What Championship Offenses Do Every Day
Dec 07, 2025 6:00 pm
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It’s been a fun season and it’s all boiled down to the release of the CFP rankings today!
Yesterday was a dominant Championship Weekend, and we saw two great programs book their spot in the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Georgia Bulldogs. These two programs are different: one winning their first championship and the other who’s seemingly in the mix every single year.
But one of their similarities: they have excellent teachers as coaches.
“One Tiny Detail”
Texas Tech’s first year OC, Mack Leftwich, helped lead the Red Raiders to their first ever Big 12 Championship appearance and win. A big reason his offenses have had success is because he’s great at simplifying concepts for his players, allowing them to play fast.
A base concept from his offense is the slot option.
And a couple years ago at THSCA, he broke down how he teaches his quarterbacks to steal clarity pre-snap and then play with full conviction post-snap. It’s simple, but it’s why his passing game travels: Identify leverage. Own the matchup. Deliver on rhythm.
Nothing fancy. No magic call. Just a repeatable process that lets your QB play fast and your receivers stay on schedule.
And that’s the theme of Leftwich’s entire system: precision disguised as simplicity. You’ll hear it as he talks through progression rules, formation answers, and how he trims the menu so the quarterback never hesitates.
It’s one thing to know how to draw a play up. It's another to know the tiny
details that turns a five-yard gain into scores.
You can watch him detail his teaching progression in the video below.
“Physicality”
The same philosophy of precision disguised as simplicity applies to the entire offense, including the "Quick Touches" screens that drive his tempo.
Leftwich says these screens are critical for two reasons:
Great Drive Starters: They steal easy yards, which is huge, because once his offense gets one first down, they score points on 60-70% of those drives.
Get-Back-On-Schedule Plays: They save drives by turning an ugly 2nd-and-12 into a manageable 3rd-and-short.
But that execution is built in one simple, daily period he calls the Perimeter Drill.
And the drill is more about culture than it is about the schemes being run. The drill is set up so the defense knows the screen is coming and plays downhill.
He uses it to force his receivers (who he calls the "prima donnas") to prove they are "going to be tougher than you" on the edge.
If your wideouts can get yards in practice when the defense is waiting for the screen, game day will be easy.
Watch the video below to learn more:
“Eye’s Up, See the Hit”
Georgia is a team built on running the football and winning the line of scrimmage.
The Counter Play is the backbone of that physicality, forcing second-level defenders to commit.
But Georgia OL Coach Stacy Searels knows that great run blocking isn't just about footwork and strength. It's about Vision.
The most game-changing drill he teaches isn't about power, it's about coaching their eyes.
Searels has his linemen running a pull drill that works two things at once:
Eliminate the False Step: A three-whistle command sequence ensures every puller drives off the back foot correctly.
Train the Eyes: While they are sprinting and pulling, he flashes a number. Every single lineman must call that number out as they run.
Why the number? Because a lineman with his head down can't hit the right target. You need your players to see what they're going to hit.
It’s one small drill that creates the kind of mental discipline that defines a champion's running game.
Watch the video below to see the drill and Searels’ full teaching progression for the Counter:
These are the tiny, high-leverage coaching points that separate great programs from good ones. You can get the complete breakdown of both of these championship-winning systems right now in these three clinics:
Mack Leftwich - Quick Touches and Screens
Stacy Searels- Effort the Georgia Way
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