Size Matters: College Football’s Biggest Offensive Linemen of 2021

[Coach Andy Mac]

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Teams that have experienced shrinkage since ’14 though. North Texas averaged 316.6 pounds per starter then but now the Mean Green have slimmed to 297.2 for an eye-catching drop of 19 lbs. per man. Buffalo averaged 316.4 up front in ’14 but this year the Bulls are an even 300 each.

Louisiana Tech’s average dropped 16 pounds from 313.2 per starter in 2014 to the current 297.6. Tulane’s 313.2 pounds per starting offensive lineman has come down to 300.4 right now under Willie Fritz.

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[SilverEagle]

Interesting. I remember back in 1969 when Texas and Notre Dame played the Cotton Bowl game. Notre Dames all-american DT Mike McCoy was being blocked by a Texas guard that was about 6' X 195 lbs. I can't remember his name.

[greenminer]

36 minutes ago, SilverEagle said:

Interesting. I remember back in 1969 when Texas and Notre Dame played the Cotton Bowl game. Notre Dames all-american DT Mike McCoy was being blocked by a Texas guard that was about 6' X 195 lbs. I can't remember his name.

Sports science is real.  Not just weight training, but nutrition too.  Seems like there is a visible difference in athletes when you live long enough to see across 20+ years of sports.

My memory is fading, but I recall reading something years ago about the Euless Trinity teams that were winning state titles in the 2000s.  The average weight across those high school offensive lines was more than the same position in the 1980s NFL.  Specifically, it compared them to the Washington teams that were SB champs in the 1980s.

[eulessismore]

15 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Sports science is real.  Not just weight training, but nutrition too.  Seems like there is a visible difference in athletes when you live long enough to see across 20+ years of sports.

My memory is fading, but I recall reading something years ago about the Euless Trinity teams that were winning state titles in the 2000s.  The average weight across those high school offensive lines was more than the same position in the 1980s NFL.  Specifically, it compared them to the Washington teams that were SB champs in the 1980s.

Yes, I remember watching some of those Trinity teams, including the one that won their first state championship. Those teams were "run first", and played mostly out the "I" formation, but that year (2005, IIRC), they were playing for the state championship against Converse Judson, who was stacking the box to shut down the run. They were able to pass enough to pull out that win, but they were never a team, at least during that Steve Lineweaver era, that could come back from being down multiple scores late in the game.

I always wondered if those big O linemen were really very good at pass blocking, especially in the playoffs, where they faced stiffer competition from better balanced offenses. Lineweaver said once that he wanted to have a more balanced offense, but they were sort of a victim of their own success at running the ball. They had some highly successful running backs for a while there, and some of them were small enough to be hard for opposing defenses to see, what with vision being obscured by those big "hogs" on the Trinity O line.

I think you can find a lot of college players, even as low as the D3 level, with big offensive linemen. Whether they are quick enough to play at a higher level is another matter. It's good to be big, but big with speed and quickness is better.

 

[untjim1995]

2 hours ago, Coach Andy Mac said:

read more:  https://crescentcitysports.com/size-matters-college-footballs-biggest-offensive-linemen-of-2021/

A little bit of a difference between the offensive mentality of Dan McCarney and Seth Littrell being shown here in this statistic 

[bstnsportsfan3]

This is interesting because I was looking at the roster yesterday and thinking we have some BIG dudes. More 300 pound + guys then I can remember us ever having. I do agree the philosophy between McCarney and Littrell would be a big reason why our OL is different

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

I’m glad we slimmed down because when we were bigger, Mason Fine got slung down like a rag doll. This is the best Oline we’ve had in years.