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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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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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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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Posted
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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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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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. 

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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. 

Posted
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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Posted (edited)
9 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

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.

Yeah, letting them score 60+ points three times on the Horns in the Mack Brown era was absolutely insane and disgraceful.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, troph said:

CDC hinted at OU v N which I think is good for football too.

Nebraska smells blood in the water with Venables and probably thinks the time is now to bring back the rivalry.  

I guarantee if BV was rattling off a Sark-like back to back CFP semifinals and preseason #1 ranking, they wouldn't even be considering it.  They're pussies. 

Granted, OU and Nebraska are already scheduled for 2029/30 and OU already has Michigan (2025/2026), SMU (2027), UH (2028), Clemson (2035/2036) on the schedule for P4 teams.  So I don't know if it will come back annually for a while, but they should consider doing it from 2029-2034 since they don't have a P4 team scheduled yet. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, mdmost said:

OU traveling to SMU, Houston, and San Diego State in the OOC is kinda wild for someone not in your conference. 

OU wants as many games in Texas as they can get and recruits Cali pretty hard too? 

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Posted
2 hours ago, troph said:

Classiest fan base in college football (only when they are winning)

Nobody in the old Big 8 thought of them as classy other than OU. They would go on the road and roflstomp teams in their own stadium, with the cornhusker fans taking over home field advantage. OU and Nebraska fans did have a weird love affair with one another.

Much like A&M, Nebraska fans have a self image of how classy they are that doesn't exactly align with reality. The difference being Nebraska actually produced top 5 teams with some regularity. 

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On 8/28/2025 at 9:44 AM, Js1 said:

CDC to SEC: grow a pair 

 

#teamcdc

one quibble: no one gave a fuck about not playing aggy except aggy

he mentions 0u and corn, but what about oSu? same as aggy

that game is toast and there is zero national outcry

not playing aggy for a decade+ was GOOD for college football because they showed their ass and now they are exposed

it will be glorious if they have to return to austin again in '26

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On 8/28/2025 at 9:44 AM, Js1 said:

CDC to SEC: grow a pair 

 

A few comments on this.

Texas tried for decades to get Michigan and Ohio State on the schedule for a home and home. Those programs did not want to come down to Austin in September. There were talks of making the game later in the season, but with OU locked in, and neither program really wanting to interrupt conference play, they couldn't work it out. That's why Texas hadn't played either program in its history until the 2000s.

There was a time when Texas was trying to play Notre Dame as much as possible, but the Domers didn't want to lock in their schedule with Texas with so many other teams they wanted to play regularly. Heck, there was a time when Deloss Dodds was under the illusion he could get Notre Dame to join the Big 12 to replace departing teams, or at the time teams that were threatening to depart.

As far as us not playing A&M hurting college football, did it really? One of the qualities I really admired about Dodds was his sheer pettiness. I loved that he refused to play UH in anything after Bleachergate and the whole debacle that led up to it. I loved that he refused to play A&M in anything after they left for the SEC. I think this is the right thing to say, but if we ever left the SEC for some reason, it wouldn't bother me not to play the Aggies any more. 

And no one actually cares about OU/Nebraska any more. I get a little nostalgic about the great games in that series, but I'm old. Those games haven't been any more relevant to college football for a long long time than the Arkansas/Texas battles of the 60s. 

Also, we do have Arizona State as the marquee game in the future. If Dillingham is still there they'll have something, but otherwise it's a trip to Phoenix. Not a trip to play the Sun Devils. The chances of that matchup mattering aren't great. But that game will be played at the edge of my mortality, if I even make it that far, so I'm not terribly concerned one way or another. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

If Dillingham is still there they'll have something, but otherwise it's a trip to Phoenix. Not a trip to play the Sun Devils. The chances of that matchup mattering aren't great.

Eh it is very very hard to project out what that program could look like that far out. Or any program, really.  They could still be rolling with Dilly, or slide back into mediocrity.

Hell, same for our program.  Who the fuck knows that far out. 

Posted
22 hours ago, Js1 said:

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

These make it feel much worse.... 

2000: 63-14
2003: 65-13
2011: 55-17
2012: 63-21

When you cap the margin of victory at 10, it does not seem as bad :)

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3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Eh it is very very hard to project out what that program could look like that far out. Or any program, really.  They could still be rolling with Dilly, or slide back into mediocrity.

Hell, same for our program.  Who the fuck knows that far out. 

Michigan. Ohio State. Notre Dame. LSU. Arizona State.

 

Posted
4 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

These make it feel much worse.... 

2000: 63-14
2003: 65-13
2011: 55-17
2012: 63-21

When you cap the margin of victory at 10, it does not seem as bad :)

At least those 2011 and 2012 teams were pretty much hot garbage.

The 2000 and 2003 teams were pretty good and had no business coming out of there with that outcome. Same with the shutout in 2004. The whole approach to that game was terrible. 

Also, while Mack Brown beat Stoops 6 times, he only won 2 conference titles. That made a big difference, too. Even when he won he couldn't win. 

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7 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Michigan. Ohio State. Notre Dame. LSU. Arizona State.

I'm sure teams who scheduled us in the non-conf from 2010-2022 thought the same thing.  Oh it's Texas, they'll never be bad/mediocre

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21 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

#teamcdc

one quibble: no one gave a fuck about not playing aggy except aggy

he mentions 0u and corn, but what about oSu? same as aggy

that game is toast and there is zero national outcry

not playing aggy for a decade+ was GOOD for college football because they showed their ass and now they are exposed

it will be glorious if they have to return to austin again in '26

You guys come on here and claim no one cared about Texas not playing ATM. That's myopic bullshit. We didn't care about playing them, sure. Nationally, it came up in commentary multiple times every year. Conversationally with other CFB fans, it would get asked about and mentioned. You can spare me the "no one watched it nationally when it was being played!" pleas, too. Once the game was gone, it was lamented by CFB fans. 

I never wanted it renewed, but now I'm glad it is back. Mostly because I feel pretty sure Texas will continue to win more than 2/3s of the time. 

11 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

These make it feel much worse.... 

2000: 63-14
2003: 65-13
2011: 55-17
2012: 63-21

When you cap the margin of victory at 10, it does not seem as bad :)

So you thought this thread needed those scores posted? That it? We needed to see that? Cool, cool, cool.

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Just now, Js1 said:

I'm sure teams who scheduled us in the non-conf from 2010-2022 thought the same thing.  Oh it's Texas, they'll never be bad/mediocre

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I've watched goal posts being torn down from fans after wins against Texas teams with a losing record.

Ain't nobody doing that with Arizona State. You're making a false equivalency. 

When Texas comes into town it makes for a big time game regardless of how good the team is. That's just the power of the brand. Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame have the same kind of draw. So does Alabama and USC. It's odd to compare Arizona State to those Texas teams. 

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12 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You guys come on here and claim no one cared about Texas not playing ATM. That's myopic bullshit. We didn't care about playing them, sure. Nationally, it came up in commentary multiple times every year. Conversationally with other CFB fans, it would get asked about and mentioned. You can spare me the "no one watched it nationally when it was being played!" pleas, too. Once the game was gone, it was lamented by CFB fans. 

I never wanted it renewed, but now I'm glad it is back. Mostly because I feel pretty sure Texas will continue to win more than 2/3s of the time. 

'us guys' can table this until bird week

i disagree with your position and my conversational recollections are the opposite of yours and equally valid

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4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

'us guys' can table this until bird week

i disagree with your position and my conversational recollections are the opposite of yours and equally valid

What in the hell is "bird week"?

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Posted
1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

I've watched goal posts being torn down from fans after wins against Texas teams with a losing record.

Ain't nobody doing that with Arizona State. You're making a false equivalency. 

When Texas comes into town it makes for a big time game regardless of how good the team is. That's just the power of the brand. Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame have the same kind of draw. So does Alabama and USC. It's odd to compare Arizona State to those Texas teams. 

K, i think you just don't get it, and that's fine.  I'm not going to argue with you, because you're going to out-word me by a factor of 5,0000

Posted
1 hour ago, boilerhorn said:

These make it feel much worse.... 

2000: 63-14
2003: 65-13
2011: 55-17
2012: 63-21

When you cap the margin of victory at 10, it does not seem as bad :)

yea saying by 2 scores or whatever doesn't really capture how bad stoops would cuck mack brown, those loses were inexcusably bad 

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