Yes, we played Utah in the dome. The were a WAC team and we beat them like 40-13 or something like that. I can remember they put a cb one on one with Lonell Phea who could run a 4.3. Yeoman throws a pass immediately to Lonell and voila a TD.
Below is the box score of the last Utah vs Houston football game played. It was in the Astrodome on September 23, 1978. Attendance was 30,004. Can we beat that attendance Saturday?
Danny Davis was the starting QB and Delrick Brown came in at QB for mop up duty. Two notables: UH RB Emmett King ran wild in that game, running in the first quarter for over 100 yards. LB David Hodge had a 21 yard pick for a TD.
Below is a newspaper article and the box score from the Ft. Worth Star Telegram that I found on the internet.
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30k was a solid crowd for Utah. Pre-Dempsey days.
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He’s played in 5 games this year. If he were planning to leave, he would probably have made sure he could redshirt this year.
I thought Fritz mentioned early in the season that he’d been banged up. His absence has been weird.
It’s not that weird. The other running backs have played better and out performed him.
It’s weird in that he was so good (but underutilized) last year, and he doesn’t seem to be able to get anything going this year. He hasn’t even gotten many touches, which I assume is because others are better in practice.
Interesting: Houston had five fumbles, three lost.
I guess it goes to show how much better a team Houston was than Utah.
Minus three on turnovers usually guarantees a loss in most matchups.
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Its because we are running a completely different offense from last year.
I get that we’re running a different and worse offense, but there’s something else going on with him. He was good at gaining yards after contact and breaking tackles last year, and that’s not dependent on scheme.
I’ve suspected that it has something to do with blocking assignments. 17 carries over 5 games is definitely not much of a sample size for a dude that averaged almost 5 ypc and never fumbled last year.
But Sneed and Sanford have done a good job, so he’s gonna have to pick it up to get on the field. I hope he sticks it out, because the dude can definitely contribute.
Thanks for jogging my memory. I was there. It was Eric Herring that I saw against the Utah CB who was isolated on him.
Sneed should be seeing 3x the touches he has been getting. Perhaps, I should restate that … “If I were coach, Sneed would be seeing 3x the touches he’s been getting.”
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He has not run through the hole very well this season. He had one pretty good run and think he’s averaged around 1ypc otherwise.
He’s also not pass-blocked well enough and that’s a point of contention with the staff. He came in to pass block against Kansas and gave up a sack on his first snap - I don’t think he saw the field again after that.
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Limiting Sneed keeps him fresh, limits his risk of injury, and provides a change of pace. Plus it gives valuable snaps to the other RBs. They all need experience in blocking to get better.
Lord knows the RBs need to block well.
Utah has changed QB’s and OC, if the defense plays well we can get the win.
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Why is Parker Jenkins not getting any playing time?
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This would be a good time for our defense to get on the scoreboard. 
Maybe because the other RB’s are “eating his lunch”…
Sneed & Stanford have been way more efficient with making plays with the chances they’ve been given compared with what PJ has been doing (when they put him in).
Even freshmen like Burnette & the other guy (forgetting his name rn) have been able to gain yards after contact.
Also, idk but CWF says he pays close attn to how players play during practice, so maybe there’s something to that as well? I’m heavily speculating with this last one tho.
EDIT: CWF tends to prefer RB’s that can block & catch. Although our RBs have all been inconsistent with that, PJ isn’t the best at that…this is where I really miss McCaskill 
he was great at blocking for Tune that one yr he was playing here.
It’s game day!
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