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1buffdog said... (original post) That should have been handled in the coaching room in the week leading up to the game. It was known the Owls used a modified triple option. It’s l... show more It is hard to simulate an offense like that no matter how good your film study is. Many of Rice’s big plays came outside the structure of their normal offense (think those long qb runs on passing downs). Maybe the players were a bit out of position, but that happens. And that QB was a much better athlete than I think anybody understood. By the end of the game he was physically spent; if he has another game or two like that, he’s going to be in a bad place. Finally, there were a small handful of impactful plays where Rice just got dumb lucky and/or made plays that I don’t think they made all season. There were 1 or 2 very lucky grabs by their WRs that they consistently missed against WMU.