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2 minutes ago, BachelorTrek said:

Doesn't matter.

Those were signed before we knew playing them was a no-win situation for us for strength of schedule and SOR and whatever the FUCK those cfp-committee knuckle-dragging-mouth-breathers "use".

If we win the games it’s still a no win situation

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3 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

I still remember when we got very little respect for going into the horseshoe and beating them at night leading up to the rose bowl with USC. The media that year acted like that game never happened, which was part of the reason why so many picked USC to kill us.

I remember being the number two team in the country from wire to wire until we beat number one.

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10 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I remember being the number two team in the country from wire to wire until we beat number one.

We were the most disrespected wire to penultimate wire #2 in history, it was more than just USC vs all historical teams, Corso even said he was picking a shock the universe texas pick.

That said after tOSU no team was getting to #2 even if there were other undefeateds.

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Go ahead and keep the Ohio State and Michigan games for 2026 and 2027 respectively because they will both be in Austin. These are the games they "owe" us after we went to their places. 
With 9 game SEC schedules next year, it makes no sense to ever go on the road to play a top 25 opponent in non-conference. Future Home and Homes with top 25 opponents need to be cancelled and replaced with programs like Syracuse, Boston College, Purdue, Rutgers and the like. All that matters is we schedule a power 4 opponent that we should beat 99 times out of 100. 

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Cancel ND and call Indiana.  3 years from now they are crashing back to earth one way or another.  And it looks great now and screws ND.  When/If they refuse, put out a press release.  I half kid. 

 

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I mean Purdue is right there, frankly it is more about carrying out the threat after you made it, nobody is getting hurt, just cancel the ND series and force them to joing a conference. They used to schedule better before they half joined the weak ACC.

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1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

the idiocy of Hunter Yurachek is perfect for Arkansas.  so you rank teams and if they end up side by side, THEN you figure out if they played each other?

That’s been the rules as long as I can recall. It’s just a lot of dumb fucks don’t bother to understand what they’re whining and bitching about. It’s in the stated criteria again this year. If teams are comparable, hear in what we look at to separate “comparable” teams. 

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3 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

And there we have it….   But let’s ignore Bama lost to Florida State who (let me check) lost to Florida last week and OU who  I think Texas beat?

 

Am I right?

Texas closed as -4.5 pt favorite at Florida.

Miami was -10.5 at home vs. Louisville.

Miami's  loss is objectively worse by a significant margin.  They were also -6.5 at SMU.

A glance at FEI shows SMU 34, Louisville 32, FLA 43. All roughly the same. If Florida is a "bad loss" for Texas, Miami has two that are worse.

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9 hours ago, Drew said:

No, they literally are NOT looking at them. if they were Texas would not be behind Miami and ND.  Even the loss to Florida is not that bad.

They are simply looking at wins and losses...all the evidence proves that.  Texas has 3 losses and is out. They are the highest ranked 3 loss team...but still behind teams they shouldn't be because of the 3 in the loss column. Don't be dense.

You should probably try to keep your dumbassery confined to the Cowboys thread. You’re literally the reason “shut the fuck up, Drew” exists.  

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13 minutes ago, linux said:

We were the most disrespected wire to penultimate wire #2 in history, it was more than just USC vs all historical teams, Corso even said he was picking a shock the universe texas pick.

That said after tOSU no team was getting to #2 even if there were other undefeateds.

We were number two all year to the defending national champion who returned a Heisman trophy winning QB. USC was the overwhelming pick to repeat, and rightfully so.

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1 minute ago, F250 said:

Hopefully, Sark hires an OC, and we don't have to deal with this shit next year. 

 

No.  We'll get his face buried in a playsheet or notepad, even while on defense, and nothing but looks of bewilderment when an official throws a bullshit flag.

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14 minutes ago, F250 said:

Hopefully, Sark hires an OC, and we don't have to deal with this shit next year. 

Hopefully Sark fully commits to spring workouts this year. Spring game or not, these are not NFL pros who need load management in the offseason.

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Posted
5 hours ago, The Drum said:

Silver lining is we knocked aggy so far back they actually have to play a real team now.

It's funny how little the committee values our win over #3 and undefeated aggy.

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34 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

That’s been the rules as long as I can recall. It’s just a lot of dumb fucks don’t bother to understand what they’re whining and bitching about. It’s in the stated criteria again this year. If teams are comparable, hear in what we look at to separate “comparable” teams. 

how do you decide which teams are comparable before you use the SOS, H2H, injured players, common opponents?

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Didn’t Florida state out physical Alabama this year? That was a bad loss. I understand Florida was a bad loss.

I get that they aren’t suppose to penalize being in the CCG but we would both have 3 losses IF smart could figure out how to beat bama . Both of us will have 1 really bad loss.

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1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

how do you decide which teams are comparable before you use the SOS, H2H, injured players, common opponents?

I don’t decide it. The committee does. Get a member on the phone and ask them. It’s been the same all along. They have to answer questions week after week about ranking a sport that has hundreds of teams that don’t all play the same type of schedules. Every year they contradict themselves when the chair has to answer questions every week. But it’s been this way as long as I can recall: “team A was far and above Team B in our view, so we didn’t need to go to H2H, common opponents, etc, etc.” 

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1 minute ago, Longboard Horn said:

We get in if Bama and BYU get blown out in their title games

No, there will be two of VA/Duke, JMU, Tulane, even UNLV. Texas at #11 still means first one out.

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1 hour ago, Longboard Horn said:

We get in if Bama and BYU get blown out in their title games

Someone else said it best but it is worth repeating when we were revealed to be #13

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Texas Tech lost on the road to Arizona State, who is comparable in finally power ratings to Florida even now. So if Texas Tech loses to BYU are they now disqualified? Of course not. 

Florida when we lost to them, at the Swamp, in their yearly rally around their beloved but beguiled head coach and win one for the gipper, was ranked 33rd in FEI, with the 18th ranked defense and 15th ranked special teams units. 

We came in after a two week prep with a bone-headed and brain dead gameplan to keep everything in front of us and not let Lagway beat us with his legs, even after he got gimpy, and because we were missing our best and most reliable corner back we adjusted everything our coverages to be softer and looser (in both man and zones). 

This was also the most clear picture that Akina had murdered our secondary cohesion as we let simple routes murder us all day. Combined with a handcuffed pass rush, and as a result a passive defensive line not allowed or able to cause havoc, left our second and third level run defenders gashed by a great running back who almost always had a head of steam as we stood around and caught blocks at the line. 

 The biggest issue here is that the Florida loss so soon after the Ohio State loss and two hapless offensive performances at home in OOC games created the national narrative that Texas and Arch was a fraud, and thus they were already out of it barring a miraculous run.

 Then the dominating performance against OU was chocked up to Red River weirdness, not indicative of our strengths and their weaknesses as good football teams. 

Then the two road clunkers, let everyone determine that Texas had to win out to be in the playoff. By this time people had already discounted the Ohio State game, and there was never any discussion of the fact that Texas had an 82% post-game win expectancy on the road, against the defending champion and clear best team in the nation this year, in the first road start for a new quarterback.

 

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The Florida loss while crappy, and completely on our coaches (I mean, remember the left guard situation in that game) and unwillingness to do anything but try to max protect deep PA shots, is crazy how people think Florida is total garbage. 

They are incredibly talented team that didn't meet pre-season expectations and after rallying for their beloved coach, wilted down the stretch. This is a team that has only three SEC wins away from the Swamp in the last 4 seasons, and none of those were this year. In all of Napier's tenure at Florida they won 4 total games away from the swamp (4-18 away from Gainesville in his 4 year run). In contrast they were 18-8 in those four years at the Swamp including (10-4) in SEC play in the swamp. 

At home they had a game they gave away to a good and talented mid-major team USF (turnovers). But otherwise they were 4-2 at home, with 3 wins coming against Power 4 competition (and had completely quit and let Tennessee roll up on them to finally score a win in their rivalry in the swamp). 

They were neck-and-neck with Georgia on a neutral site, and a controversial reversed-call away from perhaps taking that one, falling only 24-20 to the committee's number 3 ranked team. 

They then went on the road after fully laying down on the road against Kentucky, and then on the road against the committee's 6th ranked team, Ole Miss led 24-20 at halftime. Then in the fourth quarter, after Ole Miss takes a 3-point lead 27-24, they drive down to deep into Ole Miss territory, where they are in tying field goal range, have a 3rd and 5, and then a tipped-ball interception ends the drive, and takes points off the board. Ole Miss then gets a final punch in touchdown when Florida pinned back on their own goal line has to go for it on 4th and turns it over on downs. 

 

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53 minutes ago, TheYoungHorn said:

Texas Tech lost on the road to Arizona State, who is comparable in finally power ratings to Florida even now. So if Texas Tech loses to BYU are they now disqualified? Of course not. 

Florida when we lost to them, at the Swamp, in their yearly rally around their beloved but beguiled head coach and win one for the gipper, was ranked 33rd in FEI, with the 18th ranked defense and 15th ranked special teams units. 

We came in after a two week prep with a bone-headed and brain dead gameplan to keep everything in front of us and not let Lagway beat us with his legs, even after he got gimpy, and because we were missing our best and most reliable corner back we adjusted everything our coverages to be softer and looser (in both man and zones). 

This was also the most clear picture that Akina had murdered our secondary cohesion as we let simple routes murder us all day. Combined with a handcuffed pass rush, and as a result a passive defensive line not allowed or able to cause havoc, left our second and third level run defenders gashed by a great running back who almost always had a head of steam as we stood around and caught blocks at the line. 

 The biggest issue here is that the Florida loss so soon after the Ohio State loss and two hapless offensive performances at home in OOC games created the national narrative that Texas and Arch was a fraud, and thus they were already out of it barring a miraculous run.

 Then the dominating performance against OU was chocked up to Red River weirdness, not indicative of our strengths and their weaknesses as good football teams. 

Then the two road clunkers, let everyone determine that Texas had to win out to be in the playoff. By this time people had already discounted the Ohio State game, and there was never any discussion of the fact that Texas had an 82% post-game win expectancy on the road, against the defending champion and clear best team in the nation this year, in the first road start for a new quarterback.

 

Ain’t no one reading all that.

Posted
8 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

BTW, quite the one-two punch for @Wulaw Horn with this and the "I have no concerns about this team" thread. 😂

 

 

I was off by 1 game in a thread full of people saying we were going 5-7 or 6-6. I was way closer to what actually happened than most in that thread if you read through it. If Florida loss wouldn’t have happened I’d have been Nostradamus and not Nostradumbass. 1 game. Not really all that far off. Really, we needed up in the place I thought we would either a team that was pretty clearly a top 5 or so type team and arch being a stud and the team being fine- it just fucking took sark 6 weeks longer to get there than I thought it would- and the Florida loss happened. I even conceded in the moment that we were probably going to be dogs to and lose to Georgia. 
 

Posted
7 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is too fucking much for humans to decide. Bring back the BCS with a 16 team playoff and no guaranteed G5 teams. Boise, Memphis, and James Madison better load up their Non con schedule. At least the BCS fucking followed the parameters it was given and didn’t make shit up along the way. With 16 teams who gives a fuck? 

Let’s pretend it’s 16 and they do that shit where the big 12 and ACC get 2 AQ’s each the big 10 and sec 4 and the guppies  get one… that’s 13 teams. Domers make 14… that still leaves only 2 spots up in the air most years. That’s not enough to solve this problem if they do it this way. Not really. 16 only really works if you drop the damn AQ’s or you still have zero incentive to schedule tough OOC games. 

7 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is too fucking much for humans to decide. Bring back the BCS with a 16 team playoff and no guaranteed G5 teams. Boise, Memphis, and James Madison better load up their Non con schedule. At least the BCS fucking followed the parameters it was given and didn’t make shit up along the way. With 16 teams who gives a fuck? 

Let’s pretend it’s 16 and they do that shit where the big 12 and ACC get 2 AQ’s each the big 10 and sec 4 and the guppies  get one… that’s 13 teams. Domers make 14… that still leaves only 2 spots up in the air most years. That’s not enough to solve this problem if they do it this way. Not really. 16 only really works if you drop the damn AQ’s or you still have zero incentive to schedule tough OOC games. 

7 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is too fucking much for humans to decide. Bring back the BCS with a 16 team playoff and no guaranteed G5 teams. Boise, Memphis, and James Madison better load up their Non con schedule. At least the BCS fucking followed the parameters it was given and didn’t make shit up along the way. With 16 teams who gives a fuck? 

Let’s pretend it’s 16 and they do that shit where the big 12 and ACC get 2 AQ’s each the big 10 and sec 4 and the guppies  get one… that’s 13 teams. Domers make 14… that still leaves only 2 spots up in the air most years. That’s not enough to solve this problem if they do it this way. Not really. 16 only really works if you drop the damn AQ’s or you still have zero incentive to schedule tough OOC games. 

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7 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is too fucking much for humans to decide. Bring back the BCS with a 16 team playoff and no guaranteed G5 teams. Boise, Memphis, and James Madison better load up their Non con schedule. At least the BCS fucking followed the parameters it was given and didn’t make shit up along the way. With 16 teams who gives a fuck? 

Let’s pretend it’s 16 and they do that shit where the big 12 and ACC get 2 AQ’s each the big 10 and sec 4 and the guppies  get one… that’s 13 teams. Domers make 14… that still leaves only 2 spots up in the air most years. That’s not enough to solve this problem if they do it this way. Not really. 16 only really works if you drop the damn AQ’s or you still have zero incentive to schedule tough OOC games. 

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If Texas is going to be out, I’m pulling for Indiana, BYU, Duke, James Madison and north Texas. I want the shittiest playoffs ever. How about a North Texas BYU final. 

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7 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is too fucking much for humans to decide. Bring back the BCS with a 16 team playoff and no guaranteed G5 teams. Boise, Memphis, and James Madison better load up their Non con schedule. At least the BCS fucking followed the parameters it was given and didn’t make shit up along the way. With 16 teams who gives a fuck? 

Let’s pretend it’s 16 and they do that shit where the big 12 and ACC get 2 AQ’s each the big 10 and sec 4 and the guppies  get one… that’s 13 teams. Domers make 14… that still leaves only 2 spots up in the air most years. That’s not enough to solve this problem if they do it this way. Not really. 16 only really works if you drop the damn AQ’s or you still have zero incentive to schedule tough OOC games. 

 

6 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

 

Hmmm maybe.  I guess it’s not worth mentioning the OU win at Bama.  That obviously means nothing.  Lol

 

OU deserves to be in the playoff based upon how they did against that schedule. They have one of the 3 best wins of the year (OU at bama, bama at Georgia, Texas at aggy). Put in aggy at Domers and whoever wins the Big 19 title game and there’s the best 5 wins of the year. They also beat Michigan which isn’t great but isn’t nothing (I’d equate that to Texas beating Vandy this year) and beat a bunch of sec teams that people thought would be good (TN, LSU, Auburn, Mizzou) that ended up pretty mediocre but those were all games that were loseable in the same way Texas at Florida was loseable. So, they deserve in based upon what they did. You’ve been an OU fan for a long time and you know what good looks like and this team isn’t good. Weird that they are definitely a top 10 team by resume but not top 10 by quality of actual team this year. 
if I’m an OU fan I’m pretty concerned about the direction of this program under Vemebles and with NIL. 

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