Matt Linscott: LB · Tulsa · #38.
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Matt Linscott
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. Two seasons in the Tulsa linebacker corps to date. On tape: 12 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against SMU, Week 6, 2016.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
80 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 11 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-10vs San José State | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-48@ No. 4 Ohio State | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 58-21vs North Carolina A&T | 8 | 4 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 48-41@ Fresno State | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 43-40vs SMU | 12 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 7 | L 31-38@ No. 13 Houston | 10 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 50-27vs Tulane | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 59-30@ Memphis | 5 | 5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 45-24vs East Carolina | 6 | 3 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 11 | L 40-42@ Navy | 9 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 35-20@ UCF | 6 | 5 | 4.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 4.0 TFL |
| Wk 13 | W 40-37vs Cincinnati | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
 Bowl | W 55-10vs Central Michigan | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 80 | 46 | 11.0 | 3.0 | — | 3 |
Week 10 · 2016
W 45-24
2 sacks · 2 tackles for loss · 6 tackles
Dominant 21-point win at home against East Carolina.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
80tackles this seasonTFL rate
14%11 TFLSack rate
4%3 sacksPD rate
4%3 pass breakups80 tackles · 11 for loss · 3 sacks.
2 seasons under Philip Montgomery, all run-leaning, fast tempo offenses — 16-10 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Road6g | 6.5 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 6.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Philip Montgomery
Pass share
40.5%
448 pass / 658 run
Plays / game
85.1
13 games
Team sack rate
4.7%
488 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2016
80 tackles in 13 games, about as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Tulsa, 80 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Bill Blankenship → Philip Montgomery. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
