Paul Wesley

"Gee, our old Lasalle ran great." I lived my whole life (until today) without knowing what they sang there.

Yeah, I may be with you on that.

I'm probably in the minority here, but: 1). Really not interested in Arkansas as a permanent rivalry game. IDGAF about how big the game was 50 years ago. TCU was also a big rivalry at times in our history. Totally not excited to play the pigs every year (though they would absolutely love it) 2). I'm as big a fan of college football as you'll meet, but we've already reached a point where we keep adding games that mean less to your ultimate season results, and asking kids to risk serious injury up to 17 times. Texas has been fairly healthy this year, but we're seeing some cumulative injuries to guys like Bond (who is a shadow of the threat he was back in September). We just saw Georgia lose at least two starters for the season in what was a fairly inconsequential game as it relates to a MNC (yes, winning your conference counts for something). 9 SEC games + conference championship + 4 playoff games... I think 17 games for 20-year old kids is pushing it. One partial fix is to keep an 8-game SEC schedule but punish teams in the tiebreakers who play Lamar or Texas State for their OOC. I understand our conference mates would vote that down by a wide margin, but it would arguably be good for college football as a whole by making for more Texas v Michigan as opposed to Bama v Mercer.

Calm and detached pregame Dvoracek: "Texas is a great program with amazing players and a great tradition." 4th-Quarter, one-score-game Dusty: "OH MY GOD THAT SHOULD BE A PENALTY ON TEXAS!!!! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! THIS IS NOT FAIR!!!! FUCK THIS FUCKING PROGRAM!!!"

big play

That was up for grabs

Funny how Herbie calls out all the borderline holds on one team...

Should be .5 to go and not 1.5

Unreal

Awww... Al is good people. And I say that as someone who saw realignment very differently from him over the last couple years. Let's distinguish between fellow sports fans (and good posters) who happen to root for a different school vs. mouthy bitches like Matt Campbell and Joey McGuire.

I was a few days late seeing this clip... Just "Wow." Hiding under Texas' skirt by claiming that a "Big 12 team" is in the SEC title game... I mean, WTF? First of all, it was apparent that by 2023, Sark had assembled an SEC roster (as evidenced by a double-digit win over the SEC champion on their home field), but we were still shackled by TV contracts to the Big 12. The idea that Texas is "Big 12" team in December of 2024 is just such loserspeak - he should be embarrassed for trying to "claim" us somehow. Reminder: In reality, it was a lot more one-sided than 57-7 would lead you to believe.

Yes, Bama is getting way too much love. That said (and sorry if already discussed) it is arguably that very same love for Bama that propelled Texas all the way to #3 last year.

Yeah, Liberty and Texas Bowls are SEC vs Big 12. Sankey and the SEC have been very strategic about choosing bowl matchups for their teams. I'll bet Sankey sends the Aggies *anywhere* other than those two spots... just to avoid the potential of getting a deflated Aggie program matched against Baylor, Tech, or TCU. All three of those programs would be super excited to hang an L on them.

It's probably too much to ask... but there's a scenario where they get sent to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl to get rolled by a Big-12 also-ran.

I hear you, but the advantage is 1) offensive rhythm, and 2) don't get drive-killing false starts by making your linemen hold their stance for 25 seconds per snap.

so weak

Youngest player to ever fumble in the Iron Bowl?

Michigan's offense is fun to watch because of the creativity and the explosive plays. It just puts so much pressure on a defense to have to defend between the tackles AND the tight end 6 yards downfield.

So I watched a couple of the aggie postgame shows - because I enjoy that kind of thing - and it's crazy that after a collective hour of analysis, not a single aggie pundit/writer/former player said, "We're just not very good." They all wrestle with losing to Auburn like it's the Goldbach Conjecture... "I just don't understand!" "This team is a TOTAL MYSTERY!" No one: "We're not very good. We only beat Bowling Green by 6. Our big home wins were against wildly overrated teams. Our big road wins were against a decimated Florida and 0-7 Mississippi State." Instead, they're just SHOCKED to lose to Auburn, as if Vegas (and everyone who watches college football outside of College Station) didn't have this game correctly identified as a pick-em proposition. I will grant you that UT *also* had a relatively easy conference schedule. But the difference is that our defense shows up every single week, and even when our offense plays poorly, we beat these mediocre teams by multiple scores.

Hoping any or all of Ole Miss, Aggies, and Bama drops their road game today. ... and yeah, that targeting flag came waaaaay late, didn't it?

Strymon website says it needs 300mA minimum. Maybe it's just not getting enough current? Do you have a Strymon power supply from one of the other two? I'd try substituting one of those first.

Grown-ass man play by Simmons

There was no reason to snap that would have hit 2:00

I don't think there's a credible argument for "that's not holding." It is. There *might* be an argument for consistency, i.e. don't suddenly flag something that hasn't been flagged all day... but I kind of doubt the DBs on both teams were getting to yank the receivers hard enough to pull them off-balance on every snap.

Yeah, if they're really interested in player safety, then taking a free full-speed shot at a punt returner who is standing still and looking up into the sky - that ought to get you ejected along with 15 yards and a 1-game (or more) suspension. Sometimes I feel kind of bad for a defender who gets ejected for "targeting" when they're running up to make a play on a QB who's either already getting tackled or is about to slide. A lot of it comes down to guessing if the runner is going to slide head-first, feet-first, or not at all... and if the defender guesses wrong, they get ejected plus they have to sit out another half. I've seen several "targeting" collisions that seem like bad luck as much as malicious intent. Contrast that to sprinting 45 yards toward a defenseless guy standing straight up.