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Tex Pete

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Mean old t.u. has been holding them back all these years. Durn teasippers have made them hire all those shitty coaches and recruit all those shitty players.
 

The Elk has awakened the sleeping giant. The worm is turning. Get your licks in while you can. Squeeze Ags! Hold the rope!

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2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I still don’t understand how this happened. TCU?  Really?

Gary is a good coach. Mack started to suck, then we hired Chuckles and MENSA. Big 12 was pretty weak when Baylor and TCU were beating asses and overtook us. 

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6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I still don’t understand how this happened. TCU?  Really?

That school rebuilt their team in the Mountain West (and a couple of other conferences) in that first decade.   Here are their conference championships:

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South Austin

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7 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I still don’t understand how this happened. TCU?  Really?

 

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Gary is a good coach. Mack started to suck, then we hired Chuckles and MENSA. Big 12 was pretty weak when Baylor and TCU were beating asses and overtook us. 

Add that TCU was in Conference USA 2001-2004 (2 of the 10-win seasons) and the Mountain West 2005-2011 (6 of the 10-win seasons).  While Gary is a good coach, 3 of those 10-win seasons were during his 10 seasons in the Big XII.

Edit:  Bullneck made the same point.  Competition is a significant factor, and while late-stage Mack, Charlie, and Herman didn't help, the level of competition makes it an apples to oranges comparison.

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18 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Not really related, but I saw a stat the other day that said Ohio State is the only FBS program to have never lost 8 games in a season. As in like, ever. They started playing football in 1890.

Yeah, in my football lifetime (watching games since mid 1970s ), OSU has never wandered in the desert like the other blue bloods Texas, Alabama, USC, Michigan, Notre Dame, OUsux.

They might go a long time between championships, but they are in the year end mix more often than not and are always good for a Heisman trophy every 10 years or so.

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51 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Not really related, but I saw a stat the other day that said Ohio State is the only FBS program to have never lost 8 games in a season. As in like, ever. They started playing football in 1890.

Texas has lost 8+ just twice. 9 in 1956 and 8 in 1938. 

OU - twice

Bama - three times

Meatchicken - once

SC - three times

Notre Dame - three times

 

It's actually a pretty good way to evaluate blue bloods. Nebraska has done it 7 times. Penn State and LSU twice each but LSU has a bunch of 7-loss seasons. Tennessee just once but also a bunch of 7-loss seasons. Georgia just once. 

Washington - 8

aggy - 8

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1 hour ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Yeah, in my football lifetime (watching games since mid 1970s ), OSU has never wandered in the desert like the other blue bloods Texas, Alabama, USC, Michigan, Notre Dame, OUsux.

They might go a long time between championships, but they are in the year end mix more often than not and are always good for a Heisman trophy every 10 years or so.

their desert wandering was John Cooper era.  and he finished #2 twice.

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1 hour ago, Helobious said:

Not really related, but I saw a stat the other day that said Ohio State is the only FBS program to have never lost 8 games in a season. As in like, ever. They started playing football in 1890.

I saw a similar stat about USC (about 20 years ago).  They had never lost a game by more than 21 points (or something like that).

Now, I'm sure that record has been broken -- particularly with the offensive advances -- but whatever the exact numbers were it indicated they had never been blown out 77-0 style and they played hard on defense the entire game.  

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3 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

I saw a similar stat about USC (about 20 years ago).  They had never lost a game by more than 21 points (or something like that).

Now, I'm sure that record has been broken -- particularly with the offensive advances -- but whatever the exact numbers were it indicated they had never been blown out 77-0 style and they played hard on defense the entire game.  

Also until Lincoln Riley, brisket had never been dry or unappetizing. Lincoln is an exceptional slouch...

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Looking back at those 10-win seasons, it's incredible how many near-misses we have. In many ways Mack was very unlucky to not accomplish more than he did at Texas:

2001 - Lost to blOU, then defeated Colorado while Nebraska and Okie Lite upset blOU to clear a path for us to the Big 12 title game and a Colorado rematch after the Buffaloes crushed the Cornhuskers in the final week of the season. LSU upsets Tennessee in Atlanta and everything lines up for us to make the national title game... then Simms collapses and we lose to Colorado. End the year by defeating Washington in a Holiday Bowl classic.

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2002 - Lost to blOU, but blOU then suffers upset losses to aTm and Okie Lite (again). We squeak by K-State and Nebraska, and our path to the Big 12 title game is clear until Leach, Kingsbury & Co. slaughter our defense in a 42-38 upset and send us packing to the Cotton Bowl, where Roy Williams single-handedly defeats Nick Saban's LSU. Damn you Red Raiders. This had the potential to be a great year.

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2003 - Arkansas hands us an embarrassing upset loss (fucking Matt Jones). Get absolutely crushed by the blOU juggernaut, but VY leads us to victory against Nebraska and we win all our remaining games. We're poised to get an at-large bid to the Fiesta Bowl until K-State obliterates #1 blOU in Arrowhead. They go to the Fiesta, blOU somehow still makes it to the national title game (BCS bullshit), and we get relegated to the Holiday Bowl where our offense sputters against Wazzu's defense. This was a pretty dispiriting season, we should have done much better with the talent we had.

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2004 - We get our revenge against Arky, but then suffer ANOTHER blOU loss, this one ending our record of streak of games without a shutout. Frustration with GDGD reaches a boiling point. But things finally swing our way, we squeeze by Kansas, dispatch aTm and then squeak by Cal for that No. 4 BCS ranking (suck it Fraudgers) to play Michigan in the Rose Bowl. And Mack finally wins the big game thanks to an epic coming out party for VY. Keith Jackson + Dan Fouts are in absolute awe of Vince Young, while faint "McNeal is better" echoes can still be heard from CS.

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2005 - The season where it all comes together. We go to the 'Shoe and knock off #4 Ohio State in an all-time classic. blOU is finally in a rebuilding year and we slaughter them to end the five-game losing streak. That #1 2002 recruiting class finally came of age and was determined not to slip up this year, and VY finally comes into his own with a Heisman-worthy season. We exorcise the demons of 2001 with a 70-3 pasting of Colorado, and y'all know the rest. VY deserved the Heisman, fuck you Kurt Bohls.

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2006 - Freshman Colt McCoy takes the reins. Can't get past Ohio State in the rematch, but we roll through the rest of our schedule. We're 9-1 and need just one more win to win the Big 12 South and get to the Big 12 title game. Then Colt gets hurt against K-State, and it all falls apart. We lose the final two games and have to see blOU win the division again, while we fall to the Alamo Bowl. End up beating Iowa in a surprisingly close game, Colt ties the NCAA freshman QB record for TD passes. Defense and O-line were salty this year but losing Colt was an awful stroke of luck at the worst possible time.

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2007 - O-line and defense take a step back. Colt returns but goes through a rough sophomore slump. K-State hands our ass to us and we then lose a sloppy, dispirited game to blOU. Then Jamaal Charles and Jermichael Finley step up big time against Nebraska, and we're 9-2 looking good for an at-large BCS bowl berth... until we drop the aTm game again in one of the most frustrating losses I've ever witnessed. We then upset Arizona State in the bizarro Holiday Bowl, with Charles ending his UT career in style.  2007 was a weird year for Texas, but it was also a weird year for CFB in general so maybe the theme fits.

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2008 - The year that should have been ours. The Colt+Shipley+Cosby trio was at its peak on offense, our O-line had its final great year before the malaise took hold, and our defense was salty as hell with Orakpo + Sergio Kindle at pass rush and Earl Thomas in the secondary. We defeat #1 blOU in Dallas, then mow down Missouri and Okie Lite, before Blake Gideon fumbles away our comeback against Texas Tech in Lubbock and Crabtree breaks our hearts. Both us and TTU refuse to lose the rest of the way and we're reduced to rooting for blOU to defeat Tech. blOU promptly does so, and then steals our spot in the Big 12 title game. What a bullshit year. We cap it off by defeating Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, in a game where we first saw the signs of our O-line's future collapse (Colt took a ton of sacks and hard hits).

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2009 - Colt+Shipley run it back for their final year. O-line can't block as well as it did last year, and our offense loses some of its potency. But our defense is salty as ever despite losing Orakpo, and we squeak by blOU after knocking Sam Bradford out for the season. Big 12 is weaker this year and we run through it, capping off an undefeated year with Colt embarrassing the Wrecking Crew in CS. We then escape Nebraska in the Big 12 title game by the narrowest of margins, return to Pasadena... and then Colt's fateful injury + Gilbert's suckage lose us the national championship. We delude ourselves into thinking Gilbert will be great at Texas and that his miserable performance was just first-game jitters.

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2018 - Herman + Ehlinger's second year. We lose to fucking Maryland again and are written off, until we crush USC and TCU in back-to-back weeks and get people's attention. We then knock off undefeated blOU in an all-time classic, but our defensive weaknesses expose us against teams with good QBs and we lose back-to-back heartbreakers to WVU and Okie Lite. But we roll through Iowa State in Ames to secure a spot in the Big 12 title game. We fail to end blOU's playoff hopes, but when they go to the CFP we take the at-large berth to the Sugar Bowl, where Ehlinger channels his inner Tebow and we upset SEC runner-up Georgia (note: don't bring an ugly, inbred pug that can barely breathe with assistance to pose in front of Bevo for some dumb photo op). We were totally back, it seemed...

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The book is yet to be written on 2023, but this looks like as good a team as any we've had since the fateful events of 2009. Very strong on both lines, Ewers is on fire and has a lot of weapons to work with in our receiving corps. Our secondary is still weak and if we lose to Washington, they'll likely be the reason. But enjoy the ride until it ends.

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4 hours ago, satyanash said:

2004 - We get our revenge against Arky, but then suffer ANOTHER blOU loss, this one ending our record of streak of games without a shutout. Frustration with GDGD reaches a boiling point. But things finally swing our way, we squeeze by Kansas, dispatch aTm and then squeak by Cal for that No. 4 BCS ranking (suck it Fraudgers) to play Michigan in the Rose Bowl. And Mack finally wins the big game thanks to an epic coming out party for VY. Keith Jackson + Dan Fouts are in absolute awe of Vince Young, while faint "McNeal is better" echoes can still be heard from CS.

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I loved this game almost as much as the 2005 Rose Bowl.

 

Young loose......I mean really loose!

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7 hours ago, Helobious said:

Not really related, but I saw a stat the other day that said Ohio State is the only FBS program to have never lost 8 games in a season. As in like, ever. They started playing football in 1890.

Yeah. They have never been bad going back to WWII or something.

Don't know how they do it. Sure the Big 10 is full of shitty programs they can beat up on now, but that wasn't always the case.

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3 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

We were the best team in college football in 2008, no doubt about it. We would have crucified that Teebus Florida team…

No year of Texas football upset me more than that year. That was a great team at the peak of its powers. It was truly gut wrenching to blow that game at Tech and then have basically everything go OU's way after that...well besides them laying down like bitches to Florida. Choking frauds.

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18 hours ago, MrBig said:

I know we’re talking about Texas teams, but it pisses me off that Gundy’s team has had EIGHT 10-win seasons since 2010.

 

To put that in perspective, OSU has only had 11 ten-win seasons in its HISTORY.  Gundy was head coach for the most recent eight…. And he was starting QB for two of the other three (‘87 and ‘88)….

The only other one was 1984 that had a killer defense (Leslie O’Neil was the starting DE) built by Jimmy Johnson (he had left for Miami after the ‘83 season) and Thurman Thomas…. Also the starting QB on that team was Rusty Hilger, who ended up being a career backup in the NFL.

The maddening thing about those 80s teams - all three went 10-2 with their two losses all three years to, you guessed it, OU and Nebraska.

In between 1984 and 1988 OSU went 0-10 against OU and Nebraska and 44-4 against everyone else.

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