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If I'm an arrogant bammer, it's because the football program of the university that I support is without equal.
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One more thing - Bahr Bryant is a DEAD ROTTING CORPSE!!! BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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Now that I got the finger wagging out of the way, let's address your other points. I don't care what method you use to decide which NCs to count, we still have more than anyone else in the modern era (or at the very least, are tied with ND). If you only use the ones that ESPN recognizes (which I think is just in the AP era), we past ND this past year. And if I remember correctly, it wasn't until Bama integrated their football team, that the other SEC teams (yours included) decided to integrate theirs.
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What do collegiate national titles have to do with high school talent?
Your argument lies in which state puts out more DI athletes and NFL talent
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How many schools are those Texas schollies spread amongst? There are three Florida schools with any shot at winning a championship. Three. That much of a concentration of talent among three schools will produce championships. I don't care if you have some anecdotal stories about a few players from Florida who get poached, most of the top talent is not leaving Florida. In regards to Texas HS players, OU and OSU have had entire rosters built with Texas kids. Don't forget that Texas also has 12 d1 schools. As to your assertion about winning titles, I'll give you that Miami and FSU with their glorified Pre-School level academic standards won some titles. If Texas and A&M had their standards over the years things might be different...
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So we have 3 schools with a legit shot at a natty, how many does Texas have? 3 if you include oklahoma...
Yes you have 12 D1 schools, Florida has 7 or 8 I think, but the top end talent should be congregating at the top end schools, just like we should not lose talent to USF or UCF you shouldn't lose it to Houston, Baylor or even TCU. In the end it should be three schools against three for the true championship level talent. The only school ironically that has been able to consolidate it for more than a couple of good years in the last nearly half century is Oklahoma -'they have been able to do what the Texas schools haven't, which speaks to my earlier point.
oh and on the academic front, sadly Miami is ranked ahead of both UF and TAMU now in the US news rankings I think, though as a private school they have a bit more flexibility on who they let in. We were ahead of them until a year or two ago but they have always been decent, at least since the online rankings have been around.
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Arkansas has 27 Texans, Louisville has 34 Floridians.
LSU has 13 Texans, Alabama has 12 Floridians.
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Texas and Florida each field over 500 HS teams. And your argument is that your whole state is better because of 6 games?
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Upon further examination, the top teams in the lower classifications in Florida are capable of beating the larger classifications in Texas. An example of that was 2A Florida defending champs Cocoa knocking off Texas 5A kingpin Abilene and recently beating defending Mississippi 6A champs Olive Branch, 14-7. This is generally unthinkable in Texas, outside of 7-on-7 football.
