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Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State, Jan. 1, 12:00PM, ESPN
Huckleberry replied to TonyTexas's topic in Football
I didn't say they're doing it consciously, I'm explaining why people chirp. If he truly thinks he's better then he's just a moron but I don't think that's better news for his team. -
Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State, Jan. 1, 12:00PM, ESPN
Huckleberry replied to TonyTexas's topic in Football
It's because they are aware they're overmatched personnel-wise and are hoping to win the public confidence battle and then hope for a fast start in the game. Teams who believe they are evenly matched and have to play great to win don't chirp to the press all week. Only two groups do that, those who truly believe they're the best around and are insulted by anyone who questions that, and those who realize they are overmatched and are trying to trick themselves into believing and also get the opponent to play too emotionally especially at the start. Our defense needs to just use it to focus more, not to play angrier. If they execute then we will win. There was some bad Ant Hill again last game which could be a problem tomorrow, he got lost a few times on defense. Not if Texas wins. There are tens of thousands of us factoring in lack of travel and accommodation costs to go to the semifinal. -
Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State, Jan. 1, 12:00PM, ESPN
Huckleberry replied to TonyTexas's topic in Football
Wondering about quarterfinal attendances everywhere. Current TickPick all-in get-in prices Peach Bowl - $33 Fiesta Bowl - $52 Sugar Bowl - $52 Rose Bowl - $158 -
Peach Bowl: Texas vs Arizona State, Jan. 1, 12:00PM, ESPN
Huckleberry replied to TonyTexas's topic in Football
So they're exactly like Texas State. Well he's a fucking moron, start from there and it all makes sense. -
2024 Axis of Evil (OU, ARK, aggy) Gameday Thread
Huckleberry replied to satyanash's topic in Football
It is actually an interesting question. Will offenses see a drop in efficiency overall in the next year or two with the sudden disappearance of 24-25 year old QBs? (Except in Provo, of course) -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
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A&M blocked one in a huge situation but they're A&M so it just set up a 4th down stop. -
Why the 12-team CFP is Perfect and the Problem is Megaconferences
Huckleberry replied to Huckleberry's topic in Football
This is the way to fix the megaconference problem but the issue is of course that the conferences are making the decision and the smaller ones get run over every time because of the threat of a breakaway. The NCAA's refusal and/or inability to set up an FBS playoff made this the inevitable result. -
Why the 12-team CFP is Perfect and the Problem is Megaconferences
Huckleberry replied to Huckleberry's topic in Football
And what do you do when there are 6 teams left after your first round? Byes after that round? -
Why the 12-team CFP is Perfect and the Problem is Megaconferences
Huckleberry replied to Huckleberry's topic in Football
Still say give the top 4 conference champs a top 8 seed instead of top 4. That actually helps the 1 and 2 seeds by pushing bad conference champs into the 7 and 8 slots. -
Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Huckleberry replied to Machinator's topic in Football
The only things that can tear Texas down in the current CFP setup are internal poor performance, a drum beat of consistent negative press, and letting has-beens who wish things had stayed they way they used to be influence decisions. Mack Brown is absolutely a threat to create issues with the latter two. Texas already faces the most hostile local media and national media from their own program alumni in the country. For fuck's sake Desmond Howard spent the Gameday broadcast in Ann Arbor pimping his school and even using his own kid to do so. Meanwhile Sam "The Less Terrible" Acho fucking picked Clemson to beat Texas and win it all probably so the national media thinks he's super objective. You know, Kirk Bohls disease. Bohls, by the way, being an old Mack Brown chum still covering Texas in Austin but now going so for the Houston rag. Mack Brown can't take Texas down on his own but he can absolutely hurt Texas through his relationships. Inviting on a potential saboteur is idiotic no matter what, and it's the ones you think can't be too bad who are the most dangerous kind.- 3732 replies
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Why the 12-team CFP is Perfect and the Problem is Megaconferences
Huckleberry replied to Huckleberry's topic in Football
Not really because part of the issue is how many teams who finished 3rd or eventually 4th in their conference will still make it. That's what makes it feel like less of a true championship playoff. Current guarantees: #1 Oregon versus winner of #9 Tennessee @ #8 Ohio St. #4 Arizona St. versus winner of #12 Clemson at #5 Texas #2 Georgia versus winner of #10 Indiana at #7 Notre Dame #3 Boise St. versus winner of #11 SMU at #6 Penn St. Changed guarantees: #1 Oregon versus winner of #9 Tennessee @ #8 Arizona St. #4 Penn St. versus winner of #12 Clemson at #5 Notre Dame #2 Georgia versus winner of #10 Indiana at #7 Boise St. #3 Texas versus winner of #11 SMU at #6 Ohio St. That's better but still not as great as it could have been. Using the 2009 conferences and assuming all teams are just as good, here is the result: Current guarantees: #1 Oregon (Pac-12 Champ) versus winner of #9 Boise St. (WAC Champ) @ #8 Indiana #4 Penn St. (Big Ten Champ) versus winner of #12 Arizona St. at #5 Notre Dame #2 Georgia (SEC Champ) versus winner of #10 SMU (C-USA Champ) at #7 Tennessee #3 Texas (Big 12 Champ) versus winner of #11 Alabama at #6 Ohio St. Changed guarantees: No changes needed Now obviously the season doesn't play out the same because schedules are so different (Ohio St. is probably Big Ten champ instead of Penn St., for example) but the interregionality is what makes it better with more conferences leading to more discussion and more excitement all season long. And teams like Indiana will have more losses if they had to play nearly everyone in their conference so they almost certainly wouldn't have been #8 with old conference alignments. Also note that the garbage ACC is left out completely (because SMU is C-USA). -
Why the 12-team CFP is Perfect and the Problem is Megaconferences
Huckleberry replied to Huckleberry's topic in Football
tl;dr The 12 team playoff is awesome. The problem is the consolidation into oversized conferences purely for money. If they had instituted the 12-team playoff 25 years ago the money would be absurd at this point and college football wouldn't have these stupid megaconferences. Get off my lawn. -
Went through this exercise finally. As I've said elsewhere the 12 team setup is perfect, the problem is the stupid oversized conferences. If we had the 12-team playoff 25 years ago everything would be great. Here are some past seasons using the 12-team playoff setup and final BCS rankings. I am going to show each season with the current guarantees then each season with my proposed solution of guaranteeing the top 4 conference champions Top 8 seeds (so either a bye or home game) instead of Top 4. I am going to focus on seasons relevant for Texas because I'm wasting my time doing this, wasting your time reading it is your decision (conference champs in bold): 2000 Holy shit yes in 2000 we make a 12-team playoff after getting skullfucked 63-14 by Oklahoma. Current guarantees: #1 Oklahoma versus winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Nebraska #4 Washington versus winner of #12 Texas at #5 Virginia Tech #2 Florida St. versus winner of #10 Oregon at #7 Florida #3 Miami (FL) versus winner of #11 Notre Dame at #6 Oregon State Changed guarantees: no change, #1-4 in rankings were conference champions. Summary - Big Ten left completely out as Purdue was the 6th rated conference champion and were outside the Top 12. This playoff kicks ass as all of these will because the conferences were still split up so we get awesome interregional matchups for the first time and guaranteeing the top 5 conference champions something makes more sense when there are more conferences. 2001 Current guarantees: #1 Miami (FL) versus winner of #9 Stanford @ #8 Texas #4 Illinois versus winner of #12 Washington St. at #5 Nebraska #2 Colorado versus winner of #10 Maryland at #7 Tennessee #3 Oregon versus winner of #11 Oklahoma at #6 Florida Changed guarantees: #1 Miami (FL) versus winner of #9 Stanford @ #8 Illinois #4 Oregon versus winner of #12 Washington St. at #5 Florida #2 Nebraska versus winner of #10 Maryland at #7 Texas #3 Colorado versus winner of #11 Oklahoma at #6 Tennessee Summary - Surprise SEC championship game winner LSU is left out of the playoff as they were 13th in the BCS. First controversy but try not losing 3 games. Sound familiar? Current setup gives Illinois a bye, my proposal replaces that with a much stronger Nebraska team. 2002 Current guarantees: #1 Miami (FL) versus winner of #9 Notre Dame @ #8 Kansas St. #4 Washington St. versus winner of #12 Penn St. at #5 Southern Cal #2 Ohio St. versus winner of #10 Texas at #7 Oklahoma (!!!) #3 Georgia versus winner of #11 Michigan at #6 Iowa Changed guarantees: #1 Miami (FL) versus winner of #9 Notre Dame @ #8 Kansas St. #4 Southern Cal versus winner of #12 Penn St. at #5 Iowa #2 Ohio St. versus winner of #10 Texas at #7 Oklahoma (!!!) #3 Georgia versus winner of #11 Michigan at #6 Washington St. Summary - Texas playing in Norman in either setup. Florida State misses as ACC champion, but hello they were 9-4. 2003 Current guarantees: #1 LSU versus winner of #9 Miami (FL) @ #8 Tennessee #4 Florida St. versus winner of #12 Georgia at #5 Oklahoma #2 Southern Cal versus winner of #10 Kansas St. at #7 Texas #3 Michigan versus winner of #11 Miami (OH) at #6 Ohio St. Changed guarantees: #1 Oklahoma versus winner of #9 Miami (FL) @ #8 Tennessee #4 Michigan versus winner of #12 Georgia at #5 Ohio St. #2 LSU versus winner of #10 Kansas St. at #7 Florida St. #3 Southern Cal versus winner of #11 Miami (OH) at #6 Texas Summary - MACtion in the playoff! Roethlisberger in Columbus in the current setup but visits Austin in the proposed setup. This is the first really good one showing the wisdom of guaranteeing top 8 instead of top 4 for the 4 top ranked conference champions. 2004 Current guarantees: #1 Southern Cal versus winner of #9 Boise St. @ #8 Virginia Tech #4 Utah versus winner of #12 Iowa at #5 Texas #2 Oklahoma versus winner of #10 Louisville at #7 Georgia #3 Auburn versus winner of #11 LSU at #6 California Changed guarantees: #1 Southern Cal versus winner of #9 Boise St. @ #8 Virginia Tech #4 Texas versus winner of #12 Iowa at #5 California #2 Oklahoma versus winner of #10 Louisville at #7 Georgia #3 Auburn versus winner of #11 LSU at #6 Utah Summary - 8 conference champions in the playoff! What a great one this would have been instead of having only that asskicking Southern Cal gave Oklahoma. Proposed setup would have let Aaron Rodgers run his mouth directly to Mack Brown in a quarterfinal if they beat Iowa. 2005 Current guarantees: #1 Southern Cal versus winner of #9 Auburn @ #8 Miami (FL) #4 Georgia versus winner of #12 LSU at #5 Ohio St. #2 Texas versus winner of #10 Virginia Tech at #7 Notre Dame #3 Penn St. versus winner of #11 West Virginia at #6 Oregon Changed guarantees: #1 Southern Cal versus winner of #9 Auburn @ #8 Miami (FL) #4 Ohio St. versus winner of #12 LSU at #5 Oregon #2 Texas versus winner of #10 Virginia Tech at #7 Georgia #3 Penn St. versus winner of #11 West Virginia at #6 Notre Dame Summary - While this playoff was obviously completely unnecessary, I made the Big Ten declare a champion between their co-champions and in my revised history they were smart and just went with the higher ranked team in the BCS. 2006 and 2007 - Skipped because who cares 2008 Current guarantees: #1 Oklahoma versus winner of #9 Boise St. @ #8 Penn St. #4 Utah versus winner of #12 Cincinnati at #5 Texas #2 Florida versus winner of #10 Ohio St. at #7 Texas Tech #3 Southern Cal versus winner of #11 TCU at #6 Alabama Changed guarantees: #1 Oklahoma versus winner of #9 Boise St. @ #8 Penn St. #4 Alabama versus winner of #12 Cincinnati at #5 Southern Cal #2 Florida versus winner of #10 Ohio St. at #7 Texas Tech #3 Texas versus winner of #11 TCU at #6 Utah Summary - Same thing as 2005 with Big Ten co-champions. Would have been great a great playoff again with eight conference champions. 2009 Current guarantees: #1 Alabama versus winner of #9 Georgia Tech @ #8 Ohio St. #4 TCU versus winner of #12 LSU at #5 Florida #2 Texas versus winner of #10 Iowa at #7 Oregon #3 Cincinnati versus winner of #11 Virginia Tech at #6 Boise St. Changed guarantees: no change, #1-4 in rankings were conference champions. Summary - Another 8 conference champ playoff, and another awesome college football spectacle it would have been.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Huckleberry replied to Machinator's topic in Football
The only benefit immamac can come up with is that media types will make money. Most fans don't give a flying fuck if media types make money and that doesn't benefit the program much if at all. bad_teammate's theory is that Mack Brown will say nothing but great things about Texas. Laughable. And to get there, David Dennison is extolling the tremendous success of a guy who had one magical season in 16 years. 2 conference championships in 16 years and the three worst losses to Oklahoma in Texas history. 2005 can never be taken away and I'm thankful for it, but Mack Brown's overall tenure was pretty good but not nearly great and is the entire basis for the program's reputation for wasting tremendous advantages. 16 years with only 2 conference championships had only been done twice in Texas history before Mack Brown. From 1921-1941 Texas only won 2 conference titles, then again from 1978-1993. Mack Brown actually started the latest downturn of local Texas strength relative to our state and conference mates. And let's not pretend that winning the Big 12 with 12 teams was as tough as winning a 16-team SEC will be moving forward. He pretty much just had to beat Oklahoma and we know how that went.- 3732 replies
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Army is asking for some cheap spots by throwing. Doesn't matter to Louisiana Tech that they're Army, La Tech stepped up last minute to play.
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Huckleberry replied to Machinator's topic in Football
Bohls will interview him to shit on the program within a month.- 3732 replies
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Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
Huckleberry replied to Machinator's topic in Football
Lists a half dozen bad behaviors that Brown will certainly engage in, says it should all work out as long as everyone behaves. Galaxy brain analysis.- 3732 replies
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1-9 for the ACC with losses to the MWC, the American, the MAC, and UConn.
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Holy shit BYU would kill Colorado if they just stop with the cutesy shit.
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Shedeur "Sack Time" Sanders
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BYU too clever by half.
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Where can I make a prop bet on Sanders setting the record for times sacked next season? He holds onto the ball way too long all the time. He has a good and tremendously accurate arm but he waits until receivers are open to throw. He doesn't anticipate as well as his draft rankings say he does.
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It's such a great stadium to watch football in. Doesn't have the bells and whistles for the corporate types so it would never happen. But if you are only there to watch football it's absolutely fantastic.
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So the ACC is 1-8 now?
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Huckleberry replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
USC threw for 295 yards. Texas threw for 218. Texas had 7.8 yards per attempt (28 attempts) compared to USC's 7.6 (39 attempts). You all know that total yardage is a terrible stat for making performance comparisons but you will certainly use it to confirm your preconceived biases.
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