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Derka

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  1. virginia tech for 15 years: •start the season ranked #6 •lose in early september to a dog shit team, fall to #17 •spend the next 10 weeks winning ugly games vs mediocre - shitty teams and passing every team that loses any games under any circumstances along the way •finish back in the top 10 •lose a bcs bowl •rinse/repeat
  2. a&m, ou, and vandy, all of whom recently lost to Texas, are ranked ahead of Texas because they scheduled UTSA, illinois state, and charleston southern, and we scheduled tOSU. that’s it.
  3. all sec wins are worth three big 12 wins, haven’t you heard? in all seriousness we have one bad loss and that came months ago, before this team looked anything like it does today. since that loss we’ve only lost at UGA with wins vs three teams currently ranked ahead of us. the one and only reason we are behind those teams is losing to tOSU back in august. that’s why the Tecas team of today is out- a loss back in August to the best team in america while a&m, ou, and vandy were playing UTSA, illinois state, and charleston southern.
  4. a&m, ou, and vandy all ahead of us, and not one of them would be in the picture at all had they played tOSU week 1 like we did. this is so stupid. anyone pretending like we aren’t being directly punished for scheduling tOSU (and playing them closer than anyone else) is a liar.
  5. tim tebow lost more games in one season than VY did in his career, and that’s not even accounting for urban meyer vs mack brown and how they impact their teams. 2007 florida lost at home to jevan snead and ole miss and still won the MNC while Texas sat at home for the *league* title game because of the TTU loss. we finally join that league and suddenly we get crushed in year one for having a weak schedule and crushed in year two for not winning by enough. weird how that works.
  6. have you already forgotten that one or more of bama, lsu, florida, auburn, georgia etc would do that every year and they’d just say, “that’s sec football baby!!! no easy games!!!”?
  7. beautiful play from saka, trademark finish from merino! COYG!!! 🔴⚪️
  8. oh dang, he actually did get popped. ouch.
  9. that’s totally incidental, good lord, he didn’t swing his elbow or have it in an unnatural position at all.
  10. we need to pound the ball to saka and challenge cucurella all day long.
  11. yeah that had to be a red, there was no way around that one.
  12. even graeme lasaux says it’s a straight red. both robbies say it’s a straight red. var says it’s a yellow. fuck this. ok we have a review. jesus. that took long enough.
  13. how is caicedo still not in the book?!?!?!? that’s a red card challenge and he still hasn’t even been given a yellow!!! wtf is happening here???!?!
  14. first time since last december than an official has handed out this many bookings this early in the match. and caicedo isn’t one of them. unreal.
  15. this game is going to end 9 v 9.
  16. did we accidentally schedule chelsea’s rugby squad?
  17. this game is already officially under protest. horrific officiating. caicedo goong to kill someone’s before he gets so much as a foul call, forget a booking.
  18. this kind of reminds me of 2008, and i wish that someone in the media back then had stood up and taken a stand in a move that would have changed the way we rank college sports teams forever. Texas had played a gauntlet of a schedule, we hadn’t had a bye week, it had been two straight months of football, and FOUR straight weeks of top 10 opponents, when we lost, on the road, vs top 10 TTU, in the final seconds of the game. i wish that tony kornheiser, or kirk herbstreit, or colin cowherd had gone on tv and said, “i thought that Texas was the best team in the country before they lost to ttu, and i still think they’re the best team in America today.” would have made total sense, and could have changed how we do things. but here we are, in 2025, and the rules are still the same: you will be harshly punished for losing, and you will get nothing for having a brutal schedule. it really is that simple. the powers that be have no interest in delving into the specifics of why team A might be better than team B, they just want to know how many losses each team has, even if one team has played 7 teams in the top 25 and is 5-2 while the other team is 0-1 vs the same top 25. doesn’t matter; only your record does. you want to play in big games in december and january? you’d better schedule cream puffs in september.
  19. WHY GOD WHY, MAKE IT STOP
  20. i don’t know what is hard to understand about this: there are going to be 5+ teams in the playoff who don’t have as many top 10-15 wins as we do, and whose two losses are no better than/worse than our road losses to florida and georgia. the difference? those teams didn’t schedule tosu week one. that’s it. they scheduled a homecoming opponent, beat them, and now they’re in and we’re out. shit has nothing to do with florida.
  21. nobody cares about how many wins you “struggled” to get, it’s literally just “do you have two losses or three?”. a two-loss texas team with two losses in the sec gets into the playoff, end of discussion. we could have played texas state week one and won 14-13 in OT and we’d still be in playoff with that “2” on the loss column. struggling to beat a shitty team week 1 would have done us better than going toe to toe with the best team in america.
  22. the argument you’re making is one that says “two sec losses should eliminate texas from the playoff.” why would we even join this conference if that was the case? how would that make any sense at all? we *have* to play a full sec schedule, and like 95% of sec teams we're going to lose a couple of those games. nobody will punish us for that, but they will punish us for having a third non-con loss, no matter who it’s against. when you schedule the undefeated no.1 team in the country for a game in august after losing 25 players from the previous two seasons to the nfl draft that shouldn’t be what knocks you out of the playoff, but for 2025 Texas it is. our 7-point loss on the road in august hurt us more than our drubbing at the hands of florida did. nobody would be talking about the florida loss right now if we’d played utep week 1.
  23. since our loss to florida the only other game we’ve lost has been on the road vs top 5 georgia, and we just beat the undefeated #3 team in the country to finish with two losses in the sec. after bama lost to vandy, their version of the florida loss, they went and lost two more conference games vs tennessee (24-17) and a sub-.500 oklahoma team (24-3). the two situations are not the same.
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