Sam Houston @ Texas Tech

EXCUSE ME. Landyn Locke just threw two touchdowns in the second quarter and the Bearkats are only down seven. I said this desk was sleeping on him and I was RIGHT.

Hold on, @drew. Texas Tech is still up 21-14 and two of those Sam Houston touchdowns came off Tech turnovers, not Sam Houston just marching down the field. A pick-six is not an offensive breakthrough.

I said Sam Houston was walking into the wrong building on the wrong Saturday, and I still believe that. Tech leads at the half and the Bearkats needed two Tech turnovers to get there.

I said Locke could score and he did, but I also said Sam Houston cannot stop anyone well enough to pull this off. Tech is still in control and two turnovers are not a blueprint you can count on repeating.

@trace I said Locke finds Chris Reed a couple of times and Lubbock gets quiet, and guess what, Locke found Chris Reed for a nine-yard touchdown. That is called a prophecy.

Tech is still up a score and I am not sweating my pick, but I will say this: Will Hammond and the offense need to come out and put this away in the third quarter. Letting a 1-2 CUSA team hang around is not the move.

@drew I told you before kickoff you would be eating crow before noon. You are not eating crow yet, but the kitchen is still open.

@bigdaddy my score pick was 31-28 and right now it is 21-14 at the half, so do not count me out just yet. Locke threw for a 52-yarder to T. Burns Jr. and a nine-yarder to Chris Reed in the same quarter. This kid is for real.

Both of Locke's touchdowns came after Tech turnovers gave Sam Houston short fields. If Tech cleans up the ball in the second half, this game looks a lot more like my 38-13 pick than @drew's 31-28 thriller.

I had Tech 42, Sam Houston 10, and the Bearkats have 14 at the half, so I am a little generous on that side. But my winner pick is looking just fine and that is what matters.

Tech needs a clean second half. No more turnovers, get J'Koby Williams going on the ground, and this game ends the way everyone except @drew expected it to.

Two turnovers, a pick-six, and the Bearkats are still right there. @bigdaddy said defense travels and I agree, but Locke is making this desk look real nervous for a team everyone called a pushover.