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I know the Liberty and Sugar bowls are about as far apart in prestige as you can get but I loved the way my Pokes and the Horns ‘out physical’d’ two SEC teams to finish out the conference bowl slate.

Yeah, its a post-mortem, because we fucking murdered Georgia. Some deeper thoughts probably not worth your time to read... Our healthy top 22 players are as good as anyone not named 'Bama. Lesser performances late in the year dovetailed with starters being out and/or playing at a lower level while hurt. A month to heal up allowed us to play to our full potential We need a couple more top 10 recruiting classes maturing through Tom Herman's system to have the depth of a program consistently in the top-5 Sam Ehlinger is fucking special. Dude is all balls on the field and will soon join the pantheon of Texas greats. But there is something unique about him, something that separates him from even the greats like Vince, Ricky and Earl. That sappy, overplayed montage of his pictures as a kid throwing up hook'ems? Well, that was me. And you. Texas is not a football team. Its not even a university. It is an ethos, passed between generations and evolved over the last 136 years. Sam fully understands that, and he fully understands his opportunity at this moment in the timeline of Longhorn history. He may not win a national championship or a Heisman trophy, but of this I am certain: we could not have a better Longhorn to lead Texas back to the promised land. We did not get Georgia's best game. Don't care. Had sex (with their moms). Our mascot putting theirs in his fucking place was the game in a microcosm. You're Georgia? #5 in the country? You almost beat 'Bama? Who gives a shit. We're Texas, and you are about to get your ass kicked. This team is fucking physical, and its everyone at every position group. Even our QB likes to hit you. If you don't come against us ready for a street fight, you are in for a rough game. Am pretty sure there is some blood in the locker room urinals at the Super Dome. The defense was national championship caliber for 3 quarters with the best combination of game plan and execution of the year. I could list individual players like BJ Foster, Davis, Wheeler, Omenihu, Ossai, but fuck, this list would include a dozen more bullet points. The whole unit came to play, reflecting on the job of our defensive coaches. There were lapses late when we were up by 21 in the 4th, but they played as well as they could have to get us to that point. I loved seeing our offensive line maul an SEC defense. Georgia got some pressure, but the OL pushed their shit in consistently otherwise. The big uglies running up to push Sam, Ingram or Watson forward 3-5 yards after contact was a big part of us controlling the game on offense and further established that we were going to be the most physical team on the field. Some dipshits with SEC ties will look at the final score and see the game as closer than it was. This was absolutely no contest through 3 quarters. That's cool, though, you can still think we're soft or whatever. Play us, you will change your tune. I fucking love this team! Herman and the other coaches deserve a ton of credit. While nitpicking about OC deficiencies and 4th quarter drop-offs, remember this: Kansas kicked our ass barely two years ago. If you aren't already on the Herman train, fuck you, it left the station awhile ago. 10 wins. Sugar bowl trophy. Yes, it can be said...

Gotta tell you a story from a few years back. I was on the stationary bike at the gym in Houston. Unlit cig in my mouth to let the chicks know how cool I am. I'm decked out in a Texas t-shirt because we beat Kansas the weekend before. I'm huffing and puffing with the setting on 2 and a slight hill. In walks this guy who just exudes honor code and howdy-I'm-friendliness. Well groomed. Very not gay, I mean he's manly and manful as all get out. I guess that he is an Aggie because his ring finger glitters with that badge of honor we all envy: his college ring. He has that confidence. Enough confidence to wear maroon from head to toe and make it look really good. All the hot chicks are watching him. I'm getting really mad and jealous. He saunters over with a hundred pound barbell on his shoulders and starts effortlessly racing up the step machine. They'd lost to Bama, so I thought I'd let him have it with a real zinger. "Hey man, nice loss to Bama!" I laughed so hard that snot shot out of my nose. It was great. Well it was great until he coolly turned his very ungay gaze upon me. "Even when we lose to Bama, our conference wins which means we win." That really took the wind out of my sails. Then he gets me with the clincher. "What year did you graduate from UT?" "Ub. Ub. Ub." He had me. Then he just smiled and walked away. It was devastating. I later killed myself.

Texas is the better team. No if's, and's, or but's about it. They dominated at the LOS all night long. Ran the ball effectively and stopped the run as well as any team UGA played all year including Bama. Hope you guys run through the Big 12 next year and beat the heck out of those Sooners. I like your team much better. Physical football is where it's at.

"Our team was motivated to play Texas," Smart said. "Texas outplayed us, outcompeted us. They outcoached us. They out physicaled us. They did a lot of things better than us, and I think you give Tom [Herman] a lot of credit." Yup.

Talk about a tough, smart little motherfucker. I believe he has a future in the league -- he moves piles even at his size, he can catch, he can block, and he almost never fumbles. Very Fozzy Whitaker. And man did he pull through for us tonight.

I'm not sure what is more impressive. That the hawk got the pigeon, or that it could drive.

Tonight, the #15 Texas Longhorns physically dominated the #5 Georgia Bulldogs – a team many argued belonged in the CFP. They did so as nearly a 2 TD underdog. They did it against an OL that averaged over 320 lbs across the front, driving a powerful running attack. They did so with personnel in no way equal to what Georgia fielded – on paper. Texas’ recruiting classes were #17 in 2014 (only RS seniors left), #10, #9, #25 and #3. UGa’s classes were ranked #8, #6, #6, #3 and #1. The Horns lost a lot of talent to transfers in the coaching change so what remained on the roster is less than the rankings would suggest. The young pups of the 2018 class contributed to the victory but are still too young to take over the game and even there Georgia had more talent – on paper. Texas has won all year with toughness, effort and scheme. And that’s how they beat Georgia too. Georgia’s dominant line and running game were held in check. In fact the Horns held UGa to their lowest output of the season, 72 yards – or less than half of their yardage vs Alabama and less than 30% of their season average. A team that was ranked #15 in total offense and #13 in scoring offense was held to half their season averages in both categories. The Texas Defense hit hard and hit often from the opening kickoff. Overall it’s hard to see it as anything less than a physical beating in the area in which Georgia most prided themselves – the running game. The Texas Offense was forced to outscheme the Georgia D at first until their big boys tired of chasing the play downfield and sideline to sideline. But they dished out their share of pain with physical runs by Sam and LJ as well as mobile OL joining the scrum to push the pile well past the LOS. A lot of critics thought the Texas Longhorns didn’t even belong on the same field as the Bulldogs. Even without the turnovers, Texas more than proved they belonged. With the turnovers, a tough matchup became a pretty comfortable win. The style is a direct reflection of the culture that Tom Herman is instilling at Texas. It starts from the top and extends to S&C, practice structure, OL coaching and has now found the perfect leader for TH’s never quit culture in Sam Ehlinger. You can tell they are doing it with grit more than talent. When they’ve relaxed and stopped giving 100% effort, opponents keep making 4th quarter comebacks. But Tom Herman has been telling his players that their best is good enough to beat anybody. I think they proved him right tonight and that really helps to build the culture. Do you think the players are going to listen and believe when Herman tells them that their best is good enough in the future? You bet your ass he’ll have credibility now. I’m anxious to see what Tom Herman can do with more talent on the field. But this is a program defining win.

This did not age well.

Awesome thread on Texags: Bowl games are no longer a good indicator of conference strength

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I’m telling you. Enjoy this kid while you can. This is the kid we’ve been chasing since Colt left

Mitt Romney is the Susan Collins of Jeff Flakes.

he was Lake Travis's LT the past two seasons. He is 6'3 ish and 270+. he projects to guard or center. good feet. nice technique. smart, hard worker. good strength but really needs to get a lot stronger moving forward. he is a big tough kid. he should be able to get to 300 pretty easily. his dad is a big dude too. i expected him to go to Rice or SMU or Houston and contribute after a few seasons in the SC program. i have coached him in baseball and football since he was in 1st grade. great kid. loves the Longhorns. accepted the PWO over smaller school scholarship offers. i expect him to offer depth at center or guard. he is also a long snapper.

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I’m not sure PETA understands what “retirement “ for cattle means.

Yeah, Herman obviously fell for some sort of trick by the football gods when they told him they could guarantee that "your team will be competitive in every game" at some point. We need to rectify that at some point and soon. Not only does blowing out inferior teams and putting away good teams when you have them down develop a killer instinct in your team, it also helps create depth as backups get more late game playing time. This insistence on letting teams hang around and turning three score games into one score nailbiters has to get figured out if the program is ever going to max out under Herman. He's done so much right but this needs to be addressed.

He was literally surly

this will seem like a buzz kill but it is not intended to be... my mother is dying. arranging hospice care now, headed to houston tomorrow thru the end. past two days have been a blur. i just wanted a competitive, good game, something fun and exciting i could get lost in for a few hours. then i saw Bevo. then the game started. then the game happened. literally the thing i needed most right then. that may sound weird. i don't care. it wasn't FOR me, but it was literally the best thing i could have gotten at the exact right time. thank you, boys ❤ all is well and all will be well. hook 'em 🤘

Are you a pilot?

Needs to be posted every page:

The overrated chant is the dumbest chant in all of sports. Hey everyone, this team we just beat isn't actually as good as people said! It's not that we're really good, it's that they're actually not that good!

Regulars here know I’m a Poke married to a Longhorn, when I saw Bevo charge that sad little mascot I was ready to drive to NO and suit up for Texas myself. Last night went about as well as it could, I’m stoked for y’all.

I feel really great for Heard tonight. He went through a lot in his time here and was a great teammate. Great to see him leave like this.

If any school is an expert at counting empty seats, it's aggy.

Here is another one - Texas won 10 games this year against FBS opponents. A&M hasn't accomplished that feat in over 20 seasons. This is the tenth season for Texas to have 10 or more wins over FBS schools since A&M last accomplished that feat.

Don’t bring a dog to a bull fight.

Nobody told him he's been fixed. Might be waiting in hopes Holly Rowe is still there.

Pre game

I'll continue to hope that Romney and all the other politicians that have been fucking over America get hit by a gotdamn bus. I refuse to give Romney a fucking ounce of credit for anything other than looking out for Romney. This is the guy that instituted Romneycare in MA because it's a blue state, and then turned around and campaigned on repealing Obamacare because he needed to jackoff the GOP voting block. The man does not stand for a fucking thing. And if he thinks praising Trump in 2020 is the politically savvy move, he'll fucking do it.

I member when we got fucked over by our own conference and had to settle for the Fiesta Bowl. Guess what, we thought we deserved to be in the NC game but came out and beat tOSU anyway. Excuses are for losers.

I just had to share this gem from TexAgs. They really do think they are the '85 bears. There is no more delusional fan base in college football. "OldShadeOfBlue 11:42p, 1/1/19 AG Georgia was outplayed at every position tonight. Their DL really struggled to put pressure on Ehlinger and their passing game was shut down by the Texas secondary. Fromm looked terrible. Ehlinger is the best thing Texas has had since Colt and really puts them on another level. I hate to say it but the Big 12 came out a lot better in the bowl season than I expected. OU played Bama closer than we thought they would and Texas outright beat our #2 team as a 14 point dog. They still are not on our level but they're getting close." Hilarious. They are gifted a win against us and now they are Alabama haha. Congrats on the win last night that was impressive. You guys showed you can play with anyone when you're at your best. I can't wait for our match up. It's going to be fun.

Congrats to the university champions, the iraq such as education, the children our future maps and such.

Get ready to be mudholed, A&M. This state is ours.

And lo, there was a great furrowing of brows

In hindsight it was a brilliant idea

Texas pick for Ja'Quinden Jackson from national mod Bud Elliott.

In which a deluded aggy fan goes through the five stages of grief

Peter Mpagi is my favorite recruit ever

E.J. Holland: Recruits react to UT's Sugar Bowl win over Georgia

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Red bean cassoulet for the Sugar Bowl Tasso, chicken, fresh andouille, smoked andouille, Camelia beans, boil then bake. Adapted from serious eats cassoulet recipe.