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Goddammit this made me think of Chris Hall.

ESPN SOS: Georgia 20, Michigan 21 Sagarin SOS: Michigan 31, Georgia 35 ELO SOS: Georgia 30, Michigan 38 That's just a small sample and I'm not saying I disagree with you, but what your eyes tell you isn't what the committee is going to see.

This is much ado about nothing. It's pretty set that it's going to be 1. Alabama, 2. Michigan, 3. Georgia, 4. Cincinnati Once Alabama lost to A&M Georgia became a clear number one in the eyes of the committee so why, after 10 weeks or whatever, would the committee think "Alabama and Michigan are the two best teams" and not "Alabama and Georgia are the two best teams."? You can obviously point to what happened yesterday and the committee would just shrug. I think Georgia will get "punished" for not winning the SEC, but being 2nd or 3rd doesn't really matter. I just don't see the committee throwing out 13 weeks of their data and opinions on Georgia because they lost to Alabama, no matter how bad they lost. These aren't my opinions, it's me trying to put myself in the mind of the selection committee.

So Oklahoma State finished a game better than anyone in the conference after a true round robin but they have to play a conference championship game because the Big 12 freaked the fuck out because Baylor and TCU are historical minnows and the playoff committee wanted Ohio State in the playoff and now we have to watch these limp dick teams piss down their legs every possession. I'm so glad Texas is leaving this shit stain of a conference and seriously fuck all the people (from Mack to Strong to Herman and everyone in between) who allowed Texas to sink to such pathetic depths.

This dude made southern California the base of Oklahoma's skill position recruiting efforts over the last year knowing full well the USC job was likely going to open up, said he wasn't going to LSU last night knowing damn well what he was going to do today and then basically spent two minutes in a player's meeting saying 'peace out' before leaving. That is stone cold.

no, they're buds because Sark would give Kirk information and Kirk wouldn't be critical of him. Kirk Herbstreit doesn't criticizes coaches. He needs to keep those relationships good so they give him good insight so he can be a better analyst. It's how the sausage gets made. Kirk Herbstreit is the least objective person to listen to when it comes to whether or not a coach is good at his job.

I'm usually supportive of the players even if they suck, but the defensive line has doubled down after the bitchassedness on the bus so if they want to revoke some scholarships go for it. Give them to players who give a shit. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

If you want to be literal, Texas is extremely deficient at some position groups like OL, LB and to compete at a high level QB and areas where we have talent we've been extremely disappointing (WR, DL) so it's a bit of both. The roster sucks, but man you don't get outscored 103-27 in the second halves of four straight games without everyone having a hand in that shit.

Pursuing Urban wasn't his idea. That was pressure from boosters. If it was CDC's idea it wouldn't have leaked to the media. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Three fights left and highly unlikely any of them top Gaethje-Chandler.

Texas has been outscored 103-27 in the second halves of its last four games. The roster is dogshit, but it doesn't speak well for what Sark is capable of if he has to have a roster that is just better than everyone else. By the time he's able to build that in the Big 12 we'll be gone from the Big 12. Del Conte got cucked by the boosters, failed to land Urban, at least realized that he had to fire Herman at that point, but made a shitty hire. Del Conte has no experience hiring a head coach at this level and was in over his head and we're stuck in the same shitty cycle again.

Atlanta sports are so cursed we're even rebooting the classics now. A chance to take a commanding series lead, but a relief pitcher giving up a home run on his secondary pitch and not his dominant out pitch is just Mark Wohlers vs Jim Leyritz in the 1996 World Series, but this time the dominant pitch was a slider and the pitch he gave up the home run on was a fastball. You have to appreciate the writers for at least adding a little bit of irony if we're just remaking the classics.

The man seriously played himself.

The way football has changed over the past 5 years in particular I think the areas you want to be really good if you want to be successful are quarterback, receiver, offensive line, defensive line. You can succeed without being good at one of those areas, but you need to compensate elsewhere. For example, having generational talents in Watson and Lawrence allowed Clemson to get away without a great offensive line. Georgia gets by with great line play and whether or not they have the QB and skill guys are going to determine if they win a title this year. The point is, we aren't good at any of those positions. The jury is out if we have *THE* quarterback on campus, but the early indications are no. There's no need to beat a dead horse with our offensive line. We haven't developed the talent at receiver and defensive line. The defensive line isn't as lacking as our linebacking corps, but you can get by without great linebackers if you have a great defensive line and we don't. We've been subpar with that group as a whole. We just aren't good enough at the pillar spots you need to be good at to win. In the micro, the collapses are obviously concerning, but the fact of the matter is, Sark can be the greatest mind in football (hypothetically) but it's putting a band-aid on a bullet hole. How he handles the next 12-18 months are going to determine everything for his tenure. I know it's frustrating to have to wait that long for it, but that's where we are.

Scipio hit on something that really bothers me. We know the offensive line is dogshit, but teams are now going to account for Worthy every where he goes on the field and the rest of the receiving corps is garbage. Whittington is the only other guy at that position who is any good and he's made of glass.

He's good at watching tape and coming up with a game script based on what he's seen from opponents, but once opponents make in game adjustments on him he becomes the human shrug emoji. It's a massive indictment of the previous coaching staff (and the holdovers) that this is roster that either has no talent at a lot of positions or just flat out cannot develop talent (hi Andre Coleman) but you want to make $5.7 million a year and be the head coach at Texas find ways to win coin flips games.

A good kid who I respect for sticking it out and waiting his turn (even if he a foot out the door a couple of times) would be really good for a mid-tier team like a non-Cincinnati AAC team but he ain't good enough for a program that wants to win big at the Power 5 level. We don't have one on campus right now who IS good enough to win big at the Power 5 level so it is what it is.

BYU added a sailor coug sticker to make it the sailor game

Yeah they stink. They should try to leave the Big Sky for the WAC which is nothing special in football outside Sam Houston, but the WAC may have ambition of going back to FBS.

Some FCS squads bringing the heat with throwback helmets this week. Central Arkansas Illinois State Idaho

It's a real indictment of Clemson's coaching staff that they don't have sure fire first round NFL talent and every skill position and now can't do shit on offense.

Casey Thompson is the fourth most efficient quarterback in the country with an ok but not great arm, a piss poor offensive line and an unspectacular receiving corps. If that isn't a huge selling point for what Sark can do with a quarterback at Texas (not to mention what he did with the Alabama offense) then I don't know what is. It's just fucking bizarre to me that some people think that Texas having a shit offensive line would dissuade a quarterback from coming to Texas more than the fact that Georgia runs a prehistoric offense and despite becoming the 1B recruiting power in college football still hasn't developed a quarterback under Kirby. If you want to play for a coach who will help you develop for the next level you go play for Sark. If you want literally everything else right now you go to Georgia.

I'm a glutton for punishment so I did more digging. 493th offensive linemen in FBS have played 300 blocking snaps (50 per game or 60 per game depending on how many games your team has played so that's basically players who are starters). Christian Jones ranks 350th in run blocking and 443rd in pass blocking. You cannot keep playing him. You have got to give Jaylen Garth a shot. OK State is good defensively, but home game/bye week is as reasonable a stretch as you're going to get at this point of the season and you have back-to-back road games on the back end of the bye week.

SIAP and I don't know why I do this to myself, but here are PFF's blocking grades from yesterday, run blocking on the left and pass blocking on the right. Karic's pass blocking grade is bad enough, but Christian Jones just isn't a power five conference player. They have to try something else.

DGAF if this is unpopular or not, but it's accurate: Yesterday absolutely fucking sucked. It was the most gutting loss for me since Tech '08. However, while Oklahoma is the game that 100 percent without question want to win more than any on the schedule, in a vacuum it's also probably the least important game on the 2021 schedule in terms of games the Texas program needs to win in order to believe there is and will be progress under Sark. As far as yesterday is concerned, the Athletic did a piece a while back that was an anonymous survey of recruiting coordinators and one thing they said was that winning and losing isn't as important as you think it would be to recruits. Their line of thinking is that they'll come in and make weak spots better. So a historic pants shitting really fucking sucks, but the net loss overall probably isn't much. So why are the other games more important? Here's Texas' record against the rest of the middle tier Big 12 teams since 2010: Baylor: 6-5 Iowa State: 7-4 (3-3 last six) Oklahoma State: 4-7 Kansas State: 6-5 TCU: 3-7 West Virginia: 5-4 We all want Texas to be this big swinging dick program and go 14-0 every year, but shit man, we gotta get back to 10 win seasons regularly before that and that shit ain't gonna happen until we start beating the rest of the Big 12 teams (as long as we're still in this limp dick conference) So no, yesterday wasn't rock bottom. Yesterday was probably a Top-5 stomach punch loss in the last 40 years, but everything you want to achieve is still in front of you. Start by kicking Okie Lite's ass, handle your business the rest of the year, get the rematch with OU and finish the fucking job this time. Can they do it? That's not the point. The point is there's still plenty you can achieve this year.