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  1. Meaningless game that everyone had marked as a loss just yesterday. We were never going to get #1 seed because we lost to Arizona early and that fucked it all up. So- you gotta win playoff game on the road… same as it ever was. Your chances of reaching the nfc championship game are the same as they were yesterday. Actually better I guess because the Boys qualified for the playoffs. Buffalo played like a desperate team that wanted to send a message. The other team flat out didn’t want to get off the plane. Not sure how that happens in the nfl, but apparently it does, and not just to us. Who cares tho, Bills are still all time record setting historical losers. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, that's a good point.  Was talking with my gambling addicted cousin and we laughed about that scene in "Casino" where Pesci is describing how Ace Rothstein knew every little angle about college football games.  QB's dating situation, who was the referee, wind speed, etc.  And that was in the 60's and 70's, long before internet and cell phones.  And then all the info became readily available to the average joe, casual gambler 20-25 years ago.  And still, the spreads remain the same, the house still wins, and there's still degenerates.  But it's yet another new age where players come and go or sit out, most of which occurs after the initial spreads are put out.  Bowl season used to be a haven for smart money, and even my dumbass made a few bucks.  But now?  It's a another brave new world and nobody knows nothing about nothing again.  

    When speaking with students in b-school about trends and unicorns and all that cliche shit.  I'd tell them...the original 'crowd-sourcing' in America was sports betting point spreads.  That's all it ever was.  It wasn't a measure of how much better a team was, it was how much money thought this way and how much money thought that way, and in between there was some action for the small business (aka, "The House" or "The Book"), and they were just market makers.  That's it.  That's all it is.  USA Today didn't achieve its peak circulation because of the fun graphics and colorful photographs.  They made it because it was the one uniformly available newspaper in every single town in the United States.  People literally got whacked over differences in spreads according to different papers when the advent of calling cards and cell phones came along in the 1990s.  Finally, it was tacitly agreed upon that whatever USA Today printed as the spread in the back of their sports page each Friday (for NCAA & NFL) would be the gold standard because everybody could see it for $.50-$1.50.  So circulation spiked because every armchair QB and sportsbar patron bought a Friday and Monday copy every single week for a decade.  And that, as they say, was that.  

    I read this in the voice of Ray Liotta

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  3. 7 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Excellent! 2036 is the Texas Bicentennial. 

    I hope the renovations help with getting people into and out of the stadium in a quicker fashion. Would help to get all the shit out of the way around the main entrances and keep Gameday somewhere other than right in front. 

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    Yeah they omitted the 350 people standing in line at fletchers at that point. I swear, if they get rid of tickets, it all moves faster. I’m usually hammered at 9 am and seeing double and thus trying to only use half the tickets and getting into an argument with a poor old retiree that’s just doing his job. 

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  4. 3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Excellent! 2036 is the Texas Bicentennial. 

    I hope the renovations help with getting people into and out of the stadium in a quicker fashion. Would help to get all the shit out of the way around the main entrances and keep Gameday somewhere other than right in front. 

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    I love the slow clogged exit when we win. I hate it when we don’t. OU sucks. 

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  5. 18 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Penix averaged 5.3 yards per pass attempt against us last year, and his production this year is heavily skewed by racking up huge numbers against garbage OOC teams and the worst PAC 12 teams.  Before the Oregon game, he had just played two bad games in a row against Washington State and Oregon State.  

    I’m not saying it’s a cakewalk, but Washington’s offense against good teams is not anything special.  It’s not like having to play Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson.  We lost last year because we had zero rushing offense (and players sitting out), and we let them pop a big run.  They didn’t carve up our secondary, and we are a much, much better team this year in every way except for RB (which, again, Bijan and Roschon didn’t even play against them anyway).

    And we dropped touchdown passes. 

  6. 2 hours ago, chemHORN said:

    The same can be said for the PAC12 in my opinion.  A few were ranked high to start the season.  Nobody in the Pac 12 played anybody in OOC play and they won all of them giving way more of them lofty rankings than deserved. (Oregon Beat Tech by 1 score and probably should've lost that game). Then they just played each other with those lofty rankings and made it look like they were good.  I said it earlier in this thread but I think we will find out in the playoff that the Pac12 were frauds this year.  

     

    Edit: Utah barely slid by a bad Baylor team too. 

    True. I remember pulling for Oregon to win against Tech just for Yormark spite. That was dumb. 

  7. I really doubt GA loses to Bama. They will be there.

    PAC-12 champ will be in. Other one out. 

    Michigan will “destroy” Iowa something like 20-3. They’re in. Ohio St doesn’t play, so they get no bump. Not in.

    If Florida State beats Louisville by 20. They are in. If they lose, they are out. If they win by 1 on a last minute Hail Mary, the internet will break, but they are likely in. And they get beat by 20-30 in 1st round. 

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Constant said:

    Y’all finally score more than 40 points in a game and all hell breaks loose. 

    But we haven’t given up more than 40. 

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  9. 31 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Yet they beat TCU like a rented mule and TCU took you to the wire. why wErEn’T yOu dOmINaTE?

    Beauty contest are all eye of the beholder shit. Yes Oregon and Texas share a similar opponent. Two months apart. That’s a life time in football, and everyone can pick nuts with every one else’s schedule. I guess we should discount the fact Oregon just blew the wheels off a ranked opponent that took the #5 team to the fucking wire last week. 

    Tcu scored 45 points, yeah?

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