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- 2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
…and if you only count FBS games…
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
This was a very good team, with significant flaws. There really isn’t a great team- the NC will be either won by a team that lost at home to a 6-5 rival or a team that lost at home to NIU. This team overcame some issues and not others.
- This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Texas A&M. Michigan
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
This is a very flawed team, that lost in a semifinal. We have no RB we can play that weighs over 200#, because of crazy injury luck. Our QB is small and has poor pocket presence, and got hurt mid season and never really recovered. We have one WR that could get snaps at tOSU. Our kicker got worse from last year. This was a very good year and Sark did a very good job of navigating it.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
I wondered that, when he didn’t come in for 1st and goal from the 1. He can do a lot more than run, but sometimes it’s good to have more size at QB in those situations
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Why weren’t these done 30 months ago?
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
More frozen precision in Arlington last night, but it’s all melting. I live in a light traffic neighborhood and the streets are wet, not ice.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
In some ways, I envy the younger fans who came along in the ‘95 season and later. That 1984-1994 stretch didn’t just warp Ag self regard, it did a number on Texas as well. from late November 1984 thru the same in 1994, the Ags went 106-26-2 for a near .800 win rate, while Texas went 72-54-2 over the same period. They represented the SWC in the Cotton Bowl six times, and were barred from contention by the NCAA two other times. Their program was built on cheating in recruiting and dominating weak programs (in 1992, they went 12-1. They played one ranked team the whole year-FSU in the Cotton Bowl- and were drilled, pushing them out of the top five). All of the Aggie braggadocio is based on two things- that 11 year stretch (which keeps receding farther and farther back in time) and being in the SEC (which they now share with Texas). They haven’t figured it out yet, so I don’t know that they ever will.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I first encountered BI 13-0 back when these boards got going, in the mid to late ‘90s. That was a weird time; the Ags had a 11 year stretch where they beat Texas 10 times and pretty much dominated a dying SWC. In that context, an excessively braggadocious Ag didn’t seem so innately fucked up. But, he carried the bit on and on, after 11-3 years became 8-4 years became 5-6 years. He became a parody.
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
Millbrook, right next to Interlochen. If you are familiar with the area, you know that the only way out is up either the Westwood or Bowen hills, neither of which gets sun until the afternoon. Getting up one of those hills tomorrow will be the main challenge. Hopefully, it will have melted enough by mid afternoon
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
It’s raining pretty good in Arlington right now. I expect (and am planning for) the streets to be pretty nasty (ice, slush) Friday morning and increasingly passable as the afternoon progresses.
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the cotton bowl weather/travel thread
Arlington hosted a Super Bowl a while back, and the area was all iced up and no special measures taken. Doubt they do it for even a CFp semifinal
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Non-CFP bowl games are exhibitions, probably less meaningful than spring games. Alabama played two top 10 (Sagarin) teams, winning one and losing one. They played six Sagarin top 30 teams, winning four and losing two (one of which was Michigan in the bowl). Who would you have above them? ASU, who played only one top 10 teams (losing to Texas) and only four top 30 teams)?
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I wonder if they’ll go to 16 in the CFP earlier than thought (like next season), because the 1st round bye sure looks like a boobie prize. (But, what to do about Conference CGs then? Georgia won the SEC CG but got their two year starter at QB out for the season)
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Loss column bias is real. There are five SEC teams in the latest Sagarin top 10. There are three SEC teams in the AP poll top 10. There are more good SEC teams (10 SEC teams in the Sagarin top 25) and it is a 16 team league. There are seven B1G teams in the Sagarin top 25 and it is an 18 team league. It is easier for a really good team to finish even a nine game B1G schedule with 1-2 losses. ESPN would love a nine game SEC schedule, and would probably pay for it, at least comparable to what the B1G gets. I think the SEC will need assurances from the CFP first (would have helped if Tennessee or Georgia could have won a game).
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Thx. That’s interesting. I figured that if the SEC stayed at eight games, OU would be the permanent rival, and Arkansas would be most pissed about us not having an annual game.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
The way they ascribe Texas’ success to Texas being cutthroat while the Ags have scruples…🙄 Jackie Sherrill is, in the hive mind, the bestest, purest Ag coach, ever. And that dude is one very weird sociopath.
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Worst concert/live show that you attended
WRT guys not wanting to play their popular songs: About 1998, we saw Joe Jackson in Seattle. He came out at the start, and very politely said, “Here is how the show will go- We will play some of our hits you are familiar with. Then, we will play most of my new album, and you will behave while we are doing that. We will finish up with more familiar songs. Thanks.” Frankly, it was refreshing.
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If BaD Radio isn't on from 3-7 p.m. ...
Penn State has two MNCs (1982 and 1986). Penn State has never had a season of note without Jerry Sandusky grinning in the team photo.
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Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
My understanding is that the original grave had Oswald’s full name and dates of birth and death, but was replaced by a simpler marker after defacing of the original
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Official Bitch about your Family Thread 2024: Holiday Edition
Day after Xmas, found myself having to entertain niece and her fiancé for an afternoon. I had heard that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried nearby. Googled, and sure enough, his grave was about ten minutes away. The kids were up for it, so we went. (I did not bring the flowers). A little surprised by the flags- I knew he was a vet, but would have thought his discharge (after defecting to Russia) would have been less than honorable. Maybe a relative brought them? After, we went out for hamburgers and beer. So, not really bitching, just sharing a little bit of crazy.
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If BaD Radio isn't on from 3-7 p.m. ...
I didn’t include Note 2, because Note 2 defines a defenseless player- who is and isn’t one- and I freely admit that theASU WR was defenseless while catching the ball. It was not forcible to the head, no matter how much you want it to be. The officials on the field did not believe it to be forcible to the head. The officials in the review booth did not believe it to be so. You want, for some reason, to believe that Texas was allowed to break a rule, unpunished, even after review. How in the hell do you think that works? Why?