9-1

[Dahobbs 17534]

2 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Arkansas is crap.  ASU has always been crap.  IL and Pitt?  Pitt is 2-8.  The losses, all to (at the time) ranked teams

Great. Tell Louisville, one of your two dominant teams in other conferences, that Pitt is crap. Tell Washington that ASU is crap. Tell Florida that Arkansas is crap. There are a lot of "crap" teams. Our crap teams beat their crap teams and held their own versus the good teams. I'm not telling you the Big 12 is the best. I'm telling you that your perception of other conferences is favorably skewed. 

[BabaYaga 15297]

1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

Great. Tell Louisville, one of your two dominant teams in other conferences, that Pitt is crap. Tell Washington that ASU is crap. Tell Florida that Arkansas is crap. 

WA beating ASU, but not by as much, tells you nothing

Pitt beat Louisville means as much as OSU beating OU, other than it's their sole loss and they are now ranked in the top 10 with a win over another (at the time) top 10 team and will finish with 10-11 wins

FL is 5-5.  Once good, now mediocre.  One really bad team beating a bad team.  

5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

held their own versus the good teams

Lost.  You mean lost to the good teams

[Dahobbs 17534]

14 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

WA beating ASU, but not by as much, tells you nothing

Pitt beat Louisville means as much as OSU beating OU, other than it's their sole loss and they are now ranked in the top 10 with a win over another (at the time) top 10 team and will finish with 10-11 wins

FL is 5-5.  Once good, now mediocre.  One really bad team beating a bad team.  

Lost.  You mean lost to the good teams

Yes, you're lost. Whatever. I don't care anymore. 

[Atticus 3973]

He's a moron who won't even respond to his interpretation of the data he presented being proven wrong. Just put him on ignore and more on with your day.

[Skipper 6135]

31 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

 Two secondary missed opportunities but as I watched it again I don’t feel Crawfords angle was that bad.

 

Maybe I need to watch it again.  Because I thought it was a bad angle but the fact I thought he appeared to pursue at about 3/4 speed after Savion passed him (i.e., complete opposite of the Whittington hustle play) may have clouded my initial reaction of "WTF is he in the game".

[The_Great_Hornsby 3236]

1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

I think people like to think they right and move goal posts to make their point.
 

If you think barely beating UofH and TCU is good/bad you are right or wrong. We have two great wins so far: Bama and KState.

Despite a roster that is, overall, the best in the Big12, we aren’t yet ready to dominate crappy teams convincingly  but somehow we are ready to win a CFP?  Honestly this is a down year for the Big12 and our easiest path to a CFP we are likely to have. I would love for us to make the CFP and win. I’d have loved for us to beat OU and once again not just awaiting the outcome of a handful of other games. We are not yet good enough that just winning out gets us in.
 

I don’t want to be “back.” I want to have year over year dominance. as many have mentioned with recruiting/NIL/portal we are on the right track.

The last few weeks have shown me, though, that we aren’t there yet. 3 barely won games of blown leads have shown me we are not ready yet. Bama showed us what we can certainly be—able to beat anyone.
 

I have to be patient and trust that what we are building is sound and that we won’t drop 2-3 wtf losses each year. I am impressed that games we absolutely lose last year we have found a way to win this year. That’s progress period.  That’s due to the roster. I just don’t think we are there yet. Which is a shame because as I have said, this appeared to be the  “easiest” path to CFP we are likely to have.

TLDR: that’s too bad .

What an odd comment

[nbmishoid 949]

Yep, patience is odd, meaning rare, among our fan base.  I thought the post pretty realistic. Maybe that’s odd, too.

[ClubWhatever 12144]

12 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

What an odd comment

It was actually comment 406.  

[Had Enough 2081]

Maybe I need to watch it again.  Because I thought it was a bad angle but the fact I thought he appeared to pursue at about 3/4 speed after Savion passed him (i.e., complete opposite of the Whittington hustle play) may have clouded my initial reaction of "WTF is he in the game".

I was focused on the angle so maybe he was slow. My actual thought was he was trying to fill the gap between CB and LB. Whatever it was nobody made the play.

[WinningIsHard 4031]

1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

I think people like to think they right and move goal posts to make their point.
 

If you think barely beating UofH and TCU is good/bad you are right or wrong. We have two great wins so far: Bama and KState.

Despite a roster that is, overall, the best in the Big12, we aren’t yet ready to dominate crappy teams convincingly  but somehow we are ready to win a CFP?  Honestly this is a down year for the Big12 and our easiest path to a CFP we are likely to have. I would love for us to make the CFP and win. I’d have loved for us to beat OU and once again not just awaiting the outcome of a handful of other games. We are not yet good enough that just winning out gets us in.
 

I don’t want to be “back.” I want to have year over year dominance. as many have mentioned with recruiting/NIL/portal we are on the right track.

The last few weeks have shown me, though, that we aren’t there yet. 3 barely won games of blown leads have shown me we are not ready yet. Bama showed us what we can certainly be—able to beat anyone.
 

I have to be patient and trust that what we are building is sound and that we won’t drop 2-3 wtf losses each year. I am impressed that games we absolutely lose last year we have found a way to win this year. That’s progress period.  That’s due to the roster. I just don’t think we are there yet. Which is a shame because as I have said, this appeared to be the  “easiest” path to CFP we are likely to have.

TLDR: that’s too bad .

I would believe all this if you hadn't been a sonny dykes stan alllllllllll of last year. It's exactly what they did damn near every game and you reminded us constantly that TCU was having a run of success that we should be able to have. Now that we are doing what they did it's not as cool? Soon there will be a 12 team playoff and the CFP will be easier to get to year in and year out even with multiple losses in a year. Can you point to the 2-3 wtf losses we have this year? At the beginning of the year you thought we would be 9-1 after 10 games and leading the big 12 standings? 

[Nicole44 22060]

2 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

I would believe all this if you hadn't been a sonny dykes stan alllllllllll of last year. It's exactly what they did damn near every game and you reminded us constantly that TCU was having a run of success that we should be able to have. Now that we are doing what they did it's not as cool? Soon there will be a 12 team playoff and the CFP will be easier to get to year in and year out even with multiple losses in a year. Can you point to the 2-3 wtf losses we have this year? At the beginning of the year you thought we would be 9-1 after 10 games and leading the big 12 standings? 

You are a bigger beating than me and that’s saying something. 

[South Austin 52500]

5 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

I would believe all this if you hadn't been a sonny dykes stan alllllllllll of last year. It's exactly what they did damn near every game and you reminded us constantly that TCU was having a run of success that we should be able to have. Now that we are doing what they did it's not as cool? Soon there will be a 12 team playoff and the CFP will be easier to get to year in and year out even with multiple losses in a year. Can you point to the 2-3 wtf losses we have this year? At the beginning of the year you thought we would be 9-1 after 10 games and leading the big 12 standings? 

If I were you I'd stay away from Rainey Street for a while.

[WinningIsHard 4031]

50 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

You are a bigger beating than me and that’s saying something. 

So you weren't a tcu stan? You did think we would be 9-1 right now? We do have 2-3 wtf losses this year? I blame myself for this lol 

 

[Nicole44 22060]

1 minute ago, WinningIsHard said:

So you weren't a tcu stan? You did think we would be 9-1 right now? We do have 2-3 wtf losses this year? I blame myself for this lol 

 

 

[Gucci_Suit 2644]

This fan and alumni base deals with success in the strangest way. I’m not immune by any means, but fuck we hate ourselves irrationally, or (if you’re an OB guy), sunshine pump to an aggy level. 

We’re 9-1 with a last minute loss that we should have stopped. We’re better than decent. The rest of college football sucks balls, which has resulted in a log-jam of only decent undefeated teams ahead of us. It happens I guess.

The SEC should be better next year, and Texas should be about the same… but we’d be the 2nd best team in the SEC right this minute. On the right day, we’d be the best team. 

Let’s chill. The roster is young but good. Next year they will be young and good again. Let’s chill. Chillllllll

Edited November 16, 2023 by Gucci_Suit
Gram

[Gut Wagon 8069]

17 minutes ago, Gucci_Suit said:

This fan and alumni base deals with success in the strangest way. I’m not immune by any means, but fuck we hate ourselves irrationally, or (if you’re an OB guy), sunshine pump to an aggy level. 

We’re 9-1 with a last minute loss that we should have stopped. We’re better than decent. The rest of collage football sucks balls, which has resulted in a log-jam of only decent undefeated teams ahead of us. It happens I guess.

The SEC should be better next year, and Texas should be about the same… but we’d be the 2nd best team in the SEC right this minute. On the right day, we’d be the best team. 

Let’s chill. The roster is young but good. Next year they will be young and good again. Let’s chill. Chillllllll

I mostly agree. But until we get past this multi-year stretch of big leads than turn into white-knuckle finishes, I won't blame any fellow Texas fan for being unsure of our prowess. 

[AnotherLawyer 389]

1 hour ago, Gucci_Suit said:

Let’s chill. The roster is young but good. Next year they will be young and good again. Let’s chill. Chillllllll

Like, hey, wildfire--throw some water on yourself, okay?

[Pancho 44800]

 

 

 

[mdmost 43001]

He's 100% correct. Not that we need to worry about that just yet given what's in front of us on Saturday and the following Friday. Not to forget if we win those two we either get to replay an opponent or get another's last shot at us. But yes, if we win out and Bama wins out, we are suddenly going to lose that special OOC win we had over Bama. Head to head matters until the committee decides it doesn't. They will find every reason to keep us out. "Well Bama was a different team then" or "Texas isn't the same team without Brooks (probably true)"or "look what Bama overcame and then ended up winning the SEC, they have to be in". Oregon may get to avenge their loss to Washington. What we really need is FSU to lose but that's not happening. 

[Xcalibur 546]

2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

What we really need is FSU to lose but that's not happening. 

Why not?  FSU has shown themselves to be mortal.  They won't lose this weekend, but I think there's a reasonable likelihood that they lose to Florida or even that they'll be upset by Louisville in the ACC CCG.

[Hank_Hill 18807]

People need to stop with thinking Florida has a chance at beating FSU. They fucking succckkkkk

Edited November 16, 2023 by Hank_Hill

[BigHornedLurker 1939]

Oregon State is probably our best hope left 

[Hank_Hill 18807]

Vegas has Oregon state favored? I’d get down with that.

[ClubWhatever 12144]

This is not even a playoff caliber team without Brooks, and with the jags that have been playing in the secondary and at OG.  We're about 4 players short.   Need to keep stacking recruiting classes and portal fill-ins.  

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2652]

win the big 12 and a new year’s day bowl and i’ll be happy 

[mdmost 43001]

Yes. My ceiling was winning the Big 12. That's all I'm wanting this year. 

[Texas Wahoo 3395]

46 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

People need to stop with thinking Florida has a chance at beating FSU. They fucking succckkkkk

I don’t disagree that they suck, but so does BC and they almost beat FSU. 

[Hank_Hill 18807]

40 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

This is not even a playoff caliber team without Brooks, and with the jags that have been playing in the secondary and at OG.  We're about 4 players short.    

Cool story we should still go and see what happens

[Thatguy 8699]

9 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

Milroe is not the same QB he was at the beginning of the season.  His improvement might be more than any other P5 QB playing today.  

  How? The truth is Milroe has played about the same as he did vs us sans one less INT. He is running a little more but not sure that would work vs us. The real difference is we went in there and did what we wanted on offense. The teams Alabama lit up are teams that have allowed other teams to light them up.

[Tex Long 4398]

22 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I think he was mistaken.  Rosy Palmer went into the Penile system.

As Jackson Browne wrote - and sang:

But Rosie, you're all right, you wear my ring
When you hold me tight, Rosie, that's my thing
When you turn out the light, I got to hand it to me
Looks like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie

[Tex Long 4398]

1 hour ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

win the big 12 and a new year’s day bowl and i’ll be happy 

If we win CCG and don't make Top 4, it seems likely we'll have some guys who, understandably, skip the bowl game. Especially true if we don't take CCG. That would make a bowl win a lot more difficult, and much more appreciated.

[WinningIsHard 4031]

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

 

 

This is the same mother fucker who was hoping we would get upset by Kansas state during the game and now he’s “worried” about our legitimate chances to make the CFP?!? The 180 that so many people do is obnoxious, let’s worry about tomorrow then the day after that. Playoffs? Playoffs 

[Walser 1109]

what's a stan

[Lou_Sassle 2875]

Does anyone think that the committee is waiting to see how badly we beat tech to possibly use that as an excuse to rank us over Oregon if we beat the shit out of them? I could see the committee using a beat down of a team that Oregon barely beat as an excuse to have us jump them. Provided that we win this week, that is. 

[6th Street 6400]

If we somehow made it to the playoffs Ohio State would throw for like 1,000 yards on our secondary

[Rimbo 25933]

10 hours ago, Matagorda said:

Im concerned our only loss is against the only decent quarterback we’ve faced.  Milroe, has improved, but still was pretty weak at the time.  
 

I may be wrong, but it seems a good quarterback might wear us out. 

Our loss to OU had NOTHING to do with their quarterback. Do you even watch the games, man?

[Rimbo 25933]

5 minutes ago, Walser said:

what's a stan

you uncultured philistine

 

[Nicole44 22060]

I’d agree with Klatt on the fact the committee likes Oregon a lot. The committee isn’t as high on Georgia. They’ve made that clear through these lame ass CFP Tuesday night specials. Having said that, I also feel that the committee likes us. But our one loss right now doesn’t look as “sexy” as Oregon’s one loss. 

Edited November 16, 2023 by Nicole44

[Hank_Hill 18807]

8 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

If we somehow made it to the playoffs Ohio State would throw for like 1,000 yards on our secondary

Sick let’s see it

[Js1 85336]

Just now, Hank_Hill said:

Sick let’s see it

Reminds me of the classic “would you rather lose in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament or win the NIT”

You can’t win an NCAA title if you go to the NIT and you can’t win the CFP if you don’t make it. A 4 seed still has a shot and I’d rather have the shot 

[Fondren & Main 6717]

12 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I’d agree with Klatt on the fact the committee likes Oregon a lot. The committee isn’t as high on Georgia. They’ve made that clear through these lame ass CFP Tuesday night specials. Having said that, I also feel that the committee likes us. But our one loss right now doesn’t look as “sexy” as Oregon’s one loss. 

It’s kind of bullshit that Oregon didn’t fall after their last second loss while we did.  

[Mach 1 1677]

1 minute ago, Fondren & Main said:

It’s kind of bullshit that Oregon didn’t fall after their last second loss while we did.  

I think it’s more we looked like shit for a good portion of that game while I thought Oregon looked better than Washington in theirs. Surprised WU pulled it out. 

[Hank_Hill 18807]

10 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Reminds me of the classic “would you rather lose in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament or win the NIT”

You can’t win an NCAA title if you go to the NIT and you can’t win the CFP if you don’t make it. A 4 seed still has a shot and I’d rather have the shot 

TCU got dicked down by Georgia and I’d still take that 10/10 times over watching us in the fucking Alamo bowl

[Nicole44 22060]

3 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

It’s kind of bullshit that Oregon didn’t fall after their last second loss while we did.  

True. That was immediate. But over time their loss to Washington (bc undefeated team) looks better to the committee than our loss because OU has dropped two games. It would get screwy if Bama beats Georgia and Oregon beats Washington upcoming. But I always thought our best hope was Washington to be undefeated and UT to win out/CCG win. That’s best shot outside of FSU falling and I think the committee would take us over FSU if they were to lose a game regular season, but win their CCG. I think but who the hell knows? 

[Js1 85336]

4 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

It’s kind of bullshit that Oregon didn’t fall after their last second loss while we did.  

Huh?

The first CFP rankings came out 2 weeks after Oregon lost. The coaches poll prior to the first CFP rankings had Oregon 7 and Texas 6. We flipped after that to match the committee rankings 

They fell to 11th after they lost to UW on 10/14 and worked their way back up. We also fell to 11th after 10/7 and worked our way up 

[Pancho 44800]

41 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

This is the same mother fucker who was hoping we would get upset by Kansas state during the game and now he’s “worried” about our legitimate chances to make the CFP?!? The 180 that so many people do is obnoxious, let’s worry about tomorrow then the day after that. Playoffs? Playoffs 

That didn’t happen. Stop making shit up. 

[Vic Mackey 47037]

True. That was immediate. But over time their loss to Washington (bc undefeated team) looks better to the committee than our loss because OU has dropped two games. It would get screwy if Bama beats Georgia and Oregon beats Washington upcoming. But I always thought our best hope was Washington to be undefeated and UT to win out/CCG win. That’s best shot outside of FSU falling and I think the committee would take us over FSU if they were to lose a game regular season, but win their CCG. I think but who the hell knows? 

Florida State isn't going to get any leeway if they lose this late. Our best bet is to have either Florida or Louisville knock them off. We can jump them. They are easily the weakest of the 4 playoff teams currently.

I'm curious what the voters do if Bama beats Georgia and both end with 1 loss. Do they take them both as they have several times before? They took both Michigan and Ohio State last year. Bama and Georgia the year before. We beat Bama head to head. I guess the committee could say it was before Milroe got good but we still did it and on the road..

Another good scenario would be to have Oregon somehow lose one more game to get them to 2 losses and then end up winning the pac 12 championship game.

[Hank_Hill 18807]

Big 12 champ 12-1 Texas isnt getting left out because of the loser of the SEC championship 

Edited November 16, 2023 by Hank_Hill

[The_Great_Hornsby 3236]

10 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Florida State isn't going to get any leeway if they lose this late. Our best bet is to have either Florida or Louisville knock them off. We can jump them. They are easily the weakest of the 4 playoff teams currently.

I'm curious what the voters do if Bama beats Georgia and both end with 1 loss. Do they take them both as they have several times before? They took both Michigan and Ohio State last year. Bama and Georgia the year before. We beat Bama head to head. I guess the committee could say it was before Milroe got good but we still did it and on the road..

Another good scenario would be to have Oregon somehow lose one more game to get them to 2 losses and then end up winning the pac 12 championship game.
 

This will never happen unless FSU and Texas both lose at least one more. 0% chance they go over a 1 loss Texas, 1 loss Oregon, undefeated Washington, or an undefeated Florida state. 

 

[Js1 85336]

25 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

This will never happen unless FSU and Texas both lose at least one more. 0% chance they go over a 1 loss Texas, 1 loss Oregon, undefeated Washington, or an undefeated Florida state. 

 

Yeah, I went back to look at it.  You have to look at things in context. A 1-loss major conference champion hasn't missed the playoffs, except 2018, which featured an undefeated ND that stole a spot from Ohio State. And 2014, but that didn't count because Baylor/TCU were co-champions and the Big 12 pivoted back to a conf champ game quickly. 

SEC champ will make it: 13-0 Georgia OR 12-1 Alabama
B1G champ will make it: 13-0  Michigan OR Ohio State
Then 2 of:
13-0 FSU
13-0 UW or 12-1 Oregon
12-1 Texas

4 of those 6 will make it. It will suck to be left out if there's 4 undefeateds, which hasn't happened before, and our best hope is FSU loses.  Messiest scenario may be:

12-1 Texas
12-1 UW (lost to Oregon State, but beats Oregon in the Pac 12 title game to eliminate them)
12-1 FSU

Texas really needs FSU to lose a game and better be the biggest Oregon State, ASU and Washington State fans the next 2 weeks.