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13 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

Napolean's dance is one of the few things I remember from that movie...and Uncle Rico's boasts about his throwing arm. I must've gotten up to use the can during this scene.

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Man, let it be us. We can extend our streak against them and get two easy OOC wins against a Big 10 team. 

it *should* be OU, due to the historic nature of that rivarly

But we do have a 2 year gap without a marquee OOC opponent after Ohio State/Michigan/ND

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

it *should* be OU, due to the historic nature of that rivarly

But we do have a 2 year gap without a marquee OOC opponent after Ohio State/Michigan/ND

Yeah but I'd prefer to fill that gap with a marquee team, rather than... Nebraska.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Yeah but I'd prefer to fill that gap with a marquee team, rather than... Nebraska.

Nebraska ain't gonna schedule us, let's be honest.  They cancelled Tennessee, why would they schedule an actual elite team? 

OU is the safer bet, unless they just want a patsy like Arky, MSST, Vanderbilt (post-Pavia), Auburn instead

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

it *should* be OU, due to the historic nature of that rivarly

But we do have a 2 year gap without a marquee OOC opponent after Ohio State/Michigan/ND

Let's schedule them the same years as Notre Dame. 

Nebraska can be our #2 OOC opponent. 😁

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19 hours ago, Js1 said:

Nebraska ain't gonna schedule us, let's be honest.  They cancelled Tennessee, why would they schedule an actual elite team? 

Because with the recent announcement that the CFP will put greater weight on marquee wins, Nebraska probably realizes they fucked up. They did everything they could to ensure an easy schedule, only for the CFP to announce that it will reward schools that go in the opposite direction.

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Just now, satyanash said:

Because with the recent announcement that the CFP will put greater weight on marquee wins, Nebraska probably realizes they fucked up. They did everything they could to ensure an easy schedule, only for the CFP to announce that it will reward schools that go in the opposite direction.

I share this view and I hope we're correct. In my mind, the "logical" path for anyone serious about making the CFP is to schedule more seriously in the OOC. Sankey and CDC both see it that way and have publicly said as much. 

I would love to play Nebraska again, but assume it is just a pipe dream. I despise those idiots and I love beating them and being blamed for their demise. It would be a big national match-up if Rhule keeps them in ascent and they'd shit themselves as soon as Texas stepped off the bus. There are few match-ups among the legendary brands and schools where I think that premise is true, but I do believe it between Texas and Nebraska. They've made Texas something bigger than it is, which is a somewhat remarkable feat. 

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1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

I share this view and I hope we're correct. In my mind, the "logical" path for anyone serious about making the CFP is to schedule more seriously in the OOC. Sankey and CDC both see it that way and have publicly said as much. 

I would love to play Nebraska again, but assume it is just a pipe dream. I despise those idiots and I love beating them and being blamed for their demise. It would be a big national match-up if Rhule keeps them in ascent and they'd shit themselves as soon as Texas stepped off the bus. There are few match-ups among the legendary brands and schools where I think that premise is true, but I do believe it between Texas and Nebraska. They've made Texas something bigger than it is, which is a somewhat remarkable feat. 

Think of all the close games we won in weird ways or major upsets.

2010 we were awful.  Squints ran it a bunch.

2006 they had the game won if their receiver just falls down after picking up a first down.  Instead he fights for more yards, Ross pops him, he fumbles, and we recover.  A walk on kicker comes in as an injury replacement and kicks a walk off field goal in the snow.  I think this had to hurt as bad as any.  We had no business winning like that.

2007 we are losing by 14  Then Jamaal runs for something like 220 yards in ten minutes of game time.

2009 Big 12 title game we win with a 47 yard walk off field goal after the refs (correctly) put a second back on the clock.

2002 Jamaal Lord, who was averaging about 11 yards per carry and lit us up for 250 rushing on a 7-7 Nebraska team, decides to throw to end zone while in field goal range and down by 3.  Vasher picks him off.

1996 Roll Left when we were 21 point underdogs.

1999 regular season when they were so much better but kept fumbling in red zone.

1998 Ricky destroys them and breaks their ridiculously long home winning streak.

I think all the games were close except 2003 when we just kicked their ass.  They just pissed down their leg every time they saw burnt orange.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

It was weird.  Bob Stoops just owned him.

Well it was weird, because it felt so much worse, but Mack was 6-9 versus Stoops

It felt, at times, like James Franklin vs Ohio State (1-10) but that's just because some of those 9 losses were not even close to competitive. 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well it was weird, because it felt so much worse, but Mack was 6-9 versus Stoops

It felt, at times, like James Franklin vs Ohio State (1-10) but that's just because some of those 9 losses were not even close to competitive. 

It was the five-game losing streak that colored everybody's perception. Especially HOW we performed in some of those games. We definitely played scared at times.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Well it was weird, because it felt so much worse, but Mack was 6-9 versus Stoops

It felt, at times, like James Franklin vs Ohio State (1-10) but that's just because some of those 9 losses were not even close to competitive. 

Right. -140 point differential over those 15 matchups, or 9.33 points per game.

basically averaging a two score loss over a 15 year period. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Right. -140 point differential over those 15 matchups, or 9.33 points per game.

basically averaging a two score loss over a 15 year period. 

Yep. 5 times Texas won by 10 or more. 7 for OU. 

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2 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Right. -140 point differential over those 15 matchups, or 9.33 points per game.

basically averaging a two score loss over a 15 year period. 

There was a 165-point differential in the five major beatdowns Mack received at the hand of Stoops.  Fuck that.

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