Game Week Thread 2024 Playoffs Round 1: Clemson at Texas

[B00M 6728]

1 hour ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

How many Bobby and Gerry sock accounts are there on here? 

Jesus. We're going to fucking win by 2+ TD's. Klubnik is ass, my dude. Those idiots missed Miami, Duke, GT, BC, Syracuse. They lost to their rival USCe, too. Won by 4 against a 7-5 Pitt, lost by 4 against unranked at the time Louisville(ended up 8-4), won by 10 against a 6-6 VT, and got absolutely mudholed 34-3 by Georgia. 

Yeah, we should be suuuuper worried about this Clemson team that avoided most of the top of their conference. 

Texas missed Bama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU (most of the top of the SEC) and played a lot of ~.500 teams close. Quinn was averaging 5 air yards per pass attempt until our last game, is immobile, not clutch at all, and our running backs wouldn’t start on any Texas team since 2008-2009. Clemson should be suuuuuuuper worried coming into DKR with a gutted student section and the expectations of the world on Texas. 
 

Edit

its bizarre how you people keep bringing up the week 1 UGA game as proof. The half time scores of each team’s first UGA games were 0-6 and 0-23. The gap between Texas and Clemson is smaller than 11-14 points. 

Edited December 10 by B00M

[Hank_Hill 19828]

Lol 

[Js1 87039]

Just now, Hank_Hill said:

Lol 

God our fans are such pussies 

[Wulaw Horn 19563]

Close huh?  Every win other than Vandy was double digits, which was actually 17 points under 2 minutes until a pick 6 got called back and they scored a meaningless TD

[F250 29181]

6 minutes ago, B00M said:

Texas missed Bama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU (most of the top of the SEC) and played a lot of ~.500 teams close. Quinn was averaging 5 air yards per pass attempt until our last game, is immobile, not clutch at all, and our running backs wouldn’t start on any Texas team since 2008-2009. Clemson should be suuuuuuuper worried coming into DKR with a gutted student section and the expectations of the world on Texas. 

[Hank_Hill 19828]

7 minutes ago, B00M said:

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Edit

its bizarre how you people keep bringing up the week 1 UGA game as proof. The half time scores of each team’s first UGA games were 0-6 and 0-23. The gap between Texas and Clemson is smaller than 11-14 points. 

Vegas disagrees 

[CurlyDumps 4618]

1 hour ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

How many Bobby and Gerry sock accounts are there on here? 

Jesus. We're going to fucking win by 2+ TD's. Klubnik is ass, my dude. Those idiots missed Miami, Duke, GT, BC, Syracuse. They lost to their rival USCe, too. Won by 4 against a 7-5 Pitt, lost by 4 against unranked at the time Louisville(ended up 8-4), won by 10 against a 6-6 VT, and got absolutely mudholed 34-3 by Georgia. 

Yeah, we should be suuuuper worried about this Clemson team that avoided most of the top of their conference. 

Clemson is now the 2nd best team on our schedule. If Klubnik is ass, then our QB is cold diarrhea because Klubnik is better by every measurable statistic. Do you seriously have confidence we're gonna have the better QB play in this game?

We're not blowing out anyone going forward. You actually have to be able to score touchdowns and make field goals to achieve such a thing. If Bobby and Gerry are worried, you should be too. Clemson gets to stroll in with zero pressure or expectations and the "nobody believes in us" chip on their shoulder.  Best case scenario we win this game like 20-13 riding our defense.

Clemson +11 = lol free money.

[B00M 6728]

3 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Lol 

 

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

God our fans are such pussies 

 

Sorry for mentioning things that happened.

 

[Hank_Hill 19828]

Yea guys, no pressure on Clemson LOL. Texas definitely dealt with way less pressure in College Station than at home against the bottom seed, not sure how they’ll manage.

[Pig Bellmont 8880]

omg - some of yall don’t deserve nice things. This team will not lose to Clemson at home. Holy cow. Get a grip or go watch the ags, because that’s a team that reliably disappoints. Ours is the one with the best defense in the whole damn league 

[4th&Five 41914]

Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

omg - some of yall don’t deserve nice things. This team will not lose to Clemson at home. Holy cow. Get a grip or go watch the ags, because that’s a team that reliably disappoints. Ours is the one with the best defense in the whole damn league 

Nobody is worried about the defense. We’re concerned that our QB and ST seem determined to keep us in games that we should have locked up in the 3rd quarter. 

[B00M 6728]

2 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Vegas disagrees 

Man, I hope I’m wrong but Texas has only covered Vegas’ spread in 3 of the 8 games since QE came back. Just 2 out of the last 7 if we’re being argumentative dicks about it. 

[Pig Bellmont 8880]

1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

Nobody is worried about the defense. We’re concerned that our QB and ST seem determined to keep us in games that we should have locked up in the 3rd quarter. 

Clemson doesn’t have the LBs or DL to shut down our running game. S Car ran all over Clemson and no reason why we can’t repeat what we did against Kentucky or Aggy. Everyone freaking out in this thread needs the bye to calm down 

[Hank_Hill 19828]

Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

Everyone freaking out in this thread needs the bye to calm down 

My money is on it getting worse

[Drew 2824]

1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

This is ridiculous. We will destroy Clemson. 18-6. 

Y’all both are forgetting when when knock out homecoming boy and the backup Qb comes in…

18-9. 

[B00M 6728]

16 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Yea guys, no pressure on Clemson LOL. Texas definitely dealt with way less pressure in College Station than at home against the bottom seed, not sure how they’ll manage.

Dumb post. By the time aggy game was played, it wasn’t even a considered an elimination game anymore. Texas could’ve lost and been the 9 seed or some shit.

This is an actual elimination game being played by a team with national championship or bust expectations against a team with a solid roster that’s ecstatic to be there. If Texas comes out hot, yes, it can turn into a laugher. The longer Clemson lingers, the more REAL pressure, unlike anything Quinn has faced this year (maybe ever?), builds. Expectations are a bitch.

In a close game, the crowd anxiety will not help our offense. Texas has to get a 1st quarter lead and be up by at least 7 points at half time. We need to be stubbornly running the ball in the 2nd half. 
 

Edited December 10 by B00M

[Vertigo 20484]

15 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

My money is on it getting worse

[Hank_Hill 19828]

7 minutes ago, B00M said:

Dumb post. By the time aggy game was played, it wasn’t even a considered an elimination game anymore. Texas could’ve lost and been the 9 seed or some shit.

This is an actual elimination game being played by a team with national championship or bust expectations against a team with a solid roster that’s ecstatic to be there. If Texas comes out hot, yes, it can turn into a laugher. The longer Clemson lingers, the more REAL pressure, unlike anything Quinn has faced this year (maybe ever?), builds. Expectations are a bitch.

In a close game, the crowd anxiety will not help our offense. Texas has to get a 1st quarter lead and be up by at least 7 points at half time. We need to be stubbornly running the ball in the 2nd half. 
 

If playing number 12 Clemson at home is too high pressure for this team they weren’t ready for anything. Have fun generating hypothetical nonsense to worry about this week though. 

[tx 3 putt 78515]

6 hours ago, Gucci_Suit said:

UT admin knows the entire story. One of my longtime friends is a huge ticket broker and holder of a lot of UT inventory. 

Texas is, and always has been aware of this, and it’s good for them because it guarantees season ticket revenue from some of the more difficult seats to fill, and also the ticket broker I am mentioning is a significant NIL contributor. 

Our home field advantage is good  enough that selling tickets to random ass fan bases doesn’t bother me. It bothers me when Packers, Yankees or RedSox fans take over a stadium and pay a greedy owner. 

But this isn’t exactly the same. 

 

they could should it down today if they wanted, but they don’t want to 

[David Dennison 19444]

Reminder, we've lost to exactly one team this year.

[ITHorn 917]

41 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Clemson is now the 2nd best team on our schedule. If Klubnik is ass, then our QB is cold diarrhea because Klubnik is better by every measurable statistic. Do you seriously have confidence we're gonna have the better QB play in this game?

We're not blowing out anyone going forward. You actually have to be able to score touchdowns and make field goals to achieve such a thing. If Bobby and Gerry are worried, you should be too. Clemson gets to stroll in with zero pressure or expectations and the "nobody believes in us" chip on their shoulder.  Best case scenario we win this game like 20-13 riding our defense.

Clemson +11 = lol free money.

If Clemson +11 is free money, how much you putting up? 

[Hank_Hill 19828]

4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Reminder, we've lost to exactly one team this year.

Only because we weren’t in the ACC row of murderers 

[South Austin 53158]

9 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Reminder, we've lost to exactly one team this year.

Ourselves.

[4th&Five 41914]

10 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Reminder, we've lost to exactly one team this year.

To the only ranked team on the schedule. They’re all ranked going forward. 

[Newdoc 3508]

I’m here for the pearl clutching and panty wadding.

[HOOKEM4 5152]

[F250 29181]

This is not how you are supposed to enjoy your team being a favorite in the playoffs.

[Hank_Hill 19828]

5 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

To the only ranked team on the schedule. They’re all ranked going forward. 

 

How many current top 5 teams has anyone in our bracket beaten this season?

[tbone_ 14416]

I’m here for the pearl clutching and panty wadding.

Depends on who’s panties

[TreatyOak 17228]

19 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Reminder, we've lost to exactly one team this year.

Wait., what? We've lost TWO games, dufus!  TWO games to TWO teams! Can't you count.......................oh, wait.

 

[Valmy77 13570]

1 hour ago, B00M said:

Texas missed Bama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU (most of the top of the SEC) and played a lot of ~.500 teams close. Quinn was averaging 5 air yards per pass attempt until our last game, is immobile, not clutch at all, and our running backs wouldn’t start on any Texas team since 2008-2009. Clemson should be suuuuuuuper worried coming into DKR with a gutted student section and the expectations of the world on Texas. 

Bama, Tennessee, Old Miss, and LSU all lost to those .500 teams. And not playing a bunch of teams in our own damn league is what College Football is all about in the age of shitty super conferences. 

And LOL at Clemson being relieved there won't be our scary students at the game. Though I guess their chances of getting hit by a water bottle went down.

[Sgt Hulk 14344]

This is the game that a decade of 3rd qtr shit comes to an end

[Js1 87039]

6 minutes ago, F250 said:

This is not how you are supposed to enjoy your team being a favorite in the playoffs.

Texas is in back to back playoffs and you’d think we just finished 6-6 and are playing Texas Tech in the Belk Bowl  

[Valmy77 13570]

1 hour ago, B00M said:

Sorry for mentioning things that happened.

Oh was Clemson worried about our mighty student section? Did that already happen?

[Hank_Hill 19828]

Still trying to figure out how we decided a bunch of students aren’t going to go to a game 5 days before a holiday. 

[Js1 87039]

Just now, Hank_Hill said:

Still trying to figure out how we decided a bunch of students aren’t going to go to a game 5 days before a holiday. 

Yes, I recall many aggy games on actual Thanksgiving being loud and packed. This is a playoff game - the first ever at DKR. 

[89Horn 1735]

1 hour ago, B00M said:

Texas missed Bama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU (most of the top of the SEC) and played a lot of ~.500 teams close. Quinn was averaging 5 air yards per pass attempt until our last game, is immobile, not clutch at all, and our running backs wouldn’t start on any Texas team since 2008-2009. Clemson should be suuuuuuuper worried coming into DKR with a gutted student section and the expectations of the world on Texas. 
 

Edit

its bizarre how you people keep bringing up the week 1 UGA game as proof. The half time scores of each team’s first UGA games were 0-6 and 0-23. The gap between Texas and Clemson is smaller than 11-14 points. 

So, what’s your point?

[BurgleBro 907]

6 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

This is the game that a decade of 3rd qtr shit comes to an end

Just don't knock their damn QB out and we got this

[Hank_Hill 19828]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Yes, I recall many aggy games on actual Thanksgiving being loud and packed. This is a playoff game - the first ever at DKR. 

Think people are vastly overestimating how much their kids want to see them over the break. 

[fellside 1135]

In Sarks last three losses, we rushed for 51 (Washington), 31 (Georgia), and 29 (Georgia).

I don't think this Texas team is losing to any team against whom they can run the ball.

Clemson gave up 154 rushing yards against SMU, 267 against SC, 210 against Pitt, and 169 against Georgia.

Edited December 10 by fellside

[RoyalBevo21 913]

2 minutes ago, fellside said:

In Sarks last three losses, we rushed for 51 (Washington), 31 (Georgia), and 29 (Georgia).

I don't think this Texas team is losing to any team against whom they can run the ball.

Clemson gave up 154 rushing yards against SMU, 267 against SC, 210 against Pitt, and 169 against Georgia.

And yet I can all but guarantee you the first 20 plays will be 16 pass 4 run.

[B00M 6728]

1 minute ago, 89Horn said:

So, what’s your point?

My point is that Texas, playing the way we have the last 2 months, could fuck around and lose this game. We need to actually play better, not just talk about playing better. Our defense is a fucking rock. Our offense needs to execute better in/near the red zone. Either setup Bert on the left or send in Arch. Our special teams have to be a reliable net positive. 

TLDR, if anyone really wants to give me 11-14 points for a friendly, I’d love to lose a small wager. 

[Pig Bellmont 8880]

4 minutes ago, B00M said:

My point is that Texas, playing the way we have the last 2 months, could fuck around and lose this game. We need to actually play better, not just talk about playing better. Our defense is a fucking rock. Our offense needs to execute better in/near the red zone. Either setup Bert on the left or send in Arch. Our special teams have to be a reliable net positive. 

TLDR, if anyone really wants to give me 11-14 points for a friendly, I’d love to lose a small wager. 

Please, there are other websites for you to rub your vagina in public 

[B00M 6728]

3 minutes ago, fellside said:

In Sarks last three losses, we rushed for 51 (Washington), 31 (Georgia), and 29 (Georgia).

I don't think this Texas team is losing to any team against whom they can run the ball.

Clemson gave up 154 rushing yards against SMU, 267 against SC, 210 against Pitt, and 169 against Georgia.

 

someone that wants to bring a supported-argument to the table for why we’re 2 score favorites. We have to run for 150+ yards imo

 

[Hookem10 857]

all you guys saying we can't do anything on offense and we suck shit threw a straw because of the last few games are tiring. we've won all these games and if our kicker makes his field goals we would've won Saturday. its the playoff now, who gives a fuck what we can or can't do, everyone has warts. just win em all whether we run for 500 or pass for 500 or turn it over 5 times, JUST WIN. LFG and fuck Clemson smu Arizona st. all of them. 

[Steamboat1874 4289]

9 minutes ago, RoyalBevo21 said:

And yet I can all but guarantee you the first 20 plays will be 16 pass 4 run.

We have to throw to set up our running game.

Not sure we can line up and just run against anyone.

[RoyalBevo21 913]

5 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

We have to throw to set up our running game.

Not sure we can line up and just run against anyone.

The only team that’s stopped Texas running is Georgia. All we need is about 140 total on the ground and we’re money. Anything else is just extra gravy.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2649]

5 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

I’ve posited that Sark has been holding it back until the playoff.

The defense has afforded him that luxury. It will be interesting to see if he pulls the top off next Saturday or waits until NYD or even the Cotton Bowl. 
do I actually think he’s purposely hindering our offense? No, but I do fully believe he has more tricks in the bag and has felt confident we are still a playoff team without showing much of an Arch red zone package. 
At this point, it’s all worked out with an easy draw and the biggest downside being the risk of significant injuries having to play 4 additional quarters relative to the top 4 seeds. 

this is giving me major mack saving / opening up the offense for OU vibes 

[Huckleberry 34412]

Holy shit our fanbase is so ridiculous.

"Not sure if we can line up and just run against anyone"

Non-sack rushing for Texas

40-196
32-143
34-197
51-243
29-200
29-183
20-88
30-133
30-219
39-146
46-256
49-244
22-58

It looks like we can run against everyone except one game against one team. Our first game against Georgia was fine on straight runs, Sarkisian tried to run wide way too often in the second game.

[RoyalBevo21 913]

5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Holy shit our fanbase is so ridiculous.

"Not sure if we can line up and just run against anyone"

Non-sack rushing for Texas

40-196
32-143
34-197
51-243
29-200
29-183
20-88
30-133
30-219
39-146
46-256
49-244
22-58

It looks like we can run against everyone except one game against one team. Our first game against Georgia was fine on straight runs, Sarkisian tried to run wide way too often in the second game.

Bingo! 
 

Oklahoma is 13th at stoping the run. Texas was 30 Carries for 177 yards.