Of all the Big 12 road venues I'm happy to never, ever, see again, Ames might be number 1. The again, maybe it's Lubbock. Regardless, goodbye to that cornfield haunted house forever. The last time Texas won 10 games I was a junior living in West Campus; I'm now a married father with a career. It's surreal to see a team this good again and, aside from the weekly moments of panic we've all shared this year, I'm basking in this right now. My 20-year-old self would've never believed that it would take this long to be this good again and I'm so happy for everyone in Austin. Now beat the **** out of Tech one last time and let's do this thing.
I sure hope he becomes a Texan. It looked like Ewers was playing hurt. Baxter is the latest in a line of great RB's, Blue surprised me. Tackling was a disappointment.
Love that the OL who called the Horns "soft" among other things led his team to 9 yards rushing on 21 carries. He also had this play:
UT dominating.. But as we all know, this is where Sark gets cute with his Madden playsheet.. I expect a momentum swing soon for TT going into the half..
No point in red shirting him. He's going pro in 3 years if he's good at all, no way he stays in school.
I'm ready to get mad about rankings. It's absurd that Oregon is ranked higher than us and Florida State has played an incredibly soft schedule. Oregon beat a wildly overrated and bad Colorado team at home and their best win was on the road against an injury-ridden Utah. Florida State is getting a ton of mileage out of beating LSU and absolutely nobody else. The ACC is a shitty conference this year, but I can't argue against an undefeated power five champion if they win. Go Florida and go Louisville. The real fly in the ointment is our win over Alabama. I bet the committee really wants to rank Alabama as high as six, but they can't put them ahead of us. I also can't imagine they really think Oregon is better than Alabama, but they don't seem to want to put us ahead of the former. It's a weird situation.
The Oregon situation will work itself out - they'll either lose to Washington and be irrelevant, or they win and have a win similar to our Alabama win, a better loss than us (similar result, but on the road against an undefeated team, vs ours at a neutral site against a 2-loss team), and more dominant play in the rest of their schedule. Alabama will also sort itself out, either winning the SEC or being a 2-loss team. This isn't a year where you're likely to get a non-champion in if there's a 1-loss B12 Champ out there so a 1-loss Wash or 1-loss Georgia are probably not in if Texas can win their last game. the real issue is FSU. SEC Champ is in (barring no upsets this week) PAC Champ is in (barring WSU upset this week) Michigan/OSU is in if they win the B10 FSU is in if they go undefeated Texas would be next in line - need Iowa to win or FSU to lose one of the last 2. The rest of the teams just seem like noise.
No. He can play in up to 4 games and still redshirt. This is his 1st and there are 2-3 more games this year.
UT only has themselves to blame for that because of these sorry ass second half performances. It isn't just about who you beat, it's about how good you look in victory, and Texas has repeatedly had their games still in doubt late, usually after marching out to a multiple TD lead. I agree our overall wins look better, but Oregon has consistently blown out their lesser opposition, which is what elite teams are supposed to do in college sports.
I can't argue with that. I'll still say that our road win against Alabama is more impressive than any single Oregon win. Also, we just demolished the same team that Oregon beat by 8 (which was only 8 due to a last-gasp pick-six)
So hypocritically we can play him for the Big12 championship game, the first round of the playoffs the final and still keep his redshirt? Cuz not to be that dude but Archie looks better than Quinn.
