Everything posted by Horndog
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
Limbs.
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Texas - OU Cotton Bowl Contract Renewed Through 2036
Looking back now, the slow clogged exit this year doesn't seem as bad.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I'm waiting to see the story about an aggy being approached by a player asking directions to the portal.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
A day that will live in infamy.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
To be fair, most of us have tied to erase the entirety of 2020 from our memory banks.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
34-24 > 45-35.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Interesting quote from the CFP chair: Corrigan said once again on Tuesday night that “Head-to-head is head-to-head, no matter when the game is played, and that’s how we look at it.” https://www.dawgnation.com/football/on-the-beat/cfp-projections-chatter/SK2LFWNKDRA45DL5UUUIZFJHGI/
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Remember that time when we had thousands of posts discussing/debating/criticizing the Big 12 tiebreaker rules, only to have it come down to a simple result in the end? I'm hoping for a repeat.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Can anyone explain to me why Oregon is considered to be a better team than UW? Is there an objective basis for that, or is it just that the Bo Nix has a high completion rate? It seems to me that the ascent of Oregon is largely the result of their beat down of an overhyped Colorado team.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
I think it's wrong too. But if the committee goes the direction of saying their charge is to figure out the best teams now - in order to justify picking Bama depite H2H - then I can see them rationalizing FSU away. I really think they don't want any part of the H2H controversy and may look for a way to avoid it.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Counterpoint to the "Texas was lucky they got Bama early" argument: For years we have heard about what a meat grinder the SEC schedule is, how every game is a war, that they need to play a powder puff late in the season to recover from the rigors of the 8- game gauntlet, yada yada. It's lucky for Bama that they played us early in the year while they were still fresh and before all the SEC games took their toll.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
This cannot be overstated. A 3 way knot favors Bama and Texas over UO.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
FWIW the posters on Tidefans are convinced that they only jump Texas if we lose. They also think Oregon is overranked.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
If Bama, Texas, and UO end up as the 3 teams being considered, the committee can avoid the entire Texas/Bama controversy by taking them both. They can justify it by saying the win at Bama is better than UO splitting with UW.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Most likely. But it is also possible they recalibrate after the CG games. If Bama beats Georgia, Texas's win over Bama gains significance. If Oregon is ahead tonight I think we need to root like hell for Bama.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
Someone earlier mentioned game control as an element of consideration by the committee. I don't know if that's actually something they look at or just something they said one time to justify a particular ranking, but having nothing better to do I went through the Texas schedule game by game and calculated the amount of time tied, leading, or behind. I did not take into account the actual O/T against KSU because no time clock is used in O/T. Out of a total of 720 minutes of game clock, Texas had the lead for 536:00 minutes (74%), was tied for 119:32 (17%), and was behind for only 64:18 (9%). The number of minutes tied includes the start of the games until the first team scored. Some notable points: There were only two games where Texas was behind for more than 8 total minutes: OU and Wyoming. In the Bama game, Texas led for 47:04, and only trailed for 1:09. In six of the games, Texas scored first and never trailed. There were only 2 games where Texas was behind at any point after it had taken a lead: OU and Alabama (for all of 1 minute and 9 seconds). Even in the close calls (KSU, TCU, and UH), Texas never trailed after it had taken a lead. Other than the OU game, the LATEST point in a game that Texas trailed was Bama in the first minute of the 4th quarter. Other than OU and Bama, Texas NEVER TRAILED in the second half of any game. In 8 games Texas led for more than 45 minutes, and there were 2 others where Texas led for more than 40 minutes, and one where it led for 30 minutes. That means that Texas had the lead for at least half of the game in 11 of 12 games played. On average, Texas led for 44:38, trailed for 5:23, and was tied for 9:59. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers for Bama, UW, or Oregon.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
But he could have been a legend.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
All the metrics are wrong. They don't take into account that Bama wasn't really a good team until the third week.
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Game Day Experience 2023
This game was like a champagne bottle being opened after being shaken for 14 years. The cork finally popped when Arch came in.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2024: Bags Don't Beat Bankrolls
I do, I am, and I do.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
He has one for each of MTG's toes.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
We should trademark "Fisch Camp"
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
My bad. What I meant to day is that Michigan will steal quietly away.
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THE College Football Playoff Rankings Thread [MICH,WASH,TEX,ALA]
My bet is that OSU beats UM by 2 TDs or more, and Michigan quietly goes away.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Gold Jerry, gold. 1. Why is a "top professional leader" posting theoretical aspirational speeches on a football message board at 2:30 a.m.? 2. Talks about the need for leaders to be empathetic, then immediately pivots to insults (flipping burgers at McDonald's) and ad hominem attacks (calling those who responded brats and idiots). 3. Calls one guy out for a spelling gaffe (ackward rather than awkward), yet calls someone else a "simplton". 4. Objects to aggy being called weird, preferring "different". No, you're weird.