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The '06 team wasn't bad. If Colt doesn't get dinged against K State we win that game and play for a B12 title and have a better shot against aggy to finish 11-1. 

Still went 10-3 and finished in the top 15.

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6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Quick tally, I might be off -- in only 4 of those losses we were the higher ranked team.

8-4-1 (had a filter on)

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I know that this is referencing AP, but Tech 08 was #5 in the coaches poll/#6 AP.

That was as brutal a schedule that year as anything in the SEC. #1 OU, #11 Mizzou, #7 OSU, #6 Tech in consecutive weeks.

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Just now, formermav43 said:

I know that this is referencing AP, but Tech 08 was #5 in the coaches poll/#6 AP.

That was as brutal a schedule that year as anything in the SEC. #1 OU, #11 Mizzou, #7 OSU, #6 Tech in consecutive weeks.

Too soon

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1 minute ago, formermav43 said:

#1 OU, #11 Mizzou, #7 OSU, #6 Tech in consecutive weeks.

Still not sure any team has gone through that kind of gauntlet. 

Not even the rankings, but playing your biggest rival (who was ranked #1) and ended with playing a team who would nuke their own program just for a win against you, on the road, at night.

And everyone just sort of forgets we only won that OKST game 28-24.  It was a nerve-wracking afternoon game. 

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2 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Am I missing something? We played Michigan as #1, right? Or who was #1? Georgia?

Only games where both teams were in that week's AP top 5....

Michigan was #10 and we were #3 this year and in Rose Bowl we were #6 and they were #13

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Pretty interesting information, thanks OP.  Confirms my gut feel that since the mid70’s anyway (when I started paying attention to Texas football) we’ve lost more than we won these types of games, but not by much. 

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2 hours ago, Pimphand said:

It's fucking wild that the Georgia game will only be the 3rd AP top 5 matchup in Austin. 

True, but if OU wasn't neutral that would add ~ 5 more to the list.

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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

True, but if OU wasn't neutral that would add ~ 5 more to the list.

Granted but it's still surprising that 50% of our top 5 matchups have been in that rickety pile at the state fair.

16 Cotton Bowl
8 Road
4 Non-Cotton Bowls
3 Home
1 Neutral (reg season non-OU)

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1 hour ago, ztejas said:

 If Colt doesn't get dinged against K State we win that game and play for a B12 title and have a better shot against aggy to finish 11-1. 

If Gavrilo Princip hadn't assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and sparked World War I, the Unites States might never have taken advantage of the power vacuum created by the Great War, and never evolved into an international power with a huge population growth, which might have meant that Colt's parents had never been born, and then Colt would not have played in the '06 game at all, which Texas would then have lost handily. 

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21 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

If Gavrilo Princip hadn't assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and sparked World War I, the Unites States might never have taken advantage of the power vacuum created by the Great War, and never evolved into an international power with a huge population growth, which might have meant that Colt's parents had never been born, and then Colt would not have played in the '06 game at all, which Texas would then have lost handily. 

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