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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #392 on: December 01, 2022, 10:57:38 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 01, 2022, 10:50:25 AM
Heh, Dawgs fans (some) are upset that we're only 12-0 with too many close wins ...


very few teams win the NC and dont have a few close wins along the way
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« Reply #393 on: December 01, 2022, 11:00:22 AM »
Sure, but that is reality.  Fans don't like reality often as not.

Fans are unhappy with a 37-14 win over Tech, not that it matters.  I can see being concerned with closer wins than one would like and thinking perhaps a team isn't all that great, fine.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #394 on: December 01, 2022, 11:17:56 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 01, 2022, 11:00:22 AM
Sure, but that is reality.  Fans don't like reality often as not.

Fans are unhappy with a 37-14 win over Tech, not that it matters.  I can see being concerned with closer wins than one would like and thinking perhaps a team isn't all that great, fine.
Yep. Close wins over inferior teams are worrisome because they seem to indicate that some fundamental weakness has been exposed.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #395 on: December 01, 2022, 11:21:15 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 01, 2022, 10:50:25 AM
Heh, Dawgs fans (some) are upset that we're only 12-0 with too many close wins ...


I can remember the days when Texas fans complained about having a long string of 10-win seasons.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #396 on: December 01, 2022, 11:23:00 AM »
At the risk of derailing a Longhorns thread, only two conference teams have allowed fewer ppg than UGA in the last decade (and one of them was UGA last year).  Their ppg allowed is best in the country.  UGA is 5th in the country in 3rd down conversions and 3rd in the country in 3rd down conversions allowed.  They outscore opponents by 27 ppg.  They are the textbook definition of a dominant team.  

That Missouri game really scarred some people's psyche, I guess.  
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #397 on: December 01, 2022, 11:24:08 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 01, 2022, 11:21:15 AM
I can remember the days when Texas fans complained about having a long string of 10-win seasons.

I lived in Austin in those days.  

I heard that from a lot of people.  
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #398 on: December 01, 2022, 11:52:17 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on December 01, 2022, 11:21:15 AM
I can remember the days when Texas fans complained about having a long string of 10-win seasons.

Yeah, Mark Richt's final two teams finished 10-3 and look what happened to him ...

Fans = fanatics.

We're all leveled headed here, like that feller who predicted Texas might not win another game at 1-2.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #399 on: December 03, 2022, 12:58:05 AM »
Horns might get to play USC in the Alamo Bowl.
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« Reply #400 on: December 03, 2022, 02:21:05 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on December 03, 2022, 12:58:05 AM
Horns might get to play USC in the Alamo Bowl.
I don't think USC falls that low, probably Cotton?  And maybe Washington in Alamo against the Horns and Sark and PK?  That would be sort of poetic.

But I don't recall all of the bowl selection order/criteria anymore, so maybe...?
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« Reply #401 on: December 03, 2022, 12:27:13 PM »
Yeah, CBS has USC in the Cotton Bowl vs. Tulane and Washington playing Texas in the Alamo Bowl.
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« Reply #402 on: December 03, 2022, 12:41:52 PM »
For us, any bowl game is better than last year, so there you have it.

And Washington isn't a terrible matchup for us.  I'd be okay with that.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #403 on: December 03, 2022, 01:41:59 PM »
If K-State beats TCU--as they are currently doing--TCU might fall to the Cotton Bowl in place of USC.
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« Reply #404 on: December 03, 2022, 01:51:16 PM »
TCU is very much a second half team.  I have a feeling that KSU needed to be up by several scores at halftime, to win this game.  That didn't happen.

But TCU is more of a direct competitor for recruits and mindshare, so I'm certainly okay with them losing.
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #405 on: December 03, 2022, 01:58:57 PM »
I like the purple pussies in the 2nd half
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