Mountain West Football Review: Week Six

fields they were given a few times, and with backup quarterback Jarod Bryant, who rushed for 101 yards and a score.  Air Force actually did do a good job defensively by forcing Navy into four field goals and only one score.

The mistakes were just too much, and it looks like Navy is on to their sixth straight CIC trophy.

 

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TCU came back with a vengeance after getting whacked by Oklahoma last week.  Backup quarterback Marcus Jackson started for the injured Andy Dalton and led the Horned Frogs to this dominant victory.  Jackson only threw for 115 yards, but he led the team in rushing with 131 of the 383 yards TCU racked up on the ground.

TCU’s offense had the ball control in their favor by a whopping 44-minute to 16-minute margin, so it makes sense that San Diego State scored seven points and had just 85 total yards of offense.  This TCU defense is for real, and last week's game just shows how good Oklahoma really is.

TCU held the Aztec rushing game to negative yards and was able to limit a pretty good passing game to 98 total yards.  To top it off, they held the Aztecs to one for 11 on third downs.

This is just as dominant a performance a team could have, and if Andy Dalton is out for any significant time, senior Marcus Jackson is more than capable of leading this team and defeating the top of the Mountain West.

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The Lobos really are the mystery team they have shown in years past, and once again Wyoming is that bad—Joe Glenn better dust off his resume.

The Lobos were not overly impressive offensively as they only passed for 33 yards with backup Brad Gruner, but their rushing game made up for that miscue by gaining 317 yards in the game, all without star back Rodney Ferguson.

The Lobo defense stole the show with three turnovers forced and held the passing game to under 89 yards.  Wyoming has a serious problem at the quarterback position.  This week it was Karsten Sween and no Dax Crum, but it did not matter who was in.  Again, the only bright spot was running back Devin Moore, who managed 74 yards on the ground.

The Wyoming defense did OK given the circumstance of having to defend short fields against a dominant running game and an offense that could not hold the field long enough to give them a breather.

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