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  1. Man this one is really weird to me. Will be interesting to see what comes of it. Without all the fuff, one could say. Uh, Oregon? Theoretically this is aggy, but you know, aggy. Could also be second tier Texas programs like Tech, TCU, UH in the Big 12, or SMU in the ACC if the stars align for them. SMU seems the closest with booster buy in and recent on field success.
  2. And yet aggy is still chasing him down the Kyle Field sideline.
  3. He is good. Do want.
  4. Feel like there were a few UT -> ASU transfers. Have any of them been contributors on their run this year?
  5. I mean in a way that's impressive when you consider that K State is an objectively more successful program within the lifetime of any recruit or current player, and it's not particularly close.
  6. Not sure I see a need. Maybe if there is a really high end, P4 all conference/Day 1-2 draft pick type but those don't often enter the portal in the first place. Even if DJ and Cam both declare your starters look like Goosby-Neto-Robertson-Hutson-Baker, all of whom were promising prospects and have proved themselves to some degree. Sounds like the '23s are coming along pretty well so you'd have Chatman, Cojoe, and Stroh as key reserves. Agbo is still hanging around and has some experience from the 6OL package. If Campbell and/or Williams come back, even better. OL really is a position you want to get your guys in early and develop them for a couple years and Flood's been able to lay the groundwork for that.
  7. It certainly didn't make things any easier and they still never trailed was my point. I don't think there's a ton of room to sandbag Oregon right now.
  8. For me, it's Georgia totting out a backup QB against a strong ND defense, with a pretty nice secondary in particular. That backup didn't exactly light the world on fire against Texas, especially after the emotionally charged first drive, and there will be more tape on him at that point. ND's just got to find 21-24 points there and that could be greatly aided by turnovers. I still would not be surprised to see UGA get to the championship game because Beck is a JAG and Stockton could also get better with reps. And, you know, it's Georgia.
  9. Oregon traveled three time zones to take a 28-10 second quarter lead against 11-1 team and played with their food a bit from then on. That's basically Texas's MO on a good day so we probably shouldn't throw stones there.
  10. I do think the line is a little low but for me it's more about the Texas offense's tendency to stumble around even in games that aren't competitive. I do not expect the game to feel in doubt but I also don't expect Texas to light the scoreboard up against a serviceable defense. Implies score of 32-20 feels high to me, on both sides. ~24-10 feels about right to me. Incoming 45-42 now.
  11. You're just describing a standard combo block. The point is to get Connor off and up to the second level. Majors doesn't want to remain parallel with the LOS. He wants to get perpendicular and wall the DL off from moving laterally with the play. Without the brain fart in the backfield, which set the entire play back two seconds, what you see from that Georgia DL is just running himself upfield and out of the play as Wisner runs through the crease. I agree with your last sentence. If Majors does a better job moving his feet he probably could have held the block even longer and perhaps there's still a play to be made. And again, if Campbell's assignment is to clean up whatever mess is there (I'm not sure that it is, I'd think he should be trying to get to a LB, but it's what he did) he did a poor job of it. But ultimately the back blew this up before it began.
  12. Congrats on the grandchild. For real. The "6-7 is too many RBs" talk is quite the take if you've followed Texas this year. They shouldn't overextend to keep Blue on but they should not be ushering him out the door or anything.
  13. My completely non-insider belief is that Ewers would be told, essentially, "We all agreed on the plan. Thanks, but no thanks." I will say though, Ewers played a better game than he's getting credit for yesterday. Pretty good argument that he's the reason Texas moved the ball so well. A few of those mistakes were just kicks in the nuts though. The duality of Quinn Ewers.
  14. Reserving the right to change this before the first round based on info around Georgia's QB situation, but right now assuming they have to roll with the backup. Oregon: 34 ND: 24 Texas loses in the semifinal.
  15. The Texas offense is what it is and is and is not going to exhibit any major growth in game 14 but Clemson's not scoring more than 14 honest points on this defense. As long as we're not serving up easy points via turnovers or short fields from bad special teams Texas should win by double digits in a game that doesn't feel seriously in doubt in the second half. Copy and paste for ASU, by the way.
  16. Double quoting because I can't edit my prior post: Honestly it still would have been there if Campbell makes a cleaner block on the DL coming off Majors. Which is not Majors's fault by the way, he's clearly sealing for the OZ crease as Connor comes off the combo, and does a good job of it. I'm not entirely sure what DJ's doing here. I could forgive him if he was just B-lining to the LB because that's his assignment after passing the combo off to Williams - he shouldn't need to chip a sealed DL at that point and doesn't have eyes on the back of his helmet - but he goes at the DL engaged with Majors. He just does so with an unclean shot that doesn't really do anything and may have actually helped shed the block.
  17. To me this just looks like a fairly standard RPO (wide zone/bubble screen) where Wisner has a brain fart. Which is unfortunate because it was there if it was clean.
  18. COVID and Bird Flu are in awe of how the drops mutated and spread from the Georgia receivers to the Texas side.
  19. Texas has an absolute gift of a path to the semifinals. So favorable it almost feels a little dirty lol. I think we lose whenever it is we run into Oregon or Georgia; and Ohio State, Tennessee, and ND can all beat Texas too, but man this team should really be able to get to the semi finals without too much issue. Once you're at that point, anything can happen really.
  20. In a game this close you can point to a lot of things that would change the outcome but this is a big one for me. The Texas offense, Sark's baby, was sloppy, undisciplined, and was Georgia's MVP for a huge chunk of the game. Same offensive issues that have showed up all season, but even worse. He schemed up a really strong game pan out the gate but clearly did not have the answers once that faltered. You could tell in the short halftime interview the frustration was getting to him. STs continue to have issues and Georgia somehow caught us completely off guard with their fake punt that should have been on the radar in that situation, and proved to be an absolute back breaker (it turned a 3 and out after a Texas score that would have solidified the momentum shift in Texas's favor into the spark of Georgia's 9-minute drive). The bottom line is Georgia still outclasses us when it comes to playing to their standard in these games. That's coaching. Sark is still learning how to be a championship HC at the top of the sport. He's far exceeded my wildest dreams as a roster/program builder, which is what sets the floor and gets you to these games, so I don't want to make more than it is. But the things that doomed the Texas offense yesterday, both on the field and on the headsets, have been consistent issues all year and indeed for Sark's entire tenure. It'd be unreasonable to expect those to vanish between games 12 and 13 but to see it get worse is a terrible look. Maybe he'll get there on game management eventually. Maybe he just builds a roster that's such a juggernaut that it can simply eat 100 yards of penalties against a top 5 opponent and still win. He's certainly earned the runway to find out if he can. But as much as anything else, I think Georgia won this game because Texas at times still shows some mental weakness and lack of discipline/prep that a truly championship level program like Georgia has rooted out entirely. I think @TwiceHorn was the person who originally pointed that out, and it's stuck with me. Georgia just has a stronger competitive culture than Texas right now. I think Georgia's off the field issues could start to metastasize and eroding that soon, and maybe we even saw that during the regular season, but that didn't show up yesterday. Texas has produced back to back top 5 type teams. We're on the penultimate step on the ladder. The last step is always the hardest in sports. The wait can be long and excruciating, but if we take that last step - and I think the window for that is certainly open the next few years at least - we'll remember this season and game as an important part of the climb.
  21. For real. Not wanting to go through a pregnancy or raising children in Texas was a motivating factor in our move. Beyond that, kids are more resilient than adults.
  22. aggy fanfic is getting weirder
  23. Their worst performance of the year was Vanderbilt. I mean, read the text. "... it wasn't just dominating defense..." The play call was poor and doomed from the start, and Texas blew it up because they were whipping aggy on the line all night. Not mutually exclusive.
  24. We are past the point of fearing OU quarterbacks.
  25. Uh, did OTF really need to tell you that? Did you not watch the first game? The OL didn't play a great game against Georgia by any means but Ewers made them look significantly worse than they were. He froze and/or self sacked with serviceable protection plenty of times. The OL seems to have really hit their stride in November, I'm confident they'll put forth a competitive effort. Ewers, eh, he is what he is under pressure at this point. If Georgia gets to him it's gonna be a bad time.
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