Magus Ossis

Just quick thoughts Mason Graham (duh) and maybe Kenneth Grant (big but less amazing 0/1 tech type)

I'm guessing we will have a chance to top the 11 Alabama had this year if we go deep in the post-season next year. Texas and UGA are both likely to have all their conference games well watched and to be contenders to play in the CCG and CFP. Even the teams with a bye have a chance to play as many as 3 CFP games starting in '24. Our game against Michigan is likely going to be a top draw. If our conference, Michigan, and post-season games get favorable TV slots, and if we make a run no further (play in CCG, lose in "final four") than we did this year, that would be 12+ "big" games.

Natty Natty No-no-no

We don’t play against 2013 players anymore. I didn’t look farther back, but Vandy is 0 for the last two drafts. The SEC overall is very talented, but the players are not distributed evenly. I don’t think your claim that the SEC has more NFL talent than the 12 will get much opposition. I think the argument lies more in the teams not at the top and the other guys on the rosters. Huck has given data that remain undisputed and unanswered.

That NFL talent is not getting drafted in droves from Vandy. The league is top heavy. Huck has shown the stats. That's like saying teams in towns starting with T & A are great top to bottom and citing UGA, UT, and Bama as evidence. The top is not the same as top to bottom.

FSU isn’t alleging the refs threw the game to UGA, that Georgia stole their signs or played ringers. FSU isn’t alleging that the headsets only functioned on one sideline or that anyone poisoned their Powerade. They fully admit they were terrible. They think losing because they were far and away the worse team needs some nuance and context. Everything they say comes across as, “We lost in epic fashion because we stunk in epic fashion, but…” No one cares why they think they were so bad or why it should matter. If you don’t want to eat the worst bowl loss ever, don’t play such awful football.

Come play at FSU where we only lose because the system hates us, and our excuses are really good reasons. Heck of a sales pitch.

A settlement will be reached. They are valuable to B1G and costly to SEC if in B1G and will therefore end up in one of those two leagues. What we don't know: how long to reach a deal, final cost of deal, B1G versus SEC, year starting in new league.

They aren't backups. They were backups earlier in aggy's process of implosion, but they were starters last night and will be starters next year if they don't portal out. They are the starters. The guys that left via the portal will not return. The guys coming in via the portal (or from HS) are not a significant upgrade. If aggy needs a word that reflects the pathos of their starters, it should not be backups but rather residue, remnants, or Aggies.

Put banners on the cloak room.

After they get killed despite having not 11, not 12, but 55 men, they can start a new tradition: the 56th man. Everyone makes cult noises and waves either a telescope (underclassmen) or a wallet about. It symbolizes their need to search and ability to pay for a bigger, better team.

Maybe have a safe thread or safe forum for snowflakes, newbs, etc. Those of us willing to hang out with well-adjusted humans and/or the ignorant masses could drop in and post nuggets from the nuclear emotional wasteland that is the surl.

Texas played Alabama this year and is set to play Alabama or Michigan if we beat Washington. We have games against Michigan, OSU, and Alabama in the coming years. I listed out our record against the top cluster of schools in the "weeks top 5 versus weeks in poll" graph. Some will want to add another blue blood or drop Nebraska, but I simply followed the numbers. I grouped those with over 700 weeks in the AP poll (and over 250 in top 5) as blue bloods and those with over 350 as helmet schools. Some will obviously balk at my including aggy as a helmet school, but they meet the criterion. The cutoff as set provides a historical top 25. 8 Blue blood (>700 weeks in AP) Texas Alabama 8-2-1 (.773) Michigan 1-0-0 (1.000) OU 63-51-5 (.550) OSU 2-1-0 (.667) Neb 10-4-0 (.714) ND 3-9-0 (.250) USC 2-5-0 (.286) TOTAL 89-72-6 (.551) non-OU 26-21-1 (.552) (I wanted to see how much OU biases our average, but they fall very close to the mean for other teams) 17 Helmet schools (>350 weeks in AP) Arkansas 56-23-0 (.709) Auburn 5-3-0 (.625) Clemson 0-0-0 (n/a) Florida 2-0-1 (.833) FSU 0-0-0 (n/a) Georgia 4-1-0 (.800) Iowa 1-1-0 (.500) LSU 9-8-1 (.528) Miami 2-2-0 (.500) Michigan St 0-0-0 (n/a) Oregon 4-2-0 (.667) PSU 2-3-0 (.400) Tennessee 2-1-0 (.667) Tx A&M 76-37-5 (.665) Washington 3-2-0 (.600) Wisconsin 1-0-0 (1.000) UCLA 3-4-0 (.429) TOTAL 170-87-7 (.657) GRAND TOTAL 259-159-13 (.616) Perhaps someone with more internet and spreadsheet ability and will may assemble a more complete comparison. Bottom line, though: Texas has a long history of winning football games against the best and against the best of the best.

Texas beats Bama, cornering the CFP committee into leaving undefeated ACC champion FSU on the sideline. The dissatisfaction of FSU mandates that they sue to leave the ACC. Ergo ACC is yet another conference Texas has destroyed, in two of which (ACC and PAC — by virtue of spoiling a potential merger by keeping the LHN), we were never members. People not only need to avoid being our conference-mates, they should give up playing sports in which we compete.

I am having trouble finding a link to the Barstool convo in which Kayce self-owns re being like OSU and OU. Any help is appreciated.

Have not read the whole thread -- usual caveats and apologies. We caught a lot of flack for not putting people away. Washington hasn't beaten anyone by over 10 points since Cal in September.

Have not read the whole thread so sorry if I'm not the first. I was struck by how odd it would have seemed back in the day to be told that Ohio State would play Mizzou in Arlington in December, and it would be called the Cotton Bowl.

If we are hoping for the typical time as starter to be 2 years, it means that, on average, we only successfully recruit a future starter every two years. If starter-quality QBs line up to play for us and then move on because of the depth chart, I will be sorry but in a good way.

If I schedule a surgery for someone and they end up choosing another surgeon after I've put in all that work, after they acted all interested in my work at our last visit, after I reserved time on my limited OR schedule for them, I usually go out of my way to lie about their family so as to ruin their family business. Because professional blah blah blah. Some people need to push back from the keyboard and take time to reflect on what they've chosen to defend. Really. Notice for Sooners and aggy who might have missed it: this post contains sarcasm.

Seven twins Steve?

I love FrioAg00's (ag tag) contribution: He grades us B+, seems nonplussed. I suppose he's right-- we can't all have Elkworthy personnel, now, can we?

The beauty of it is that of the bowls to trash aggy, it had to be the Armed Forces Bowl with the disrespect!

Another head-to-head against Sark. There were rumors that this sitting SEC lineman would portal to tu, but The Elk beat them again!