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Topic: Predictions for your team in 2026

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utee94

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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #28 on: August 12, 2026, 02:29:30 PM »
If only!

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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2026, 10:52:36 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 11, 2026, 10:56:55 AM
Man you get Texas, Alabama, and LSU all at home.  That's a good home schedule.  Are you going to any games this year?

Also a Sept 12 road trip @ Georgia Tech, which I think will be a pretty tough one for UT. Yellow Jackets will be pretty fired up to claim an SEC scalp.
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #30 on: August 13, 2026, 04:23:38 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on August 12, 2026, 02:04:14 PM

The Longhorns have never lost a game I attended, and I got to go to some impressive games.  That includes away games as well.  Clearly I'm a good luck charm, so I don't see why a group of donors couldn't contribute a reasonable fee and get me tickets to all the games.  They'd be national champs every year and I would enjoy a ton of gameday atmospheres for a living. 

If only I knew more important people over there who could make this happen. 
To be honest, I bet back in those days they rarely lost any games at all.  What we talking about, 2005ish to 2008ish?  
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2026, 04:54:53 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on August 13, 2026, 04:23:38 PM
To be honest, I bet back in those days they rarely lost any games at all.  What we talking about, 2005ish to 2008ish? 
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #32 on: August 14, 2026, 10:09:05 AM »
2004 -2009 are the seasons I lived there.  But I've been to games since.  

Obviously they won because I was there.  Obviously.   
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #33 on: August 14, 2026, 12:31:44 PM »
1998-2009 were all pretty good years to be a Longhorn fan, other than all the losses to the golderned dirt burglars.
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #34 on: August 16, 2026, 05:51:41 PM »
I thought I was an unlucky charm for Florida, having attended a loss @ Miss State, giving up 400+ rushing yards and the Citrus Bowl that year, vs Michigan State.  Florida covered Plaxico Burress with either of a pair of 5'9" CBs, so that went well....


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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #35 on: August 17, 2026, 09:05:15 AM »
UGA was mediocre when I was in college, well, actually football had yet to be invented ...
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #36 on: August 17, 2026, 11:42:51 AM »
1990 was a good season for the Horns (until it wasn't).  But other than that, Texas was pretty bad during my undergrad years.
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2026, 09:18:40 AM »
LSU and Clemson both have purple in their colors and both call their stadiums Death Valley, but in other ways the week 1 contest will be a sharp contrast of program philosophies.  Clemson notoriously shuns the portal; Dabo doesn't like it and Clemson barely uses it, preferring to recruit players more traditionally through the high school ranks and develop them in-house.  LSU, otoh, went full-Kiffin in the portal this year, bringing in, I dunno, roughly 573 new players.  
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #38 on: August 18, 2026, 09:38:29 AM »
This years Horns will have a decent shot at a National Title.  Coach Boom will probably have the best defense of his coaching career.  Arch should be a fully funchional seasoned QB this year and barring injury will be a winning force. 

But you never really know until we face Ohio St.  That game will tell us volumns.

Just a thought last years team had 96 penalties for 803 yards versus opp 66 penalties for 466 yards.
In the Ohio St game we were flagged 6 times for 50 yards while Ohio St only had 2 pen for 15 yards.
A lot of our penalty problem stemed from holding by our less then elite offensive line.  This years OL should be much improved and hopefully a reduction in these penalties will be the result.
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #39 on: August 19, 2026, 02:35:30 PM »
Imagine the OSU game is hotly contested, but some late turnover tips the balance either way.  Good or bad outcome depending, but possibly not saying that much about either team we don't know now.
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2026, 02:51:27 PM »
Arch played like hot garbage last year, at OSU.  In part, probably because he was hurt, imo.  OSU won 14-7.  

I can't say what kind of roster turnover each team has had (who can, in this day and age?).  But UT's QB stands to make the standard 2nd-year leap forward, probably won't be hurt, and the game will be at home.  

OSU is probably too good to not make it a battle, but if Texas wins 28-17, I won't be surprised.  
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Re: Predictions for your team in 2026
« Reply #41 on: August 19, 2026, 05:34:46 PM »
It's clear that it took Arch until the middle of the UTEP game for the light to come on. He just played like an inexperienced QB before then. Second guessed himself, double-checked his reads, was late, then tried to over-power the pass leading to it getting spiked into the feet in front of the receiver. Add to that the fact that Texas still hadn't located someone to play LG.

Both tOSU and Texas were breaking in new QBs. The Buckeyes never had to do anything risky because Texas wasn't a big threat. The Texas defense was salty, and a freshman mistake could provide the winning points. 

This year, both offenses will be looking to show their growth.
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