2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#4 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

[Jkwellborn 6972]

I’ve enjoyed the Title for 15 years without knowing that, so I see no reason to start now.  
Again, congrats on knocking the flea-bitten, leg humping mutts from the top spot. i’ve rooted for Texas since I first hung out on Shaggy, but anything that makes the mange-ridden scum unhappy gets extra support. 

Where have you been? I feel like I’ve missed your posts somehow.

[PTINS 3489]

 

 

 

 

If you are here, there is not a better feeling in the world then going through life with Texas ranked #1 in College Football.

Imagine going through your life, day after day, some good, some bad. Around dusk, when the skies darken and the air cools, you look towards that place of happier days gone by, and what do you see;

 

If that doesn't make you feel better, sorry, can't do anything for you, get the fuck outta here!

TLDR...

7 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

id much rather be #2 taking #1 from the team holding it in our house, than having to defend #1.

FIFY. (See below you PWBC's)

7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Can we please retire this bullshit?  Year after year after year.  It's as dumb as "I'd rather be ranked lower and sneak up on people".

6 hours ago, immamac said:

Can someone remind me if being ranked #1 is good?

6 hours ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

Only if it’s in the last poll

😀

6 hours ago, closetojumping said:

They matter to people who enjoy following college football. Times ranked #1 is a thing that is tracked.

Only dipshits with no sense of excitement or humor would look at Texas being ranked #1 and go Debbie Downer on it. 

6 hours ago, PilotsError said:

Texas fans whining about high rankings will always be their worst quality.  

Oh, how I wish that was true. So many panty waist, beta 'cucks on here it is embarrassing. That includes all you "Seven win Steve!" Motherfuckers!!!  

5 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Back in the day, they would light the tower orange with "1" when the team was ranked as such during the season. Can't remember if they did this in 08 or not. Surly react!!!

5 hours ago, Brandywine said:

I don’t remember them doing that, it would only happen at the end of the season with a national championship. 

2 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

This "1" on the tower also didn't happen in 2005 when the first BCS rankings came out and Texas was ahead of USC for a week. I have never seen a "1" tower lighting for a #1 ranking midseason in any sport at Texas. Deffo not when the Basketball team rose to #1, either under Barnes or anyone else.

A bit of my personal history, give me some rope here.

Born in Austin, at Bergstrom AFB, 8th generation Texan (parents from Pflugerville & Bastrop), 1st generation college graduate, UT-Austin. My older siblings were born in Illinois. First FB game I saw on TV was the '65 Orange Bowl, #5 Texas v. #1 Alabama. We lived at Eglin AFB in the Florida Panhandle, surrounded by Alabama fans. I remember my mother telling me I was special, "... because you were born in Texas". Don't remember if it was just once, or all the time; it didn't matter, I ALWAYS remember that.

We moved back to Texas in 1966, saw the Batman World Premier at the Paramount, saw Charles Whitman forever change the world. ,. The Austin Aqua Festival, with the Thunderbirds (The planes, not the band), drag boat racing on Town Lake (6 second 1.4 mile), motor cycle racing on the city streets, was the premier entertainment festival in the world. Austin was a magical place to live in, and I went though my early teens without ever see Texas lose a football game, in the midst of their 30 game winning streak, all while ranked #1 ("Who's Ohio State?").

Fast forward to 1974, Earl and I are freshmen, OU has a their own 28 game winning streak, winning 2 National Championships in '74 & '75, and beating Texas 5 times in a row, tying 6-6 in 1976 (We had the seats next to 36, 000 Okies, tight on the 5O yard line). DKR retires, Fred scraps the wishbone and puts Earl in the "i". Boom!!! Texas climbs in the polls to #5, beats #2 Oklahoma 13-6 on Earls TD scamper right before halftime*, beats #8 Arkansas (Earl becomes the Heisman favorite), and when Michigan loses, Texas vaults to the #1 ranking. 

Austin is electric, and over a few weeks, UT blacks out the Tower windows to form the #1, which graces the skyline each Saturday win. They also lit the Tower for Earl winning the Heisman Trophy, for Texas Professor Ilya Prigogine winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, when UT acquired the Gutenberg Bible, and when UT acquired their 4,000,000th book.  IIRC, the Tower was bathed in Orange, with the iconic #1, continuously from Thanksgiving til the Cotton Bowl.

Having Texas ranked #1 for over 2 months gives one a special feeling. Reading and hearing #1 Texas every time they mention college football can't help but make you good, and proud. I think today, with social media, with the internet, with the elevated importance of recruiting, Texas having the #1 ranking is nothing but a good thing. It's not like we aren't a big target already. 

The full might of the Texas media machine will be unleashed. Every football media show will start with talk about Texas. Every football recruit will thank about Texas.  

Being the best, and wearing that label of being the best, proudly, every day, because you earned it, feels pretty damn special.

Try it on and see how it fits. 

[Tx74 96]

7 hours ago, ChickenNuggets said:

Where's Aggy? My pointer finger cramped up trying to scroll down the list and I didn't make it far enough... 

Aggy is below four Big 12 teams.

[Jiggy-Z 3506]

Back in 77 they didn’t do the 1 like in the picture above. The appendage at the top was on the the very top rather than the second from the top, kind of like a 7.

[futureman 22634]

14 minutes ago, PTINS said:

So many panty waist, beta 'cucks on here it is embarrassing. That includes all you "Seven win Steve!" Motherfuckers!!!  

ctj?

[Pig Bellmont 8821]

6 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

Agree that Sark gets a ton of credit, and the "level up" in talent certainly wouldn't have been this dramatic with a lesser coach.

But we were definitely going to become more buoyant once we kicked off the anchor of Yormark's Big 12.  

Let’s not pretend that NIL isn’t also a factor. But yes, Sark deserves a ton of credit 

[Biff Tannen 45941]

3 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Let’s not pretend that NIL isn’t also a factor. But yes, Sark deserves a ton of credit 

To that point, Sark seems to understand how to utilize NIL and the portal better than almost anyone. 

[Magus Ossis 2984]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

To that point, Sark seems to understand how to utilize NIL and the portal better than almost anyone. 

A lot of the credit for our success in NIL goes to names you'll see posting here on Surly.

[DanTheHorn 5029]

16 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

A lot of the credit for our success in NIL goes to names you'll see posting here on Surly.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13042]

6 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

I could put this "told you so" observation on any of about 20 different threads, but I'm putting it here.  

For nearly four fucking years, every single fan of an SEC school that I know has made it a point to mention to me how "Texas is in for a big surprise," "Texas just doesn't have the linemen to compete in the SEC," "Texas doesn't have the depth to compete in the SEC," "It's a different caliber of athlete," etc.

etc, etc, etc

But here's the thing that none of those people took into account:  Once Texas joined the SEC, there were a whole bunch of 4- and 5-star kids who would have gone to an SEC school instead of one in the Big 12, but suddenly Texas is going to be signing those kids, because they no longer have to weigh the advantages (great city, alumni support, top-tier public university) against the disadvantage of playing in a 2nd-tier league.  

So yeah, the Texas teams of the Strong/Herman eras would have been outmatched.  For fuck's sake, they were often outmatched in the Big 12.  

I'm not predicting any kind of 17-0 seasons or whatever... the odds are overwhelmingly against that happening.  

I'm just pointing out that our detractors (and there are a lot) never took into account the fact that SEC Texas is likely to have a monster roster in a way that Big 12 Texas was never going to build.  

The fuck we aren't going 17-0, son. This team will curb stomp those pussies the rest of the way to the NC victory. Our offense is lethal and unstoppable, our defense in the run game is good, and our DBs have ascended to heights we haven't seen since 2000-2010 (thank you, Scotty Hazleton). Ball hawks. Our LBs hit like freight trains. Yeah, they miss the gap occasionally, but it'll get fixed. Thank you Nansen and Baker. 

Our only concern is RB. But so far they're dawgs and getting tan, rested, and ready to pile drive those mobile home living, dirty street urchins. 

NC = pussy

What does this team want? Pussy. 

Pussy is undefeated, man. Get with the program. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 13042]

2 hours ago, victory88 said:

Fuck yes.  I hope this team takes on the villain mentality bc we’re about to get a ton of hate from other fanbases.  Sark needs to become Darth Vader because I’m ready for us to fuck his up not only in the SEC but nationally.  These fucking assholes have had a decade of Texas is back jokes.  We’re back alright, go grab your fucking lube because this is going to be painful.  

Hell yeah. To all those bitches ahead of us, this is who we are now. This is what we are. 

[ousux 5631]

Let’s stay there longer than the 3 weeks the last time in ‘08

Not gonna happen, Bama and Georgia play before we play Georgia, winner of that game takes #1, and I'm ok with that tbh. I'd rather be #1 at the end of all this.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13042]

If Bama wins, I don't see them jumping from #4 to #1, but I can see them jump to #2. 3 spots would be ridiculous, even if it is a prime time game to watch. If UGA wins, they're jumping to #1 and us back to #2, which is fine. Either way it'll be a 1v2 match-up when we meet on Oct 19th (unless Bama wins then it'll be #1 vs #3/#4). 

Edited September 16 by Funk Doctor Spock

[Surly Bevo 25609]

Just now, Funk Doctor Spock said:

If Bama wins, I don't see them jumping from #4 to #1, but I can see them jump to #2. 3 spots would be ridiculous, even if it is a prime time game to watch. If UGA wins, they're jumping to #1 and us back to #2, which is fine. Either way it'll be a 1v2 match-up when we meet on Oct 19th. 

Prettt sure we jumped from 4 or 5 to 1 when we beat OU in 2008. And that was with more of the season baked. 

[TrashMaster G 17936]

2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Prettt sure we jumped from 4 or 5 to 1 when we beat OU in 2008. And that was with more of the season baked. 

We also beat the #1 team, not the #2 team.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13042]

2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Prettt sure we jumped from 4 or 5 to 1 when we beat OU in 2008. And that was with more of the season baked. 

I honestly don't personally remember that, but maybe they do. I just can't see it due to their struggle against USF, which I think will still be used against them. But who knows? I don't understand the AP Poll, anyway. 

[BevoAbyss 2133]

8 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

This has us at 46 weeks total. 4 national titles where we were #1 at the end of the season plus your 40 above gets you to 44 which means you’re missing 2 weeks somewhere.

This assumes the Wikipedia page is more accurate than the actual UT all-time record page.... which I guess is possible. Or I missed 1 or 2 in my "quick" count at the Texas site. Also possible.

As mentioned in my post, I was counting only regular season #1, not the end of year week for the 4 titles. 

I would have thought DKR had more than 26. I was surprised. And he let 2-3 titles slip away in 61, 62, 64. (Damn "cockroaches" as DKR famously said).

In any event, I am pretty sure Surly posters are ready for more weeks at #1. And no SEC cockroaches! 

Edited September 16 by BevoAbyss

[closetojumping 64711]

https://www.winsipedia.com/ranking/weeks-at-ap-number-one

 

 

[Wulaw Horn 19513]

Sark era going to get us into 6th on that list.  

[Alien Octopus 617]

11 hours ago, Hornlover said:

Aggy has been #1 in the AP poll for 7 weeks total in the history of the AP poll.

4 weeks in 1939, and 3 weeks in 1957. 

That's 7 total weeks in 88 years.

Shortest Pygmy

[Rex Kramer 1513]

15 hours ago, Focht Up said:

Wait, didn't the VY/Colt McCoy years occur within 2001-2008?

Name any single year in that time span where we had a better QB room that what we have now. 

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

4 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Name any single year in that time span where we had a better QB room that what we have now. 

2005.

[TexArcher 38779]

10 hours ago, Tx74 said:

Aggy is below four Big 12 teams.

So they *have* improved a little by moving to the SEC.

[South Austin 52925]

13 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Name any single year in that time span where we had a better QB room that what we have now. 

 

9 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

2005.

 

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

Just now, South Austin said:

 

 

I was at that one. My daughters still talk about VY high giving them on his way off the bus.

[South Austin 52925]

1 minute ago, Doc Daneeka said:

I was at that one. My daughters still talk about VY high giving them on his way off the bus.

I was too. My memory might be exaggerating, but I recall that Floyd Casey was about 70% burnt orange.

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

Just now, South Austin said:

I was too. My memory might be exaggerating, but I recall that Floyd Casey was about 70% burnt orange.

Sounds about right. We were on about the 25 yard line on that end of the field so we had a pretty good view of that particular play. 

[Focht Up 643]

20 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Name any single year in that time span where we had a better QB room that what we have now. 

I get what you're saying, but in my humble opinion, Vince Young plus any 2 backups would be better.

[Armybrat 41191]

11 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I was too. My memory might be exaggerating, but I recall that Floyd Casey was about 70% burnt orange.

Yes it was. 
We bought two endzone tickets for $15 each from a guy outside the gate. 
After checking them out, we moved over to the 50 yard line about 3/4 the way up to the top.

The only full area of Baylor fans was the student section.

[Armybrat 41191]

9 hours ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

The fuck we aren't going 17-0, son. This team will curb stomp those pussies the rest of the way to the NC victory. Our offense is lethal and unstoppable, our defense in the run game is good, and our DBs have ascended to heights we haven't seen since 2000-2010 (thank you, Scotty Hazleton). Ball hawks. Our LBs hit like freight trains. Yeah, they miss the gap occasionally, but it'll get fixed. Thank you Nansen and Baker. 

Our only concern is RB. But so far they're dawgs and getting tan, rested, and ready to pile drive those mobile home living, dirty street urchins. 

NC = pussy

What does this team want? Pussy. 

Pussy is undefeated, man. Get with the program. 

Hope you are right, because I’d love to have a new updated banner with another date or two on it for my UT mancave before I shuffle off.

 

[Rex Kramer 1513]

15 minutes ago, Focht Up said:

I get what you're saying, but in my humble opinion, Vince Young plus any 2 backups would be better.

Love VY. We are very fortunate he was incredibly healthy ‘04-‘05. 

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

5 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Love VY. We are very fortunate he was incredibly healthy ‘04-‘05. 

Hell, any human would’ve broken an ankle against KSU in Austin. He walked it off. 

Any college QB room with him is better than any college QB room without him. 

[Rex Kramer 1513]

1 minute ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Hell, any human would’ve broken an ankle against KSU in Austin. He walked it off. 

Any college QB room with him is better than any college QB room without him. 

Was just about to post this. In ‘04 in Manhattan. I was convinced he had a severe sprain or break. He came back in and was totally fine in a comeback win.

[ztejas 44092]

19 hours ago, TexArcher said:

All we did was hold serve, really.

We worked the spread by 2 TDs with our 2nd string QB in the game. 

Didn't do anything crazy but we looked damn good. Again. 

[CycleTex87 2991]

https://www.winsipedia.com/texas

I see that we are 0-1 against Harvard.  Need to bring those biatches into DKR and curb stomp them.

[satyanash 15216]

9 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Prettt sure we jumped from 4 or 5 to 1 when we beat OU in 2008. And that was with more of the season baked. 

That was in part because #3 Missouri and #4 LSU lost on the same weekend.

[TrashMaster G 17936]

51 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

I was at that one. My daughters still talk about VY high giving them on his way off the bus.

Huh? 

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

3 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Huh? 

Which part is confusing or what did I say that doesn’t make any sense?

[DoobieWah 1523]

“…high giving…”

Are you sure it wasn’t Ricky?

🥳

[South Austin 52925]

6 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

Which part is confusing or what did I say that doesn’t make any sense?

You might have left out a word.  Or maybe you were remarking that it appeared Vince had been smoking a doobie.

[TexArcher 38779]

23 minutes ago, ztejas said:

We worked the spread by 2 TDs with our 2nd string QB in the game. 

Didn't do anything crazy but we looked damn good. Again. 

We beat a shitty team by a lot.  In poll terms, that is holding serve.  You can't beat that team badly enough to get any kind of extra credit.

[Dahobbs 18056]

43 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Hope you are right, because I’d love to have a new updated banner with another date or two on it for my UT mancave before I shuffle off.

 

Is that a VCR? 

[Doc Daneeka 6779]

Just now, South Austin said:

You might have left out a word.  Or maybe you were remarking that it appeared Vince had been smoking a doobie.

You’re right. Fucking autocorrect. High fiving.

[Bill Lumbergh 7332]

3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Is that a VCR? 

Betamax

[closetojumping 64711]

1 hour ago, Focht Up said:

I get what you're saying, but in my humble opinion, Vince Young plus any 2 backups would be better.

I have a friend that played in the SEC and has a son starting to get into CFB. They live in Texas and the kid is Texas fan to his father’s chagrin. They ask me yesterday, “who do you take, Vince Young or Ewers & Manning?”. My response was simple: “Vince Young is the greatest college football player to ever live.”

The dad rolled his eyes. Don’t care. We are nonetheless walking in some very high cotton right now.

[utee94 16037]

You are correct, Vince Young is the greatest college football player of all time. It is known.

But right now in 2024, I'm definitely thankful to have both Ewers and Manning on the roster.  I said before the season that I expected we'd need them both.

 

 

[TejasPedro 1905]

I could be down with an NFL team in SA. The only names that would be remotely acceptable are.

The Chanclas

The Chon Chon

The Burros 

[Davis Lane 5910]

[South Austin 52925]

4 minutes ago, utee94 said:

You are correct, Vince Young is the greatest college football player of all time. It is known.

But right now in 2024, I'm definitely thankful to have both Ewers and Manning on the roster.  I said before the season that I expected we'd need them both.

Vince is the greatest indeed.  And I know all about "ifs and buts" and am stating the obvious, but as great as that 2005 team was, we got very lucky on the injury front, and if Vince went down for a stretch like Quinn has the past couple years, we may have dropped a game in that 2005 season.  So yeah, we're very fortunate to have a backup QB with a ton more talent than Matt Nordgren.

[Armybrat 41191]

23 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Is that a VCR? 

Spectrum DVR