Game Week Thread Game Week 13: Kentucky at Texas

[Pimphand 6,359]

3 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

So- basically like Georgia the last 5 years?  

Last year they had to play two top 10 teams in Ole Miss & Missouri and top 20 Tennessee which automatically puts them at a tougher schedule than we will have by years end with only 2 ranked teams on the schedule.

Attempts to polish the turd will not work but to be fair Tennessee got the exact same schedule (we have 7 common opponents) just swap Aggy for Bama.

[UTGrad98 2,332]

This game feels more like Arkansas than Florida. Like 13-9 with 11 minutes to go in the 4th. Hope I'm wrong but until Quinn shows more these are the types of games we will see against defenses with a pulse. 

[Wulaw Horn 19,579]

1 hour ago, Pimphand said:

Last year they had to play two top 10 teams in Ole Miss & Missouri and top 20 Tennessee which automatically puts them at a tougher schedule than we will have by years end with only 2 ranked teams on the schedule.

Attempts to polish the turd will not work but to be fair Tennessee got the exact same schedule (we have 7 common opponents) just swap Aggy for Bama.

Why do you think I have any interest in being fair to these cousin-fucking, meth-slinging, losers in this bullshit digs we now live in?

All I’ve heard forever is about how hard it is to win there because the teams in the conference are so awesome- so we went in and gave the biggest bully in the conference, Saban, the biggest buttfucking of his Bama career.

After that all I heard was, but Wulaw- it’s about the meat grinder. Won’t somebody think of the meat grinder?  

1 year in and I am as unimpressed with that meat grinder as I ever was with Bama.
 

These fucking assholes are all hat/no cattle and our default position to any interaction with them should be mockery and ridicule. 

Edited November 17 by Wulaw Horn

[Horn Dogg 4,290]

8 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Last year they had to play two top 10 teams in Ole Miss & Missouri and top 20 Tennessee which automatically puts them at a tougher schedule than we will have by years end with only 2 ranked teams on the schedule.

Attempts to polish the turd will not work but to be fair Tennessee got the exact same schedule (we have 7 common opponents) just swap Aggy for Bama.

We’re going to roll aggy at home this year.  Mark it down!

[Alien Octopus 664]

By the end of the year we will have played  and beat between 5-6 teams with winning records. And unlike many of the teams in the SEC, half of our wins against winning teams will be because of the FBS teams we scheduled OOC. The SEC put rivalries in front of SOS, as they should. 

Edited November 17 by Alien Octopus

[TrashMaster G 18,073]

OP is greatly understating the value of fuckstomping a coach named Stoops.

[InkaUtexas 26,860]

Fuck Kentucky without lube.

[Underdog 29,162]

UK winning squarely reliant on Texas figuratively not showing up. 

[Atticus 4,208]

18 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

We’re going to roll aggy at home this year.  Mark it down!

No we won't. We won't play them at home until next year.

[Pato del Muerto 53,451]

1 minute ago, Underdog said:

UK winning squarely reliant on Texas figuratively not showing up. 

Or literally.  

[TxEx84 439]

40 minutes ago, Minute Bull said:

It's basketball season at UK and nobdoy gives a flying fuck about UK football once the first game tips off.  Horns roll against an unmotivated, unsupported, and checked out UK football team.  I echo the shutout predictions.

My daughter (no pics) went to UK and lives in Lexington. She works in the thoroughbred racing industry, so she didn't go to UT although accepted. Still a UT fan, though.

Anywho, she says American and Delta have both added non-stop LEX-AUS flights. She usually wears a TEXAS hat while at horse auctions and farms and most people she meets say they are coming to Austin for the game. All this to say Kentucky does care and should have a decent turnout. But no one is predicting a UK victory, which terrifies me. 😳

[Darth Tron 1,157]

I'll be at the game.  Bringing my son and my old man.  It's the boy's first real football game.  I expect a bloodbath.  Also, can I pay at the tailgate or do I need to buy ahead of time?  Is the password still Muledick?

[LTtxfan 49,986]

5 hours ago, Hard Times said:

But UK can't win this game. Only Texas can beat themselves with more penalties, turnovers and busted coverages than the Vandy game.

Agree it's more about Texas preparation and how the Horns play.  If we limit mistakes and execute, Texas wins.  

[Underdog 29,162]

Because of IBM being in Austin there used to be a decent UK representation in Austin, always a good so!I'd turnout for UK watch parties at Showplace Lanes, Mexican restaurant up north off I35 and then eventually to some pub near Pluckers off Burnet.  Plus, Austin is Austin so that should bring in some folks for the experience. 

[Steelers Roll Left 1,296]

Kentucky feels like an old Big XII K-State matchup where, regardless of their record, you know they’re going to be prepared and should be a tough out.  Their 4-6 , 1-6 vs SEC record might not suggest it, but a 13-12 loss to Georgia, 20-17 win over Ole Miss, 28-18 loss to Tenn suggest they get up for, and bring it against headlining competition, a trait of their historically bottom-feeder football program throughout The Stoops era.  They are 1 loss away from practically being eliminated from bowl eligibility so will come into Austin with something to play for.  At least that’s what I’m telling the players all week if I’m Sark ; ).

Edited November 17 by Steelers Roll Left

[Pancho 46,267]

SEC Nation coming to town 

[randomhorn 2,173]

1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

Another game where the 1Q could decide the ease of the win. Get up early and it will look like Florida.

We’re doomed 

[TexasMan 11,443]

7 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Texas opens at -20.5. O/U 46.5

Texas -18

Over/under 47.5

 

 

[JOSEYWALES66 1,853]

Aggy only a 1 point favorite versus Auburn.  

[dec3169 556]

5 hours ago, TexArcher said:

These guys scored 6 against SC, 12 against UGA, 13 against Vandy, and 10 against Auburn.

 

So, I'm gonna do something I've never done before and predict a shutout.  

 

Kentucky -- 0

Texas -- 42

If we score 42 we aren't shutting them out.  Our 2s and 3s will be in and will give up garbage points.

[dec3169 556]

21 minutes ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

Aggy only a 1 point favorite versus Auburn.  

So one of these? 

 

[Rickylovesweed 15,460]

21 minutes ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

Aggy only a 1 point favorite versus Auburn.  

This a tricky game, IMO.

It's on the road. Auburn has a solid D and a RB that can go off. Auburn needs to feed Jarquez Hunter. I'm not surprised by that line. 

This feels like a 20-17 type game in any direction. 

[JOSEYWALES66 1,853]

6 minutes ago, dec3169 said:

So one of these? 

 

I was at that game and I was more confused than the announcers.  Crazy play 

[Horn80 6,356]

7 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

So it is written, so may it be done.

Pay him.  Pay that man his money.

[BachelorTrek 3,313]

8 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

So it is written, so may it be done.

[Horn Dogg 4,290]

2 hours ago, Atticus said:

No we won't. We won't play them at home until next year.

At their home….

[dcar00 14,947]

1 hour ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

I was at that game and I was more confused than the announcers.  Crazy play 

I knew it was a safety but didn't know it was one point but made sense because the play was for only one point.  I had the same basic thing happen on a 2 point conversion in high school and it was a 2 point safety.

[Pimphand 6,359]

1 hour ago, dec3169 said:

So one of these? 

 

I was watching that game in a pub in London and thus didn't have an audio feed or closed captions. Had to go read LFZ to figure out WTF once we got back to my mate's flat because this was still in the dumb phone era.

[Gucci_Suit 2,825]

This game won’t be close. We’ll win big and we’ll bitch about our QB and be “very concerned” about the fucking aggy game.

Like always. 

[KYHorn 17,613]

7 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

I'm convinced Kentucky will absolutely come out flat and this game will be over at half. 

 

 

Hey man, it was a little chilly yesterday. 

4 hours ago, Minute Bull said:

It's basketball season at UK and nobdoy gives a flying fuck about UK football once the first game tips off.  Horns roll against an unmotivated, unsupported, and checked out UK football team.  I echo the shutout predictions.

This. I've been offered tickets to the rest of the games by both neighbors. We already have them and aren't using them. UK fans are done with football.

Edited November 17 by KYHorn

[Underdog 29,162]

This game will be so ugly...

How ugly, Underdog? 

So ugly y'all won't even bother to bitch about the officiating. 

[hookemATL 12,240]

28 minutes ago, Gucci_Suit said:

This game won’t be close. We’ll win big and we’ll bitch about our QB and be “very concerned” about the fucking aggy game.

Like always. 

[dcar00 14,947]

17 minutes ago, Underdog said:

This game will be so ugly...

How ugly, Underdog? 

So ugly y'all won't even bother to bitch about the officiating. 

well just in case...you best remember we still sell bottled water in the stadium

[Vertuzzi 1,426]

5 hours ago, John80 said:

UK fan here. Texas winning 70-0 would help us get Stoops overpaid whiny fat ass out of here.

[Pato del Muerto 53,451]

23 minutes ago, Underdog said:

This game will be so ugly...

How ugly, Underdog? 

So ugly y'all won't even bother to bitch about the officiating. 

[Hank_Hill 19,993]

7 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Feels like a trap game to me. The elephant next week is large. 

Our offense if it looks like yesterday will struggle to score more than a TD. On the flip side, our D is infinitely better than than O. 

I can see a 13-3 type win 

But you’re usually so reasonable and optimistic!

[Stunns38 3,805]

I’m confident because they hate their highly paid head corch who tried to divorce them for aggy. I don’t blame them for “giving up”. But that Ewers inconsistency and Sark stubbornness will keep it closer than it should be. 35-10(7 garbage time pts) Horns.

[Stunns38 3,805]

Aggy only a 1 point favorite versus Auburn.  

They’ll surely be looking ahead to us. They have since camp.

[Wulaw Horn 19,579]

4 minutes ago, Stunns38 said:

I’m confident because they hate their highly paid head corch who tried to divorce them for aggy. I don’t blame them for “giving up”. But that Ewers inconsistency and Sark stubbornness will keep it closer than it should be. 35-10(7 garbage time pts) Horns.

That feels about right. 

[Tex Long 4,661]

The single-point safety. The kick was "blocked" but remained in the field of play. An aggy picked up the ball, still in the field. If he had run it back 90-some yards to the other end zone, it would have been 2 points for aggy. He didn't run it back, he tried to lateral and it was fumbled into his own end zone. If Texas had recovered it, it would have been a two-point conversion(? I think...). But an aggy recovered it, and was down. Because it had been possessed in the field, it was a safety. Because it was an attempted conversion, one point.

The only part I find surprising is that it was only one instead of two, when an aggy runback or a Texas recovery would have been two (I think).

Last time a safety was an issue for us was the XII refs spending 15 minutes to "justify" not giving Texas two against Bama in '22. That right there is the difference between SEC reffing and XII reffing. The ref diff between Bama '22 and '23 was ... considerable.

[WBT 20,966]

3 hours ago, JOSEYWALES66 said:

I was at that game and I was more confused than the announcers.  Crazy play 

I called that to my buddy before the official's announcement.  I can't remember where else it happened but I had read something about a 1 point safety on extra point try earlier that season.

2 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I knew it was a safety but didn't know it was one point but made sense because the play was for only one point.  I had the same basic thing happen on a 2 point conversion in high school and it was a 2 point safety.

That should have also only been 1 point.

Edited November 17 by WBT

[Ignatius 4,137]

9 hours ago, Underdog said:

That’s a better crowd than what I would’ve expected. 

Yeah that’s what I figured the crowd would look like for an Alabama game. I guess it really does mean more…

Edited November 17 by Ignatius

[Dbeasy 15,561]

7 hours ago, Minute Bull said:

It's basketball season at UK and nobdoy gives a flying fuck about UK football once the first game tips off.  Horns roll against an unmotivated, unsupported, and checked out UK football team.  I echo the shutout predictions.

There is no doubt a big chunk of that fan base has turned their attention to bball. 

4 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This a tricky game, IMO.

It's on the road. Auburn has a solid D and a RB that can go off. Auburn needs to feed Jarquez Hunter. I'm not surprised by that line. 

This feels like a 20-17 type game in any direction. 

And A&M has likely been spending every waking moment preparing for Texas, instead of Auburn. 

[texifornia 59,010]

5 hours ago, Underdog said:

Because of IBM being in Austin there used to be a decent UK representation in Austin, always a good so!I'd turnout for UK watch parties at Showplace Lanes, Mexican restaurant up north off I35 and then eventually to some pub near Pluckers off Burnet.  Plus, Austin is Austin so that should bring in some folks for the experience. 

Did IBM recruit a lot of Wildcat grads or something? Feels like a random company/school connection.

[Hookem10 870]

5 hours ago, Steelers Roll Left said:

Kentucky feels like an old Big XII K-State matchup where, regardless of their record, you know they’re going to be prepared and should be a tough out.  Their 4-6 , 1-6 vs SEC record might not suggest it, but a 13-12 loss to Georgia, 20-17 win over Ole Miss, 28-18 loss to Tenn suggest they get up for, and bring it against headlining competition, a trait of their historically bottom-feeder football program throughout The Stoops era.  They are 1 loss away from practically being eliminated from bowl eligibility so will come into Austin with something to play for.  At least that’s what I’m telling the players all week if I’m Sark ; ).

No fucking media will talk about those scores. We’ll win 41-10 or some shit and everyone on this board and in the media will say we look like shit and don’t belong and haven’t beaten anyone. And the beat goes on. I’m dreading it already. 

[Huckleberry 34,578]

1 hour ago, Tex Long said:

The single-point safety. The kick was "blocked" but remained in the field of play. An aggy picked up the ball, still in the field. If he had run it back 90-some yards to the other end zone, it would have been 2 points for aggy. He didn't run it back, he tried to lateral and it was fumbled into his own end zone. If Texas had recovered it, it would have been a two-point conversion(? I think...). But an aggy recovered it, and was down. Because it had been possessed in the field, it was a safety. Because it was an attempted conversion, one point.

The only part I find surprising is that it was only one instead of two, when an aggy runback or a Texas recovery would have been two (I think).

Last time a safety was an issue for us was the XII refs spending 15 minutes to "justify" not giving Texas two against Bama in '22. That right there is the difference between SEC reffing and XII reffing. The ref diff between Bama '22 and '23 was ... considerable.

On conversion attempts touchdowns are 2 points and safeties are 1 point. Safeties are worth less than touchdowns at all times but they're still a score so that makes sense. 

Edited November 18 by Huckleberry

[hobbes2702 13,436]

10 hours ago, TexArcher said:

These guys scored 6 against SC, 12 against UGA, 13 against Vandy, and 10 against Auburn.

 

So, I'm gonna do something I've never done before and predict a shutout.  

 

Kentucky -- 0

Texas -- 42

The over under and spread read like Vegas does not think they can score much. If we don’t fuck around on offense this should be a 35-10 or better game.

[speed817 19,890]

9 hours ago, El Squared said:

Kentucky is abbreviated KY…..and they ain’t getting any…..we are going in dry.

[Underdog 29,162]

45 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Did IBM recruit a lot of Wildcat grads or something? Feels like a random company/school connection.

There was an IBM plant in Lexington so many transferred down to Austin when it opened mid/late 60s. Dad transferred winter of ‘78. 

[Tex Long 4,661]

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

There was an IBM plant in Lexington so many transferred down to Austin when it opened mid/late 60s. Dad transferred winter of ‘78. 

Extremely late 60s.