2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #3 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

[BigHorn'13 3386]

2 hours ago, Zeus said:

Yep

 if people want to argue the big 10 is the best conference they can go fuck themselves. 

Lol no. I'm for Texas. Fuck everyone else not named Texas. 

2 hours ago, Codaxx said:

I am not advocating chanting S-E-C, but it’s just stupid to continue the fight against the SEC bias now. That is so last year 

That's cool, I guess... I'm just saying don't be a sec homer/fanboi. 

[Rickylovesweed 14536]

 

[The Dog 44074]

[Pimphand 5830]

I mean all the recent ND faceplants are under Brian Kelly. His record in big games in the postseason is abysmal. Even Bilbo Aggins can laugh

Edited 18 hours ago by Pimphand

[Zeus 6113]

41 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

 

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

Edited 18 hours ago by Zeus

[thunderlounge 7904]

Two whole wins?

[skipmcgee 234]

1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

 

Ain’t never beat nobody, PAWL

[skipmcgee 234]

39 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

I mean all the recent ND faceplants are under Brian Kelly. His record in big games in the postseason is abysmal. Even Bilbo Aggins can laugh

Faceplants have been a staple of the Freeman era as well

 

 

 

[Huckleberry 33058]

Yeah, Northern Illinois was I think the third time Freeman has lost at home as a 20+ point favorite, right? NIU this year then Marshall and one other in previous years I thought.

[Hermanator 7129]

40 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

Should go back to a BCS style but updated algorithm that takes into account strength of schedule. 

The Big 10 and SEC champion get auto bid. The best ranked next 2 conference champions get the final 2 auto bids. 

Then go down the line starting at 1 to fill in the rest. 

That's the way it should be, but will never happen because CFB doesn't want to give away it's power to make matchups for TV ratings. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Hermanator

[Topper13 3382]

35 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Two whole wins?

 

[skipmcgee 234]

43 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Yeah, Northern Illinois was I think the third time Freeman has lost at home as a 20+ point favorite, right? NIU this year then Marshall and one other in previous years I thought.

Maybe the loss against a 3-9 Stanford?

[Wally Fairway 5571]

1 hour ago, Zeus said:

Florida just got two wins in a row against LSU and Ole Miss…. They ain’t on there. 
funny how that works

 weak conferences should get one playoff team only

Kansas just beat a top 25 ranked team, 3 weeks in a row. 

Which proves what?

Anyone? 

Spoiler

That rankings don't mean shit, especially in a weak ass after conference

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Wally Fairway

[TKthunder2 4997]

12 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

Kansas just beat a top 25 ranked team, 3 weeks in a row. 

Which proves what?

Anyone? 

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That rankings don't mean shit, especially in a weak ass after conference

 

Or their OC finally figured out how to call a good game and their QB is healthy once again.

Rankings are a beauty pageant based on past performance not a predictive measurement, that would be a power rating like ESPN’s FPI

[satyanash 14597]

 

[Jkwellborn 6718]

Should go back to a BCS style but updated algorithm that takes into account strength of schedule. 
The Big 10 and SEC champion get auto bid. The best ranked next 2 conference champions get the final 2 auto bids. 
Then go down the line starting at 1 to fill in the rest. 
That's the way it should be, but will never happen because CFB doesn't want to give away it's power to make matchups for TV ratings. 

Fuck anyone getting an auto bid.

[UTexasFight 9519]

28 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

Or their OC finally figured out how to call a good game and their QB is healthy once again.

Rankings are a beauty pageant based on past performance not a predictive measurement, that would be a power rating like ESPN’s FPI

And/or 5 of their 6 losses were by a combined 19 points

[WBT 20649]

27 minutes ago, satyanash said:

 

But blowhards in the media and on the internet know they would beat ND, PSU, and Indiana?  Did you consider that?

Spoiler

They had even greater confidence they would beat vandy and ou.  Alas.

 

[The_Great_Hornsby 3275]

2 minutes ago, WBT said:

But blowhards in the media and on the internet know they would beat ND, PSU, and Indiana?  Did you consider that?

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They had even greater confidence they would beat vandy and ou.  Alas.

 

While I do think Bama would beat all 3 of those teams. Here is the problem. Bama has 3 fucking losses. Those teams have 1. The results on the field have to matter. 

[Hermanator 7129]

Sounds like something that could be solved with proper schedule weighting

[LonghornSean 4019]

I don’t typically buy into “media member X hates us” and that line of thinking.

But listening and reading to recaps of this weekend (and the last few), and it’s incredible how our wins are plainly dismissed in comparison to other flawed teams in CFP contention.

Penn State win by 1 against Minnesota: “Minnesota been playing well…good win for PSU”

Indiana 38-15 to Ohio State…”was closer than it seemed cause of special teams and late TD”

Oregon…”gutsy win at Wisconsin”

I’ve heard heaps of credit given to SMU and Tennessee for fuck’s sake, hardly a positive word said about Texas in the last month.

”if Texas loses to A&M they should fall far in the rankings…what have they done?”, while in the same breath saying the environment we’re walking into Saturday will be one of the toughest in recent memory.

I know I shouldn’t give a shit, we’re fine with the CFP, but it’s annoying me. Need to shut them all up over the next couple weeks.

 

[notre dame joe 191]

9 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I completely agree. You will get no argument for me. Notre Dame is the most overrated team Thin CFB. At least overrated SEC teams win when they get to the playoff. Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

Then what is wrong with the rest of college football?  We haven't played a competitive game in over a month.

[The_Great_Hornsby 3275]

2 hours ago, notre dame joe said:

Then what is wrong with the rest of college football?  We haven't played a competitive game in over a month.

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. Join a real conference. Try winning a playoff game this year and not embarrassing yourself at home. 

[Reynolds Woodcock 4797]

12 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Notre Dame just gets their breaks beaten off and then everyone forgets two days later and we are subjected to the same bullshit 1 year later. 

 

49 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. 

Brakes*

[jTower 238]

11 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

 

And Texas is the only team with a chance to get to 6 this week. Every CCG winner should get another. 

[David Dennison 18944]

Starting to hear the SEC should only get three teams in the CFP talk.

[heso 2813]

2 hours ago, jTower said:

And Texas is the only team with a chance to get to 6 this week. Every CCG winner should get another. 

If Wisconsin beats Minnesota psu will have 6. 

[UTexasFight 9519]

2 hours ago, jTower said:

And Texas is the only team with a chance to get to 6 this week. Every CCG winner should get another. 

Before this last weekend we were the only team to have 8 wins over teams with a .500 or better record.

I’m not sure how that may have changed based on the results of this past weekend 

[JBJ 3664]

It's highly regarded to discuss how many teams a conference deserves to get in without talking the actual teams on the bubble.

[David Dennison 18944]

3 minutes ago, JBJ said:

It's highly regarded to discuss how many teams a conference deserves to get in without talking the actual teams on the bubble.

Deserves?

[Valmy77 13263]

8 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

I know I shouldn’t give a shit, we’re fine with the CFP, but it’s annoying me. Need to shut them all up over the next couple weeks.

The narrative switched. Before Georgia we were invincible, the best team in the country. Then we lost and so we're frauds. Plus for lots of people that was the only time they have watched us all year.

[Zeus 6113]

1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

The narrative switched. Before Georgia we were invincible, the best team in the country. Then we lost and so we're frauds. Plus for lots of people that was the only time they have watched us all year.

It didn't help that our offense looked like hammered dogshit the whole game. That shit was embarrassing. 

Lets stop a mudhole in aggy and get revenge in the SEC championship game. 

 

[Zeus 6113]

 

 

 

[UTexasFight 9519]

15 minutes ago, Zeus said:

 

 

I saw that and started to post it and then decided it was stupid and didn’t… but since it’s here:

1) there were only 6 other teams with a winning record in the SEC when that was posted. 
2) we don’t control our schedule

3) we don’t control the timing of our schedule (A&M obviously the 2nd team).

4) put Georgia and Missouri (and Miss St) on blast for scheduling UMASS.

 

but yeah, it is comical our sec opponents’ place in the standings is currently:

2

T-3

10

11

12

13

15

16

 

Edited 2 hours ago by UTexasFight

[Valmy77 13263]

Maybe they would have had a winning conference record if they didn't have to get an automatic L by playing us?

[jimmyjazz 46027]

Maybe the SEC bluebloods shouldn't lose to teams we beat.

[Js1 85481]

12 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

2) we don’t control our schedule

 

Yep, really tired of this narrative that we controlled who we played.

And again, we have so far beaten every team lower than us in the standings. If you lose to the teams currently at the bottom of the conference, maybe shut the fuck up. 

Our schedule based on preseason predicted finish by the conference coaches:

(1) Georgia
(8) OU
(9) aggy
(11) UK
(12) Florida
(14) arky
(15) MSST
(16) Vandy

avg: 10.75

OU ended up way worse, Vandy ended up better. Aggy too. 

Aggy's preseason schedule based on predicted finish by the conference coaches:

(2) Texas
(5) LSU
(6) Missouri
(10) Auburn
(12) Florida
(13) SoCar
(14) Arkansas
(15) MSST

avg: 9.625

Auburn ended up worse than predicted and aggy lost to both of them.   SoCar came out of nowhere to be a really good team. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Js1

[jimmyjazz 46027]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And again, we have so far beaten every team lower than us in the standings.

Nope,  UGA is 6-2.  But the rest of your post stands.

[Js1 85481]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Nope,  UGA is 6-2.  But the rest of your post stands.

Should have said we have beaten every team we were predicted to be above.  We didn't lose to teams predicted to finish near the bottom of the conference. 

If you go by our preseason schedule and how the coaches predicted it, we should have beaten everyone but Georgia.  

Edited 2 hours ago by Js1

[BurntEyes 6008]

1 hour ago, Zeus said:

 

 

 

This is full on aggie style, Kyle. (And your name is suspicious too) 

[Zeus 6113]

It's just funny because the next couple of weeks Sark and the Horns can shut everyone in the SEC the fuck up bigtime. 

 

There's so much hate and slander we are catching it's wild, everyone is on our ass about everything. But their entire argument is moot if Quinn can get a little bit of mobility and elusiveness in the pocket and make some throws. If we play like we played against Michigan, we will beat the brakes off of aggy and probably beat Georgia too. 

[notre dame joe 191]

7 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. Join a real conference. Try winning a playoff game this year and not embarrassing yourself at home. 

But actually we played with an injured QB and our OC insisted on using that game to practice his passing reps.  If everyone not named Oregon gets an excuse then we'll take it here.

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Should have said we have beaten every team we were predicted to be above.  We didn't lose to teams predicted to finish near the bottom of the conference. 

If you go by our preseason schedule and how the coaches predicted it, we should have beaten everyone but Georgia.  

'P4 winning teams'

'winning record in conference play'

 

Sounds like a roundabout way to point out that a conference goes .500 against itself.  It is necessary that one winning team or more will have played a weaker schedule.

 

[Guadaloopy 11010]

Guess what happens when you are one of the top teams in the conference?  You get one fewer chances to play the top teams in the conference.

[dcar00 14321]

7 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Yall got the breaks beat off of you by Northern Illinois and havent played anyone with a pulse since then. Join a real conference. Try winning a playoff game this year and not embarrassing yourself at home. 

prepare yourself.  They are going to get he 5 seed and be in the semi's because they will play the #12 at home and #11(or #14) at a neutral site

[Longhorn_Fan68 33882]

7 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

Guess what happens when you are one of the top teams in the conference?  You get one fewer chances to play the top teams in the conference.

[dcar00 14321]

12 minutes ago, Zeus said:

It's just funny because the next couple of weeks Sark and the Horns can shut everyone in the SEC the fuck up bigtime. 

 

There's so much hate and slander we are catching it's wild, everyone is on our ass about everything. But their entire argument is moot if Quinn can get a little bit of mobility and elusiveness in the pocket and make some throws. If we play like we played against Michigan, we will beat the brakes off of aggy and probably beat Georgia too. 

We've blow up the SECSECSEC myth and funny thing is a shitty OU team just added mo' dynomite to it.  The powers that be no likey...

[dcar00 14321]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Should have said we have beaten every team we were predicted to be above.  We didn't lose to teams predicted to finish near the bottom of the conference. 

If you go by our preseason schedule and how the coaches predicted it, we should have beaten everyone but Georgia.  

yeah but how many were "road games at night!!!"  It's the fucking "Shoe at night" all over again.

[Js1 85481]

2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

yeah but how many were "road games at night!!!"  It's the fucking "Shoe at night" all over again.

I just posted in the game week thread - aggy has a .525 home SEC record, despite only having to host Tennessee once and never Georgia.  They've gotten to feast on so many home games versus MSST, Auburn, FL, SoCar and occasionally Bama/LSU and still barely over .500 in the SEC at home

[Zeus 6113]

12 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

We've blow up the SECSECSEC myth and funny thing is a shitty OU team just added mo' dynomite to it.  The powers that be no likey...

 

 

[Rex Kramer 1349]

27 minutes ago, Zeus said:

There's so much hate and slander we are catching it's wild, everyone is on our ass about everything.

I’m not catching anything. You should learn to care less.  After caring less, realize you still care too much and basically do the opposite of what Derka would do.