i like how texxx knew that Texas would blow out Ok St in the second half and win going away so he built in his escape clause of "it doesnt matter what happens in the 2nd half..." because the game is 30 minutes long, right?
i can understand hatred for the Longhorns. i can respect cheering for their opponents to beat them. But to celebrate like it's pizza day in elementary school at halftime is pretty effin dumb.
Ole texxx (or as SamFisher calls him Yosemite Sam) has to get his shots in when the opportunity presents itself, LOL.
ended up winning by 19, not very impressive in that 1st half, almost the exact same game as last year. but, they should still be #2. va. tech isn't better than texas, and their strength of schedule isn't any better either despite what people say. just look at it. texas has beaten two teams ranked in the top 10 when they played them and beat the #24 team in colorado. texas is still #2 to me.
UT simply out talented them in the 2nd half. Games/opponents like this isn't exactly great preparation for USC. If VTech runs the table with wins over Miami and FSU and are ranked #3 at the end of the year that would be BS. Overall the Big 12 is pretty weak, its Texas and the rest.
Ha ha ha....I, bigtexxx, would like to interrupt this conversation with some comic fodder known as my "opinion!"
I believe that UT stuck to their guns and eventually OSU ran out of gas. Great 2nd half D and Vince has a hell of a future ahead of him.
Texas needs to face reality, here. If they do, they won't come this close again until the final game of the season. (1) Gene Chizik is an excellent DC. But he's not as good as we think. OSU's OC made Gene Chizik his absolute b**** in the 1st half. Chizik called the wrong plays. Consistently. He didn't realize - until late in the 3rd quarter - that Pena couldn't handle the blitz. If he'd realized this earlire, this never would have been a game. Gene Chizik sucked ass today. It happened. Don't try to erase history. He's no longer perfect. We need to deal with it. (2) Incredible team speed can't always compensate for godawful tackling and hesitancy. In the 1st half, our DL blew up their OL as often as not. But when we did. we hesitated, and they gained 3 yards. Then they'd gain 7, when their OL beat out DL. If we'd made the 1st tackle every time, the "blow ups" would have been losses, and their victories would have been desultory 3 yard gains. Our chicken**** defensive passivity resulted in a close game. It sucked. (3) Vince looked like a scared little girl at times and overthrew the ball way too many times. It happened. Yes, he was god-like again in the 2nd half. That doesn't change the fact that he looked like redshirt freshman vince crossed with...ermm...Matt Nordgren in the 1st half. (4) Our WRs decided that catching the ball just wasn't for them in the 1st half. They didn't want it. They got easy catches, jump balls, etc. They didn't sack up. Wah. Wah. Stop buying your own hype. (5) The refs. Let's face it, in the 1st half, they did screw us a few times. (6) The bounces. We sucked, but we didn't get any luck from the bounce of the pig skin in that 1st half.
They won by 19 points. USC does the same thing. I don't think any point during the game did I think Texas was going to lose. I mean they can play like crap and still beat the rest of the teams on their schedule by 15 points. I mean they aren't in the SEC.
Someone call the FCC, the Pax channel was showing beastiality p*rn tonight. They were calling it the C-USA Game of the Week.
And when USC won by a (relatively) narrow margin, Longhorn fans (including me) all across the nation were demanding an immediate drop in the polls. The Horns were annihilating all opposition. USC looked weak. Well, now the tables are turned. USC dominated WSU from opening kick off. The horns looked worse than aggy for 1/2. Are we hypocrites? Or do we concede we should lose a few votes...and then beat the ever living **** out of baylor next week?
Absolutely we should lose votes. We gained votes the last several weeks while rolling over opponents, and should lose them if we struggle relative to other teams. That said, just about every national champion has games like this. It's not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things. And as much as people like to panic in October about the BCS, there's simply no way to know anything until early December. Anyone who says VaTech can't (or definitely will) jump us is flat-out lying because much of it depends on not only how both teams look over the next month, but also how other teams (like Ohio State, Florida State, ULaLa, etc) do. It's impossible to predict at this point, and it's a waste of time to worry about it now. Nothing ever ends up like it looked in October.
I remember another national championship team from this decade having a hard time with OSU during their title run. They didn't even end up winning by 19.
19 Points is not a narrow win thats blowing a team out by nearly 3 TDs. Winning like UCLA is a narrow win.
major: From what I understand of the math, it will be very difficult for VT to jump Texas. They need quite a few humans to switch their votes...and a lot of love for the computers. And the more other unbeaten teams that lose...the fewer teams that computers will "consider" placing above TX. Down goes Georgia. Every computer will have Texas, at minimum, #5. Once Bama and one of UCLA/USC lose, that'll be a minimum of #3. Texas will go to the Rose, barring a disaster. But we do deserve a little crap for tonight.
On the computers, Texas is already #1. Every unbeaten that loses gets VaTech closer. Anyone who told you that math on the computers is simply wrong. Everyone said last year at this time that there was no question if Auburn ran the table, OU was screwed - no way OU could make it. People simply don't understand the system and how much can change in a very short period of time. VaTech will gain lots of votes if they were to stomp Miami and Florida State, and deservedly so. That right there will put the whole thing in a mess. If the computers make it #1 VaTech, #2 USC, and #3 Texas (very realistic), then all sorts of things could happen. For comparison, Texas currently has a 0.6 lead in the BCS over VaTech. Between last week and this week, Texas completely erased a 0.4 deficit behind USC. In 4 weeks, with games against UCLA, Florida State, Miami, Fresno State, the B12 Title game, etc, all sorts of stuff can happen.
Last week, assuming that the sagarin ratings (historically, the most accurate ratings system) played out accurately, texas was in, easily. The real issue is this: the computers don't rate the ACC as highly as do humans. The ACC has taken some lumps. Their teams don't always look that great. Vtech gets less credit for beating mediocre ACC teams than some given them. Meanwhile, the Big 12 isn't as bad as humans think. People have it rated barely above the Big East. Yet statistically, last week it was #4 and *very* close to #3. We need less to "happen" than VT does, to get to the title game. I don't like false optimism, but excessive caution is even worse.
You are looking at the computers as they are now, rather than a worst case scenario of what they might be - which was what was being proposed. Worst case -VaTech is No. 1 in all computer polls, Texas is No. 3 - the Hokies still need significant help from the human pollsters.
