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  1. If you can't get excited at the prospect of going back to Dallas and beating OU again it's hard for me to accept the premise that you are a fan of Texas or even college football.
    Fuck playing OU in jerryworld.

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  2. OT: since Texas playing thanksgiving seems to not be going anywhere, what do y’all think of the prospect of playing Baylor on that weekend every year? Not because they are our rivals, but because it seems like both fan bases and teams just hate each other so much. I’d vote yes, especially if the alternative meant not playing Kansas in Lawrence.
    I have no desire to play aggy. I'd much rather play aggy.

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  3. I know the youths don't vote but 6% is absolutely undersampling them and there is not a chance in hell Cruz wins that demo (up 51-49 in this poll), or really even comes close. I'm not saying we're going to see some reat awakening but there is gonna be a spike and it isn't gonna be favorable for Cruz. This is a good poll so I am not going to just throw out their result, and I'm sure that'll rectify itself as they get more answers, but worth noting. Looks like it'll end up somewhere from Cruz +4 to Cruz +8 which is about what one would expect.

  4. From the article: "Last year with Denver, Charles appeared in 14 games with no starts, getting 69 carries for 296 yards (4.9 YPC) and a touchdown; he did add 23 catches for 129 yards."

    Limited as the touches are that is still an efficient stat line, and he obviously has been one of the most efficient backs in football throughout his career. Clearly still has some gas in the tank. Here's hoping he can carve out a role and stay on for the homestretch and playoffs even when Fournette returns.

  5. WVU is fully capable of shredding this defense. Put down the kool aid if you think otherwise. This pass defense has been exploited by worse units.

    I am not really worried about Tech beyond it being a candidate for the head scratching loss that many, myself included, have a gut feeling is left in store for this team. Tech is the same team they always are. If we show up focused we win comfortably; remember that it took monumental fuck ups on the part of the coaching staff and two boneheaded Ehlinger Q4 turnovers for a decidedly worse Texas team to lose that game last year. Beyond a similar meltdown Texas is better than Tech, period.

    Okie State is just a wildcard. If they bring their A game they can definitely beat Texas but Stillwater seems like a mess this year. I feel like we win in a blowout or lose, no grey area.

  6. Shack's holding at the end of the game left we with a question.
    We were trying to kill the clock, which had like 5 minutes still left. We had four downs to play with, so we could kill a little over 2 minutes just standing there if we did nothing.
    We ran a play. We gained yards. Shack held. OU accepted the penalty. We moved back, but the down stayed the same (duh!) and the clock kept running!
    What would prevent us from gaining yards over and over by having our OL deliberately hold their opponent, probably getting a penalty, but always keeping the clock running against the 25 second play clock until the game was killed off?
    This is obviously very unsporting behavior, but it would put the defensive coaches in a position of either accepting the penalty and keeping the clock running, or declining the penalty and accepting whatever gain the RB managed to generate from a blatantly holding OL.
    Well, holding is called at the spot so as you continue to back yourself up half that distance the defense probably finds a way to get two points and the ball either through a negative play or an endzone hold. Also, holding has to be really blatant to get called in this conference. Theoretically it could work I guess.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Did you change your Driver License address?

    No. You don't need to. I haven't lived at my DL address since 2012. I am in suspense, which I actually saw for the first time today after making that last post. Evidently I am good to vote but will have to confirm my address at the polls. Annoying, but good to have peace of mind. Seems like the state may not have been prepared for the surge in updates/registrations.

  8. 56 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

    So I dropped my wife and my voter registration cards in the mail a few weeks ago at the exact same time. She received her registration card. I did not and per votetexas.gov, I am not registered in my current county. If I drop another registration form in the mail tomorrow, which I understand is the deadline, is that sufficient to be registered for this election?

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    Neither my roommate or myself have gotten our updated cards after moving and changing our info two months ago. My info is correct online so I am not sure that it matters but it still worries me. Seems like a lot of people have such issues.

  9. 2 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

     

    LSU and AU would like a word.  With due respect to the other UT, locked into playing UF/UGA every year is the shorter stick.   Surely Bama is working hard on their OOC to make up the difference. 

    Auburn does not have a better resume than Texas. Maybe they will at the end of the year, but their future schedule is not relevant. My post was made to point out that LSU losing at Florida is a lot more forgivable than Texas losing to Maryland at a "neutral" site. I really don't understand what you are trying to get at?

  10. 4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    It does appear that rhule can coach. How long does he stay at Baylor?

    I feel like it would need to be a pretty big job. He has a seven year deal and a ton of job security. If he gets them bowl eligible this year that is ahead of schedule, and doing so with any kind of consistency will keep most of the heat off. I don't think you hop to another lower tier or even a mid-level P5 with that. It needs to be a program that can consistently contend in a P5 or an NFL job.

  11. 11 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

    Absolutely. Our resume is better than any other team with a loss. 

    LSU would like a word. Though I will concede that the Auburn win doesn't look any better than our USC win at this point. Their loss is a lot less embarrassing/questionable.

  12. It's nice to be out over our skis a bit, but I think there's basically no way we win out. We're playing much better but the Big 12 is a lot better conference than most people think. We have another tough 4 game stretch coming up after Baylor and at some point a really bad performance is going to pop up with a team still coming together for a new coach. I honestly think we finish 9-3 and we will see if that gets us into the title game.
    Where I'm at. This team is obviously good but not 9-0 through a P5 round robin with a couple road tests left and a target on its back good. I think WVU and @Pokes is a split and there's the potential for an egg laying at Tech or this week against Baylor. Even 7-2 is a pretty good shot at the CCG based on tiebreakers and 8-1 would be a certainty.

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  13. Barring a rash of turnovers Texas should be able to move the ball effectively with the run game getting better as the game goes on. Should score plenty. Defense will probably get burned on a couple big pass plays but should get a decent amount of stops from getting Baylor into third and long on a regular basis. I honestly doubt Texas covers though, which sucks, because I would love to see some killer instinct out of this team going into the bye. Coaches seem to take the foot off the gas with a lead and that trickles down. So instead I'm just hoping it isn't a dreaded Herman egg laying.

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  14. Why does everyone keep rating Vahe so low?

    And why can nobody seem to replace him for 4 years? Even when he got benched as a SO, the replacement was worse.
    Vahe is a decent run blocker but isn't athletic enough to reliably get to the second level in a zone blocking scheme. In pass pro he is slow, so athletic guys can beat him without help, and even with four years of experience gets caught not paying attention/making mental errors, allowing blitzes to go untouched through the gap he is responsible for. I don't think he is terrible and he probably is the best we have at LG but he's a net neutral at best.

    Did play pretty well yesterday, credit where it's due. He obviously wanted that win.

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  15. Before the season started we were saying that a 9 or 10 win season would be unbelievable.  Most said that 8 wins was the max. After the Maryland loss, most thought 7-8 wins at best.  Now y’all are talking about making the playoffs?  Playoffs?  Playoffs! Y’all want to talk about playoffs.
    Just win. Every week 1-0. Baylor next. 
    Groupthink on this site and in the media was that 9-10 was the expectation.

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  16. 9 feels high because "top ten team" is not what enters your mind when watching this team, but there also aren't really any teams that jump out at me as being definitively better below that. Obviously plenty below that are capable of winning a hypothetical matchup but I'm not sure there is any team I would be confident in betting money on vs Texas if I had to. Should probably not be ahead of UCF but that is it really. I think the 8-17 group are almost interchangeable. I don't think 14 in the coaches poll is unreasonable either but GTFO with OU being ranked higher.

  17. At this point, Texas is in the driver's seat in terms of getting a spot in the CCG, so that is nice. If they come out without a hangover against Baylor and get into the bye at 6-1 (not a given - Baylor will want a signature win and we could still see another Herman special this year) I think it will be close to a foregone conclusion. In that case, Texas probably drops at least one of @OSU and WVU but 7-2/8-1 probably qualifies, especially with wins over TCU and OU. 

    I don't think WVU is a pretender. Their game against OU is going to look a lot like the game yesterday. OU's defense simply cannot handle their offense. Their defense isn't as good as Texas but it will only need to make a couple stops all game. OU is the only team in the conference that can beat them in a track meet. TCU and Texas are the only ones with a chance at stopping them. 

    I think TCU could sneak back into the CCG race. They are capable of beating both OU and WVU if they play well and will end up 8-4 or better.

    OSU obviously isn't going to make the CCG but they can beat anyone on a given day. They will obviously be amped to play OU and to host Texas.

    I don't think this league has an elite team and will probably miss the playoffs at this point but it is going to be a really fun race to watch down the stretch.

  18. The D didn't necessarily play a great game but they certainly got enough stops against what is one of the top offenses in the county that the game should not have been as close as it was. Coaches left the D out to dry in the 4th. Not that it excuses 21 points in the blink of an eye, but it is worth repeating. Really nice game for Foster, individually. His sack was incredible effort. Not many safeties play through a fairly well executed cut block. 

    OU's defense is terrible, but the offense came well prepared to exploit their weaknesses. The game plan that resulted in a 45-24 lead was the perfect blend of ball control and strategic aggression. Sam played really, really well. Very few mistakes.

    And the most important thing, as excruciating as the 4th quarter meltdown was to watch, we fucking beat OU. 

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