Can Texas go to Fiesta Bowl if Miami and Ohio State both lose 1 game?

Kinda like TU? Except that's been around for decades.

 

Oh so flipping a schools initials are the same as using their logo to spell out something personally insulting like "eat me?" Is that really what you are saying?

Look when people in the early 90s were wearing shirts saying Culture vs. Agriculture...it was all good. That sort of stuff is to be expected in a rivalry...but honestly...can't you come up with something better?

 

I didn't come up with it. And Aggies mean it in an insulting way when they say TU.

Come on dude, you are so biased when it comes to Aggies it's ridiculous. Ridiculous, I tell you!!!

eATMe is just as stupid as TU. It's all stupid. Get over it.

 

you're right, Refman. the eATMe part was childish.

the rest of the insult, however, was cleverly constructed and an effective dig at your joke of a football program.

 

Honestly, UT held onto Mackovic a year too long. The 1996 Big 12 championship saved Macovic, imo.


These last 3 games would have been big games had UT lost. Every game in NU is a big game. They just don't lose there. 73-2. Unbelievable.

KSU is stout and I think they should have beaten CU. They're #12, so two more spots, and that'll count as a big game.

Even if Mack leaves for an nfl team, the next guy will be left with alot of talent and maybe the easiest place to recruit. Texas high schools have alot of talent, and UT is the flagship school of Texas.

 

It was. To answer the question posed by your clever dig...I could say the next Bear Bryant...or the next Dana Bible.

 

Why did Bryant leave A$M for Bama?

 

It wasn't long ago that A&M was the best team in Texas...all I am saying is that it is slippery at the top, and should Mack leave or be fired (dumb idea but not out of the realm of possibility) a fall from grace is not as improbable as you may think.

 

Alabama was his alma mater. Most people would leave a job to coach at their alma mater.

 

What's the overall score?

Sure, TAMU was better for a decade or so. Just like Michigan St. will occasionally be better than Michigan. But such periods will probably always be anomalous, due to either TAMU hiring an absolutely brilliant coach, or Texas hiring an exceptionally bad one.

 

For a school that until last year didn't have a top ten finish since 1983, you would think that UT fans wouldn't talk so much smack about being the "flagship program" of anything. Especially not after the ritual pounding your team gets against Oklahoma. SMU and Houston used to be big programs- nothing is assured. The right coach with the right players can resurrect any program, just as the wrong coach can torpedo a program. I like UT more than A&M, but it's not like the Aggies are incapable of competing with the Longhorns. If they get somebody like Dennis Franchione, who now coaches an Alabama team that is on probation, they are right back into national title contention (Bear Bryant in reverse?). They certainly recruit on that level already.

 

Elvis, actually ATM's problems lately has been recruiting. Texas had that problem because Mackovic alienated high school coaches. Flagship, to me, means premier university in Texas. When people from other states think of Texas, they think UT, imo.

SMU competed because they were a dirty program. UH had what, 2 or three years in the sun? And, we've struggled with OU lately, but not long ago, the shoe was on the other foot. We still hold a substantial lead in that all-time series.

 

It was a decade of complete dominance. I know because I witnessed most of it.

I'd prefer to compile to overall score after A&M stopped being all-military. Only at that point did the 2 schools become comparable in any meaningful way.

 

It should be pointed out that the decade of total dominance was due, for the most part, to activities which caused the NCAA to come down hard on A&M, and even consider the Death Penalty.

 

Three years out of 93 makes it a ritual? Thanks, didn't know that. It would seem like 55-37-1 (soon to be 56) would be more of one.

Oh, and either leading or trailing by four going into the fourth quarter doesn't seem like a pounding to me.

 

This is the dumbest comment I have ever read. The Death Penalty was never considered. You had ONE player and ONE instance. No officials were implicated in the wrongdoing. A&M was penalized for "a lack of institutional control." That by the NCAA's definitions at the time was a minor infraction. One year no bowl game and a couple of lost scholarships. That isn't coming down hard.

What happened was an alum gave Greg Hill a job. Hill didn't show up and Hill got paid anyway. The instance with that one player in 1994 didn't cause A&M to whip up on Texas throughout the early to mid 1990s.

Get real.

If you are referring to Jackie Sherrill's tenure at A&M...the penalities were just as light. By the time 1990 rolled around there were no restrictions on the program. In 1988 the Sherrill stories broke...but by 1990 there were no restrictions. Oh yeah...they REALLY thought about killing the program before just slapping it on the wrist gently.

 

I'm not sure ATM was gonna be given the death penalty. But, I assume that the ncaa is alot more hesistant to use the death penalty after what it's done to SMU.

Was Bama ever in jeopardy of given the death penalty?

 

Do you seriously care who won before you were born? I wonder when that 56th win will actually come......

 

1/3/2003.

 

OU fans care when they brag about 7 national championships.

Texas fans care when they bring up 755 wins as of the end of last season (4th winningest program in college football history behind Michigan, Notre Dame, and Nebraska).