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Texas Wesleyan Rams......NAIA school near downtown Ft Worth....enrollment about 2200...stadium capacity about 2500 seats and 4000 with berm and standing areas...program restarted in 2016 after 76 years without football....

Season to date: 6-2/6-2; 2-2 on road

Arizona Christian, W 35-28...the Firestorm are 6-2....
@Oklahoma Panhandle, W 49-20...Aggies are 4-6
@Ottawa University Arizona, L 31-45...the Spirit are 6-1
Wayland Baptist, W 63-7....WB is 2-6
@Southwest Assemblies of God, W 38-33 ...SWG is 6-3
@Langston, L 31-42.....Lions are 7-1
Louisiana College, W 56-39....LC is 3-6 but beat 7-1 Langston
Texas College, W 69-18.....the Steers are winless....

After UCA they travel to Batesville to end season at Lyon College.....

https://ramsports.net/sports/football/roster/coaches/joe-prud-homme/1903

Link has good summary of the restart and head coach....27 yrs coaching in Texas high schools most recently at Nolan Catholic in FW....

Woah...their offense is putting up some numbers. 69, 63, 56, 49...nice!

Hopefully they will be more of a threat than Mo. Western was...

Texas Wesleyan game stats by opponent (TW rush yds, pass yds, total; Opponent rush,pass, total):

Arizona Christian: 245/184/429 vs 140/345/485
OK Panhandle: 253/131/384 vs 39/200/239
Ottawa AZ: 117/291/408 vs 142/259/401
Wayland: 199/336/535 vs 39/149/188
SAG: 173/154/327 vs 195/224/419
Langston: 56/192/248 vs 193/312/505
La College: 274/342/616 vs 132/280/412
Tx College: 222/242/464 vs 125/179/304

Avg: 192/256/448 vs 126/244/370

Avg score: 47-29

Pretty high octane offense in points and yardage....notable run defense....think I would see what Langston did on both sides of LOS to hold down TWU offense and get >500 yds offense themselves.....

TWU has played several QBs but the main QB has been 5'11 180 RS SO Dalton Dale out of Mesquite, TX.....looks like he runs 7-10 times per game and has a few long runs of 30-45 yds but mostly sort......spreads ball around among numerous RBs and WRs....

Caught my eye that their defense has 14 INTs to its credit...punt returners avg 15+ per return...NAIA stats link below.....may take a little long to load....

https://naiastats.prestosports.com/sports/fball/2021-22/teams/texaswesleyan?view=gamelog

We threw the ball UP the field.

Why can't we do that against FCS competition?

TW DBs could not keep up with our WRs speed wise and it looked like we had a huge height advantage.....still they seemed to dare us to throw it deep with all the pressure they tried to run....left their DBs isolated.....

Having said that, I especially liked the route that Enloe scored on...he ran a somewhat pedestrian route down the right side then drifted to an open spot and got behind the DB....not sure whether that was the play design or he just ad-libbed and Breylin saw him....either way it worked well...

Whether we throw downfield, posts, slants, sidelines, fades et all I wish we would be less predictable...we (and other teams) have a habit of following up a good run with tempo that runs the exact same play but for 2 yds instead of 15...

I just wonder if we are going to see something special for Cameron Myers (he looked really good on the KO return)..also, Bowers showed what we saw in high school in being able to throw and run well....that offers an opportunity for a few special plays that defenses have not seen......I also remember a play where Jack Short ran a seam route I had not noticed earlier in season....might have been on one of the bombs Breylin threw but Jack was very open...

Congrats to #3...well deserved....pretty sharp even with a lot of pressure coming at him...

University of Central Arkansas quarterback Breylin Smith was named the ASUN Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.

Smith, a junior from Conway, Ark., completed 13 of 17 passes for 410 yards and five touchdowns, all in the first half, in UCA's 63-3 victory over Texas Wesleyan on Saturday at First Security Field at Estes Stadium. Smith, who tied his career high with the five touchdown passes, completed scoring tosses of 30, 93, 54, 80 and 25 yards to a combined four different players.

The Bears rolled up a season-high 664 yards of total offense, the fourth highest total in school history and most since 2007. UCA won its 18 Homecoming game in the past 19 years.

The award was Smith's third of the season and the 17th for the Bears through nine games in their inaugural season in the ASUN.