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Snow game was fun to watch but I wish KSU had pulled it out. Texas may not have a ranked win outside of Alabama as of next week’s CFP rankings

Honestly “Maalik got hurt celebrating on the sideline” is too bizarre to be made up.

Think I need to see them close this thing out next week and follow it up next year by not regressing to 8-5 or whatever before I jump in to the Sarkle jerk. Think it’s a mix of the Big 12 being hot garbage this year and maybe some PTSD from genuinely believing Texas was making its way out of the wilderness after Herman’s second year. That said, 11-1 speaks for itself. Have to give credit and eat some crow. I’m a lot more optimistic than I was 12 weeks ago.

I thought this game was going to be competitive lmao. What a complete ass kicking. There’s really not much sense in getting into anything beyond that. Ton of fun to see live, driving up from Houston was worth it. Props to team and staff for a great effort and win. 11-1 is already an accomplishment in itself after the past decade-plus, but this team has a chance to cement a legacy that will have them remembered a generation from now.

This is just unnecessarily petty. There’s a natural cooling off period over the next few years with major OOC games already on the books. After that point, administrations and coaching staffs at least one if not both schools will have turned over. Texas will have moved on to greener pastures and the Big 12’s short to medium term future has already been decided. If the AD wants to schedule as many B1G helmet schools out of conference as possible then that’s cool with me but beyond that, let’s not pretend and a home and home with Arizona State is any more desirable than one with Tech.

“There are multiple Tech threads during Tech game week! Gotcha!” - slorch, noted galaxy brain

Texas fans and circle jerking ourselves off over money and ratings, name a more iconic duo.

The “we hired a guy who built his reputation on being an elite OC/play caller but has shown questionable game management ability, so we should totally have him lean into that weakness throw that strength by the wayside” bit is astounding in both its stupidity and persistence.

I would not concede a purely subjective assertion that Wyoming is better than half of those teams, but more to the point you can make the same subjective argument Wyoming is better than Rice, Baylor, Houston, BYU, TCU, and Tech. That group only has 16 power 5 wins with an extra conference game, and it is mostly circular. All but two being against each other, quasi P5 Big 12 newcomers/bottom dwellers Cincinnati/UCF, and Arkansas. UH did get WVU on the Hail Mary so good for them. Tech, who Wyoming beat, has is 3-1 against that group and lost to BYU on a third string QB. They also add one of the two outside P5 wins with a 3 point win over Kansas, who was on their third string QB. It’s the same shit.

Care to show your work on this? Because honestly at face value this reads like Message Board Geniuses. Wyoming is a good G5 team. Potentially a top 10 G5 team if they had a separate poll. They are also a Mountain West also ran with two 20+ point conference losses under their belt. Them beating Texas Tech and Tech’s subsequent success in the Big 12 says more about Texas’s schedule than Alabama’s. Wyoming is 85th in Sagarin, Below the entire Big 12 and entire SEC save Vanderbilt (aka no one Alabama played). 85th in K Ford and 86 in ESPN FPI, above only Baylor and Vandy. 76 in FEI, above MSU, BYU, Houston, Baylor, and Vandy. Wyoming is an insignificant tune up game on Texas’s schedule and arguing that it would be anything but on Bama’s seems off.

Jake Majors is an interesting name there.

Was hoping Collins and Carter would look at what extra years did for Sweat, Coburn, and Ojomo and decide to come back. Maybe they still will. Was hoping for Murphy too but I know that's a huge stretch at this point. Jake Majors may just be tired of football, he can't be seriously considering declaring for the draft. It's not a legally binding contract. There's often a guy or two that do it and either change their mind, or are unsure at the time and want to be sure they get that moment. Christian Jones and (I think) Tvondre Sweat participated last year. Coburn did the year before.

Okay, but how do you answer the simple question of who would beat who outside of a committee or computer rankings? Besides, by this logic Texas vs FSU isn't even a CFP debate, it's the Fiesta Bowl or something. Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, and Oregon are your CFP teams here and you could entertain Washington.

My initial reaction is that this is normal at this stage so I went and looked at historic CFP rankings. Last year at this point there there were four unbeatens, 1-loss Clemson and USC, and a 2-loss LSU that had played its way into consideration. 2021 had unbeaten Georgia and Cincinnati plus six 1-loss P5 teams. Skipping 2020 bc COVID, 2019 had three unbeatens and six 1-loss P5 teams. 2018 had three P5 unbeatens, unbeaten UCF, and 5 1-loss P5 teams; and again a 2-loss LSU was hanging out in the top 7 for some reason. I don't think there's anything particularly special about this year.

Well it looks like you didn’t mean to say you *wanted* to avoid the playoff, so I don’t think the aggy bit applies. “If” is an important word

Well I said I don’t think it is enough to make up for the H2H, but Ole Miss and LSU are better wins than K State and OU/OSU. The logic gets a little circular here but Georgia is as at least as good of a win as the Bama win. The loss to Texas isn’t as bad as Texas’s loss to OU. Everyone else both teams have played are not worth mentioning. Average to bad. I think in a blind Team A vs Team B without the context of head to head, you lean Bama. But of course, H2H very much happened and Texas should get the nod if the chips fall that way.

Define “okay with.” If Texas goes 12-1, wins the Big 12, and is #5 looking up at 4 undefeated champs or 3 + 12-1 Oregon; as it stands today it’s hard to argue Texas is a top 4 team in that scenario. Should have gone for it at the end of the OU game, tough shit. Still unequivocally a great year. Anyone thinking that is underachieving and would not take that result is crazy. The only plausible playoff scenario Texas would really have a legitimate gripe on is Alabama beating Georgia and vaulting over Texas for a spot. Honestly Alabama would have the more impressive body of work and if Texas’s signature win were over another team at the same rank I’d favor Alabama; but fuck that shit, it was litigated on the field in a two score game. If you mean you’d rather miss the playoff because you would rather win a NY6 (not a guarantee) as opposed to playing a CFP semi as a likely underdog, yeah that is dumb aggy nonsense. You want to compete for a championship.

And buying out the current ones/hiring new ones for the secondary. Sark will have three years left on his deal after this year. I don’t think you extend at this juncture honestly but I understand the potential negative recruiting implications. If for whatever reason you feel like your hand is forced I think you offer a modest two year extension to get him back to five years. An AAV increase perhaps but not at the $9-10MM top of the market range. If Sark wants to pass on that and bet on himself thinking he’ll be in a stronger position after next season then he can make that call. Also have to give props to Sark for going 5-0 on the road. Given his past road issues - which include some atrocious exhibitions of coaching - I didn’t trust that he would have the team well enough prepared to pull that off. Alabama win is obviously impressive and has been beaten to death, but it’s also worth noting that back to back November road wins in conference is never easy, even if the opponents are mediocre. Credit where it’s due. Even if nothing else comes out of this year that’s tangible growth.

I said in the game thread that I think 13.5 is a big spread for a team with a knack for ending up in one possession games. I was thinking it’s either a huge win or a loss but the more Inactually think about it I just don’t think that’s who this team is. Like my pick for the ISU game I think Texas wins if they just get past 24 and don’t gift Tech points with bad turnovers or in the return game or whatever. It is hard to envision Texas not getting over that hump at home. Texas wins scrappy again. Texas: 30 Tech: 23 Total Passing: 587 yards.

Since Ewers got hurt my positions have basically boiled down to: BYU: “Don’t care that they are 5-2 and Texas has a backup, BYU sucks and Texas will roll.” KSU: “Probably too much to ask of a shaky new QB to beat a pretty good team.” - which was dead wrong and then dead right and then wrong again when KSU fumbled the bag. TCU: “TCU will score, Texas will be in trouble with Murphy, fine with Ewers.” ISU: “These guys are not that good and Texas will be fine.” And now Tech: “Tech is a little better than their record indicates at face value and a two TD spread seems out of whack for a team with a penchant for playing close games.” Hardly picking Texas to lose. I do spend too much time on here. Really any time on a CFB message board is too much. You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Coward? lol I’m not about to line up and play. There are no personal consequences for me (okay I did lose $50 taking Texas ML, ISU + 7.5, and the 47.5 over) if Texas wins or loses. My take means nothing. As an aside, if that’s a mainstream line of thinking on ISU then that’s terrifying.

They were never going to let UCF in the playoff. They will not be leaving an undefeated power 5 champion out.

Oh come on. How are you going to talk about aggy dipshittery and then say not making the playoff might be better than making it?

Definitely. Although I have to say, I finally got around to watching the condensed version of the ISU game (couldn't catch it live) and honestly came away from it thinking Texas played pretty well overall. Obviously some things you'd like back but it was the best full game of football Texas has played in several weeks. ISU is simply better than I gave them credit for. Becht can play - now some of that is the continued poor pass defense from Texas's part but he did have several nice throws. Yes there were touchdowns called back but Texas didn't make the debilitating, self-defeating mistakes that is has been making in recent weeks. If anything I felt a 10-point score line was probably a little misleading. It did not ever feel like ISU was going to be able to score enough to win. To me this really feels like a no grey area game. I fully expect Tech to come out extremely aggressive and play their best game of the year. Either Texas prepares for that, matches the energy, and smokes them; or they don't and things spiral into a loss. We'll see if any lessons were learned form the OU game. If you want to ignore the past two months of football then I agree there's nothing to debate. Don't really know what to say there. Wyoming also tied the game at 10 at the end of Q3 and Kansas trotted out a backup QB who had zero game prep after the starter was a last minute scratch.

At this point I half expect them to say fuck it and send UH and Baylor to Arlington just because

No. This would be extremely aggy. To your last question, they are. The three way tie that Texas needs to avoid is with OU and OSU. Introducing K State to the equation or dropping OU makes things more favorable for Texas.