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You need to quit being a pussy, bro. Milroe isn’t done making mistakes.

Texas 26 Bama 13 254 yards. Fuck bama. We’re going to fuck their shit up.

Texas 56 Rice 6 Ewers throws for 287 yards. We're going to kick ass this season.

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I’m surprised I’ve never heard of this term before now. When I heard RG3 say it, I thought he just made up a silly word to describe doubters. It seems that a lot of people are like me. For that reason, I think him getting fired over this is unlikely.

I saw the tweet regarding sold out Alamo tickets allotment, but I still have yet to receive any e-mail giving an indication in either direction. I never got a "Your order is being processed..." or a "We're all sold out..." e-mail. I think I'll just continue to wait and see what happens at the end of this week. Worst case, I guess I can just buy after-market tickets as it gets closer to kickoff.

Have any season ticket holders heard anything back yet from LHF on filling Alamo bowl ticket requests? I submitted my post season ticket application last week, but it's been silent. Any word from anyone else?

You can donate my winnings to Burnt Endz. Enjoyed playing this season. Hook em as always.

Texas 42 Baylor 20 Bijan 227 yards. We finish the season strong. Bijan has another big day. Then maybe KU helps us out on Saturday.

Texas 45 Kansas 24 Punting 127 yards

Texas: 44 TCU: 38 Combined passing: 617 You are shell-shocked bro. We'll be fine. This is the game that Patterson came to Texas for. With the home atmosphere and lights on the big stage, we'll be ready.

Texas 38 KSU 24 Prop: 52 plays; long 32 yards from scrimmage See my post in the Game Week thread for my thoughts on this game.

I have some thoughts. The spread is correct. Texas should be favored, and we will likely win comfortably. Vegas knows what it's doing, and I expect the public to hammer KSU and lose their ass on the game this week. I'm going to confidently take Texas and any points we're laying. Reading too much into KSU's 48-0 win over OkSt is a fool's errand. For reference, we beat OU 49-0 and then immediately struggled with the same ISU team that OU just dominated. The transitive property in college football means fuck all. Carrying KSU's big win over OkSt to draw the conclusion that Texas has no chance this week lacks all foundational support. There are multiple reasons for this. First, Texas is not a bad team. I know how much some of you shell-shocked fucks love to hate on Sark and self-soothe yourself after a loss by screaming dumpster fire, but the reality is that Texas went on the road last week against a top 15 team playing out of their minds, endured a whole crew of corrupt officiating stacking the deck (14 penalties to 0, LOL right), played its absolute nadir on offense, had a 60-yard qb run that likely results in a game winning 2-point try conveniently negated on a phantom holding call, and still only lost by 7. We are a very good team, and our quarterback is a true freshman. Shit happens. Second, you have to understand how bad OkSt played against KSU. They were as bad against KSU on Saturday as our offense was against OkSt last week. They lost turnovers 3-0, were 5/15 on 3rd down, and were 1/4 on 4th down. Against OkSt, we threw 3 interceptions, were 3/17 on 3rd down, and were 0/2 on 4th down. Both performances were marked by receivers routinely running the wrong routes, inexplicable drops, atypically poor quarterback decision-making, and untimely penalties. These were seasonal lows, extraordinary outliers, and extremely unlikely to be seen again this year. This is what variance looks like. It's not indicative of who we are, and it's not indicative of who they are. But even with those abysmal numbers, I'll reiterate that we only lost by 7, and OkSt lost by 48. Third, we are coming off a bye week. KSU, on the other hand, is coming off their program's biggest win in the past few years. They're euphoric, and deservedly so. But we've seen firsthand how difficult it is for a team to deliver the same intensity and performance in the week following a win like that. It's honestly easier for a team to get up and play really well following a tough and disappointing loss (OkSt lost a heartbreaker to TCU the week before we played them). We'll have had 2 full weeks to prepare for just KSU, with a lot of motivation, desire, and focus to correct past mistakes (and right the wrongs in Stillwater) fueling us. We are very much alive to win the Big 12 and the Sugar Bowl. Our coaches and our players know how important and meaningful that would be for our program. We still have the world to play for, and we will. Fourth, we (finally) have KSU's number. In the early Mack Brown years it was reversed, but in this past decade of wandering the desert, KSU is not the team that has given us fits. Charlie Strong beat them. Herman went 4-0 against them. Even Sark's 5-7 team last year still managed to beat KSU. These sort of trends have a way of sticking with a program, and I don't see it changing this week. Finally, while KSU is a decent and well-disciplined team, they are not elite or invulnerable. They struggle with capable opponents who are not having an off day. They are not above losing at home (Tulane beat them in Manhattan earlier this year). They squeaked out a 1-point win against ISU. There is absolutely no reason to expect that Texas won't compete with them. Will Texas need to play well to win? Yes, of course, but that goes without saying. We need to play well every week. And for the majority of this season, we've done exactly that. We didn't play well last week, and to a lesser extent we didn't play well in Lubbock without our starting quarterback. But I'm highly optimistic, for the reasons stated above, that we will play well this week, and that the final score will reflect it.

UT 44 OSU 42 17 for 183 I think this is going to be another one of those wild finishes, and I hope the refs don't negatively interfere too much. OkSt and ISU are, respectively, my second and third "favorite" Big XII teams after Texas, but I like them a lot less now than I did, say, 8 years ago -- due mostly to them beating us not infrequently. I remember the Mack Brown years where we went undefeated against OkSt for over a decade. But that aside, I like how they wear orange and I like how they hate OU. But I like them best when they lose to Texas.

This is like our game against Bama, except Tennessee is getting to play with heisman qb for more than 2 series.

Ewers had his freshman game. Defense sucked on a lot of third downs. Made stops when they absolutely had to. Fuck it, move on and play better next week. We still have Ewers and Bijan. I’m still jacking it to 49-0, and a close win over ISU won’t change that. Nice to be on the other side of this shit for a change.

Still cumming buckets from last week. Ready to beat the shit out of ISU today.

FWIW, I really enjoyed your pre-season Sark predictions and I thought you were spot on. I never understood the Sark hate that so many on this site have. Dude is a walking redemption story. And that includes taking things to the next level as head coach.

Or is it just me? That was like the most amazing 3 hours of my life. Permanent spot on the mental highlight reel. But seriously, we're going to explode against ISU this Saturday. We've been stockpiling weapons on offense for years, but we could rarely translate them into wins on the field because we had a persistent bottleneck and lacked a triggerman at quarterback. But with Ewers, suddenly we have our triggerman there's no more bottleneck. Our offense is like a rushing tsunami now. Klatt is 100% sold on Texas and he's already campaigning hard for us to make the CFP as its first 2-loss team. We're in for a special season. Anything less than a Big 12 championship at this point would be a huge letdown.

We’re going to beat the shit out of them. ISU isn’t holding Ewers’ Texas to less than 30 points. I expect Texas to score at least 40. It made sense for our early 2000s teams to have a let down in a spot like this, where we already had the top 5 ranking and a ton of national attention and media suckoff. But this year’s team is outside the top 20 and is still being questioned by many, given the past decade of Texas not being back. The current narrative is that OU is actually a garbage team (which they might be now) and Texas will struggle against a “real” defense (which ISU might be). But OU always gives us their best shot, regardless of how “bad” they are, and ISU has in no way played an offense yet this season that is capable of doing the things that Ewers’ Texas is about to do to them. It’s going to be glorious to watch. The point is, our team took a major step forward together on Saturday — winning our rivalry game, in that atmosphere, on that stage, in the way we did — and is now gelling better than ever before. The team is hungry for more, and it still has so much to prove. The crowd at DKR this weekend will infuse the team with the social facilitation and positive energy that it loves feeding off of. The fan base is finally completely bought in for the first time in years, and we’ll see it on the field this week. I’m getting a major 2008-Mizzou like vibe from this ISU game. In 2008, we had just come off of a major win against OU and it was followed by hosting a highly rated Missouri team at home. Questions surrounded Texas’ ability to not have a let down after such an emotional and awesome win the preceding week. The result was, we beat the shit out of Missouri. The crowd atmosphere at DKR was electric, and we had put the game away by halftime. We’ll see that again on Saturday.

If you didn’t expect to beat up on OU this year, you weren’t paying attention. Literally the only thing OU had “in its favor” going into the game was the fact that it was a rivalry game. Texas with Ewers is a very, very good team. The people claiming the sky was falling after the OT Tech loss were being willfully ignorant and blind.

Point margin of victory gets my vote. In my case, I had the score at exactly a 49 point margin of victory for Texas along with post of the week.

I have an idea that I'd really like to implement to capture the feeling of the post-TX/OU game this year (and the end of OU's reign). But I lack the technical expertise to do this. I'm wondering if there is someone on here, much more tech-savvy than me, to make the following a reality: Use this scene from Revenge of the Sith (if there's a higher quality version available, that'd be better): Super-impose Ewers' face over Yoda the whole time, and super-impose the OU logo over Palpatine the whole time. When Yoda blocks Palpatine from leaving the room, have a sign by the doorway that says "This Way Back to State Fair" or "Cotton Bowl Exit" or similar. And maybe add some dicks falling on Palpatine's head for good measure, have fun with it. 49-0!

Texas 42 ISU 10 Rushes/yards: 34/247 We're not losing any game that Quinn plays and stays healthy. I said this in another thread, but this season is 2004. Next season is 2005.

Texas 62 OU 13 Bijan/Worthy yards 267 This game is going to get ugly for OU. We're going to have our way with them and let out a past decade's worth of pent-up anger and aggression. This will be Texas Football's coming out party for this season and beyond. It will set the tone for what's to come the rest of this year and in the next several seasons. Remember this fucking game. It will be viewed by Texas Football historians as the turning point of a program. And the palpable decline of another. Get ready to fuck.