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  1. This. Has nobody on this board ever seen massive momentum shifts in football before? UGA was better than us but we stop one of those first 2 4th down conversions and it likely ends up a one score game. Hell, we stop the first one we may have scored and grabbed the momentum and pulled it off. Just look at the damn Aggy game to see crazy momentum swings within a game. That onside kick was an absolute knockout blow and a brilliant call by Kirby.
  2. You get dramatic after a bad loss just like most of this board. Texas is still a top 15 team. Just about everyone in the 10-25 range would have 3 L's and most 4 or 5 playing our schedule. We've played a grand total of 1 power 4 game at home, 1 neutral and 5 on the road. We are still a 1-2 loss team if we played the OSU, Indiana, Aggy or Oregon schedule. Again, people are looking through the lens of expecting Texas to be a top 3 team and win a championship. That's obviously not what this team is. But if you think there are a ton of teams that would be 8-2 right now with our schedule that is just wrong.
  3. I told my family looking for tix to hold off until Friday. We are about as big of a fair weather fan base as there is.
  4. What I'm telling you with current and future parity people need to understand good teams losing 3 games is going to be the norm. The playoff will be expanded to account for that. Saban got out when he did for a reason. Again, I don't really even qualify this Texas team as 'good'. Certainly not complete.
  5. As long as we play our schedule (including a good OOC game) a "good" Texas team is going to fluctuate between 8-4 and 10-2 and no doubt this board will melt down after every loss. This probably isn't even a 'good' Texas team but I don't know how long it's going to take people to adjust to the new realities of college football. It happened to Bama last year. It will absolutely happen to UGA (they won a couple of coin flips this year). It will happen to OSU although they have the benefit of a significantly weaker bottom half of the conference. But it's not a coincidence that the 3 undefeated teams played the weakest conference schedule of the top 10 teams.
  6. I thought the first 4th down call was questionable. But they clearly had a play call they really liked for that situation and it worked. If they ran up the middle or similar there and got stopped it would be Kirby's fanbase shitting all over him. 2nd 4th down call also pretty aggressive and it paid off. But the surprise onside was genius timing IMO. He went for the kill shot and it worked. There was zero chance we were winning that game once they recovered. And he had to feel good where they were at even we recovered at home up 11. That was just a great call.
  7. Exactly. It's parity we are living in. People flat out can't comprehend this is now essentially the NFL. Particularly in the SEC. Edit to add you have to give aggy and Indiana credit though as they made the plays needed to win at the end of the day. Those plays around the margins is what will separate playoff teams. The days of playing your C game and winning by 20 because you can out-athlete most teams are over.
  8. They are very solid on offense. I don't trust this teams psyche after last week and don't really trust our defense (particularly secondary) in any event. 100% a game we could lose if team isn't focused on winning and definitely have my concerns that they will be after that beat down.
  9. You said we've been a punch line for 2 decades completely ignoring we made the final 4 in back-to-back years. That's what I was referring too. It's a disappointing season this year. It happens. We probably should have seen it coming considering how much talent we lost. I'm not saying we would win hypothetical playoff matchups, but to answer your question, of those likely in the field as of today, we would be favored on a neutral field against G5, OU, Big 12 champ, ACC Champ and be within 8 or so everyone else. I obviously wouldn't trust this team against damn near anyone on the road which is where we would obviously play if by some miracle we snuck in. We got our ass kicked last night but people should listen to what Kirby said post-game. He said something to the effect that the margins are so thin you have to push your chips in and be aggressive. He did and they grabbed all the momentum and we had zero chance of recovering. We stop that 4th down and who knows what happens. But we didn't. It was a gutsy call and great play call. And then the surprise onside was a kill shot. At some point just have to tip your cap.
  10. OU has won back to back games with a very low win expectancy. They haven't magically become a world beater. I think 50/50 they lose one of those 2. Still don't think enough happens for us to sneak in because of the way we lost, but it's not zero percent chance either. But regardless, this team isn't good enough or consistent enough to make a big run this year. I just want to hopefully win the next 2, with Manning continuing to take positive steps, and hope we learned some lessons on the roster and make some staff changes.
  11. JFC. This is ridiculous. We've been in the GD semifinal back-to-back years. It's ok to be pissed off about last night and the season without going full retard.
  12. You don't even know where the fucking game is being played. That is the level of discourse we have on this board LOL.
  13. Arch is doing everything he can. 4 drops. Make a god damn play.
  14. Everyone of these refs can fucking kill themselves. What an absolute shit show after the last drive. Seriously. Absolutely unreal
  15. I mean they could have been called for at least 4 fucking holds so far. And we get that BS call on Hill. We're getting out competed and out schemed but if they can do that shit all night and not get called this is just how it's going to go.
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