficult but different task to solve.
As if that wasn’t enough, Malachi Moore is waiting for Ja’Tavion Sanders in the middle. The hybrid box safety is deployed wherever his athleticism requires it most on the field. Moore will also physically set the tone for the defense and can be a key player in this top game.
Texas will lead early in the game with a better quarterback. But Alabama shouldn’t be written off because of that. Nick Saban has often shown what his team is capable of when their backs are once morest the wall or even underestimated. We’ll see a lot of running from both quarterback Jalen Milroe and the Crimson Tide’s running backs. The Longhorns have to embrace the physical game. But away from home in Tuscaloosa, that’s easier said than done. Alabama may end up narrowly winning the game.
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