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The topography in East Texas is rather nice, imo.  Similar to north Louisiana.  I much prefer it to the the landscapes of Southeast Texas.  There is a definite distinction if you're coming down 69, starting around Woodville.  North of there looks like East Texas and south of there looks like Southeast Texas.  East Texas is generally taken to be Tyler, Lufkin area, etc. 

South of Houston and Austin and you're not really "east" in the state anymore.  Beaumont is definitely the southeastern point of the state.  At any rate, it's the name of the area.  Our local news has "all your southeast Texas local news."  The radio station weather-break jingles are things like "south-east Texaaaas weeeaa-theeeeeeerrrrr."  My clinic routinely refers to Southeast Texas Gastroenterology Group or SETX Urology Associates, and 75% of every other business in the area is SETX this or SETX that.  If this isn't southeast Texas, you can't tell them that. 

Also, we're right next to SWLA, so it stands to reason we're SETX. 

And SETX is kinda ppffffft.

I live 50 miles South of Houston. If it’s not SExTx what would you call it ?  

It’s not S Texas. Not central Tx. Not hill country. 

Also, we're right next to SWLA, so it stands to reason we're SETX. 

I always wanted to trade Houston to Louisiana in exchange for New Orleans.  Let's make it so!

Like Freeport/Matagorda territory? 

I would personally view that as southeast Texas, though as a proper noun, SETX does not seem to even include Houston, rather it's Beaumont and the Golden Triangle area.  All the way down to about Victoria passes geographically as southeast texas for me.  Anything past that is south Texas, and then further south is what is referred to simply as The Valley.  Like Kingsville and south, it's what the locals call it, as well as the companies I used to work for traveling throughout TX. 

ymmv.  I'm just going by how places tend to refer to themselves.  Never understood why the panhandle calls itself West Texas.  Seems like that should be Odessa to El Paso area.  Wonder what they call themselves.....haven't spent much time in that area. 

Yep. Right by Freeport. I fish matagorda often. 

Texas has too big of a recent history for me to declare the ship righted and healthy after two games.
However, it's obvious we're on the right path. The offense has an embarrassment of weapons. Fast ones, strong ones, passing ones, running ones, and ones that do a bit of everything. Sark puts them on the field in combinations that hides his intent, but lets the possibilities play out. A defense that plays run will face a pass, and vice versa.
Critically, we now feature an OL that lets the QB play this out. I believe Texas had offensive talent in years' past, but lacked the OL to see it develop. Hudson Card admirably ran the offense within his limits. We don't know if Quinn Ewers has limits yet.

The players only meeting after the Tech game was mocked. However, I believe that was the meeting where the team leadership implored the defense to quit thinking and play with bad intentions. They knew what to do before. They just took a second to be sure. Against WVU, they took the shortest route to the ball, and arrived in ill humor. Possibly a speedy team like TCU might trick them out of position, but thus far, the defense seems to know their assignments and are executing violently.

ISU has a good defense. Their offense cannot score against air (frankly, just desserts after unfairly using Charlie Kolar as a cheat code all this time). If Texas scores on its first three drives, the game will be over by halftime. ISU isn't awful, but if Texas is what I think they are, the Longhorns should brush them aside in a businesslike way and proceed to the next game like Texas used to do.

I'm curious....how is a geographic center calculated with an irregular shape like Texas?  Is it the intersection of the longest east-west line and the longest north-south line, or is it more complicated than that?

In Oklahoma, Oklahoma City seems like an obvious center point, but then you've got that handle that stretches across the Texas panhandle that muddies it up.

I'm sure that it's more complicated than that. I can imagine a system where an irregular-shaped entity is divided up into square units and then some number-crunching determines the E-W line that has exactly as many square units north of it as south of it and also does the same thing with a N-S line that puts the same number of square units east and west of it. Where those two lines intersect would be the center.
Geographers do the same thing with population.
BTW, apparently, the geographical center of Oklahoma is in Edmond, 8 miles north of Oklahoma City.

I like your eternal optimism my friend.

Like I said, there's too much recent history to declare "all is well" after two games.
I've seen too many 5-star RB and WR careers ruined when the OL couldn't give the QB two seconds to work. That problem isn't fixed yet, but Kyle Flood is getting sufficient technique out of true freshmen to at least effect a game plan. That rising tide is currently lifting all boats.
All the right things are being said and demonstrated about "player led team". Now, it just has to be done consistently.