Grading the Storylines

Source: Tulsa World, Okla.迷你倉出租Aug. 30--In Thursday's Tulsa World, Bill Haisten listed three Golden Hurricane storylines for the Tulsa-Bowling Green game. Here are Haisten's grades on how TU performed in those key areas:The effect of Nelson's suspensionTulsa was without its most experienced defender as senior safety Demarco Nelson -- a veteran of 39 starts -- was suspended due to an academic issue. The Hurricane offense entered with seven returning starters, while the Hurricane defense played with seven first-time starters -- and yet the TU defense had a better game overall, particularly in defending against the pass. Bowling Green finished with 396 total yards, but Falcon QBs Matt Schilz and Matt Johnson were below average in the passing game -- a combined 12-of-28 for only 163 yards. Tulsa's primary problem was its run defense. The Falcons rushed for 233 yards and three TDs, averaging 4.4 yards per attempt.Can Tulsa's rebuilt line hold up against an excellent Falcon defense?With three new starters (Garrett Stafford at left tackle, Gabe Moyer at center, Davis Walton at right tackle), the Hurricane was OK on pass protection. There were 41 pass attempts, and Bowling Green -- a team that ranked among national sack leaders last season -- managed only one sack for minus-2 yards. Time will tell whether this Falcon defense is good or really, really good, but TU got next to nothing when attempting to run the football. Last season, Tulsa averaged 245.7 rush yards per game. The stat of the night -- Tulsa ran for only 51 yards against Bowling Green. TU averaged only 2.1 yards per attempt and never had a ground gain of more than 7 yards.Cody Green's accuracyLast season, Tulsa quarterback Cody Green completed 54 percent of his passes. Against Bowling Green, he completed 50 percent. Last week, Hurricane coach Bill Blankenship said, "... The 15-yards-and-under passing game, where we can dink it and dunk it around -- we're much improved in that area. The chemistry between (Green) and the receivers -- there's no question that we're much improved there." But against a Bowling Green squad that last season was No. 6 nationally in total defense, the chemistry was shaky. TU receivers fairly consistently got open (particularly, it seemed, in the middle of the field), but there were just too many errant passes. Some underthrown, some overthrown.FIRST QUARTERTulsa 0 -- 0Bowling Green 3 -- 3Key play: Tyler Tate knocks home a 34-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead. Bowling Green drive died at TU 16.Key stat: In his first in-game attempt at TU, Carl Salazar missed 37-yard field goal wide right. The drive was kept alive by 37-yard pass to Jordan James.Number to know: 1. Cody Green got off to a slow start, hitting just 1 of his first 5 passes.SECOND QUARTERTulsa 0 0 -- 0Bowling Green 3 3 -- 6Key play: An 18-yard scramble by Bowling Green quarterback Matt Johnson kept alive scoring drive just before half.Key stat: Cody Green was 9-of-20 for 116 yards in first half. Four of those completions were swing passes to running back Trey Watts.Number to know: 2. Tulsa has missed two short field goals. Bowling Green has made two short field goals. That's the first-half difference.THIRD QUARTERTulsa 0 0 0 -- 0Bowling Green 3 3 7 -- 13Key play: Bowling Green hit a 19-yard pass on third down to convert what was a first and 25. Then, the Falcons followed with a 37-yard run.Key stat: One fake punt for TU; one failed fake punt for TU.Number to know: 6. That's how many plays it took Bowling Green to drive 75 yards for TD to open half and take 13-0 lead.FOURTH QUA迷你倉TERTulsa 0 0 0 7 -- 7Bowling Green 3 3 7 21 -- 34Key play: Where do we begin? Fumbled punt. Punt returned for TD. We'll vote for crushing TD at start of quarter following failed fake punt.Key stat: 16 and 8. That's how far the clinching drives were for Bowling Green following a failed fake punt and fumbled punt.Number to know: 27. Only good thing all night for Tulsa. A 27-yard TD pass from backup Dane Evans late in the game and TU trailing by 34 points.STATISTICSTulsa 0 0 0 7 -- 7BOWLING GREEN 3 3 7 21 -- 34A: 18,142FIRST QUARTERBG: Tyler Tate 34 FG, 3:29SECOND QUARTERBG: Tate, 28 FG, :02THIRD QUARTERBG: William Houston 1 run (Tate kick), 12:09FOURTH QUARTERBG: Houston 1 run (Tate kick), 13:52BG: Houston 1 run (Tate kick), 7:34BG: Ryan Burbrink 67 punt return, 6:48TU: Derek Patterson 27 pass from Dane Evans, :45TEAM STATISTICSTU OPPScoring 7 34First downs 12 23by rushing 2 13by passing 9 9by penalty 1 1Rushing yards 51 233Passing yards 222 163Offensive plays 65 81Total yards 273 396Avg. per play 4.2 4.9Kick returns-Yds 2-130 7-409Punt returns-Yds 3-15 3-76Interceptions-Yds 1-11 0-0Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-Yds 4-25 6-45Punts-Avg. 7-38.1 7-39.33rd downs 6-17 3-134th downs 0-2 3-13Sacks by-Yds 1-3 1-2INDIVIDUAL LEADERSTulsaY/A=Yards/attempt; Y/G=Yards/gameRUSHING No. Yds TD LgJ. Douglas 12 27 0 7C. Green 5 16 0 7T. Watts 4 11 0 7K. Lucas 1 5 0 5D. Evans 1 2 0 2C. Way 1 0 0 0PASSING C-A Yds Int TDC. Green 17-34-0 172 0 0D. Evans 3-7-0 50 0 0RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgK. Garrett 5 54 0 20T. Watts 5 33 0 16J. James 3 58 0 37D. Patterson 3 45 1 27J. Douglas 2 2 0 2T. Wilson 1 15 0 15K. Lucas 1 15 0 15PUNT RETURNS No. Yds Avg. TDT. Watts 3 15 5.0 0KICK RETURNS No. Yds Avg. TDT. Watts 3 66 22.0 25K. Lucas 1 29 29.0 29D. Walker 1 23 23.0 23Z. Langer 1 2 2.0 2PUNTING No. Yds Avg. I20D. Parks 2 67 33.5 1C. Way 5 200 40.0 0KICKING FG-A Long PATC. Salazar 0-2 0 1-1TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksM. Mudoh 6 11 17 0 0M. Osborne 4 7 11 1 0T. Martin 4 6 10 2 1B. White 6 3 9 0 0D. Walker 5 1 6 1 0S. Jackson 5 0 5 0 0B. Todd 1 3 4 0.5 0D. Dobbins 3 0 3 0 0D. Luetjen 0 3 3 0.5 0H. Carman 2 0 2 0 0J. Sizelove 1 1 2 0 0C. Hummingbird 1 1 2 1.5 0C. Buehner 0 2 2 0 0S. Norman 1 0 1 0 0A. Mcdaniel 1 0 1 0 0M. Linscott 1 0 1 0 0J. Brubaker 1 0 1 0 0C. Rahmings 0 1 1 0.5 0J. Brady 0 1 1 0 0D. Jennings 0 1 1 0 0W. Barrow 0 1 1 0 0BOWLING GREENY/A=Yards/attempt; Y/G=Yards/gameRUSHING No. Yds TD LgT. Greene 22 96 0 12M. Johnson 9 53 0 18R. Moore 2 42 0 37W. Houston 10 29 3 8F. Coppet 8 30 0 9PASSING C-A Yds Int TDM. Johnson 11-23 151 1 0M. Schilz 1-4 12 0 0RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgS. Joplin 2 40 0 21C. Gallon 3 31 0 14T. Beck 2 25 0 13R. Burbrink 2 24 0 12R. Moore 1 18 0 18C. Pohlman 1 13 0 13A. Bayer 1 12 0 12PUNT RETURNS No. Yds Avg. TDR. Burbrink 3 76 25.3 67KICK RETURNS No. Yds Avg. TDR. Moore 1 29 29.0 0PUNTING No. Yds Avg. I20B. Schmiedebusch 7 275 39.3 4KICKING FG-A Long PATT. Tate 2/2 34 4/4TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksB. Gates 5 2 7 1 0C. Truss 5 2 7 0 0P. Swan 3 4 7 0.5 0D.J. Lynch 2 3 5 0 0R. Goble 1 4 5 1 0R. Ward 3 0 3 0 0K. Montgomery 3 0 3 1 1B. Thomas 2 1 3 1 0R. Moore 1 2 3 0 0G. Martin 2 0 2 0 0A. Foster 2 0 2 0 0J. Ford 2 0 2 0 0P. Senn 1 1 2 0 0J. Campbell 0 2 2 0.5 0C. Brown 1 0 1 0 0C. Gallon 1 0 1 0 0J. Hopgood 1 0 1 0 0Z. Colvin 1 0 1 0 0C. Pohlman 1 0 1 0 0G. Hohenstein 0 1 1 0 0T. Ouellet 0 1 1 0 0V. Osborne 0 1 1 0 0B. Sutton 0 1 1 0 0W. Watson 0 1 1 0 0Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) Visit Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) at .tulsaworld.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉