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  1. did we accidentally schedule chelsea’s rugby squad?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. WHY GOD WHY, MAKE IT STOP
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. i’ve stayed interacting with them for years, and it wasn’t until the back to back losses to maryland and dayton a couple of weeks ago than any of them started questioning shaka. you try and help them out, like, “hey listen, here’s a bunch of statistical and empirical evidence showing shaka smart to be a fraud” and they get mad at you for it. they say all the stuff about Texas having unrealistic expectations and forcing shaka to recruit in a way that he didn’t want to (is that why he never won the league at vcu during his six years while his counterparts at vcu won the league 4/6 times they had the chance?) me they respond with chris beard’s mugshot. then you show them proof that the early tourney exits aren’t flukes, but certainties, and they just scream about how bad wojo was insist that shaka is one of the best in the country and a perfect fit at marquette. fuck em. sounds like they might be right.
  10. expanding the field to 68 is one of the least popular things that’s ever happened anywhere in my lifetime. college hoops fans couldn’t have raised more hell about it.
  11. are some of y’all trying to be “good fans” or “objective” or something when you say that it’s the florida loss that’s keeping us out? cuz y’all know that’s not true right? it’s only been repeated 10,000 times, but if we had scheduled a cupcake week 1 we’d not only be on the playoff, but right now people would be asking if a 2-loss Texas should be ranked higher than a&m. 99% of teams out there lose unexpected conference games every year, just lay an egg on the road for one reason or another. it doesn’t matter. that’s not why we’re out. we’re out because, in the eyes of the committee, every single 2-loss team is better and more deserving than every 3-loss team. we had to play florida; we didn’t have to play the undefeated no.1 team on the road, and if we hadn’t, we’d be in solidly in the playoff field with zero questions.
  12. you’re totally right, this year’s o line is better than the one from last year led by kelvin banks and unanimously hailed as a top 3 o line in college football, great argument.
  13. “can you guys stop doing this?” one guy came in here and posted “quinn ewers last year was better than arch is today” and then proceeded to clutter these pages full of lies about last year’s team’s talent level plus a bunch of tangential, straw man bullshit to further derail this thread. don’t say “you guys” or “y’all” when there is one specific person who insists on repeatedly bringing quinn ewers into this thread and then invariably following that up with 50 more totally asinine posts all designed to prop up quinn while denigrating everyone else who’s played at Texas in the last 3-4 years. the world according to ThatGuy: •all those all americans, award winners, and nfl draft picks:bad at football arch manning: worse than the qb who ranked 200th nationally and 13/14 in the sec last year according to PFF quinn ewers:
  14. we also went into last year with either our rb3 or rb4 having to be our rb1. we also have sark who loves to abandon the run early for a myriad of reasons. there were also game specific reasons for each of those performances, none of which have anything to do with the fact that the offensive talent from last year’s team was clearly, inarguably superior to that of this year’s team.
  15. and he does so with straw man arguments like, “well then how come we didn’t run the ball well in our hardest games?” when the actual discussion is whether nor not last year’s o line was better than this one. or he’ll call matthew golden an nfl flop as “evidence” that matthew golden wasn’t actually all that good in college, as if that isn’t the most disingenuous argument one can make. “charlie ward threw for zero TDs in the nfl, he was bad at football for florida state.” see how dishonest that is?
  16. first off, someone immediately did answer the question. second, it’s a strawman argument that has nothing to do with the actual discussion vis a vis the talent that quinn ewers had around him vs the talent on this year’s team. quinn had superior talent across the board the last two years vs what Arch is working with this year, and since you know you can’t argue against that fact you’re just creating new arguments about tangential shit instead of just being honest and moving on.
  17. Derka

    Kenpom 2025-26

  18. quinn’s offensive teammates at Texas who were drafted: OL: Kelvin Banks, Christian Jones RB: Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Brooks, Roschon Johnson, Jaydon Blue, Keilan Robinson WR: Xavier Worthy, AD Mitchell, Matthew Golden, Jordan Whittington TE: JT Sanders, Gunnar Helm
  19. the talent from last year’s team >>> the talent from this year’s team. again, this is not debatable. i don’t know what we’re doing here. the OL featured the best lineman in football and was named one of the three best o lines in football; the wr group had a first round pick; the starting TE is now in the nfl. to argue that last year’s supporting cast was only negligibly better than this year’s is either dishonest or delusional, and could only be argued by a quinn ewers fanatic. oh yeah, we also arguably had the best defense in football each of the last two years, meaning quinn seriously didn’t have to do very much to get us the win vs basically anyone. just move the chains a little bit and score 6-7 points per quarter and we’re undefeated. we haven’t had that luxury this year. if we start adding the names of defensive players that quinn had who arch doesn’t then the talent gap gets even more comically evident. quinn did less with more; arch does more with less. coming into this thread to say that quinn was better than arch is was dumb.
  20. to be clear i don’t think anyone here has (recently) said that we would have done better last year if arch had been starting. what we (or at least i) have said is that Arch Manning already has his team as what we all agree is a playoff worthy team, warts and all. now imagine if he had the likes of kelvin banks and a joe moore nominated o line, xavier worthy, ad mitchell, jonathan brooks, gunnar helm, jt sanders, matthew golden, et al to work with. most people here hate our wr1; last night was our first 100 yard rushing game of the season; sark routinely abandons the run putting us in 3rd and long over and over again; and our online has been terrible - serviceable. what Arch has done with his supporting cast >>> what QE ever did with his supporting casts. i don’t see how that’s arguable. you can feel that i’m close minded for saying that, but i truly don’t see how anyone can argue otherwise.
  21. i don’t normally care for the opinions of pundits, but i’ve always liked and respected tim sherwood, so i like hearing him say these things.
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