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  1. 6 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    I care about college football. I love it. I flew out to el paso last month just to watch utep vs jacksonville st

     

     

    a 12 playoff is just moronic.sorry but it is. Should have been capped at 6. We all know this but somehow play along

    I commend you for this.  
     

    No system was better than when Texas-USC played.

    The flaws as they are now isn’t just about who gets in either.  Ole Miss and Oregon were gifted first round wins.  People bag on A&Ms schedule, but I think the A&M win over ND is better than the Ole Miss win over OU.  I believe Ole Miss has now played 9 home games.  They haven’t proven shit.  Oregon hasn’t either but at least their strength of schedule is solid.

    Another element is that OU had an extra week to heal and prep for their game.  They probably lose by 30 otherwise.  It’s not about that one game.  It’s about an advantage that they in no way earned.

    Tech earned the bye exactly how?  Oh right, they beat BYU.  But actually that may be worse than the 5 seed as Oregon runs less of a risk of being rusty while playing a home with almost no chance of losing.

    There are simply too many teams, too few games and too many unbalanced schedules.

    Personally, I don’t care that a 9-3 gets a chance against a 0 or 1 loss team.  But this year, we were a true threat to everyone.  Most years, damn near all years, that is not the case.

    There was a discussion on this very site about scheduling tough non-conference games with a number of people convinced that a more inclusive playoff encouraged that.  I’ve read many convinced that such a schedule is not conducive to a playoff invite.  The more teams you include the more teams there are that cannot incur an additional loss.  We’re talking mid tier P4 teams that are hoping in their best years to secure one of the few remaining seeds.

    Hell people aren’t even smart enough to realize conference championships can be de facto playoff games.  You won’t get certain parties to relinquish power within the structure.  You can’t even get 30 people on here to agree to the parameters.  For those reasons, smaller is preferred for my tastes.

  2. 3 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    This was his achilles heal for sure, hence the "3rd and PK" on the game threads, especially when I was a long yardage situation.    It could be 3&10, 3&20, even 3&30 for crying out loud and it felt like a first down was very possible if not likely in several situations.      It became predictable how an opposing offense would try to get the first down from long yardage .  I think many of us thought bringing in Akina despite him being at the end of his career likely would help fix this, but that was wrong.  And this might be where Sark decided to make a move as the season progressed

    And yet in 2023 our 3rd down defense was #2 in the country.  I think #8 in 2024.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, txhorns said:

    I thought PK did a pretty fantastic job in Austin with a few glaring weaknesses.  I think those weaknesses would have continued to hold us back against the better teams.  His bend but don't break style of defense works great against most everyone when you have a talent advantage.  We had the talent advantage in all but a couple of games a year, the games we typically lost.  Georgia consistently beat his ass because they didn't have to be perfect, they could consistently move the ball against him even if things didn't go perfect.  Against a team like Georgia you need to be able to move then backwards, not just hold the line.  PK was never going to put them in tough positions because he was too conservative to do so.  Muschamp should be much better at this.

    Georgia was at home and went for it on 4th and 1 from their own 35 up 14-10.  Then later that same drive, 4th and 5 and we jumped.  Followed up with an onside kick.  And by the way that 4th and 1 was a tackle over throw to the flat, likely a play they haven’t run all season.  That’s not exactly dominating a team.  Nothing consistently there used to beat his ass.

    Last year, the offense was poor in game 1 and couldn’t finish drives in game 2.

  4. 1 minute ago, StassneyHorn said:

    ...and youre still wrong

    From my general experience with the game, I’d prefer larger, fatter guys to have to chase me around the field attempting to block me.  That was always to my advantage.  That’s a screen play.  If I read it sooner rather than later, the play was likely dead.  2nd and 3rd level defenders don’t keep dropping after they’ve read screen.  If you “know” it’s coming, then it makes blocking the defender incredibly difficult as you get caught between setting up the play and blocking the man.

    At least that’s my line of thinking.

  5. 19 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    And I know you have a mental handicap and neg rep like a bitch cause you cant comprehend easy to digest information, so I'll make it easy for you. Calling a zone blitz with 30 seconds left in the half when everyone is expecting a screen from their own 25, resulting in the cheapest, untouched 75 yard TD to reclaim a lead before halftime instead of calling something safe that gets you to halftime was a fireable offense. 

    Todd Orlando was done after 3rd and 17 against LSU, PK has this debacle.

    If everyone was expecting it, it would have never worked.  It was drastically different than the Orlando call.  One was terrible, the other overly criticized.

  6. The Chiefs Oline was terrible the year the Bucs beat them in the Super Bowl.  It’s not great this year.  That’s somewhat of a recurring theme.

    As someone mentioned the Clyde Edward’s draft selection was awful.

    As for Worthy, he got hurt game 1 this year so that set him back.  His contested catch rate is higher than Kelce and Rice.  His drop rate is lower than Kelce and Rice.  He’s 3rd in targets.

    Dude had 12 TDs and over 1,000 yards when including the playoffs.

    Hes not 100 catch, 1,500 yards, 15 TD kind of guy.  He has had a disappointing year, but the team result isn’t about him.  It’s a little unusual that they have duplicate parts in Brown, Thornton and Worthy.

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  7. 12 hours ago, Thatguy said:

    A ball that goes right through both your arms without being touched by a defender is a drop, no matter how difficult a catch it may seem to be. Maybe its not as obvious on all 22, but on regular video this ball goes straight through his hands. 

    There will be debate as to how persons define a drop.  For PFF purposes, I’m not certain whether they called it a drop or not.

    In any event, I reckon my point was more that, drop or not, his WR skills up to the point of the catch attempt made the catch attempt far more difficult that it should have been.

    Either way you end up at the same place.  Incomplete rather than a huge play.

  8. 2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    I get more annoyed on his deep routes. He has not learned to stack the DB and that greatly increases the difficulty of throw. I am not sure this throw is off target to the inside by much. Wingo tends to take the path of least resistance. This is just me guessing, but I believe Sark wants that route to be just inside the numbers to give the throw some room. Wingo cuts it up the sideline and then has to work back to the numbers. Wr getting pinned on the sideline on a vert route is a really difficult throw. 

    You could be right.

    This is not a dropped pass, but the more I see it the more I think it should be a catch.  You can’t make your QB guess where he thinks you’ll be, he needs to anticipate where he expects you to be.  With Wingo, it’s difficult to tell which one you get.

  9. 12 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    No issue with the Wingo throw. That is designed to go there and be a 1 vs 1. Nowhere else to really go. This is more Sark asking Wingo to be a #1 Wr, which he is not currently. 
     

    I seem to recall a throw to Golden last year in which a poster labeled it a “drop” in the end zone versus the Dawgs.  It had some modest similarities to this one.

    Wingo is an interesting WR.  He has some skills but seems to lack the innate ability to just go get the ball.  It would be curious if that shows differently in practice.  I can only recall 1, maybe 2, passes in which he adjusted to catch the ball.

  10. Just now, immamac said:

    To be fair Miami did look good early and decent as of late. They had a weird stretch of lots of turnovers and weird shit. 

    Agree.  To an extent. They beat ND on a last minute FG at home.  UF on a two game losing streak and reeling.  Then USF on their game 3rd game of Boise-UF-Miami.  Pitt is not good. 
     

    One last point on the ACC as a whole, of those top 7 ACC teams, they were 1-3 versus the Big 12 with the only win over Colorado by 7.

    Looks like Miami didn’t leave home until October and only 4 road games.

    Not near enough critique of what they’ve done.

  11. 39 minutes ago, SarksJuggs said:

     

    Miami is in a conference that has a 5 loss team in their championship today. 

    And no one cares that Miami played 4 of 6 worst teams in the conference and only 2 of 7 with winning conference records.  And collectively thst conference allowed Duke, 1-3 in the non-conference, to make the championship.  Illinois beat Duke by 26 at Duke.

    The best teams they’ve played were at home, two of which were when that team was at their worst.

    It should be Virginia or bust from the ACC.

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  12. 59 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    And just skated by a 5-7 Auburn team that came in 13th place in the SEC.

    I mean that should be noted after they noted that we barely skated by MSU and UK.   

    But the fricken Chair of the committee made it sound like it was a hard fought win by might Bama on Saturday over a legit Auburn team.

    That alone should disqualify every member on that committee if they REALLY thought this.  

    I’d just like to add that Kentucky beat Auburn by as many points as did A&M, OU, and Bama.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

    Dude. Re-read what I said. "Week after week they were attacking specific people. Taafe was one of those."

     

    I said he was ONE of those being targeted. They were also hunting whoever was opposite of Manny. We were losing our eyes and busting coverages. Man takes that away. 

    Sure.  Teams gameplan.  Got it.

  14. On 11/30/2025 at 8:56 PM, Thatguy said:

    Teams figured out how to exploit us in our base Cover 3/1 look. Week after week they were attacking specific people. Taafe was one of those. Taafe is best when he can roam and help. He is not a coverage guy, and teams were finding a way to exploit that. So we ran a lot of two high against aggy and even some quarters. Taafe was back to being free and you see the result. 2/man lets you walk up and be aggressive. 

     

    2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

    Did you see something wrong with what I said? 

    You said week after week.  It’s curious since he missed MSU and Vandy.

    The plays from Arkansas that were discussed was one in which it was not his guy.  The other was him being overly aggressive.  Arkansas attacked more a portion of the field or perhaps a position group.

    Georgia.  Their pass game was bit overblown with regards to the secondary.  In the 4th, they were attacking situationally and not so much our coverage.  The big question was the Taaffe/Guilbeau TD pass.  Their biggest pass plays were the blown coverage, the blitz/man versus McDonald, a 3rd down blitz/man versus Manny then an early zone coverage to the intermediate left.

    Back to Kentucky, they hit the short edges pretty consistently, but it was lots of dink and dunk.

     

    From my seat, it was a different approach each week with more based on what worked best for them.

  15. Just now, B00M said:

    Everyone seemed to know this early in the season. Blowing it against a solid USF squad shifted the narrative completely. Then their 5 star WR that debuted against us and only played in 4 fucking games… after hanging on to beat us, Florida was down 1 score @ aggy midway through the 4th, then hung on to beat MSU, then fired their coach, then they were winning @ Georgia until late in the 4th. THEN the wheels fell the fuck off their dream wagon

    Yes.  Their 5* versus Manny, only Manny didn’t play.

    Shit snowballed on UF.  I keep hearing that we had a bye.  So did they.  They needed it far more than we did.  Lagway got mentally and physically tuned up.

    Neither Brown nor Wilson played AT Ole Miss.  Their receiving attack versus us was gone.  
     

    If you look at the bottom of the SEC standings, those teams had rougher schedules.  It takes a toll, physically and mentally.  It may not matter to us but Purdue , for example, would like a bowl bid, but they get served a gauntlet.

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  16. 29 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    I missed the DM notation. 
     

    Sorry.  I've heard the October hardship line multiple times.  It's a fucking joke.  Talking up the strengths>>>>>wanting sympathy

    It is a real thing and to say otherwise is stupid.

    In a month we left home as much as Ole Miss did all year.  Bama never had back-to-back weeks away from home.

    It is an SEC issue that caused it, but we are judging teams on their season long performance and all that entails.  If it weren’t that big a deal, you’d see more of it.

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  17. 4 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    I admitted that they sucked.

    But so do Kentucky and Mississippi State and we looked like ass. We should have crushed those teams. 

    Seriously, can anyone name one road game - regardless of the competition - that we looked competent other than the second half of Mississippi State?

    Anyway this is moot. We're being left out for three losses and these empty suits will dig no deeper.

    We played 5 top 15 teams.  We had 3 rival games.  UF on the road.  That is a lot of high intensity games.  If you’ve played sports, if you’ve watched sports, you know that teams have let downs on certain days, certain games.  And some games, you simply aren’t at your best.  So throw out the 3 shitbird games.  That leaves you Kentucky and MSU.

    i am not saying it excuses the performance but context surrounding the games adds some understanding.

    Kentucky had two weeks to prepare.  It was a night game.  It was a Stoops and all that implies.  They never led.  It was the 3rd consecutive game away from home. That is something no other contender in the SEC had to do.  Bama never hit the road in consecutive weeks.  That is an advantage for them, disadvantage for us.

    MSU.  They beat ASU at home, took Tennessee to OT.  It was our 4th consecutive week away from home.  For a higher end team, I’m not sure there is a historical precedent for such a long non-home streak. We were missing an all American.

     

    If nothing else those wins speak to our endurance.  So not only were we asked to beat more high-end teams, we were asked to beat our lower end teams under unusual circumstances.  I’d be surprised if strength of schedule accounts for that.  If not, it should and only strengthens the argument that our schedule was damn difficult.

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  18. On 11/30/2025 at 8:56 PM, Thatguy said:

    Teams figured out how to exploit us in our base Cover 3/1 look. Week after week they were attacking specific people. Taafe was one of those. Taafe is best when he can roam and help. He is not a coverage guy, and teams were finding a way to exploit that. So we ran a lot of two high against aggy and even some quarters. Taafe was back to being free and you see the result. 2/man lets you walk up and be aggressive. What's cool to see is a young guy like 6 thinking outside the box. On his pick he had no responsibility so he jumped the route next to him. That's stuff Georgia does. Good shit!

    Is that what Vandy and MSU did?

  19. 34 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

    Based on some QB stuff I heard about Arch this summer, I think one of the things thats been drilled in his head is your first job as QB is to protect the ball. So you start running for your life and getting hit and not having any time and all of a sudden your only thought turns into "just dont turn the ball over". I think we saw a lot of deer in headlights moments early in the season where it was setting in that his o line couldnt even protect him against teams like Utep. 

    I can believe this but out of curiosity is second hand knowledge, speculating or legit information?

    Ohio State was a combination of things.   Turns out OSUs pass defense is pretty good.  Gambling, Minnesota, Rutgers, Purdue, Michigan all had less than 100 yards passing.  Ohio had 113 but 67 on one play.  UCLA had 154 but 100+ after they were down 34-0.  Only Altmyer had 200+ and 100+ was in the 4th down 24.  OSU had good pressure too.  So probably some confusion, add a little pressure and add in some self doubt.

    He played well versus SJSU and SHSU.

    UTEP was an anomaly from a run/pass ratio standpoint and his misses were different.  The first 4th and 4, Wingo screwed that up.  Then it was simply misses.  The gameplan didn’t get him involved early.  And he was working with many backups which made things worse.  Protection was actually decent here.

    Then UF and up until Vandy is when the pressure cranked up.  Lots of pressure.  Quick pressure.  Interior pressure.

    The A&M game was not entirely different than earlier games like OSu or Kentucky except we had fewer penalties and brought our run game.   And of course we won so the misses  and not hitting certain open guys were largely ignored.  I’m not being overly critical cause I think that’s normal QB type stuff.

    There can be over coaching of the QB position.  I’m still not convinced we didn’t see it last year.  The pressure he has endured makes it very difficult to be consistent.

     

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  20. 1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    3 of our 4 road games in the SEC were against teams that will be a combined 5-19.

    At the end of the 4th quarter we had a lead in 0 of those games. 

    That’s wonderful.  That particular statement was not limited to SEC games.  Throw in a road game against Ohio State.  Throw in a neutral site versus OU.  That 4th road game was against another top 5 team.  I guess your implication is correct.  50% of our non-home games against top 10 teams is typical, and we should only play top 25 teams on the road.

    Go ahead and tell me how we had a bye leading into UF but ignore the fact that Kentucky had a bye, that it was homecoming, that it was at night, that they never led the game, or that we were coming off the OU game.  Ignore the thought that OU had a de facto bye leading up to our game.  

    Oh by the way, our 29 point lead versus Arkansas was the most of any SEC team against them.  Our 21 point lead versus Vandy is their largest deficit of the season.  Ironic they were both home games.  And in spite of OU not needing to focus on Kent State, their 17 point deficit to us - also their largest of the season.

    The season is a grind whether you are in the SEC or not.  No team gets up or plays their best every week.  More games away from home.  Length of time away from home.  The more games you have requiring maximum intensity.  All those things make the grind more difficult.  This team will have had more of that shit than anyone.

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  21. 1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    The Florida loss happened after 3 home games and a bye. 

    They will also have a SEC championship game appearance. The FSU loss is way better than fthe je Florida loss. And their other loss was not by 25 points. 

    If they cant get above 10 then neither would we 

    The FSU loss happened after 9 months to prepare.  No road games for a few days.

    UF also had a bye.  So our bye is more pertinent than their bye?  They were in desparation mode which allowed them to regroup. They had 5* WR play his first game.  He took advantage of our missing CB, our best CB.  We at least had the ball with the opportunity to tie in the 4th, albeit a small chance.  They took both Georgia and Ole Miss to the 4th without the full services of their top 2 pass catchers versus us.

    FSU lost to a team that beat San Jose State on a last second FG.  The last possession Bama had to tie or take the lead was midway thru the 2nd quarter versus FSU.  They went 3 and out.

    But sure that’s a way better loss.

    Yes, if Bama wins the sec championship, they are clearly in.  They are in if they make the championship for that matter.

    We have played and competed against more high level teams than anyone.  We’ve also done it on the road or at a neutral site as much as anyone.  

  22. 1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said:

    Did you look up Bamas resume? They have a win vs Georgia and didnt lose by 4 scores to OU 2 weeks ago. Their FPI is #6 and ours is #12. Beating Michigan state doesn't change that much. 

    The committee doesn't care about a&m and if we win Friday they will drop like a rock. 

    No matter the outcomes this weekend we have a better resume on the difficulty end of our schedule.  Bama cannot have more games against top 5, top 10 or top 15 opponents than us. I don’t think it’s possible they match us when considering home, road or neutral.

    The FSU and UF losses are very similar on the pitiful scale.

    In the Georgia OU, Bama, Texas quartet, Bsma got a home and lost.  The only home loss of the four.  Texas and OU did not get a home game.

    Bama never had two road games in a row.  We had 4 of 5 and 42 days between home games.  If strength of schedule, FPI, FEI doesn’t consider that element, it is lacking and needs to be introduced into the discussion accordingly.

     

    Bama has 7 home games.  We have 6.  You’re basically saying their road wins over Mizzou and South Carolina are massively more impressive than our road wins over Kentucky and MSU.  Keeping in mind that our two games were the 3rd and 4th games consecutively away from home.

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