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The Porkchop Express said:It's not a hissy fit, I'm looking for a legit answer. Everyone always claims everything is biased towards t.u. I'd like a well-thought answer from someone about why that is.AccAg said:
Just pointing out what a monumental hissyfit you're throwing bud.
If you can't provide it, move along.
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For now, I think Texas should be ranked No. 1 because Georgia escaped Lexington with a narrow 13-12 win over Kentucky, who was coming off an embarrassing 31-6 home loss to South Carolina. Still, Georgia had a dominating second half to throttle Clemson 34-3 in Week 1. I think Georgia will lose one regular season game at Alabama on 9/28 but beat Texas in Austin on 10/19. I am predicting 11-1 (7-1 SEC) Texas vs 11-1 (7-1) Georgia in the SEC Championship Game.
I can see 10-1 Texas vs 9-2 Texas A&M. In this scenario, Texas will be playing for an SEC Championship Game appearance, and we will be playing for a CFP spot. It would be sweet to knock Texas out of the SEC Championship Game and clinch a CFP spot. However, I won't be surprised if Texas loses one or two more games besides Georgia before coming to Kyle Field on 11/30.
Most of the schedule setup was for preserving major rivalries, storylines, and reviving past southwest games between Arkansas and Texas and Big 12 games between Missouri and Oklahoma. The strangest part of the schedule was giving both LSU and Ole Miss to Oklahoma. I understand that the SEC paired LSU with Oklahoma for rivalry week to appease Texas. So, Texas gets Oklahoma in mid-October and Texas A&M at the end of the regular season, but Oklahoma should not have gotten Ole Miss. The SEC should have had Texas play Ole Miss and Oklahoma play Vanderbilt in their first 2 years in the conference because it would have created more parity and balance.
I can see 10-1 Texas vs 9-2 Texas A&M. In this scenario, Texas will be playing for an SEC Championship Game appearance, and we will be playing for a CFP spot. It would be sweet to knock Texas out of the SEC Championship Game and clinch a CFP spot. However, I won't be surprised if Texas loses one or two more games besides Georgia before coming to Kyle Field on 11/30.
Most of the schedule setup was for preserving major rivalries, storylines, and reviving past southwest games between Arkansas and Texas and Big 12 games between Missouri and Oklahoma. The strangest part of the schedule was giving both LSU and Ole Miss to Oklahoma. I understand that the SEC paired LSU with Oklahoma for rivalry week to appease Texas. So, Texas gets Oklahoma in mid-October and Texas A&M at the end of the regular season, but Oklahoma should not have gotten Ole Miss. The SEC should have had Texas play Ole Miss and Oklahoma play Vanderbilt in their first 2 years in the conference because it would have created more parity and balance.
Right now, the ESPN FPI has the sips favored in every game.
As for us, we are favored in all but Mizzou and the sips.
As for us, we are favored in all but Mizzou and the sips.
This thread is so awesome
The answer is so obvious it boggles the mind that someone would throw a tantrum for not being able to see it. But some men you just can't reach.
Yeah, I noticed these ESPN FPI odds for both schools. ESPN FPI is giving Texas a 70.5% chance to beat Georgia. I can understand that if it's between 50-59%, but 70.5% is ridiculous.APHIS AG said:
Right now, the ESPN FPI has the sips favored in every game.
As for us, we are favored in all but Mizzou and the sips.
I am not surprised by the ESPN FPI for each of our remaining games. Before last Saturday, I considered Missouri to be a very tough, but now I think it's closer to a tossup. Missouri is ranked No. 7, but I don't think they are an elite team. Missouri trailed Boston College 14-3 with 9:44 left in the 2nd quarter before escaping with a narrow 27-21 home win. Also, Missouri opens the season with 4 consecutive home games and a bye week before playing their first road game of the year at Kyle Field on 10/5. That's why I consider Missouri a tossup home game.
I think South Carolina will be our toughest road game. After South Carolina's narrow 23-19 home win over Old Dominion, they throttled Kentucky 31-6 in a road game and nearly beat LSU. South Carolina has a bye week before hosting us on 11/2, and we will be coming off a tough home game against LSU. They will have a rest and home field advantage in a night game. We will likely be road favorites at South Carolina, and we have won 9 of 10 games against South Carolina, including road games in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. However, I can see South Carolina upsetting us. That's why I consider South Carolina a tossup road game.
I am predicting a 9-3 (6-2 SEC) finish with additional losses to South Carolina and Texas.
Anybody that is above 50 and lived in Texas all there lives and paid any attention at all to old school Texas politics can easily answer the question. Where do you think the term t-sip was coined?
The school has spit out thousands of journalism and political science majors for over a century that entrenched themselves within the media, and entertainment industries and political arenas.
They spawned thousands of attorneys and politicians and old time Texas money that was based upon big business, petrochemical and land barons that have controlled our state legislature and lawmakers for that same 150+ year time span. Laugh and call that a conspiracy theory but Texans that have been around the block a few times are well aware of this fact.
Take the time to look at our old school predominant, governors, state senate and house leaders and controlling state entities and you will usually see they display the t u diploma on their walls.
Sure we have some big time Aggies in the business world in Texas but compare the number of Aggie grads in the political arena or judicial and law arenas….. then also compare how many Aggies are in the realm of journalism or public news media or even in the entertainment industries as compared to longhorn grads and you can understand.
A good comparison is the power the democrats have over the news media, Hollywood and entertainment industries and labor unions as compared to republicans.
How the hell do think they wormed their way into the SEC anyway?
And people just think it's an accident or just good fortune that they end up in their first year in the SEC with an easy schedule?
Anybody that thinks otherwise is just too young to understand the last two centuries of Texas politics or just plum naive.
The school has spit out thousands of journalism and political science majors for over a century that entrenched themselves within the media, and entertainment industries and political arenas.
They spawned thousands of attorneys and politicians and old time Texas money that was based upon big business, petrochemical and land barons that have controlled our state legislature and lawmakers for that same 150+ year time span. Laugh and call that a conspiracy theory but Texans that have been around the block a few times are well aware of this fact.
Take the time to look at our old school predominant, governors, state senate and house leaders and controlling state entities and you will usually see they display the t u diploma on their walls.
Sure we have some big time Aggies in the business world in Texas but compare the number of Aggie grads in the political arena or judicial and law arenas….. then also compare how many Aggies are in the realm of journalism or public news media or even in the entertainment industries as compared to longhorn grads and you can understand.
A good comparison is the power the democrats have over the news media, Hollywood and entertainment industries and labor unions as compared to republicans.
How the hell do think they wormed their way into the SEC anyway?
And people just think it's an accident or just good fortune that they end up in their first year in the SEC with an easy schedule?
Anybody that thinks otherwise is just too young to understand the last two centuries of Texas politics or just plum naive.
Sincerely appreciate your answer. And as a result you have to tip your hat to the sips for taking what they want by force and keeping death grip on it, and wonder why we can't get our **** together as a university and knock them out of the catbird seat.
I say this unironically as a 50-year-old, Texas-born occasional journalist. Thanks again.
I say this unironically as a 50-year-old, Texas-born occasional journalist. Thanks again.
Yes we got a pretty easy schedule. Probably the easiest one we've had since we joined the league.
Theirs is an absolute red-carpet cakewalk. We've been begging for a dozen years to send Georgia to Kyle Field. They get a home game vs Dawg in year f***ing one? And outside of possibly us that's the only team of consequence they'll face all year. The skids were greased for them right from the get go. And of course having Disney swinging from their tiny little peens (dildos?) doesn't hurt either. The hype machine will be cranked up to mach 10 by the time they roll in here in November
Theirs is an absolute red-carpet cakewalk. We've been begging for a dozen years to send Georgia to Kyle Field. They get a home game vs Dawg in year f***ing one? And outside of possibly us that's the only team of consequence they'll face all year. The skids were greased for them right from the get go. And of course having Disney swinging from their tiny little peens (dildos?) doesn't hurt either. The hype machine will be cranked up to mach 10 by the time they roll in here in November
Yeppers. And if they lose both of those games, they most likely will not have one win vs a top 25 team at the end of the season.
ArcheryAg said:
Weak ground game. They'll get exposed.
Ewers is hurt and that injury is no joke. He could possibly be hampered with it the whole season. If Arch gets tweaked watch out.
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Watch how many roughing the passer penalties get called by the zebras going forward to protect them.
Anything that is half questionable will be called. Book it.
Anything that is half questionable will be called. Book it.
Shoefly! said:ArcheryAg said:
Weak ground game. They'll get exposed.
Ewers is hurt and that injury is no joke. He could possibly be hampered with it the whole season. If Arch gets tweaked watch out.
Arch looks very athletic. Not that concerned about any tweaks with him. More interested in seeing how he plays against a solid defense. It's really too bad that got such a crap schedule.
They're completely untested. Josh Pate said after the Michigan game that people around the Michigan program were telling him he should travel to a different game. They were expecting to get blown out.
Georgia beats them pretty easily. If they get the Kentucky that played Georgia, then Kentucky has a good chance too. Kentucky's defense looked really good. Oklahoma will always play them close.
I wouldn't be looking past Vanderbilt either. Losing to Georgia State is embarrassing, but they actually have an offense now.
Georgia beats them pretty easily. If they get the Kentucky that played Georgia, then Kentucky has a good chance too. Kentucky's defense looked really good. Oklahoma will always play them close.
I wouldn't be looking past Vanderbilt either. Losing to Georgia State is embarrassing, but they actually have an offense now.
Hokum Horns!
Give it a rest. You've had your say.AccAg said:
The answer is so obvious it boggles the mind that someone would throw a tantrum for not being able to see it. But some men you just can't reach.
In year 3 (2026) the sips will play Bama, auburn, LSU, Ole Miss, Tenn, Texas Aggies, ou, S Car and Ark so there's your 4-8 t sips that everyone is hoping to see. They have yet to even play a sec game.
The last time we beat Florida to go to 2-1, we won the remaining 7 all sec opponents and were ranked 5. We then beat NC in the Orange Bowl to finish ranked 4th in the nation. Tu was in their 9th straight year of being worse than us. So don't think we never win and can't make the playoff from where we sit right now.
There is still a decent chance we are 7-0 sec vs 6-1 sec when we meet tu at Kyle with the sec title game spot on the line.
The last time we beat Florida to go to 2-1, we won the remaining 7 all sec opponents and were ranked 5. We then beat NC in the Orange Bowl to finish ranked 4th in the nation. Tu was in their 9th straight year of being worse than us. So don't think we never win and can't make the playoff from where we sit right now.
There is still a decent chance we are 7-0 sec vs 6-1 sec when we meet tu at Kyle with the sec title game spot on the line.
Aggies are too worried about the sips. How about worry more about winning against everyone. It's so obvious that Aggies are more worried about beating the sips than winning anything that matters. That is the biggest reason that I hate the stupid rivalry. Until Aggies and the stupid people running the athletics program get over the sips, they won't ever win crap.
The Porkchop Express said:Why are they protected? Everyone tells me they are. How come? What goes on at t..u. that no other school can replicate? Does ESPN have the power to control referees? Is it because the sips were so incredible when they had 2 10 win seasons between 1983 and 2000 or when they had one 10-win season between 2010-2022? We are so quick to say that everyone is biased towards them Why? Why do so many people want them so desperately to succeed? Money? Is it just money? We've got a **** ton of money, but everyone says the NCAA and the SEC and ESPN hates us. Is our money not good for them?Turf96 said:
I agree but they are protected by the NCAA and the zebras on the field. You have to beat your opponent and the moderators on the field that are very slanted
Because they are the most liberal outpost in the Deep South. Essentially UC Berkeley in Texas that had lots of past success.
Well, I guess the rest of us really suck ass for letting the libs and the sips run stuff for so long.Z Team said:The Porkchop Express said:Why are they protected? Everyone tells me they are. How come? What goes on at t..u. that no other school can replicate? Does ESPN have the power to control referees? Is it because the sips were so incredible when they had 2 10 win seasons between 1983 and 2000 or when they had one 10-win season between 2010-2022? We are so quick to say that everyone is biased towards them Why? Why do so many people want them so desperately to succeed? Money? Is it just money? We've got a **** ton of money, but everyone says the NCAA and the SEC and ESPN hates us. Is our money not good for them?Turf96 said:
I agree but they are protected by the NCAA and the zebras on the field. You have to beat your opponent and the moderators on the field that are very slanted
Because they are the most liberal outpost in the Deep South. Essentially UC Berkeley in Texas that had lots of past success.
Nice post
They are more skilled than we are and much more physical.
I hope Texas loses every game but it won't hurt my feelings at all for us to take away whatever accolade they think they deserve when we bludgeon them at Kyle field this year.
DFCURT said:
Both QBs look sharp. While I do think beating down Michigan may not be all it is cracked up to be, I think they've got as legitimate of a claim on the #1 spot as anyone in the country.
They're going to get to prove it now.
Except they really aren't going to have to prove it now because they were gifted about the easiest SEC schedule possible.
Everyone on here says we suck and we are their second hardest game.
The Porkchop Express said:
Sincerely appreciate your answer. And as a result you have to tip your hat to the sips for taking what they want by force and keeping death grip on it, and wonder why we can't get our **** together as a university and knock them out of the catbird seat.
I say this unironically as a 50-year-old, Texas-born occasional journalist. Thanks again.
Two words for you:
John Sharp
Wait until Arch gets body slammed and they move to QB3
@UF MSUAtticusMatlock said:
I wish they had been assigned a typical SEC schedule. As of right now they only play three ranked SEC opponents which is unusual. There's no way OU will be ranked by the end of the year giving their schedule so by the end of the year they will be playing a total of two ranked opponents all year. I don't think Michigan will be around at the end of the year either.
I wish they would have given them the more traditional SEC West schedule with at least Ole Miss, lsu, alabama, etc. Giving them Vandy, kentucky, a down Florida team, Arky with their coach on his last lifeline, is such a season booster and doesn't put them through the same ringer. The thing about the SEC is that it's always been a grind. Playing a lot of these good teams back to back is what gets you.
Playing essentially the worst teams plus A&M and Georgia isn't the same. They were granted huge favors by the schedule makers.
I think OU will be tough for them because it always is.
Arky (neutral) OU (neutral)
Mizzou UGA
@MSU @Vandy
LSU UF
@SCAR @Arky
@AU UK
UT @A&M
Those seem pretty similar to me. Before the season I don't think many people saw the SCAR/UK game going the way it did so that may tilt the balance a little, but the biggest difference is the last game of the season. Y'all need to make up your minds on whether or not the "SEC SEC SEC is a grind and no way UT gets out with less than 2 losses" & "UT was handed a weak SEC schedule as a favor to prop them up". We have 3 traditional rivals all either away or neutral & the best program of the last 5 years. A&M & Arky are both away despite the fact that we played away against both of them last so I'm not sure that's doing us any favors. OU, UGA, & Bama can have gripes with their schedules being more difficult than others, everyone else has a manageable schedule.
You got a favorable schedule but it is overblown. There are still plenty of games that will be a test and if you manage to win enough games you'll get a shot against someone in the Conference championship. Agree that the schedule you got and the one we got are not light years different .
Florida got screwed over . Someone somewhere doesn't like Billy Napier.
Florida got screwed over . Someone somewhere doesn't like Billy Napier.
I know their schedule has been weak but there's something different. It's the way they're beating these teams. They are knocking the piss out of them. For the Michigan game, they pulled the dogs off at the end of the 3rd. That game should have been more lopsided. They've more than covered the spread in all three games.
If you look at Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Alabama and Ole Miss (Top 5 teams) vs their opponents, the total score is 658-78. Combined, these teams have surrendered a total of 4 touchdowns all year long.
All I hear is that Texas has not played anybody. What top 5 team has not played a weak schedule?
The #1 ranking will be rotating all year long.
If you look at Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Alabama and Ole Miss (Top 5 teams) vs their opponents, the total score is 658-78. Combined, these teams have surrendered a total of 4 touchdowns all year long.
All I hear is that Texas has not played anybody. What top 5 team has not played a weak schedule?
The #1 ranking will be rotating all year long.
Georgia.classof92 said:
All I hear is that Texas has not played anybody. What top 5 team has not played a weak schedule?
Out of conference schedule are made 3+ years in advance. They scheduled Michigan who were on their way to 3 straight conference titles. They scheduled Bama during the Saban Dynasty.
I am not sure why people think their OOC is light or they scheduled patsies. Most teams do not schedule a tough OOC game. Usually its 2-3 blowouts and maybe a middle/low power 4 conference.
Their schedule will always have OU which is a perennial top 10 team and us which always start the season top 20.
Some years they get a lighter schedule and in a few years they will flip with OU.
We were very fortunate to have likely the easiest schedule in the SEC. Just because we have scheduled the #1 team in the country is more b/c we didn't hold up out end of the bargain. If we beat ND and run the table like we are capable, then we would be top 5 come November.
If we played to our potential, they would be playing a top 15 MU/OU, #2 Ga, Top 5 A&M. That doesn't seem light at all. Compare that to any other conference and outside of the SEC, you can't find many teams playing this schedule.
Look at Miami, They will play maybe one team that ends up in the top 25. Currently their schedule has one team, #19 Louisville, on their schedule.
Look at tOSU, Their current schedule has #9 Oregon, 22 Neb, 10 PSU, 18 Michigan
USC has #13 LSU (when played), #18 Mich, 10 PSU, 22 Neb, 17 ND
texas has #10 Mich (when played), 15 OU, 2 Ga, 25 A&M
Objectively their schedule is harder all 3 teams
I am not sure why people think their OOC is light or they scheduled patsies. Most teams do not schedule a tough OOC game. Usually its 2-3 blowouts and maybe a middle/low power 4 conference.
Their schedule will always have OU which is a perennial top 10 team and us which always start the season top 20.
Some years they get a lighter schedule and in a few years they will flip with OU.
We were very fortunate to have likely the easiest schedule in the SEC. Just because we have scheduled the #1 team in the country is more b/c we didn't hold up out end of the bargain. If we beat ND and run the table like we are capable, then we would be top 5 come November.
If we played to our potential, they would be playing a top 15 MU/OU, #2 Ga, Top 5 A&M. That doesn't seem light at all. Compare that to any other conference and outside of the SEC, you can't find many teams playing this schedule.
Look at Miami, They will play maybe one team that ends up in the top 25. Currently their schedule has one team, #19 Louisville, on their schedule.
Look at tOSU, Their current schedule has #9 Oregon, 22 Neb, 10 PSU, 18 Michigan
USC has #13 LSU (when played), #18 Mich, 10 PSU, 22 Neb, 17 ND
texas has #10 Mich (when played), 15 OU, 2 Ga, 25 A&M
Objectively their schedule is harder all 3 teams
jackrabbit said:
would love to see them fail, but...chances are better than 50/50 they have 0 or 1 loss coming into our game and a playoff spot already locked up. Unfortunately I think they are very good...just not sure if they are "elite" yet...but very good.
I agree with this, but only because their schedule is pathetic
The arc gave me gem the biggest gift ever with that schedule
They will get up for the Georgia game at home and if I had to guess, I'd lean to them winning it
This thread reeks of fear.
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