I get that it’s not nearly as fun as throwing out uninformed bullshit on a message board, but if CactusThomas, or whoever, really wanted an answer he could listen to Sarkisian’s interviews and the players’ interviews in which his particular question has been answered over and over and over.
As far as a “little bump in the road,” Texas fucked away the OU game last season. Then came together to win out to get into the conference championship game and manhandled Oklahoma State. And were one play from a national title game.
And Texas played very poorly against UGA in Austin — not as bad as the score indicated, but poorly — then ran the SEC gauntlet to play for a title. Then Texas fucked away the SEC title game — my kingdom for a fumble recovery or a fucking field goal — then won two playoff games to be in the last four, again.
On the other hand, our maroon conference mates exploded in mid-air and crashed to the ground in pieces after having the inside track to their first conference championship game this century.
But, you know, what do we really know?