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  1. Oregon-Iowa was a good game too with implications. The Big Ten is hierarchical, not meaningless. tOSU, Indiana above Oregon above USC, Michigan, Iowa. And the games have ended up basically in order of hierarchy. No real chaos or parity at the top. And: tOSU has ducked most of the depth of the conference. This is what to expect from superconferences. They were and are a bad idea.
  2. Chicken and sausage gumbo. Picked a grocery rotisserie bird clean for the meat and used the carcass for the stock, oven roux.
  3. All these boats are full of drugs and this is unrelated to anything in the Epstein files long ago. This has been more or less spelled out in what strategy and policy documents there are: a desire to firmly re-establish the Monroe Doctrine in a maximalist way and demonstrate to China (and Russia) the futility of playing at Western Hemisphere influencer. There is more than a little Putin-brain in the logic. The reasons not to do it are legion: expensive; destabilizing; risks using costly assets we need in the Pacific; undermines our credibility as a stabilizing force; will provoke other countries to hedge and reach out to China. Important not to lose sight of the real reasons not to do this in favor of ones that seem more emotionally satisfying but are inaccurate.
  4. While there are many legal, ethical, and strategic reasons to be against attacking Venezuela one must confess that Maduro is really making it hard not to.
  5. Working up the legal justification. I still expect more pressure to try and force Maduro into exile.
  6. Shot: Chaser: First world nations are medieval peasant maxxing.
  7. Texas is functionally being treated as a two loss team. Ahead of several two loss teams and behind some. Right behind two-loss USC. About a 1/5 chance of making the CFP— better than any 3 loss team. In the AP poll the two loss teams ahead don’t have more than one non-competitive loss. They have good wins. Texas’ win vs OU and Vandy are good but wins over UGA, USC, Pitt, Bama, Iowa, Arizona State, and ND are good wins. Some really good wins. And there’s also not clearly handling bad teams a couple times. Texas isn’t being punished for the tOSU game; the big issues are the way the UGA and UF losses went and the inconsistency in other wins.
  8. I don’t love it but this is what CFB is. Haven’t seen language on guarantees and buyout.
  9. 14 through 3 against UGA and had them stuck in the mud and the kick got the defense just demporalized. Texas’ biggest problem on defense is an inability to sustain drives on offense. Should—should—be able to do that on Arkie.
  10. Pitt: GameDay is here, we are one of the hottest teams in the country, marquee opponent and chance to put us on the map! This is great: Narduzzi: Eh, I don’t really give a shit about this.
  11. Taylen Green is legit good and would be a superstar with a competent roster. But Arkie’s explosiveness isn’t designed to beat a defensive team like Texas and it’s at home. I’d take y’all at something like 30-24 with one Arkie score coming after the game is knitted up.
  12. Ole Miss tonight against Gata is elite. This is top 3 or so in the SEC.
  13. The bottom of the SEC is what makes the conference better. The fact is that almost every team is stocked with dudes who will be in the league. More than any other conference. Any team is capable of playing well for a few quarters and jumping all over a better team that isn’t at its best. Auburn, SCAR, Florida, MSU exemplify that. Beating them is not easy.
  14. Beamer was so unnecessarily mouthy at the half. Could have easily said something like “no, I’m not surprised, we’ve had great weeks of practice, we still believe we have things to accomplish, and now we need to come out and keep executing in the next half. Can’t forget we are playing a good team.” Team fed off him and drove into a wall. He looked like a tweaker on the sideline.
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