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The Power Four => SEC => Topic started by: utee94 on November 22, 2025, 08:05:21 PM
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Gonna be an exciting time in Austin on Friday.
I wasn't planning on going but I have a friend with extras, so maybe I will. Weather should be sublime for a good cockroaching...
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Horns better come with an improved defense they showed today
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Horns better come with an improved defense they showed today
I think we'll see the same defense we've seen for the second half of the season. The ags are gonna score.
But Texas is gonna score more. The oline is much improved and Arch has his business sorted out. The ags' defense isn't good and is gonna get worked over all night long.
I suspect we'll see some Twelving. Bet the over.
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Yep, it’s going to suck being 11-1, and miss the SEC CCG.
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Going to the CFP while Texas sits at home will be some consolation.
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I wish we had some more A&M fans on the board. Been awhile since @Shiner (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1638) and @Bonfired (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1783) have been on.
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Wonder if there's any plans to move this back to a Thanksgiving day game. Didn't they used to play on Thanksgiving?
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Wonder if there's any plans to move this back to a Thanksgiving day game. Didn't they used to play on Thanksgiving?
The Horns and the Aggie can answer better than I can, but IIRC they typically played their game on the day after Thanksgiving.
We played Nebraska on Thanksgiving weekend for quite a while. The 1971 GOTC was on Thanksgiving Day.
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In the early days of the Big 12, for some reason they moved the game to the Friday after, or T+1 as it was known. I don’t know about anything before then, but I know a lot of older Ags complained about it a lot. A lot of it was blamed on the Big 12 , some was blamed on TV. The really weird thing about it was that it was at 10 am. 10 o’clock in the friggin’ morning. I have no idea how you’d look it up but I seem to remember Ole Miss and Miss State were given a better time than A&M/UT.
There was and probably always will be a certain vocal minority element of Aggies that believed that UT had an outsized influence on the conference. Some felt that UT pushed the time and date to minimize any success that we had against UT at the time. Not many remember this but from 1984-1994 A&M won 9/10 games in the series. Ancient history now but A&M was 100% the more popular college team in the late 80’s and early 90’s, at least around these parts.
I will mention that A&M was on probation in 1994 and banned from TV. They moved the game that year so that UT and somebody else could be on TV at thanksgiving. I think it was TCU. I’m not sure if the 1995 game was on Thanksgiving or not, but from about 1996 to 1998 it was on T+1. 1999 seems like it was on Friday, but that was the bonfire game, and I was there but I can’t recall. It seems like in the very late 90’s the game was still on Friday but moved up to a more decent time. Sometimes after 2000 the game was moved back to Thanksgiving, but I don’t remember if it stayed there until we left the Big 12.
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From the 50s through the early 90s it was almost always on Thanksgiving evening.
In the early 90s, the Ags' probation knocked it off TV and so it was moved off of T-day.
Then in the early days of the B12 it was also moved to T+1 along with Nebraska-Colorado. (Miss State-Ole Miss took the Tday night time slot for many of those years).
Texas-TAMU went back to Thanksgiving evening for a few years right before A&M moved to the SEC.
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The NFL kind of has Thanksgiving itself sewn up. Betwixt them and the NBA, there isn't much room for what's basically a stack of rivalry games. Too valuable to bet into the pro league competition.
I'd be less likely to attend myself if it were on Thanksgiving proper. As it is, I'll be leaving Waco around 2 or so on Friday and getting home around midnight.
My section 117 seats (far upper deck on the North EZ sort of in-line with "A" in "TEXAS") are in prime "we got season tix so we could re-sell them on SeatGeek" territory. My daughter worried I wouldn't be able to stay restrained. I kinda feel, though, that being aggressive when you're losing is infantile, and I don't feel like being aggressive when winning. I am, however, really good at talking s**t without actually addressing anyone in particular.
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I loved having the game on Thanksgiving Day. That was my childhood and on into my high school and college years. We went to the game a lot, with my family, and then with friends when I was older. All of our family plans were set according to the game. In Austin years, we'd eat early, then get down to the tailgate party and the game. In College Station years, we'd eat later, watch the Cowboys, and then that would lead into watching the UT-TAMU game. By halftime we'd be getting back into the leftover turkey to make sandwiches.
T+1 is just another day, not really very special. And it's not actually a holiday for a lot of people. Might as well just be the Saturday after T-Day if it's not going to be on T-Day itself.
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The Horns and the Aggie can answer better than I can, but IIRC they typically played their game on the day after Thanksgiving.
We played Nebraska on Thanksgiving weekend for quite a while. The 1971 GOTC was on Thanksgiving Day.
There was a decade or so (maybe more, maybe less, going strictly off the top of my head here) where UT/A&M occupied the T+1 2:30pm slot, on a different channel than LSU/Arkansas on CBS. I remember these well because I was usually at my uncle's house during the Thanksgiving weekend, they're mostly Aggies, and there was always tension about which game was the main priority in the living room. Some years they had other things to do, the women would go get snookered by Black Friday "deals" and the men would go hunting or doing upkeep on their leases, etc., and the big TV was all mine. In which case, damn the Aggies and the Horns, we're BBQing pigs. Other years....well, the women were still out Christmas shopping on Black Friday, but the men were home eating leftovers and watching football. In those years, I usually had to find a smaller TV in a bedroom by myself to watch LSU.
Honestly, I didn't have enough awareness of Texas teams back in the day to know they played on Thanksgiving for years. I remember utee saying something about it here years ago, which was news to me, and then when A&M joined the SEC we eventually started playing our games @A&M on Thanksgiving, which I didn't like, but the Aggies thought they had a tradition, and as usual, when other SEC schools claim they have needs and traditions that need satisfying, LSU is going to get shafted and screw whatever the school or its fans want. I'll digress on that. On the @LSU years the game was on Saturday. That was a small bonus for me, because I never liked the T+1 games with Arkansas, so while we played on Thanksgiving every other year, we also got our Saturdays-in-Death-Valley back in the in-between years.
And now we end our seasons with Oklahoma.
We shoulda never let Tulane leave the SEC. We'd have an in-state rival today to end with and wouldn't get jerked around trying to be forced to be every new guy's "new RiVAlz!!!"
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There was a decade or so (maybe more, maybe less, going strictly off the top of my head here) where UT/A&M occupied the T+1 2:30pm slot, on a different channel than LSU/Arkansas on CBS. I remember these well because I was usually at my uncle's house during the Thanksgiving weekend, they're mostly Aggies, and there was always tension about which game was the main priority in the living room. Some years they had other things to do, the women would go get snookered by Black Friday "deals" and the men would go hunting or doing upkeep on their leases, etc., and the big TV was all mine. In which case, damn the Aggies and the Horns, we're BBQing pigs. Other years....well, the women were still out Christmas shopping on Black Friday, but the men were home eating leftovers and watching football. In those years, I usually had to find a smaller TV in a bedroom by myself to watch LSU.
Honestly, I didn't have enough awareness of Texas teams back in the day to know they played on Thanksgiving for years. I remember utee saying something about it here years ago, which was news to me, and then when A&M joined the SEC we eventually started playing our games @A&M on Thanksgiving, which I didn't like, but the Aggies thought they had a tradition, and as usual, when other SEC schools claim they have needs and traditions that need satisfying, LSU is going to get shafted and screw whatever the school or its fans want. I'll digress on that. On the @LSU years the game was on Saturday. That was a small bonus for me, because I never liked the T+1 games with Arkansas, so while we played on Thanksgiving every other year, we also got our Saturdays-in-Death-Valley back in the in-between years.
And now we end our seasons with Oklahoma.
We shoulda never let Tulane leave the SEC. We'd have an in-state rival today to end with and wouldn't get jerked around trying to be forced to be every new guy's "new RiVAlz!!!"
But to be fair, A&M and LSU have a long history between them even before the SEC days. So if you had to "force" a rivalry on another team, A&M would always be, in my opinion, a natural fit due to distance, geography, and history.
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Yo.
The LSU-TAMU thread is over there ---------->
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https://twitter.com/tracesoftexas/status/1993005510597992725?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA
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Well here we are. Today's the day.
Both the Ags and Horns I know, are confident in their team's victory.
Gonna be a wild time methinks.
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One thing to watch for...A&M's field goal kicking has been....not great. They've been going for it on 4th down a lot as a result. I hope it doesn't come down to FG kicking.
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Go Horns, I think.
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Go Horns, I think.
Thanks!
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Ugh. I hate being right. I felt like we played the bottom half of the SEC, and I was right. Congratulations to the Longhorns. 15 years is a long time. I was really disappointed in our 2nd half defense and offense. It just seemed like they couldn’t get going.
Never our year. On to UGA or Alabama in the SECCCG.
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Tough loss
Good luck in the playoffs
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The CG will be UGA vs Bama if they win or Ole Miss.
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Ugh. I hate being right. I felt like we played the bottom half of the SEC, and I was right. Congratulations to the Longhorns. 15 years is a long time. I was really disappointed in our 2nd half defense and offense. It just seemed like they couldn’t get going.
Never our year. On to UGA or Alabama in the SECCCG.
This is a really good Aggie team and I wish y'all the best in the playoffs and the SEC CCG if things break right for you.
I'm not surprised in the outcome because Texas has been playing a lot better when NOT on the road-- if this game had been at Kyle Field I think the opposite result would have happened.
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The CG will be UGA vs Bama if they win or Ole Miss.
Ok I was thinking there was some kind of way we could still get in but now I see that was based on some earlier games that have already been decided.
UGA-Bama. How utterly boring. C’mon Auburn.
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And if it does end up being Georgia-OM, Georgia already beat them. I will root for OM simply because they’ve never played in the CCG, it would be nice to have some variety.
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For sure, no offense to CD but I'll always root for the new team or the underdog, when my team's not involved.
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Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaghy in one of the stadium clubs last night:
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Congratulations to the Horns and condolences to the Aggies.
Shifting gears, does Woody Harrelson have connections to UT other than living the first 12 years of his life in Texas and being friends with Matthew McConaughey?
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Congratulations to the Horns and condolences to the Aggies.
Shifting gears, does Woody Harrelson have connections to UT other than living the first 12 years of his life in Texas and being friends with Matthew McConaughey?
Might have something to do with this........
https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2025/01/30/matthew-mcconaughey-woody-harrelson-billy-bob-thornton-texas-filming-video/9431738238880/
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Might have something to do with this........
https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2025/01/30/matthew-mcconaughey-woody-harrelson-billy-bob-thornton-texas-filming-video/9431738238880/
Ah, thanks for the info.
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The state of Georgia successfully positioned itself a decade+ back to be a film hub. Lots of shows and movies have been filmed there lately.
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We used to see filming going on near us routinely. Post COVID it has dropped off a lot. I think the main shows filmed here ended, like Ozark and zombies.
The state granted significant tax breaks.
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We used to see filming going on near us routinely. Post COVID it has dropped off a lot. I think the main shows filmed here ended, like Ozark and zombies.
The state granted significant tax breaks.
I think that several (many?) states are granting tax breaks to encourage film and TV production within their borders. Oklahoma has been doing at least some of that for about a decade now.
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Yeah, it started here with Smoky and the Bandit, to an extent, and the state figured it was a good thing. There now are quite a few large studios in Atlanta that cater to it. The infrastructure is here, which helps when you need indoor scenes.
We've seen local restaurants here shut down for a few days for filming. The parking lots will fill up with vans and RVs and trailers with heavy cables running along the ground, and then disappear.
I watched on scene from Ozark being filmed off our deck, there was at least 100 people standing around while on actor was being filmed doing something, over and over.
I guess it pays out, somehow.
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(https://static.wikitide.net/avidwiki/thumb/8/8e/Floyd_County_2022.jpeg/399px-Floyd_County_2022.jpeg)
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The state of Georgia successfully positioned itself a decade+ back to be a film hub. Lots of shows and movies have been filmed there lately.
That's only increasing with the current realities of the film business.
Variety Article on Growing GA films business (https://variety.com/2025/film/filming-locations/georgia-filming-production-hub-1236392186/)
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Holy cow! (Longhorn cow, to be exact)
A BE sighting!
Who let you out of the asylum?
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Look what the cat dragged in.
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Howdy stranger.
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Holy cow! (Longhorn cow, to be exact)
A BE sighting!
Who let you out of the asylum?
I ended up Hooking up with Nurse Rachet, and she let fly the nest.
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Look what the cat dragged in.
One might say I was badgered into it.
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Howdy stranger.
Greetings and salutations.
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Greetings and salutations.
I’m almost positive it was Burnt Eyes, back, way back, in the CNNSI days that suggested A&M hire Bob Stoops. Damn that would have been nice.
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Man how the course of time might have changed.
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I’m almost positive it was Burnt Eyes, back, way back, in the CNNSI days that suggested A&M hire Bob Stoops. Damn that would have been nice.
I can't claim to have specific recollection of this like I do my college football playoffs prediction, which were dead on. 😉 I had what one might call a mild concussion and some things are lost to time. That said, I "hated" Spurrier and under Synder, stoops was a thorn in Texas side. I do recall him pulling good Texas talent at Florida and a&m was a D minded school, much like I'm a D minded fan. So, I can absolutely see my logic track in suggesting such. I will give full props to Elko, much to my suprise, he's so far done a great job. In particular, his alignment of offense to the talent he has, specifically Reed, to make them very productive is annoyingly impressive. I would have never predicted that Texas would have the exact opposite problem under Sarkisian.
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My recollection of posters is…murky. I may have you confused with someone else, but I do recall there was one poster adamant about Bob Stoops, around 1997/1998. From the old CNNSI boards I well remember BE, utee, and of course hooky (JCG). I’m not sure what all posters were added and dropped over the years as we shuffled through the various sites, and I never posted to the Scout or the other board of the era, maybe CFN? You were always the saltiest of the LH contingent, back when A&M and UT were on pretty much even footing.
I do remember hearing of your incident, I think it was a nasty fall? Anyways glad to hear from you.
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@Gigem (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1706)
The accident was literally deadly, was DOA from the head injury and in a comma. 11 years ago in January. Appreciate the sentiment.
You know, when you bring up JCG/Hooky the Stoops to Aggie actually seems really familiar. I would have thought Stoops a good hire for A&M and as such probably would have pooped on it. JCG on the other hand would have suggested it in earnest and I could absolutely see the two of us "arguing" about it.
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@Gigem (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1706)
The accident was literally deadly, was DOA from the head injury and in a comma. 11 years ago in January. Appreciate the sentiment.
You know, when you bring up JCG/Hooky the Stoops to Aggie actually seems really familiar. I would have thought Stoops a good hire for A&M and as such probably would have pooped on it. JCG on the other hand would have suggested it in earnest and I could absolutely see the two of us "arguing" about it.
Ah come on, you know you've turned out better than before... ;)
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Ah come on, you know you've turned out better than before... ;)
Let's talk about low bars...
HA!
You got badgered to return, I was Cornholed into coming back. I've spent at least an hour procrastinating and roaming around this site this morning.
Anyway, good to see you, dude.
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One might say I was badgered into it.
Howdy amigo.
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Let's talk about low bars...
HA!
You got badgered to return, I was Cornholed into coming back. I've spent at least an hour procrastinating and roaming around this site this morning.
Anyway, good to see you, dude.
I too am confused by technology and I understand its easy to confuse the 2 Longhorn posters who's handles are share zero similarities but it was I who was badgered to return. Not sure if you misquoted or mistook me for utee94. I'll help clarify. utee94 is the John Stamos looking internet nice guy with horrible college football takes. I, BurntEyes am/is the fat Keifer Sutherlandish looking formerly drunken asshole with amazingly accurate and astute college football takes. I am also known for my humble nature and open mindedness. Should be easy enough.
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Quick correction:
BurntEyes was the blubbering crybaby who was convinced Texas would lose to both Arkansas and Texas A&M while I was saying, "nah dawg, we got these two since they're at home."
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utee94 is the John Stamos looking internet nice guy with horrible college football takes.
Psh. Dude is crankier than I am if you disagree with him on the right things, and has pretty good takes. You must have gotten the Upside-Down utee94.
According to FB photos, he's turning into John Stamos the Grey, meaning I need to get that dude to the Louisiana Longhorn STAT and see if the boudin can't turn around some of the gray hair in both of us. Probably not how that works, but I'm willing to try.
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I was the 1999 Internet Good Guy. I think we're all a little crankier than we were then...
And I'm definitely grayer. But as I tell Bald Greg, at least I still have hair.
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Quick correction:
BurntEyes was the blubbering crybaby who was convinced Texas would lose to both Arkansas and Texas A&M while I was saying, "nah dawg, we got these two since they're at home."
I'm pretty sure you own me tree fiddy due to an unexplainable faith in Brian Kelly.
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And I'm definitely grayer. But as I tell Bald Greg, at least I still have hair.
Well, I have grayness AND baldness going on, so.......I win? :smiley_confused1:
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I'm pretty sure you own me tree fiddy due to an unexplainable faith in Brian Kelly.
Not Brian Kelly, but LSU at home against the ags. A moment of lack of clarity, to be sure.
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Well, I have grayness AND baldness going on, so.......I win? :smiley_confused1:
Not so fast my friend!