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I guess you didn’t watch the SCar game, based on this post. They fucking quit in that game, on both sides of the ball, and were arguing amongst themselves on the sidelines.

I will say this - Kentucky is a weird team. I watched them quit against South Carolina while clicking back and forth between them and the NI/Notre Dame game. South Carolina dismantled the UK OL and DL as though it was child’s play. Then they come back the next week and should have beaten Georgia. They follow that up by pummeling Ohio and going on the road and whipping Ole Miss. “Man, maybe Kentucky is better than I thought?” Then 4 straight losses including another game in which they straight up quit at Florida. Then they played Tennessee tough. Their Saturday Beta is pretty fucking high.

“Maybe I’ll click on over to the Astros thread and see what the fellas are thinking about the offseason so far.” … posts nitpicking Livy Dunne … posts fantasizing about Juan Soto … ”Right.”

The Kentucky offense is shittastic. The offensive line is mediocre and the QB is a little league version of Carson Beck. Deone Walker leads a pretty good defensive front and Texas is going to have to account for him and two pretty good LBs. Their DBs aren’t anything of concern. How do you get up, as a player, for a coach that tried to quit on you in the middle of the night? This team has beaten Southern Miss, Ohio, Ole Miss (lol), and Murray State. Now they have to come on the road against an unfamiliar opponent, get excited and win with far inferior talent across the board? Right. Barion Brown didn’t play against Murray State, so I’m curious how seriously he’s injured. If he can’t go, they have Key at WR and Wilcox at TB as playmakers, which is not saying much. I expect Texas to win in a yawner, 31-3.

I don’t give a shit if you’ve known the broad for 38 hours or 38 decades. If she’s too good for black car service, she’s a nightmare for life. If she likes black car service, get a grip and use Uber Black and it will be a far better treat for her than your old ass doddering around Rainey Street trying to locate her before Nicole disappears you for good.

Get a fucking spine and then download the Uber app for the woman and send her on her way. This thread should be deleted as it weakens us all.

Far be it for me to interfere with creative disruption.

Pretty sure it is “Battered Aggie Syndrome”.

You worry too much.

I can't imagine how the math isn't pretty compelling to Disney. 8 additional conference games versus 16 pointless games, mostly against FCS schools, that usually wind up on ESPN+. That's got to be worth at least another $32M for the conference, if not substantially more. Couple that with removing paying cupcakes to play you at home and the financial value seems easily there for the 16 teams.

We can all quote disappointing and embarrassing losses from the last 25 years of UT football. It's a menial and pointless exercise, and you guys should have better shit to do. Good grief.

Based on all of the shit out there regarding Cook at this point, I'll be very encouraged if he winds at ATM or some other rival.

You are having trouble processing what Lincoln Riley could be selling to a QB compared to Collin Klein?

Oh, they care about money because they're not idiots. Nothing is free any more in CFB and Texas isn't delusional or poor either.

Plenty of us knew the Arkansas idiots would consider that game a jihad experience, but that allegedly wasn't a pervasive theme inside of the program at the time. Sarkisian pushed back on feedback about it being a special game to Arkansas and paid the price, including feedback from the powers that be around the program. He'd coached against them at Bama and didn't respect much about their program. Go back and look at clips during that game and he's got a 1000 yard stare and looks to be in a state of shock, just like his shitty QB at the time. No doubt he and the program didn't understand that rivalry. That said, there's no comparison with ATM. That game is "in your face" for everyone, and the schools are separated by a few hours of driving. We all hear about it all of the time, it's a constant drumbeat of forecasts and discussions nationally with guys like Doering picking ATM already, and there isn't a big money player who is going to get pushback from Sarkisian about this game who isn't going to snap him back to reality, real fast. I'm not worried about Sarkisian or the team being ready for this one. He has spoken about ATM as a force to be thwarted as an existential threat to roster acquisition and management for the last 3 years in private conversations. The OU game and the Arkansas game will always be driven by emotions, often wild ones. The ATM has never really felt that way. The better team on paper just usually wins. I'd love to see Texas win the next two games while ATM chokes on the road against Auburn and the match-up is 10-1 vs 8-3, but if ATM wins out as well, it will be a top 10 matchup and one of the most hyped games of the season. It's not sneaking up on anyone either way.

This is actually completely untrue historically in this game. The favorite wins an overwhelming majority of the time. My view on why that occurs is that this game does not sneak up on anyone.

What I love is how this board called Jackson Arnold correctly the entire time. He’s a classic indictment of all of the foibles within the $9.95er space as well as OU fan hubris.

Unless something has truly changed in the past couple of months, it’s either Terry or Hilson going public. My assumption is Terry, which will be awesome. They’re going to use him all over the place. WRINO, IMO.

As mediocre as Kelly is, this is an awesome outcome for her team. We know they’ll choke in the NCAA, so winning the conference title and getting in their craw suffices.

Sooners Illustrated folks sure seem to think that Bedenbaugh's future is hanging in the balance. He fully shit the bed with his roster management for multiple years and now the second biggest problem, according to their fans, behind all of those dadgummed injuries has been the OL. As others have noted, Venables is going to purge most of his offensive staff due to scapegoating needs.

I don't think the Cook departure impacts anything. Attrition has been baked into the plan at WR for this next cycle. Also, maybe don't drop perfect passes when you're wide fucking open and then you'll likely get more PT. A complete implosion in the final stretch of games for OU will lead to Bedenbaugh being shown the door and could be enough to persuade Fasusi to reconsider. Someone should also let him know, maybe, that there is a lot of pussy in Austin as well. I mean, don't ask Carl to do it, but you get what I'm saying. Georgia is going to try to oversign at DL because they can't handle the thought of standouts from their state going to their enemies. At the same time, there are guys who are damned good who can also look at a depth chart and others in their signing class and say "man, I like that school as much as Georgia, and I can get playing time and still go to the NFL as well". Anytime ATM gets hot, so does their access to NIL. Interest undulates with losses, though. They seem more volatile on that end than places who have focused on a foundation. The Elk clearly also sees the world as Jimbo did - you must sign all of the DTs and Edges, even if it is at the expense of everything else. Folks seem intent on believing that there are going to be a few late breaking surprises in Texas' favor for this 2025 class, mostly because it's happened in every class prior to this one. Maybe that's the case via Fasusi or something. I don't have the same POV as others for this cycle, however.

Anybody got a recommendation for bbq that will still be open for dinner somewhere around South Congress on Friday night? We never stay down that way but for some reason we are this weekend and trying to figure out a good dinner option that includes being easy for kids.

Get a fucking grip. If Texas is 10-2 or better, they’re in the playoffs. Christ.

Manny Diaz has legitimately developed as a coach, I guess. His defense played really well and the FSU offense was hapless, albeit more productive between the 20’s than the dogshit that Duke and Murphy served up. 180 yards of offense is pathetic. +4 in turnover margin is awesome and why they won the game. Anyone on here giving any credit to Murphy for this win did not watch the game and/or doesn’t know a fucking thing about football. They won in spite of Murphy’s futility. Duke needs Murphy in a big way against SMU and Miami in the next two matchups. We’re all going to find out if he’s up to it and I’d like to see Duke win both and create chaos in the ACC. FSU allegedly does not have the money or the interest in buying Norvell out. Per their 247 insiders, he’s absolutely going to get at least another year. Now, if the dude finishes 2-10? Maybe that somehow changes, but they’re not a wealthy alumni base.

It’s kind of crazy how pathetic Okie State has been this season. They returned like 20 of 22 starters from a 9-4 team. The run game, until last night, has been dogshit. That they somehow beat a resurgent Arkansas team is also absurd. They play: -@Baylor -ASU -@TCU -Texas Tech -@Colorado I would normally assume a finish of 4-1/5-0 with that schedule. Now? The only record that would actually surprise me would be 5-0. Anything from 0-5 to 4-1 has a case that can be plausibly made by any casual CFB fan.