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TXSooner518

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  1. We were discussing this last year over 7am Fair parking lot booze and gummies and decided it had to mean Gabriel was playing. If you could have assured me he wasn't taking snaps, I would have bet literally every penny of disposable income I had on Texas. Beville is legit the worst QB I've ever seen start for OU and I went there and attended every home game for the Schnelly and Blake years.
  2. So you have figured out a "style of play" loophole in advanced metrics that Sagarin, Connelly, Vegas, etc., are all blind to and unable to correct? Please describe exactly how Wyoming's style of play creates this conundrum. Does it bake in that their starting QB missed the Texas game? Also, if Tech and Wyoming played again, Tech would be favored again. Tech ran fairly bad to lose that game. I agree Wyoming isn't garbage, but if you play in the Cotton Bowl the way you did the first three quarters of that game, Texas will get their asses handed to them.
  3. Texas was -31 and won by 21. How many scores would you say 10 points is in football?
  4. Or Florida State. Or Ole Miss. Or LSU, South Carolina, Auburn, Tulsa, a couple dozen other teams. But this dude thinks 10-10 in the 4th and failing to cover by multiple scores is "beating the piss" out of someone so may be a lost cause.
  5. Please provide the source for "best schedule in football" because LOL no. One elite win for sure. Then Rice, Wyoming (with a backup QB), Kansas (with a backup QB), Baylor (with a backup QB).
  6. Wyoming is #80 in SP+. Cincy is 48, Iowa State 52, SMU 54, Tulsa 90, Arky State 109 (Texas is 3, OU is 9)
  7. ESPN's FPI definitely LOVES OU. They have OU at 2, with the #7 offense and #7 defense. That seems a bit optimistic for sure.
  8. Are you arguing that being tied 10-10 in the 4th quarter against a G5 team can ever be called "beating the piss" out of someone? You would call me out for saying OU "beat the piss" out of SMU, and SMU was never tied or in the lead after 0-0. Also that 4th quarter ended with Wyoming covering the spread by 10.5 points, another solid argument against that being a "piss beating."
  9. LOL this take is like when people say "this team can't cover the spread, they suck!" Oh, cool, that wasn't already baked in, they didn't know that team sucked when they set the line. Weren't you tied with Wyoming on your home field in the 4th quarter?
  10. Sure, would expect most/all here to expect Texas to win. But some of the wishcasting or belief that it is still 2018 on the defensive side of the ball, or that literally every metric, including tons that adjust for opponent strength are alllll incorrect and you guys have it figured out instead is hilarious. Texas has a really really good team this year, and very well may win, and possibly can win handily. But things like "OU can't stop the run" and "OU's WRs suck" are pretty objectively false.
  11. Not that our schedule is a vicious worldbeater obviously, but this is false. Cincinnati won at Pitt. Iowa State won against Oklahoma State.
  12. OU's WR blocking has also been really really good so far this season. Andrel Anthony is a playmaker, Nic Anderson is going to be a beast, Gibson is excellent now that he learned how to catch, and Stoops is really really reliable and tough. I think people will be surprised considerably if they think OU's WR are mid.
  13. He's borderline worthless. I disagree with CTJ on the caliber of OU's RB and WR, but TE is a glaring weakness.
  14. LOL yes OU was in the playoffs two seasons before Brent came. The season before, they didn't win the conference, won a lot of one-score games, and then lost the next season's Heisman winner at QB and lost a lot of one-score games. Funny how Washington immediately got better when Sark left, how both of Sark's USC seasons were worse than the one that got Lane Kiffin fired, and how a Texas team that was 32-18 in the 4 seasons before Sark goes 13-12 in his first 2. Turnaround King!
  15. Lastly, just giant LOL at how everyone knows Brent is dead with a 10-7 start to his career but Sark starting 13-12 in his first two seasons at Texas after going 46-35 as a head coach is clearly a playoff-ready coach. Sark has 9 seasons as a coach with zero top 20 finishes. Texas has one top 18 finish since 2009. Please find a 13 year stretch where OU had one finish in the top 18.
  16. OU 88-99 was 77-58-3 (57% win). TX 00-21 was 81-67 (55% win). Also TX had 5 losing seasons sprinkled through the whole run. OU had 3 losing seasons, all in a row. 1994-1998 for OU was agreed a worse sustained run than either have had. Also OU finished in the top 15 three times from 1988 to 1993. Texas finished ranked exactly once (19th) from 2010 through 2017.
  17. Texas hasn't been as bad as 96-98 OU, but the full decade wasn't as bad as being portrayed, and OU 88-99 was better than TX 10-21 overall.
  18. Booked. The rest is really wishcasting to the nth level, similar to all those seasons where you posted similar screeds about why Texas was going to get it done, and then paid me hundreds of dollars after eating shit to the tune of 55-17 or 63-21. Yes, man, Demarco is just spitefully fucking with the heads of the RB room for reasons. I 100% guarantee you that anyone who knows defense can look at the lines taken, positions players are in, tackling ability and see marked improvement, schedule or not. OU had four straight 4th down stuffs of Cincy, including multiple short yardage stops, and more on 3rd down. OU had literally 0% of getting off the field last year on 3rd or 4th and short. Stutsman is playing at an elite level. I do think Texas is more likely than OU to win the game, but I will put another $150 on over 8.5 wins for the season since 9 wins will surprise you.
  19. Yep, I thought he was 7-7 for some reason, stuck in my mind. 7-6 with a home loss to La-Monroe. Stoops 7-5 first season. Tressel 7-5 first season. Mack 5 losses his second season. Y'all are feeling Sark bigly now, and he was 5-7 his first season. And prettttty sure if Cale stayed after using the N bomb in practice, I bet you would have a complaint about that. Again, I'm not even saying I'm so confident in OU or that Venables is for sure the dude. The jury is out is my point, when some people are saying it's a done deal based on a whole bunch of wishcasting. There is no national narrative of this, and in fact the current narrative is how dramatic the defensive improvement, both on-field and recruiting, have been. That said, you did take TX straight up in some years where OU was favored, so to be sporting I will offer a $150 straight up wager. I mean, sure guy, I bet they wanted Dillon Gabriel over Caleb Williams. For sure. Definitely no massive roster turnover happened. Definitely no complete change of the defensive scheme. OU's losses with Gabriel playing the game, they scored 34, 35, 20, 48, and 32, but please do tell me more about how the offense lost those games.
  20. wait, so now a coach CAN shit the bed in year one and still be fine? This is all very confusing. PLEASE do link the part where Venables is blaming the players for the losses though.
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