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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1078 on: December 01, 2023, 09:05:13 AM »
...ya never know...

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1079 on: December 01, 2023, 09:21:00 AM »
My GUESS here:

Bama wins, I'm pessimistic about this one.

Texas, Oregon, FSU, Michigan, nothing out of the ordinary.  Then we have the Bama/Texas/Oregon triune.  I agree Texas is most worthy here, but I dunno what would happen of course.  They have Oregon higher today, and an Oregon win would be over a higher ranked team than Texas would have.  

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1080 on: December 01, 2023, 09:41:36 AM »
Yeah, I don't think they'd send a 1-loss non-champ over a 1-loss champ. They've been very careful over the past decade to NOT do that.  So unfortunately that would leave Georgia out. 

But the committee does as the committee pleases, so we don't actually have any idea.

Anyway I think Georgia's gonna win and it'll be a moo point.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1081 on: December 01, 2023, 10:20:39 AM »
Moo points are the best kind, for some folks.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1082 on: December 01, 2023, 12:32:11 PM »
FSU is currently the sand in the vaseline.

Every metric currently puts them at the back of the pack. However, if they win against Louisville, they're undefeated conference champs. That metric is tough to overcome. It'd make everything easier if they'd go ahead and lose that game.

If Alabama wins, there's a simple solution but it relies on the committee abandoning their "um, we really like Bo Nix" fixation.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1083 on: December 01, 2023, 12:43:24 PM »
FSU is currently the sand in the vaseline.

Every metric currently puts them at the back of the pack. However, if they win against Louisville, they're undefeated conference champs. That metric is tough to overcome. It'd make everything easier if they'd go ahead and lose that game.

If Alabama wins, there's a simple solution but it relies on the committee abandoning their "um, we really like Bo Nix" fixation.

Was so crazy in the Selection show on Tuesday when Rece asked the committee why they had Oregon over Texas when all of the SOS and resume' metrics favor Texas, and the actual response was "Bo Nix has a 78% completion percentage."

We're up against that kind of narrow-minded stupidity, so I really don't hold out much hope anymore.  Only way in for Texas is an FSU loss it seems.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1084 on: December 01, 2023, 02:17:11 PM »
Sadly, it appears the Heisman voters are fixated on that comp% as well.  I mean, nevermind that there is another candidate who beats out Nix in 25 of 28 passing statistics and then goes on to blow him out of the water with added rushing production, and who leads multiple categories of Heisman winners all-time, and exceeded Joe Burrow's 2019 production, the biggest landslide Heisman winner in history. 

But yeah, behind-the-sticks-Nix and his little dump-offs have a 78% comp%, which.....you know.....is better than Texas' SOS and winning multiple games with a backup QB, and damned if it isn't better than a kid's 72% comp% with superior numbers in literally every other category, sometimes laughably so, against a laughably harder ranked SOS.   

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1085 on: December 01, 2023, 02:31:31 PM »
Oregon's Media machine campaign game is strong

look out B1G !
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1086 on: December 01, 2023, 03:58:39 PM »
I'd further like to point out that, to the committee, home field advantage in Lubbock, TX must be worth +50 points. Texas and Oregon both played Tech. Texas didn't have to travel to that infernal den.

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« Reply #1087 on: December 01, 2023, 08:51:11 PM »
I'd further like to point out that, to the committee, home field advantage in Lubbock, TX must be worth +50 points. Texas and Oregon both played Tech. Texas didn't have to travel to that infernal den.

Thank God!  Because apparently, between evenly matched teams, Tech's home fiield advantage is worth about 6 touchdowns.

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1088 on: December 02, 2023, 12:45:29 AM »
Well, that oughta end any Texas/Oregon debate if UT takes care of business in the morning. 

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1089 on: December 02, 2023, 12:53:53 AM »
Still got Florida St to worry about
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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1090 on: December 02, 2023, 01:03:55 AM »
Well, that oughta end any Texas/Oregon debate if UT takes care of business in the morning.

But... but.... Bo Nix has a 132% completion percentage!

Anyway, fingers crossed that the Horns don't stub their toes tomorrow.  Hook 'em!

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Re: Longhorn Football
« Reply #1091 on: December 02, 2023, 05:38:20 AM »
Still got Florida St to worry about
They may be down to QB 3.

And Bama could beat UGA of course.  Michigan SHOULD win.  And of course Texas SHOULD win but will hafta fight off zebras to do it.

We could still have mayhem even with a Michigan win.

 

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