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  1. People want to find a silver lining, want to see a positive trajectory. Being a sports fan is, at its core, escapism, so the natural bias is toward optimism.
  2. Ding ding ding This board is composed of degenerates. Most people check in and out a few Saturdays a year.
  3. West Virginia is not going 8-1 in Big 12 play. A couple close wins over other middle of the pack Big 12 teams are being blown way out of proportion.
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    Outcoached

    That’s a ridiculous statement. In that clip you see that there’s not a hand on the facemask until Worthy is maybe 6” off the ground. He was going down regardless. It was A LOT of facemask and should have been called for that reason - but it was immaterial to the outcome of the play and it is hard to have a whole lot of pity for Texas given the display of incompetence that goal like sequence was as a whole.
  5. I think he probably eeks out a better record by a game or two in 2021. The defense would have been better and that alone means they probably don’t lose to Kansas. Probably wins a shit tier bowl game to go 7-6/8-5. If not fired then the seat is scorching hot. Side note - All that assumes Ehlinger doesn’t come back. I don’t know know how his decision was impacted by the coaching change. I do wish he’d have stayed for a year under Sark in hindsight. Would have been a much more enjoyable transition season. After that, yeah, no. 2022 with Herman would have been an absolute disaster and he’d be all but fired after the Bama game. He was fired for a reason. Think of it this way (not specifically to you but to the thread at large): whatever you think of Sark and his body of work now, it was an extremely questionable hire at the time it happened. There was not a slam dunk candidate floating around out there. Firing Tom Herman to do that was still the right choice and I don’t think anyone seriously argues that. That’s how bad he had to go.
  6. gmr548

    Outcoached

    Pfft. Let’s talk when you can DL 600 reps of 200 pounds.
  7. gmr548

    Outcoached

    I made the mistake of engaging immamac on this nonsense. Don’t do the same.
  8. So unlikely it’s not worth worrying about
  9. Yeah, to clarify, that wasn’t a value judgment.
  10. This. Yeah you could theoretically drop a dime to Worthy for a TD there but also the easy first down to Sanders was there, it was just a half second late. Whole play just looked tentative.
  11. The defining trait of his career is chasing the bag. He gone.
  12. Pot, meet kettle. I am saying with the plethora of fuck ups they trotted out there themselves, it is likely not.
  13. There is a 0% chance that a 12-1, Big 12 champion Texas that hung the “1” on a 12-1 SEC champion misses the playoff. That is honestly the best scenario possible for Texas. The Alabama win would be so strong in that scenario. I think Texas/Bama both get in in that scenario. Only two 1-loss P5 champs have ever been left out. One fell victim to helmet school bias and the other got blasted by 30 by a 6-6 team. I don’t think Texas is going to win out, personally, but the hand wringing over playoff chances if they do is dumb.
  14. I mean do we not all believe that?
  15. You guys are leaving out where I said “unless OU loses a couple conference games.” I don’t think their 2018 title is hollow - quite the opposite. They finished ahead of Texas outright in a round robin format. That the game even existed was stupid money grab/attempt to maximize CFP chances. Conversely, their 2020 title is a joke. ISU beat them H2H and finished ahead. Does anyone feel like losing the Big 12 CCG diminished TCU’s season last year? If we show up with an equal or worse record in the conference standings and win it fees a bit arbitrary is all I’m saying. You get the title because you won this neutral site game instead of that one. Of course I still want the opportunity for revenge even if that’s the case. I don’t think the NFL is comparable because it’s a completely different structure and level of play. It would be like if the Cowboys got to play the Eagles this year in an 18th game for the NFC east.
  16. Yeah, it is going to take a little while. The RRS is the one game that still gets a major reaction out of me when we lose. Winning that game is always one of the benchmarks for a successful season and you never get that back. Even if you win out, get a rematch, and win, there's always going to be a bit of an asterisk on that conference championship unless OU manages to drop a couple of league games; otherwise it is just a stupid football version of double jeopardy. I attended the 2018 Big 12 championship and without a doubt the Cotton Bowl is the one that feels like it matters more, even if it doesn't on paper.
  17. That was a really hard pill to swallow because it wasn't some bullshit flag. Maybe a little acting from the punter but they clearly got there late and made plenty of contact. You have to have the situational awareness from both coaches and players to not fuck around with that in a 4th and 4 situation. You already got a punt block TD that completely negated a turnover, and just got a stop after taking the lead. Do not put that at risk for a low percentage haymaker. That was one of many places Texas had an opportunity to take control of the game and failed to do so.
  18. People keep saying this but it kind of smells like copium. The tempo three and out inside their own five that led to the blocked punt TD - and then of course not having max protection in an obvious punt block situation - was laughable, Charlie Strong type coaching. They botched a perfectly called 4th down conversion and dropped a walk in TD. Gabriel put a ball right in Jerrin Thompson's chest in the endzone, was largely neutered in the deep passing game, and was only 60% completion (do have to credit the Texas DL for doing a decent job of getting their hands up for forcing some awkward throws from a short QB). Their conventional run game was basically non existent. They badly missed a FG that would have effectively ended the game. They evidently had a kick block unit out on Texas's 4th and 4 before Sark called time. Texas didn't lose to some significantly inferior opponent playing their A++ game. OU was dealt the better hand from the officials and had some flat out good luck, but just as we are sitting here looking at several different ways the outcome could have been different, OU left meat on the bone in several different spots and could have blown that game wide the fuck open. Not unlike what we felt lookin at the Bama game from our end. They played better than Texas, and yes I think Texas has more opportunities to improve and flip the outcome, but in a hypothetical rematch they're as much or more likely to play better than to play worse. It was real enough on Saturday. Oklahoma was visibly the more aggressive and physical team and Texas did not ultimately have a counter for that.
  19. Didn’t get to this yesterday driving home from Dallas and didn’t watch any other ball games on Saturday so this is way more based off of score watching and general tier grouping than usual. A few general thoughts: Georgia turned it in and reminded everyone why they get the benefit of the doubt, not that I thunk Kentucky was some great opponent (I didn’t have them ranked) but they rose to the moment. In general I think you can put the top 5 and the. 6-11 in just about any order. I considered keeping Texas ranked over OU but I think OU earned the higher spot based on head to head for now. I have a feeling Texas is going to look like the better team by end of year but we’ll see. 12-20 is kind of a random hodgepodge based on head to heads and not knowing what to do with some teams. I didn’t knock Miami too hard for the knee thing. It was an extremely stupid call but it feels dumb to me to think they are a significant lot worse team just because they didn’t call a kneel down. I did drop them a bit for fucking around with GT. UCLA and Wyoming enter the poll at the expense of Kansas State and Fresno State. 1.) Georgia 2.) Ohio State 3.) Florida State 4.) Washington 5.) Michigan 6.) Penn State 7.) Oregon 8.) Oklahoma 9.) Texas 10.) Alabama 11.) North Carolina 12.) Louisville 13.) Notre Dame 14.) USC 15.) Miami 16.) Ole Miss 17.) LSU 18.) Duke 19.) Washington State 20.) Oregon State 21.) Clemson 22.) Utah 23.) Kansas 24.) UCLA 25.) Wyoming
  20. It’s less stupid than it was when the Big 12 was a round robin and the first seed was playing a second seed it had finished outright ahead of. For example, despite us wining the RRS in 2018, it was stupid an 8-1 OU team had to play a 7-2 Texas team in the CCG after playing the same schedule. This year there is at least the element of incongruous conference schedules. I do agree a Big 12 title by virtue of beating an OU team with a similar or better league record in a rematch would feel kind of hollow after yesterday but thems the rules, and if it ruins their season all the better. Ew. No. This is absurd. I hope they lose the rest of the games they play. If it’s a playoff thing a 12-1 Texas is overwhelmingly likely to get a nod regardless. Texas is inconsistent enough that I expect them to lose one or two more anyway - though winning out wouldn’t shock me. They’ll be big favorites the rest of the way and for good reason. OU exposed Texas to a degree but for the most part the rest of the conference isn’t equipped to replicate without a huge amount of help from Texas itself. 11-1 and a rematch should be the goal obviously but 7-2 in conference probably gets you in the CCG. I do think OU drops at least one league game. That is not a juggernaut.
  21. I don’t know how you guys go back to the well with the Cowboys after watching Texas the day before.
  22. Not the one the Cowboys traded for lol
  23. gmr548

    3rd and 9

    This. I don’t mind the run as a four-down territory call. Maybe you get them expecting pass and it pops. Maybe you get a few yards and make your fourth down conversion more manageable(what happened). If not goes nowhere you’re back in the same place. All of that while making OU use their last TO or burning more clock. As it went, I think you have to take the chance at four yards to either win the game or at least essentially guarantee OT. Especially with how the game had gone. Kicking the FG then essentially conceding the ability to tie the game with soft zone defense is just baffling. Props to Auburn by the way. He hit from 45 and a clutch kick from 47 after having struggled from that distance this year. He delivered when called upon, even if I would not have called on him that second time.
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