College Football 7th Week Preview: Red River Vivar, Ohio State vs. Oregon University, etc.

I can't miss the exciting conference showdown this weekend.

The Red River's rivals will be held on Saturday, and Texas will play 18th place Oklahoma in the Dallas Cotton Bowl. Michael Hawkins Jr., a true coach of his second career, Michael Hawkins Jr. Oklahoma has won four in the past five games on the Red River, but is Hawkins's calmness enough to defeat rivals?

Oregon and 2nd place Ohio State University will play against a conference for the first time this weekend. Ten years ago, Ohio State University shakes the team with the injury of the third quarterback, and the third quarter back rebounded the team. Ohio State University and Oregon University played in the US Championships that year, and Bucky's third quarter back certainly stepped up.

Football experts look back on the week of the seventh week and preview big play and notable stories.

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How did Buckyze take up when you needed the most?

Safety Table Powell reminded me of "all oxygen" evaporated from the Ohio State Stadium when J. T. Barrett could not get up due to a broken right ankle. Ezekiel Elliott, a tailback, said, "It was a shock," after seeing Ohio's general out of the field in Michigan 10 years ago.

"J. T. was a crazy season.

Buckkies had already lost the Star Captain Braxon Miller in the pr e-season. Just before the season, Barrett was going to surgery.

It was like "again". Powell said it was like, or again. " "It was quite tough to blow off the Blakston (injury). I was hit by a quarterback injury, and the train finally ran and blown away."

Powell, Elliott, and Bucksys felt overwhelmed. But they also knew that their third dancers, Caldale, had a rocket arm.

"Have you ever played against a general with such a strong hand," said Elliott. "I knew he had all the tools. I haven't seen it yet."

10 years since Jones and the fourt h-seeded Ohio State University bet on US titles in Aurington, Texas.

"The closest thing Calder did was a fictional character named Steamin' Willie Beamen," Powell said, referring to Jamie Foxx's Miami Sharks backup in the 1999 film Any Sunday.

With Jones, the Buckeyes didn't miss a beat. They shut out Michigan and beat Wisconsin 59-0 to win the Big Ten championship, but then slipped to the opening round of the four-team playoffs. They beat Alabama 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl semifinals. They beat Oregon 42-20 for the national championship. In those three games, Jones passed for 742 yards, rushed for 90 yards and had six touchdowns.

"Jones had never played a meaningful game before Barrett's injury. 'Everybody was expected to do their job, and the way I was treated from the coaching staff down there.'"

Powell realized Jones was serious when he came home from class the Monday after the Michigan game. Powell would always find his roommate playing Call of Duty in the living room. That night, Jones was on the football field studying tape with then-offensive coordinator Tom Herman.

"At that point, I thought, I'm OK," Powell said.

Later that week, Herman put together a tape of Jones' best plays from his time at Cleveland-Glenville High School and showed it to him.

Jones said, 'I want to reassure you that I belong here, that I'm good enough to help us,'" he said.

Barrett kept telling him the same thing: 'You're here for a reason.'

After the Wisconsin blowout, the Buckeyes never met to watch ESPN's playoff selections. In fact, on his drive home to Cleveland, Jones began getting texts and phone calls from teammates and coaches informing him that Ohio State had surpassed TCU and Baylor for the selection committee seed.

Ohio State trailed No. 1 Alabama early in the semifinals. But on third-and-long late in the game, Jones threw a 47-yard strike to Devin Smith to give the Buckeyes a lead they would never give up.

In the title match against Oregon, Jones continued to succeed in the big pass comparable to the play of Hyst Mantrophy, Marcus Mariota. With a sticky defense with Powell's 4th-and-GOAL from the goal line, and the relentless drive of Elliott, the inferior Buckyese shook Dachs.

Elliott recorded 246 yards and 4 touchdowns, won the game MVP. At the end of the Alabama match, Powell, who had decided to intercept, was selected as Defense MVP. And Jones solidified the legend of Ohio in just three games-Jake Trotter

Oklahoma Michael Hawkins Jr.

Donnio Jordan is the founder of a 7-7 program based in Denton, Texas, 940 elite. Jordan chased the young general for two years before Michael Hawkins Jr. began to slide from the SEC defenders.

It took me until the spring of 2023 for Jordan to participate in Hawkins in the workout. When Hawkins stepped into the lawn, Jordan calms down the young general and notices the aura that Hawkins is wearing since he was the 18th of Oklahoma University in the Tennessee match on September 21. It took 2 minutes.

"Before he tightened his shoes, he saw it," Jordan, who had been a wide receiver at Stanford University from 2012 to 2015, told ESPN. That kind of player has energy. They do not try to do it. There is just a presence. Mike Hawkins has such a presence. "

Hawkins's calmness and the tendency to pull out the opponent's defender and jump over the short but brilliant start of General Oklahoma's life. In a Cotton Bowl on Saturday, 38 miles away from the high school ground where Jordan worked with Hawkins for the first time, the first grader of Seners will make a history with Red River Rivalry with Texas first.

Hawkins once struggled with the opponent's high school defenders and learned pitching under the guidance of Kailer Murray, the first true Oklahoma 1st base to start in 120 games in this fierce rivals. Become a hand.

"It's a big point to be on the stage," said Hawkins last week. "This is the first time I have played against this team in this field, so this is a big moment for me."

Hawkins's immediate promotion and maturity fruit fell from the Spring and Autumn camp earlier this year. However, ESPN's 2024 class dual thread general was forced to forcibly five former fiv e-star spassers before the halftime against Tennessee last month after pulling Brent Venables Jackson Arnold. , I took over the reins. The calmness of Hawkins was shown when Oklahoma was stabilized in a volunteer match, which could lose 25-15. One week later, when Hawkins became the first career in his career, he jumped into the end zone with an important tw o-point conversion in the 4Q reversal play with 11 points behind. He showed a big success.

"He is a man who bets only by maturity, process, and consistent [view]," VenableS pronounced this week. "How tough time is processed. He has a lot of really good qualities that young players do not have."

This qualities have been revealed in Jordan. From the first workout, Hawkins participated in the 940 elite, Askin Cinnati Quinterback Brendan Sise Bee, Texas Institute of Technology, 1st grade All American Line Bucker Ben Roberts, Arizona's Receiver, and Defense Back Paton A 7-7 program that has produced a player like Hawkins Oklahoma's teammates, such as Bowenandelli Bowen and Tight End Dabon Mitchell, quickly gave an overwhelming sense of presence.

At Frisco Emerson High School, where Hawkins had three years at Allen High School for four years, coach Kendo Miller also found the characteristics of Hawkins. In 2023, Hawkins's 4, 211 yards and 55 touc h-downs, not only physical tools, but also the mirror was also special at the maturity of the quarterback.

"I had the same attitude as the first round in the semifinals." I think he has something. If he finds what he has, get it and give it to many other children. Taihe. "

Before becoming an Oklahoma champion, Hawkins's calm was the driving force of his game. When you stand on one of the biggest stage of college football on Saturday, it may be his biggest weapon "--Erai Radman

Introducing new enemies of conference

These two programs do not know each other at all. In 2017, James Franklin and Penstalheld scored 14 points in the fourth quarter in the Rose Bowl game. Uspecten scored 17 points in the last second, including the final goals, which will be the finals, and has won one of the most exciting bowl games in recent years.

Seven years since then, Nittany Lions, fourth, heads to the west coast, and will play Troyans as a conference rival.

Troy's wooden horse has 1 win and 0 losses in the home game with the Big 10 (winning Wisconsin), and 0 wins and 2 losses (defeated by Michigan and Minnesota).

Nitany Lions is one of the best defense, and the USC offense has focused on neutralizing the trench when playing against a tough opponent. After a cruel defeat in Minnesota, it is not the right play required for Trojan Kima. However, for Franklin teams aiming to advance to playoffs, it may be a tra p-like match that must be avoided.

As Lincoln Lily explained recently, Big 10 games are less possessions, and it's slower than him and trolozans are used to it. Franklin and Pennsylvania are probably more successful in such games than other teams.

Riley claimed that Trojanki would have two more games until 5 wins and 0 losses. That's not a mistake. On the other hand, the two games allowed two losses. The USC is struggling to run a slow game with a small number of plays, a physical game, or a mere travel. After the latest defeat, the ranking to overcome was falling to 11th.

This week, this task will not be easy. Trojins need to win to connect a little hope for playoffs and conferences.

This week's quote

"It is not the ruler of yourself or this program. Their success and our success have nothing to do with them. Their success is not related to our success. We do what we can control by ourselves." -Oklahoma's director Brent Benables. < SPAN> These two programs do not mean you never know each other. In 2017, James Franklin and Penstalheld scored 14 points in the fourth quarter in the Rose Bowl game. Uspecten scored 17 points in the last second, including the final goals, which will be the finals, and has won one of the most exciting bowl games in recent years.

Seven years since then, Nittany Lions, fourth, heads to the west coast, and will play Troyans as a conference rival.

Troy's wooden horse has 1 win and 0 losses in the home game with the Big 10 (winning Wisconsin), and 0 wins and 2 losses (defeated by Michigan and Minnesota).