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6 hours ago, Royale with cheese said:

It's the same now as it always has been: You watch and hope that ou, aggy, and ND get boat-raced. I mean, they get their shit pushed in in supremely embarrassing fashion on national TV. I don't ever want to see any one of those cocksuckers ever win another game. Ever

How do you do that when Aggy and OU are playing each other, you failed to explain that scenario.

That was the question.

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3 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

How do you do that when Aggy and OU are playing each other, you failed to explain that scenario.

That was the question.

I want aggy to be embarrassed so badly in the CFP, the committee thinks twice about ever giving them an invite and Elko goes on a bender that culminates in 

The Bender Moment In Futurama That Grossed John DiMaggio Out ...

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As much as I like watching the early OOC marquee games, Texas needs to eliminate them going forward.  With the SEC going to a 9 game conference schedule, there is too much downside and not enough upside to making one of your OOC a 50/50 game.  With 9 conference games in the SEC, coming out the other side with 1-2 losses is going to be tough and will almost always be enough to get a Texas in the CFP regardless of OOC quality.  There will be situations where a big marquee OOC win could be a different maker to make the CFP, but I think it's much more likely a loss OOC keeps you out like this year.    

For all the simpletons saying the Florida game kept us out rather than the OSU game, that's a dumb take IMO.  All 3 of our losses kept us out.  We are 100% in the CFP with a win in any of those games.  The difference is that we had to play Florida and GA this year while OSU was our choice.  It's easy to say "just beat a bad Florida team", but this is college football and those kind of losses aren't going away and even the best teams often drop silly games (particularly against dangerous and talented "bad" teams which make up half of the SEC).        

Again, there is a lot to hate about dropping the early OOC marquee match ups.  But it's just not worth it when the current system values the W/L record so highly.  I'd rather increase the odds of watching multiple CFP marquee match ups at the end of the season vs. 1 marquee match up early in the season. 

One possible solution that would encourage more early marquee games - make the first 2 games of the year meaningless pre season bowl games that must be OOC.  You play whoever you want or maybe they formally move bowls to the beginning of the year and the bowls pick.  Bragging rights still on the line, but those games don't count toward your record that is evaluated for post season play.  Those games would certainly get a lot more viewership than the current post season bowl games with everyone sitting out and nobody cares about watching anything outside the playoffs.  After the 2 preseason "bowls", every game after that must be either conference opponent or P4 OOC (sorry G5).  Those 10 games (or 11 if CCG still exists) would be used to determine who gets in the CFP.  It would be more like most of the other sports where early season results aren't that important and they use that time to schedule the hardest opponents possible to figure out where the team is and make adjustments before conference play starts.   

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19 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I want aggy to be embarrassed so badly in the CFP, the committee thinks twice about ever giving them an invite and Elko goes on a bender that culminates in 

The Bender Moment In Futurama That Grossed John DiMaggio Out ...

Must be a meth bender if he’s going to lose that much weight.

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9 minutes ago, blutow said:

One possible solution that would encourage more early marquee games - make the first 2 games of the year meaningless pre season bowl games that must be OOC. 

we're more or less halfway there with these games over in Ireland and Brazil

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5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Pavia vs JFF

WWE cage match

My money is on JFF to whip Pavia’s ass, but then for Pavia’s family to come out of the stands and jump JFF. When they are finally done beating his ass, Michael Sam will come sack him.

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5 hours ago, mdmost said:

Who exactly did Vanderbilt think they would get to play in this mythical 13th game?

 

Only two that should play this mythical 13th game are Miami and Notre Dame. There is no guarantee for Notre Dame that a side by side Miami would not get put ahead of them and Miami has nothing to lose.

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Lots of people in this thread making lots of assumptions about the future of the CFP. Aligned to those assumptions, they are also making a lot of calls on what Texas should do regarding future scheduling.

Every year since the CFP has begun, the next year has been extremely different. Assuming that suddenly all aspects are going to remain static moving forward is frankly just naive. 

Right now eyeball test and w/l column plus bias towards helmetology and the committee members own motivations. 

Its fucked and ND over Miami and Texas being out despite having head to head vs 2 teams IN screams for masssive changes. Even better, the current system is going to punish the itself for bullshit like G5 team admission, not valuing head to head and other nonsense. 

Declaring what a university should do about future scheduling with zero clue or insight other than guaranteed change forthcoming is... certainly a take. 

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On 12/2/2025 at 4:25 PM, irishtexan said:

Most of us like college football specifically because it is NOT the NFL .

This. My kids would ask me what happened to a player after he graduated from Texas and I'd tell them he'd been sent to live on a big farm in the country where he could run around outside all day long and do fun football-things.

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