4A North Half Preview Louisville vs Houston

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It is getting late in the evening. It is now at a point where you win or go home. Let's see who the teams will be to make it to Oxford this season.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Houston</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Houston took a big loss to the Wildcats earlier during this season. The final score was 50-6. A lot of Houston fans were shock that they took that kind of loss to Louisville. [player_tooltip player_id='161267' first='Jalen' last='Washington'] was the only player that found a real spark for Houston. Houston is going to need to slow the game down against Louisville. Things cannot get out of hand early the way they did earlier in the season. [player_tooltip player_id='311644' first='Will' last='Echoles'] is going to have to be a dog on both sides of the football. He cannot get tired playing both ways during this game. They need to make sure [player_tooltip player_id='1217436' first='Jayden' last='Knox'] is involved a lot of plays this game as well.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>They are going to also be looking for Washington and Echoles to be making big plays on defense. They also have [player_tooltip player_id='910013' first='Doug' last='Jones'] who does a great job of stuffing holes on defense. They are going to need these guys to be some dogs. They are going to have to find a way to slow down this Louisville offense.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Louisville</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Wildcats are going to be doing some of the same things they were doing the first time they played Houston. They are going to do a lot of running behind their very talented offensive line. It won't be hard for them to stop what Houston plans to do on offense. They did it with ease in Houston earlier this season. We all know that Xavier Hunt and Deniro Jackson were hooking up in the air a lot when they played Houston the first time this season. [player_tooltip player_id='402110' first='Xzarion' last='Haynes'] is a spark that is going to be big for Louisville. Him and Jykevious Goss both returned kickoffs against Houston when they played the first time this season.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Louisville defense is going to be on a roll as usual. Expect TayQuon McKinney to be leading this bunch as well as Corxavier Coleman and [player_tooltip player_id='1127558' first='JaCari' last='Owens']. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->