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3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Take as don't be delusional like he is. We're not going independent. We hitched our wagon to the SEC. If people want to cut out OOC marquee games then fine but a steady diet of worthless indy scheduling like Notre Dame, no thanks. 

Delusional is thinking that a 3 loss team makes it into the playoffs. But I see your point. Steve was saying we should just cancel OSU next year on that program earlier. Probably for the best. He cannot beat them anyway. Regular or post season. 

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I think we'll be ranked 12 tonight. There's no risk to it. BYU beats Tech, you slide BYU up and take Tech down from 4/5 where they'll be tonight. BYU comes in at 8 or 9. Maybe it pushed OU back to 9 or 10. Bama wins or loses, they're still in. Kirby has a Bama problem. They would have to blow Bama out by 30+ for Bama to not still make it with a loss. They don't want the SEC removing the CCG so there will be no penalty to Bama unless they just don't show up and even then who knows. Duke wins the ACC then I believe they can take two G5 champions. 

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Those who don't like Texas like to point out that if we didn't have the Florida loss, we would be in and that the OOC loss to tOSU doesn't matter. Guess what, every team with 2 or fewer losses in the SEC is a shoe in except us because our 3rd loss is to #1 tOSU on the road at the beginning of the season. We also have 3 top 10 wins.

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Posted
55 minutes ago, Drew said:

How?  The fact we loss to a bad team like Florida does NOT matter. The fact that we have 3 losses do. They are literally not looking at who you lose to, OR who you play and beat, just the loss.

The strength of teams you beat and lose to is literally in the metrics calculation used by the committee.  They are literally looking at who you lose to, AND who you play and beat, not just the loss.

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4 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

Those who don't like Texas like to point out that if we didn't have the Florida loss, we would be in and that the OOC loss to tOSU doesn't matter. Guess what, every team with 2 or fewer losses in the SEC is a shoe in except us because our 3rd loss is to #1 tOSU on the road at the beginning of the season. We also have 3 top 10 wins.

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I'd also be talking about:

Having to play 4 teams in the top half of the SEC, unlike some jackass school 90 min east of us, and going 3-1
Playing an entire month away from home to open the SEC schedule, which nobody else had to do

The first point might bring up a whole thing about unbalanced conf schedules that Sankey doesn't want talked about too much 

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1 minute ago, gernblansten said:

The strength of teams you beat and lose to is literally in the metrics calculation used by the committee.  They are literally looking at who you lose to, AND who you play and beat, not just the loss.

What evidence do you have for this argument? It's one thing to say they are supposed to be considering the SOS and another to show that they have. Their ranking doesn't support your argument.

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9 minutes ago, joeycovers said:

Orlowsky put out a video saying if Texas gets left out he sees the entire SEC start to cancel OOC games. I believe he is still an ESPN talking head. 

Not totally unrelated in all of this, do you have this week's viewership numbers posted anywhere yet?

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19 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I'd also be talking about:
Playing an entire month away from home to open the SEC schedule, which nobody else had to do

 

Now we want xtra-credit for the Red River game being played at the Cotton Bowl?

 

Every game you played in September was at DKR  

 

Take it up with Sankey.  

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5 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Not totally unrelated in all of this, do you have this week's viewership numbers posted anywhere yet?

Arkansas at Texas was the highest rated game last week with 5.6 million viewers

This week it was 

1. Texas vs Aggy 13.8 million

2. Ohio State-Michigan 12.4 million

3. Auburn vs Bama 9.8 million

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Posted
24 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I want Texas to get in, Notre Dame to get pushed out, Texas players get healthy over the next few weeks while waiting for its playoff game, Texas wins the national championship, and six years from now there is some inconclusive evidence that Texas paid off certain members of the committee, each of whom has subsequently died in "accidents." 



I want to change my story. It would be even funnier if we get in the playoffs, win the whole thing,  and six years later it's proved that the members of the committee couldn't decide which teams should get in, so they asked ChatGPT which are the most deserving and ChatGPT decided. 

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I enjoy the cautious optimism but I’ve accepted we are cooked.   Hope I am wrong.  The committee has completely changed things up this week in the past to get their desired outcome after CCG weekend though so who knows?

Setting us aside, if Bama and BYU win which of OU, ND and Tech are left out?

 

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6 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What evidence do you have for this argument? It's one thing to say they are supposed to be considering the SOS and another to show that they have. Their ranking doesn't support your argument.

The College Football Playoff selection committee will announce its first of six rankings on Nov. 4 using enhanced metrics to help evaluate schedule strength and how teams perform against their slate, the CFP announced Wednesday.

In the current schedule strength metric, more weight will now be applied to games against strong opponents. A new, added metric of "record strength" will help the committee determine how teams performed against their schedule, rewarding those that beat high-quality opponents while minimizing the penalty of losing to one. These changes will also provide minimal reward for beating a lower-quality opponent while imposing a greater penalty for losing to one.

Historically, the selection committee typically has evaluated in this manner, but adding it to a computerized metric should help codify the process publicly. It could also incentivize athletic directors to continue to schedule marquee matchups between blue-blood programs without fear of being penalized for a loss in the committee meeting room. This is something some FBS commissioners have been publicly pushing for and the CFP has been working on over the past six months.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46027603/cfp-selection-committee-use-enhanced-metrics

It's interesting because you don't like the ranking, you think it proves they aren't considering the metrics. What evidence do you have to prove their position is not "UT is penalized slightly for losing to tOSU, and penalized a lot for losing to 4-8 UF and 35-10 to UGA. We have them behind the two loss teams because they have 1 good loss, 1 ouch okay loss, and 1 really bad loss. Alabama is the only 2 loss team with a comparable loss, and they nearly cancel it out with the best win of anyone. If UT would've beaten Purdue and had 2 losses, they would be the lowest 2 loss team because of the 35-10 loss and UF."

I think UT would be in at 10-2. But, that doesn't change the fact the committee can be following the stated position of what they consider and still have UT outside the playoff. It's not weird fanatics think it's so black and white, but it doesn't change the fact fanatics gonna fanatic and ignore reasonable difference from tunnel vision. 

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4 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Now we want xtra-credit for the Red River game being played at the Cotton Bowl?

 

Every game you played in September was at DKR  

 

Take it up with Sankey.  

I wasn't talking to you, so stay out of it. 

Posted
20 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

What evidence do you have for this argument? It's one thing to say they are supposed to be considering the SOS and another to show that they have. Their ranking doesn't support your argument.

Florida State, 2023 is calling you in a few.....

Posted
5 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Now we want xtra-credit for the Red River game being played at the Cotton Bowl?

 

Every game you played in September was at DKR  

 

Take it up with Sankey.  

Nobody asked you, Sally. Fuck off back to the Big 12 thread. 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Arkansas at Texas was the highest rated game last week with 5.6 million viewers

This week it was 

1. Texas vs Aggy 13.8 million

2. Ohio State-Michigan 12.4 million

3. Auburn vs Bama 9.8 million

This evidence is irrefutable.  Red blooded Americans want Texas in the playoffs.

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Posted (edited)
13 minutes ago, nnm said:

 

This shows to me that they couldn't beat any good team. Lost to the only 2 good teams (Bama and Texas) they had on their schedule. If you haven't beaten a single playoff caliber team, how do you expect to be in the playoffs? 

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siap, but this thread moves very very fast, and we’ve never had a coach who’s been willing to go to bat for his team like sark does, so i wanted to share this in case anyone else had missed it. you really can’t make the argument any better than sark does here. we’ve played 7 games since florida; four of them were against top 10 teams; we went 3-1. we’re 6-1 since florida with three top 10 wins in that span, most since joe burrow and lsu did it in 2019. if Texas isn’t a playoff team then the playoff is stupid. there’s almost no way we’re going to win it all if we get in, but holy shit do we still clearly deserve to get in. 

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I wasn't talking to you, so stay out of it. 

I missed the DM notation. 
 

Sorry.  I've heard the October hardship line multiple times.  It's a fucking joke.  Talking up the strengths>>>>>wanting sympathy

Posted
3 minutes ago, El Hornarino said:

This evidence is irrefutable.  Red blooded Americans want Texas in the playoffs.

Orange blooded ones too! 

Posted
29 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

The strength of teams you beat and lose to is literally in the metrics calculation used by the committee.  They are literally looking at who you lose to, AND who you play and beat, not just the loss.

youre suggesting if we lost to OU but beat Florida but we'd be in, and I find that to be incredibly regarded at best 

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Posted
12 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Arkansas at Texas was the highest rated game last week with 5.6 million viewers

This week it was 

1. Texas vs Aggy 13.8 million

2. Ohio State-Michigan 12.4 million

3. Auburn vs Bama 9.8 million

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Posted
1 minute ago, BigHornedLurker said:

youre suggesting if we lost to OU but beat Florida but we'd be in, and I find that to be incredibly regarded at best 

We would be even more out than we are now because people would say Texas had a losing record against top 10 teams and could only win at home.

Posted
1 hour ago, Drew said:

Real nut dragging there...I'd love to see it, but would come off as whiney.

Agreed.  They can join the ACC and take their bid...if they can't win that conference, don't give them an At large

Didn’t Dome go 5-1 in the ACC this year?  Throw them in the CCG against UVA or Miami or whoever and let them play for their spot.

FCS should not count on you record, if Bama loses to UGA they will have the same 9-3 record we have so fuck them too.  

Ole Miss is interesting since the offensive playcallers are gone and the defensive playcaller now has to play HC for the first time ever.  To think that’s not a complete clusterfuck is disingenuous 

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