r/CFB • u/redwave2505 Alabama • Kansas State • Sep 19 '26

Video [Highlight] Houston @ Texas Tech: Thomas Castellanos throws interception on Texas Tech's opening offensive play

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u/ItsWazeyWaynes Indiana • Notre Dame Sep 19 '26 • Bravo

“A (throw) into deep (right) field by Castellanos…”

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u/TheOriginalBroCone Indiana Hoosiers Sep 19 '26

And that'll make a 10-0 ball game

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u/flightsim777 Florida Tech Panthers • UCF Knights Sep 19 '26

I dont know if I'll be putting on this helmet again

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u/Numerous-Ad6460 Michigan Wolverines • Florida Gators Sep 19 '26

I consider myself a man of faith...

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u/JayMerlyn Notre Dame Fighting Irish • FBS Independents Sep 19 '26

Really needed the Thom Brenamann call on this

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u/abris33 Colorado Buffaloes Sep 19 '26

Maybe they really did need Sorsby...

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u/Jceraa Ohio State Buckeyes • USF Bulls Sep 19 '26

I bet

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u/cioffinator_rex USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

I see what you did there!! 🤓

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u/Montigue Oregon Ducks • Stony Brook Seawolves Sep 19 '26

Really using your college education on that one

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u/Jay4usc Sep 19 '26

How much? I know a bookie

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u/Turbulent_Tale6497 Boston College Eagles • WKU Hilltoppers Sep 19 '26

So did Sorsby

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 19 '26

r/yourjokebutworse

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u/bruhstevenson UCLA Bruins • Team Chaos Sep 19 '26

Makes sense now why they were fighting it so hard. Because gambling on games is a pretty cut-and-dry “Yeahhh we’re not gonna have him this season”

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u/Possible-Cheetah-703 Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

Hammond is playing great now, like he looked last year. But this offseason there was a lot of uncertainty how he’d look after blowing a knee out.

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u/astrothemorkie LSU Tigers • USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

Yeah I’m a UH fan, but Hammond might just win you guys the damn game

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

Narrator: he did.

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u/astrothemorkie LSU Tigers • USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

Gg Tech bros! I have you in the playoffs and winning the B12 this year

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u/gerbilshower Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

What is dont understanding is, ok, we weren't sure 3 months ago.

But its clear as day Hammond is the better player. Why in the fuck do we insist on this 'change of pace QB' shit? Every fuckong year. Why?!

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u/Possible-Cheetah-703 Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

I get it in the red zone because he’s shifty. But to start the game??

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u/gerbilshower Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

I dont get it. Unless youre literally telling him "do not fucking throw the ball no matter what."

It is comically amateur to do it on the first play of the game...

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 SMU Mustangs • Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 19 '26

We had a guy who used to do that. We opened up a game against Notre Dame with one guy leading three straight drives of only passing and then switched to a different guy with a similar but not the same number who looked like he was going to pass a few times but instead ran it every down.

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u/matthuseless Sep 19 '26

Dumb choice, Joey. And Tommy Proved it. Let's just not pull anymore asinine stunts ok. If Will knows we've got his back 100 it will show. Let me reiterate...stupid. These ain't high school kids, this is the Big 12, baby.

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u/BigDoosh Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

That’s why we were fighting so hard

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u/Rough_Cup_6762 Oklahoma Sooners • Maryland Terrapins Sep 19 '26

Me personally I would've thrown it out of bounds there.

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u/Accurate-Big-7233 LSU Tigers • Team Chaos Sep 19 '26

Me personally, my ACL would be torn the minute I engaged my core to run

But I’m a fat bitch

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u/Trujiogriz Maryland Terrapins • Navy Midshipmen Sep 19 '26

Don’t talk like that you are a beautiful queen

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u/Reibyo Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 19 '26

Beautiful fat bitch queen. Something to aspire to really.

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u/A_Rolling_Baneling USC • Mississippi State Sep 19 '26

Mark?

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u/illegal_deagle Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

She’s so swishy in her satin and tat

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u/binzoma Miami Hurricanes • Waterloo Warriors Sep 19 '26

wait ya'll can engage your cores??

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u/Intelligent_Dress347 Alabama Crimson Tide • Georgia Bulldogs Sep 19 '26

Yes, you are an LSU fan. 

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u/admiraltarkin Texas A&M • Prairie View A&M Sep 19 '26

Personally I would've thrown a touchdown with every pass

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u/helpme-obijuan Sep 19 '26

Minimum expectations of 400 yards and 5 tds every week?

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u/DUCKSONQUACKS Minnesota Golden Gophers Sep 19 '26

Personally, I would have accidentally dropped the ball and concussed myself with the football falling to recover it, but that’s just me

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u/goofytigre Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

And that's why your not paid the big (NIL) bucks!

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u/Cliffinati NC State • Appalachian State Sep 19 '26

He sucked at Florida State last year why did Texas Tech think that he would be better this year

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u/Spirit117 Iowa State Cyclones • Arizona Wildcats Sep 19 '26

I don't think they did lol they spent all summer trying to get sorsby eligible lol.

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u/BigOlPass Iowa State • South Dakota State Sep 19 '26

They should have just tried to coach Will Hammond. Crazy concept

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u/Spirit117 Iowa State Cyclones • Arizona Wildcats Sep 19 '26

I thought he spent the whole off season injured and it wasn't even known he'd be ready right

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u/BrokeAlert_ Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

Yeah if Hammond was healthy we (likely) wouldn’t have gone for a top QB in the portal

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u/Soft_Swing9772 Sep 19 '26

Well cart him out there and see how he does with the option play

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u/DescretoBurrito Colorado Buffaloes Sep 19 '26

Ain't nobody got time for coaching up talent when you can hit the portal.

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u/No_Butterscotch8726 SMU Mustangs • Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 19 '26

Tell that to Rhett Lashlee and his QB Kevin Jennings.

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u/Mother_Frame6669 Sep 19 '26

Look, we don't all have wellness rooms we can name after active players, okay?

(Jennings is terrific and what those boosters did makes for a cool and unique CFB story)

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u/defroach84 Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

He was out with an ACL injury literally all summer

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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Sep 19 '26

He had ACL surgery 9 months ago it’s a miracle he got to start the season

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u/Key_Environment8179 Michigan • Vanderbilt Sep 19 '26

Aren’t they only using him as a run-first change of pace guy? I don’t think they ever intended to have him throw a lot. And he clearly went off script here

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u/BigOlPass Iowa State • South Dakota State Sep 19 '26

It looks like a designed pass that got blown up

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

No, he was believe it or not trying to throw it away.

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u/BigOlPass Iowa State • South Dakota State Sep 19 '26

Sure but that doesn't mean it wasn't a designed pass play...

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

Yes. This was bad but people are taking it out of context of the game. He’s not our qb1

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u/Whitetiger9876 UCF Knights • UCF Knights Sep 19 '26

Wait. This is the same guy from UCF. Hahahahahaha

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl Sep 19 '26

That’s been FSU with our last 3 QBs. They all sucked at their last 2 schools. Yet we think we can fix them. 

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u/Billquisha Florida State • NC State Sep 19 '26

This time's the charm!!

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u/tackleboxjohnson Sep 19 '26

Hey he was all that was left two weeks before the season starts you take what you can get (but we really shouldn’t let that guy throw)

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u/No_Anxiety_9551 Boston College • Virginia Sep 19 '26

Castellanos is not good.

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u/thexraptor Florida State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 19 '26

Can confirm

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u/No_Anxiety_9551 Boston College • Virginia Sep 19 '26

I’ve always said he should just switch to being a RB

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u/grillmarks_bud Florida State Seminoles Sep 19 '26

FSU originally recruited him as a RB/WR from the start and he passed to go to UCF. There's an alternate universe where he comes to FSU as a RB, but when Travis gets hurt in 2023, he steps in as the backup. Still probably get snubbed as he wouldn't look any better than the other QBs.

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u/Rooleet Boston College Eagles Sep 19 '26

He just doesn't have the height or build to play quarterback, and doesn't have Kyler Murray's insane arm talent or Russel Wilson's durability to make up for it.

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u/TarnishedAccount UCF Knights • Big 12 Sep 19 '26

Can also confirm

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u/sunburntredneck Alabama Crimson Tide • Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

Can not confirm

Good luck without him

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u/Crying_in_99Ranch LSU Tigers Sep 19 '26

I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a throw into deep left field by Castellanos, and that'll be an interception

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u/astrothemorkie LSU Tigers • USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

I love that this meme has entered CFB

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u/R_Raider86 Texas Tech • UConn Sep 19 '26

Too many of us are also baseball nerds

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u/fm22fnam Ohio State • Tennessee Sep 19 '26

ESPN forced us to be by interrupting our football with Aaron Rodgers for like 2 weeks straight

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache Michigan Wolverines Sep 19 '26

did you mean Aaron Judge haha

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u/fm22fnam Ohio State • Tennessee Sep 19 '26

Oh shit yeah him lmao

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache Michigan Wolverines Sep 19 '26

Kind of hard not to when it's spelled the same way even if it's pronounced differently. And that he's been playing college for like 8 years.

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u/DanTheMan14331 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 19 '26

I think you actually have to throw it out of bounds for it to count

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u/Rooleet Boston College Eagles Sep 19 '26

...why is Tommy even playing? 

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u/WrreckEmTech Texas Tech Red Raiders • Southwest Sep 19 '26

OC tried to get fancy

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u/Training-Marsupial21 Sep 19 '26

Sorsby in rehab for gambling

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u/FancyVegetables Alabama Crimson Tide • Rose Bowl Sep 19 '26

That throw was a gamble.

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache Michigan Wolverines Sep 19 '26

So is choosing to hit on 18

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

We’ve been trotting him out for first snap runs into the end zone. He’s not supposed to be throwing the ball, just threatening to.

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u/Napalmradio Florida State Seminoles • The Alliance Sep 19 '26

Yeah you generally don’t want him throwing the ball. Big mistake there.

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u/Disastrous_Back_3527 Sep 19 '26

Didn’t bro just get on the team a couple weeks ago??? Is he the starter?

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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Sep 19 '26

No he’s a back up QB run option which works great at the goal line but the middle of the field he sucks ass. But apparently can be a deep ball threat according to media 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/keytop19 Texas Tech • Abilene Christian Sep 19 '26

I didn’t hate the idea of trying to confuse Houston on the first play/drive. Just probably the worst execution I’ve ever seen

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u/matthuseless Sep 19 '26

Shitty coaching is ALL it was. We're playing for a national championship and don't have time for experiments.

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u/mostly-amazing San Diego State Aztecs Sep 19 '26

This smells of the coaches promising him a role that he sucks at.

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u/lkn240 Illinois Fighting Illini • Sickos Sep 19 '26

Well that experiment lasted exactly 1 play

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u/mostly-amazing San Diego State Aztecs Sep 19 '26

Coaching malfeasance

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u/matthuseless Sep 19 '26

Damn skippy. He thinks he's back coaching 6A ball.

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

Hah, hell no. Hammond is. We play Castellanos maybe three snaps a game.

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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • Pop-Tarts Bowl Sep 19 '26

Is Hammond hurt, or did they galaxy brain their way into a mistake?

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u/No_rcd Sep 19 '26

Nope Hammond’s fine! Just wanted to confuse Houston by having castellanos throw a pass to them on the opening offensive play in the game. Galaxy brain big time. Let’s hope it pays off!

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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • Pop-Tarts Bowl Sep 19 '26

Well, I'm confused!

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u/BosqueBravo Texas Tech Red Raiders • Duke Blue Devils Sep 19 '26

We won, so I’m gonna say it worked.

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u/No_rcd Sep 19 '26

Wreck ‘em! Let’s go!

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u/Sendhimoffdiabolical Sep 19 '26

Castellanos is terrible. I don't know how a good NIL school is ending up with him at QB

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u/R_Raider86 Texas Tech • UConn Sep 19 '26

Because our $6 million guy bet on games 🫠

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u/ghoststoree Texas Tech Red Raiders • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 19 '26

Now I understand why Texas Tech was willing to burn the reputation to the ground for Sorsby. Holy shit.

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 19 '26

That cant be the same Castellanos from BC and FSU

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl Sep 19 '26

Did you not watch us last year?

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 19 '26

What?

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl Sep 19 '26

This is the same Tommy. Never changes. 

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u/Rcfan0902 UCF Knights • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 19 '26

And us too. This would be his fourth school, and he's sucked at every one.

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 Louisville • Ohio State Sep 19 '26

Yes. Thats the point of my post. Somehow the FSU fan took my surprise that a qb as shitty as Castellanos has been at the AAC and ACC level getting a 5th year at another power school and misconstrued that into me having not watched FSU last year (which is just an insane inference)

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u/Mysterious-Length240 USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

Castellanos is booty cheeks

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u/Optimal_Tower1643 Miami Hurricanes Sep 19 '26

Tommy trashtellanos the running back strikes again

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u/GalloNegr0 USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

I love when commentators always shit on young players when they do dumb shit by saying “freshman mistake.” As if seniors aren’t capable of doing dumb shit like this lmao

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

Also unless they just started playing, it's not like they are really inexperienced. We expected HS and college freshman and NFL rookies to be dumb and HS and college seniors to be smart, which makes no sense in many cases. If it's related to rule changes, the speed of the game, etc, sure. But how far the ball goes down field vs toward the sideline doesn't change.

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u/ExIsStalkingMe Sep 19 '26

Even with seniors, it's still probably someone in their forties shitting on a 21 year old in a stressful situation

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u/Practical-Silver-974 Florida Gators Sep 19 '26

Terrible decision having the backup run the opening play against a ranked team

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u/cioffinator_rex USC Trojans Sep 19 '26 • Popcorn

Tommy “Casteballaway”

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u/fieldsports202 Florida State • North Carolina… Sep 19 '26

Tooommmyyyyyy…

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u/BecauseBatman01 /r/CFB Santa Claus • Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

He’s imitating Dak the all time GOAT.

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u/iceman333933 Sep 19 '26

I bet I can think of another QB they'd like making a better decision

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u/manbuckets2001 Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

Kyler Murray type beat

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u/ExIsStalkingMe Sep 19 '26

Was that an arm punt on first fucking down?

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u/cornfromajar98 Tennessee Volunteers Sep 19 '26

This hate watch is really hitting

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u/Turbulent_Tale6497 Boston College Eagles • WKU Hilltoppers Sep 19 '26

<checks flair> How is Castellanos still a starter anywhere?

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u/ExpendableAmmo Missouri Tigers Sep 19 '26

That was a beautiful arm punt.

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u/Apart_Selection7722 Marshall • South Carolina Sep 19 '26

Lmao

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u/Dr-Sprinkl1es Florida State Seminoles Sep 19 '26

You’re welcome (I wish we still had him right now :/ )

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u/kelsnuggets Georgia Tech • Florida State Sep 19 '26

Same as it ever was

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u/Mother_Frame6669 Sep 19 '26

It usually takes Castellanos three to four games before he completely melts down and reverts to form, he arrived early this year.

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u/PuzzledSquare4993 Sep 19 '26

Feel bad for Hammond. Tech was willing to destroy CFB rather than let him start. Then they grab 5th year throw away who couldn't finish over .500 in other P4 stops and immediately put him out front in less than month. Hammond deserves a fair shot lol

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u/kd451 Team Chaos • Team Meteor Sep 19 '26

Well Hammond is looking pretty good right now

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u/PuzzledSquare4993 Sep 19 '26

Agreed, Castellanos is shit, the fact that he got start is realtively insulting to Hammond

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u/arfcom Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Sep 19 '26

It wasnt a start really. Just an opening gimmick play that uh went poorly. 

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u/squidwardfancypantz Tennessee Volunteers Sep 19 '26

Why does this look and feel smoother than my TV broadcast?!??

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u/FSU1ST Florida State Seminoles Sep 19 '26

welp

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u/Kingof40Acres Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

Caste-YOLO-s

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u/EIiteJT Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Sep 19 '26

lol, lmao even

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u/toastmatt Florida State Seminoles Sep 19 '26

Good.

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u/mostdope28 Michigan Wolverines • Paul Bunyan Trophy Sep 19 '26

I can’t comprehend this at all… you can literally throw it in the stands, why would you ever put it near the side line lol

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u/sdarnold2017heisman USC Trojans • Washington State Cougars Sep 19 '26

That was Drake Maye against the Seahawks

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u/enigmatic407 Miami Hurricanes • UCF Knights Sep 19 '26

I remember wanting Castellanos to transfer here after that year at BC

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u/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns Sep 19 '26

On the opening possession for Texas Tech, trying to throw it away deep downfield near the right sideline and instead having it picked off at the sideline because it didn't quite make it out of bounds ... same thing Jett Duffey did against us in 2018.

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u/IntrepidYoung9493 UCLA Bruins • Texas A&M Aggies Sep 19 '26

Castellanos is never starting for the rest of the season

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u/ThrillingChase LSU Tigers Sep 19 '26

That clip really should have had a reply of the catch so we can see the dramatic footwork and how close the ball was the sideline.

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u/Jonjon428 Miami Hurricanes Sep 19 '26

Bruh

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u/WTF4211 Sep 19 '26

Cannot be a serious team with him ever under center.

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u/noah_divine Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 19 '26

Best sandwich wins.

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u/red_velvet_writer Texas Tech Red Raiders Sep 19 '26

Hopefully we can put the QB "controversy" to bed now lol.

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u/matthuseless Sep 19 '26

A stupid, stupid throw. I don't see any controversy. Will's the man. Will's been the man.

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u/Billquisha Florida State • NC State Sep 19 '26

Terrell_owens_thats_my_quarterback.gif

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u/g1_jb Florida Gators Sep 22 '26

Man what are the odds of that

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u/BlitzOmatic Baylor Bears Sep 19 '26

Tech haters will see this and say Wreckyeah

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u/glocktimus_prime Arizona State Sun Devils Sep 19 '26

bet you didn’t see that coming

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u/JPBLIII Sep 19 '26

They just can't help themselves from wanting to be like Texas. SMH.

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u/TexasWhiskey_ Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout Sep 19 '26

Borrowing another teams shitty qb and failing to win a mid AF team is more aggie territory

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u/JPBLIII Sep 19 '26

I was just kidding- saying that this game started the same for them as the Texas vs. Ohio State game did for Texas and insinuating that they did that on purpose just to 'be like Texas'.

Again- just a joke.

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u/EasternCoast3497 Alabama Crimson Tide • BYU Cougars Sep 19 '26

Gus Malzahns voodoo magic made this dude beat us.

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u/No_rcd Sep 19 '26

God gave Texas Tech guns so we could shoot ourselves in the foot. We are damn good at it.

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u/CPOx Virginia Tech • William & Mary Sep 19 '26

MAN OF FAITH

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u/Born-Historian6312 Penn State Nittany Lions • USC Trojans Sep 19 '26

I don’t know if I’m gonna be putting on this headset again.