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That's if they call "personal foul with targeting" instead of "personal foul, targeting." In the first case it's a personal foul even if it's not targeting (like a late hit or roughing the passer for example). In the second case it's only a personal foul if it's targeting.

Agreed, plus you're saying that the winner should get a benefit but the loser should suffer no consequence. That's silly and is exactly why I think I've only heard conference commissioners and their media lackeys make this argument. Yes losing a CCG against a highly ranked opponent shouldn't hurt you very much but that's the same with any matchup of top teams.

He's referring to the quarters and semis where I think the highest seed picks location (top seed picks first and so on) but TV picks day and time.

The receiver's head snapped to the side, it was clearly forcible contact. I think it still isn't targeting though because there's not an indicator. Technically you could argue that Mukuba led with his head because that's what made first contact but he was clearly trying to lead with his shoulder. Again, that's why I say it was a close call, it was absolutely in the gray area of the rule.

But #12 will be one of the B12 winner, Clemson, UNLV, or Boise State if they struggle in a win over UNLV.

Yep, Mukuba was clearly delivering a shoulder to the chest and the helmets happened to hit. The issue there is that Lemonnier is correct that intent isn't the rule, what actually happens is and Mukuba did accidentally deliver forcible contact to the head. So the only reason that wasn't targeting is if they ruled that the receiver was no longer defenseless in that instant. It was a very close call and that is a part of the targeting rule that sucks. But I'm not sure changing it makes overall sense because it would decrease player safety. On that play it would have been better all around for Mukuba to just take out their player's thighs because he was well short of the first down, but that's much easier to say in hindsight than at full speed on the field.

I tend to agree that the placekicker and punter sucking isn't necessarily something you can pin on the ST coach. However that blocked punt certainly is. Looked like the protection was running a roll right punt and the punter executed a straight punt. The good news is that kind of thing can be a one-off mistake where you fix the miscommunication and it never happens again.

He also has the Big 12 as the 2nd best conference, which you conveniently omitted.

Appreciate the writeup but your thinking the place and people and even Billy Liucci were great is about as surprising as finding out on Texags that some visiting fan appreciated getting directions to the field.

Previous Bevo/canine interactions. Not really but at least they could get public sympathy for not wanting their dog to get gored.

Does anyone have a breakdown of Texas A&M football NCAA violations, probation years, etc.?

As the designated home team we can choose our uniforms. LSU wears white when the home team in the SECCG.

It's all of it, their entire attitude that just being one of them makes you special and great. Their coaches know that no matter who they sign in recruiting those players will be pumped up as diamonds in the rough and that people should watch the tape. If they sign talented headcases then everyone else is just jealous. They can't lose with A&M media as long as they're still the coach. Same for their players, they are immediately anointed as great when they sign or transfer there. There is no motivation to prove yourself because just being there makes you a hero. Compare that to Texas. Yeah it's dumb but the fact that it's a meme for us to welcome new coaching hires with an immediate thread to fire them is the exact opposite. We question our coaches and players constantly. I used to worry about posting these facts publicly but A&M people are too stupid and proud to listen to Longhorns anyway. When you get to Texas our fans start to demand that you prove you are good enough to be a Longhorn. Great players (both talent-wise and as teammates) use that motivation to earn that right. When you get to A&M you've already proven to their fans that you're a hero, the only motivation is to talk shit about how awesome you are just like they do and they'll never question you. That spare OL Zuhn was getting love all week from those yokels for talking shit about how great A&M, Kyle Field, and their fans are. Actually playing football well isn't even a concern. Billy Liucci has made a lot of money by telling them they have better coaches, better players, and better recruits than Texas every year for 30 years. Yet they're too stupid to wonder why that never produces better results. They will never be great because they will never change. If they actually catch lightning in a bottle someday it will be short-lived because the hero worship will just get worse. Does the name Kevin Sumlin and the phrase "plug-and-play offense" ring a bell?

That was Frazier

Agreed that only the final rankings mean anything but the committee will almost certainly want to set things up now. If Alabama is going to go instead of Miami, for example, they have to be ahead of them this week. One team that doesn't play jumping another team that doesn't play will be a huge controversy. Sure they could try to say "well now Alabama's win is over the SEC champions" but it would be a lot easier just to avoid that controversy altogether and decide now who will be ahead out of those two teams.

I, too, thought "man I forgot how weird these yokels truly are, it's been a blessing not to have to deal with them for 13 years" in that moment.

I think that was mostly Sankey and subservient talking heads saying that, IIRC.

Yeah, Father Time comes for all men at some point.

97.8% win expectancy per Bill Connelly. We kicked their asses and tried to give it away but couldn't.

Now he's at Ohio State. This guy appears to have an issue with rivalry weekend.

Longest true road game winning streaks in Texas history: 1. 16 games - 10/18/2003 (40-19 @ Iowa State) through 10/28/2006 (35-17 @ Texas Tech). This is 17 if you count at Reliant against Rice as a true road game (9/30/2003 48-7) but you shouldn't. Road loss before the streak: 11/16/2002, 38-42 @ Texas Tech. Road loss ending the streak: 11/11/2006, 42-45 @ Kansas State. 2. 15 games - 11/26/1981 (21-13 @ Texas A&M) through 11/17/1984 (44-23 @ TCU). This counts a game at Little Rock against Arkansas because you should consider that a true road game of course. This is also a 17 game road non-losing streak. Road non-win before the streak: 11/17/1981 14-14 tie @ Houston. Before that there was a 9-7 W @ SMU on 10/24/1981 and before that was the loss before the streak, 10/17/1981, 11-42 @ Arkansas. Road loss ending the streak: 11/24/1984, 10-24 @ Baylor. 3t. 12 games - 10/26/1968 (38-14 @ Rice) through 9/18/1971 (28-10 @ UCLA). Road loss before the streak: 9/28/1968, 22-31 @ Texas Tech. Road loss ending the streak: 10/16/1971, 7-31 @ Arkansas in Little Rock. If you don't count Little Rock as a true road game, which is wrong but okay, then this streak reaches 18 games through 11/18/1972 (27-0 @ TCU) and is ended 9/21/1973, 15-20 @ Miami. 3t. 12 games - 10/14/2000 (28-14 @ Colorado) through 11/2/2002 (27-24 @ Nebraska). Road loss before the streak: 9/16/2000, 24-27 @ Stanford. Road loss ending the streak: 11/16/2002, 38-42 @ Texas Tech. Yes, this means that if we had beaten Texas Tech on 11/16/2002, we would have had a 29 game true road game winning streak. 5. 11 games - 11/5/2022 (34-27 @ Kansas State) through 11/30/2024 (17-7 @ Texas A&M). Road loss before the streak: 10/22/2022, 34-41 @ Oklahoma State. Road loss ending the streak: TBD.

Because our team 3 years ago sucked. That team went 5-7 in the Big 12 so saying that they would have gone 6-6 in the SEC isn't the support for your argument you implied it is. The SEC is slightly better than all the other conferences every year but is tremendously oversold as a nightmare gauntlet of a schedule.

Did you have this pre-written before the weekend? Might want to check yesterday's scores, Michigan didn't end up a .500 team.

What about their first SEC seasons?

Remind Ubben that Oklahoma is Texas's most hated rival. Texas A&M is our most annoying rival.