He also has thrown for 15 touchdowns and just two interceptions on the season. Dillon Gabriel has been on a heater, averaging 369.7 passing yards – the third in the FBS – over the past three games. Texas ranks second in the nation in defensive TRACR, while the Sooners are seventh in offensive TRACR. Things should be just as interesting when Oklahoma has the ball. The rankings, along with projected record, probability of running the table and chances of becoming a bowl-eligible team, are being updated throughout the season on our TRACR college football rankings page. The model, which is trained on over 10 years of data, is based on an EPA (expected points added) calculation weighed by who teams play.Ī team with a TRACR of 0.0 is considered an average team in the FBS. TRACR ( Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster) is a net efficiency metric that evaluates how well a team performs based on who it plays.

They rank just 38th in defensive TRACR against the pass.

Now he’ll face an Oklahoma defense that has given up just 10.8 points per game, which is tied for the fourth fewest in the country.īut while Sooners are stout against the run, ranking fourth in defensive TRACR, they’ve been vulnerable through the air. The Texas QB threw for 289 yards and four TDs with one interception in that rout and he’s thrown for 10 scores and just one pick so far this season. Bijan Robinson is no longer around to torment Oklahoma after the eventual NFL Draft pick ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns in that meeting, but Quinn Ewers will be. 5 in TRACR after a 50-20 win over Iowa State, had won four straight in this rivalry before getting trounced 49-0 at the Cotton Bowl last season. 3 Texas (5-0) on Saturday in a battle for supremacy atop the Big 12. Perhaps the biggest college football game of the weekend is the Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, where No. We’re breaking down some of the biggest movers in our top 25 and revealing our TRACR projection model’s college football picks for the biggest matchups.

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