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  1. 1 minute ago, Horn Dogg said:

    Jacob Rodriguez is the new Dwayne Slay. Remember "meet Dwayne Slay?"  Then when we actually played, he couldn't stay within 10 yards of Billy Pittman because he was too slow.

    Nah. Slay was completely 1 dimensional. All he would be able to do in 2025 is get kicked out of every game for targeting. 

    Rodriguez is not just the highest graded defender against the rush and the pass, he is the highest graded player in college football, period, according to PFF. Also a finalist for the Bednarik, Lott, Lombardi, and Butkus awards for what do they know.

    Also, amusingly, I see/talk to Billy Pittman every week. He's a pretty decent poker player.

  2. Just now, Wulaw Horn said:

    They were ahead of us last week so we have to jump them. I’m curious about the Disney part of the question you didn’t answer. From everyone. I think it’s majority vote but it wouldn’t surprise me if the answer was “none at all” either. 

    I don't have a clue, to be honest. The only person I'm even aware is on the committee at the moment is the Utah AD, and that's only because the Baylor AD decided to make a spectacle of himself and it penetrated my "news I don't care about" bubble. I'm aware of some of the statements they've made but not who made them.

    I don't think the answer can be none at all considering Disney is CFP's primary media partner, but who knows for sure.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    Coworkers?  Laugh.  You mean mom when she brings the meatloaf down?

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    That's some good shit

    4 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    How much say do yall think Disney has in this?  A little bit? A lot?  Majority vote?  No say at all?  
    I promise they don’t want Vandy, Miami or Utah in ahead of Arch and Texas. 

    Utah has no shot at all I don't know why it would even be a conversation.

    The other two shouldn't get in, but we'll see.

  4. 5 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Texas has already beaten three of the teams that these people want to rank ahead of Texas, and two of the losses are from ranked teams.

    Be honest with yourself, if Tech had played those five teams (Ohio State, Georgia, aggy, Vandy, and ousux) would it have fared better than 3-2? Try the same thought experiment with BYU, ND (we already know they can't beat aggy), and Miami.

    As far as any hypothetical matchup directly between Tech and Texas, feel free to disagree but you look ridiculous in the process.

    I don't know who you think you're talking to. I think Texas should be higher ranked and should be in. I'm only pushing back on the notion that you'd be favored by double digits or whatever and beat us by 20+. You want to talk about matchups and yet you want to delude yourself into believe that your objectively below average O-line would roll over our objectively very very good front 7. It's just not happening. There is no analyst or objective metric out there that would agree with you on that take.

    I think it would be a great game and I wish it could happen.

    You guys beating aggy was the easiest pick I've made all year in the office pool. They had played a terrible schedule up to that point, and it was even an inflated one considering the handful of SEC teams on their schedule that lingered around in the rankings that absolutely did not belong there.

    You played OU in Mateer's first game back, when he was clearly still injured, before Venables took over defensive playcalling, etc. That's neither here nor there, because y'all whipped their asses, but I've been saying all year that they fucking suck and so does Alabama, and they're clearly getting far too much credit for that win. It is what it is.

    Vandy has been a paper tiger all year, they've gotten washed by the two competent teams they've played this year. That was the second easiest pick I've made all year.

    I've also said all along that the Ohio State loss shouldn't count at all, and the Georgia game was just one of those games. They're locked in, it is what it is.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    A insecure tech fan coming into a Texas discussion about Texas making the playoffs playing the victim is aggyesque.


    no one gives a flying fucking about the shit hole 12 which is why he’s jumping up and down in front of the big boy school that’s been the CFP semis two years in a row and a school that’s actually won multiple national championships begging to be seen and to prove they are better than everyone else with nothing more than “we’re better because I say so” 

     

    i bet he goes home at night and says “honey can I be on top just this once” 

    Ok Wilcox did your other account get timed out or something? Give mommy her phone back.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Dominating every hypothetical matchup? Yep. Very much aggy from 2012-2023

    Lol if you think I'm the one doing this. I'm pushing back on chainsaw doing this.

    2 minutes ago, BluTechsan said:

    All things being equal - which they aren’t - but you gotta drop two - ND and Miami should go - BYU is at least playing in a CCG 

    Absolutely, fuck ND and Miami. Let Texas in and whoever else and drop them both. In fact, don't ever let ND back in until they join a conference.

  7. 1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    Arch doesn't need much time to make plays, but also, how would you know? There's not a single B1G or SEC team on Tech's schedule. Tech opted to schedule Oregon State, a team that can't even beat Sam Houston in Corvallis. It's safe to say, Tech's front seven has not actually been tested.

    Utah's O-line is way better than yours. They have at least 2 first round draft picks on that line. 

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Is there an objective source that says we wouldn’t be favored over Tech? Personally I’d call it a push until I see Tech play someone with a pulse.

    There are plenty of models out there and I haven't seen one that predicts Texas would be favored on a neutral field. I've been asking for it for hours at this point.

  9. Just now, Rockethorn1978 said:

    Brian fantana: anything anyone on here says is subjective and doesn’t mean jack shit.

    Brian Fantana: here facts about how great tech is from my perspective that outweighs everything any of yall say.

    ok cool. Fuck off and get off our board then stupid pussy. 
     

    you think anyone outside of techtard Lubbock gives a flying fuck about tech and the pussy big 12 schedule they played all season? You’re basically the other mid major like James Madison or unt that gets in the CFP. No one respects the big 12 outside of Lubbock or Utah. Literally no one. So go bang an aids infested Lubbock chick.

    Are you gonna cry? Bitch?

  10. 16 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Chat got has Texas as a 3-5 point favorite when I asked it. I realize Chat is dumb and am not using that as definitive but I counter stupid shot like that off it for a data point and lulz. I think of you asked this question to every SEC fanbase they’d say Texas. My aggy brother said Texas by 10 but he’s so into SEC cool aid it’s not funny. Hes a big dumb dumb but I repeat myself because I already said aggy. 
    regardless, you aren’t going to see the good models Vegas uses. Who in the country do you think Texas is a dog to right now at a neutral site?  

    Again this is all just subjective opinion. I don't care about any of that, at all. Sorry, it's nothing personal.

  11. Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

    Seems like we’re making good progress to the playoff!

    Like I don't understand the weird narratives around here. I think Texas deserves to be in and is good enough to be in, but the problem is the goddamn format is stupid. Like I said earlier, we have, for all of our waking lives, treated D1 CFB postseason as if it's some kind of special unicorn that needs a cutesie setup no other sport has. It doesn't. It doesn't need a shitty system like the BCS, and it doesn't fucking need a compressed playoff. It just needs a normal ass playoff like every. other. fucking. sports. has.

    The argument back in the BCS days against having a playoff at all was that having even one more game would be too much for teams and they would miss too many classes etc, which was obviously bullshit considering D2 had been doing it for decades no problem. Now the national champ will have played 16 games and no one bats an eye about it.

    Whoever proposed a 16 team format without G5 participants at all is right on the money. If we had that, then there is no discussion whatsoever. Texas would be in and we'd all be talking about who was favored over who, who is getting the most favorable matchups, etc etc instead of this nonsense conversation.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    No seriously, I am not sure what counts as a "projection" to you. My opinion is based on the fact that Texas Tech doesn't have the Jimmies or the Joes to compete with elite programs. A team with a good record from a weak conference does not fool Vegas. Why do you think Penn State was heavily favored against Boise last year, even though Boise had a guy with stats comparable to Barry Sanders? I don't have a problem with Tech getting an automatic bid and being the representative from the Big XII. I even think they have a puncher's chance of upsetting a team like Texas A&M if they were to meet. But Vegas would still have aggy favored. SEC teams just have more depth and have been tested more than Tech has. If you think we're just being biased, by all means, test that theory by going somewhere else and asking what they think Vegas would be likely to do and why.

    Find one of the computer models out there. Sagarin, CFB nerds, any of them. Find me one that shows Texas would be favored on a neutral field.

    We're going to end up being favored by 15 over BYU, give or take. Do you think you would be favored by that much or more? You wouldn't be. Flat out. Zero question. You'd be laying probably 6.5

  13. 2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Tell you what, go to secrant or any other board and ask them what they'd set the line at and why. Report back.

    Don't you put that evil on me

    4 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    What does this even mean?

    Also you know exactly what I mean, and why I'm not interested at all in your subjective opinion. It's nothing personal, but I know you understand what I'm getting at.

  14. 5 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I do a lot of gambling and we used to spend an inordinate amount of time guessing lines before they came out so we had opinions on the game. We are arguing over texas being 2.5 or 3.5 favorites over tech on a neutral field. Athlete advantage, coaching advantage and more of a public team. I don’t see any chance tech opens up as the betting line favorite. 
    we have Texas as dogs in any road game we’d play or neutral to Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana (probably- pending next week if OSU chokes them out bc the athlete differential is super great) Domers and Bama. I’d bet on us to beat bama but they’d probably be favored. 
    it’s arguable that aggy would be favored at a neutral site as they were just a 2.5 point favorite but I always believed the computers with us having a greater chance of winning plus the data point we just got. Vegas could run that back as a pick em or slight aggy favorite at neutral site. 
    we have Texas favored over all else in college football. Ole Miss would have been a tough call before Kiffin left.  Now with him gone nah. 

    You understand that no one outside of UT fandom could possibly accept this as an objective take, right?

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