This game was damn near a mirror of last year. Big differences between EF and Hough:
- Special teams
- The Hough kicker being able to pin them deep in EF own territory multiple times made it near impossible for EF to do anything.
- That kicker for Hough is legit. Enough said on that.
- EF kicker missed the "easy" goal. It's the reason earlier EF went for it on 4 and 13 (and scored btw) rather than kicked it.
- Defense
- EF defense played really well tonight. They only allowed 10 points.
- Hough defense played better only allowing 7 points.
- Hough's defense was also able to take advantage of their special teams deep pinning of EF and get the defensive touchdown.
- Offense
- Offensively after Q Brown was injured (and even before really), EF couldn't do anything out there. It was a mirror of last year.
- Hough was slightly more successful, but overall they didn't have much going on after or before their TD.
- EF linemen were just too small and "unconditioned" for Hough's defense.
It was a game of margins and errors and EF made too many errors. Whether that be the holds in the beginning of the game, the overthrows, the fumbles, the failure to put a punt returner on the field, etc... I also noticed Conner wasn't on the field near the end of the game. Anyone know why? The kid really has to work on his body language. He's going to Ole Miss with other players just as good or better than you. The coaching staff isn't going to put up with that.
Congrats to Hough, it's looking like they'll play Grimsley. Grimsley hasn't seen a defense as good as Hough, but next weeks game should still be good.
Edit: This is the point where people saying EF should player tougher teams comes in. A lot of tonight's mistakes can be learned from if they play a team of this caliber yearly.