I agree. Wasn't that bizarre? It was like he decided to make the "safe" play. Don't throw an interception on 4th and 5! Completely bizarre. On 2nd down in the 3rd quarter, that's a great play. In over time on 4th...that's beyond strange.
it reminds me of the end of the UT/UW holiday bowl when their qb just ran out of bounds without chunking it up Hail Mary style at the end of the game. i mean, their season ends on that play and he just goes out. it's beyond me how that could happen. i could never go down with anything but guns blazing. of course, football is the sport where more stupid stuff like this happens than any other sport and is just accepted. i mean, can you imagine a bball team being down 3 at the end of the game and because someone's playing good D on the guy he just picks up his dribble, waits for time to expire, hands the ball to the official, and then walks off the court? and then no one makes a big deal about it? that's basically what this guy did. edit: and could hornfans pull a Clutch and get a badass server for their site that doesn't go down after every big game. we could win the world title over the heat on a last second 3 and things would run smooth. UT gets a comeback on ku and it goes down. of course, i guess if people don't contribute enough over there (and i don't) they can't get one. but i'll still complain.
another thing hornfans owners friggin suck. I got banned for posting something that was deemed inflammatory on the West Mall. f LonghornGirlie
Hornfans should add a tip jar instead of a monthly fee. Surprisingly I've never gotten banned there, but I've never stated my true feelings cough Butch Davis cough there persian hoopa, it must have been real bad to get banned. Usually you get warned.
If there is one site on the Net that clutchfans.net doesn't want to be, it's hornfans.com. I live in Austin and have yet to meet a person who says "It's a great site and I love it!" Which is not to say there are not such idiots; I just choose not to associate with the kind of people who revel in rainbows and puppies and blind fealty to the athletic department at UT. Just subscribe to orangebloods.com and be done with it. Although, to be fair, there are similarities. They had Bob Wheeler, we had Frank Swindle.
So what's your excuse for not making it out to any of the get togethers in the past? Speaking of.....any Austin Rocket fans down for getting together sometime soon at Aussies, Legends, etc??
With Wisconsin getting pounded today, UT may get left out of the BCS again this year. Utah will now move up to at least #6 in the BCS (assuming they beat Wyoming tonight), guaranteeing them a place in a BCS bowl. It would then come down to the Rose Bowl picking either Cal or UT, and I'd suspect they'd go with Cal to keep the Big 10 vs PAC 10.
Why would Utah move ahead of Texas? Plus Texas has another top 25 team left on the schedule. I think the worst thing that can happen to Texas now is what happened to them last season or Auburn losing in the SEC Title game because I’m pretty sure they won’t lose to Bama. If they finish undefeated and lose in the Title game they will still probably be ranked ahead of Texas and get an at-large bid. I guess if USC loses to Notre Dame it could hurt them also but as long as Oklahoma doesn’t lose and they win they should be alright.
There was an article last week saying the Liberty Bowl wouldn't release Utah, but then contracts are always made to be broken. The MWC could break it, pay off the Liberty Bowl, and have more per team probably than the Liberty Bowl pays out total to the conference.
y'all don't understand. we won't get passed by utah or get out picked, we will lose out b/c of the rules for automatic bids if things stay the way they are. Cal is currently top 4. if you're in a bcs conference and top 4, you must be picked (assuming there aren't 2 other top 4, non conference champions ahead of you). so Cal will have to be picked. also, if you are a non-BCS conference school and in the top 6, you must be picked. this even takes precedence over the top 4 rule. so as it stands with the wisconsin loss, utah will be #6 and thus must be picked. the only way for them to not be picked is i believe if two at large teams are in the BCS title game. that won't happen. they will be picked, Cal will be picked and a #5 bcs Horns team would be left out. complete crap, but it would happen if the bcs stands as it is. and we would get to be at home watching friggin' boston college play in a bcs game possibly. how's that for fair.
As it stands, Texas will once again be passed over. By a Utah team that almost nobody actually believes is their equal. That is ranked below them. But gets an automatic bid by being in the top 6. The Horns did their part today...but got screwed by a team above them losing. Strange, but true. francis 4 perez has it right - Texas is the odd team out right now, despite being ranked way up there.
it really is amazing that there just happen to be two auto bid teams and they are just both barely squeezing into the auto bid slots (#4 and #6) and then we just happen to be sandwiched between them. every year some non-bcs team wins a bunch of games but then eventually loses. so of course this will be the year they hang on to go undefeated. i wanna say there was at least one team we had a chance at catching in the computers even if they won out but that may have been wisconsin and not cal and obviously that would be rendered moot by wisconsin's loss now. we've got every bit the claim to a bcs game as cal (assuming of course we beat a&m and i'm not counting my chickens before they hatch but just to discuss) and every bit the claim as utah (as our higher ranking shows) but we'll miss out. and then everyone will b**** about mack not making a bcs bowl ever as if it's valid this year. it's been valid and our fault plenty. this won't be one of those years if we win out and are 10-1 with a loss to #2.
I honestly believe that Utah would beat UT. UT has beaten 1 opponent this year that is currently ranked, and that opponent is ranked #25, Oklahoma State...and that win required coming back from the biggest deficit in UT's history. UT has looked pretty bad in eeking out wins against flat out crappy teams such as Missouri and Kansas. The other ranked team you've played this year (Oklahoma) held you scoreless. Utah titty-whipped A&M, making them look silly. An undefeated Utah team has a more legitimate claim to a BCS game than does UT in my opinion.
UT loses the Arkansas game if Matt Jones doesn't fumble at the end. They lose the Kansas game if not for a miracle play with 11 seconds left. They eek out a win against a poor Missouri team at home. They are dominated by Oklahoma. They don't strike me as a BCS-caliber team at all.
Let's not forget that the winner of the crappy Big East is guaranteed a place in a BCS bowl has well, it looks like that spot will be going to a 7-2 Boston College. Alright UT fans, lets all root against Utah tonight, it's our best shot of getting into a BCS bowl. With 3 minutes left in the first, Utah and Wyoming are tied at 7. On the bright side, Wyoming are undefeated at home this season... EDIT: So much for our hope in Wyoming, with 10 minutes left in the second Utah is up 24-7.
who has utah beat this year but a&m? we b****-slapped tech who is ranked in one poll just like they killed a&m. and we've still got a chance to beat a&m. arkansas we definitely eeked out, kansas was terrible (although the "miracle play" didn't keep us from losing TJ, we still could've just kicked a fg -assuming mangum makes it- to go to OT and win). missouri was a flat performance following the ou game but there never really any chance we would lose. i was at the game and never once got worried we might actually lose. even when they had it down 8. you just knew we'd wake up just enough from the post-ou hangover to make whatever play we needed and win. and we did. at the end of the day, we're 9-1 with the loss being to the #2 team in the country. that's more than a lot of teams can say. i'm sure utah might have a few more squeakers if they ever played anyone. maybe they do deserve it more than us but there's no real comparison that can be made to figure who is better. they haven't lost but they play crap teams. we've lost but we play in an actual conference. would utah have beaten ou? the computers like us more and they have no reason to be biased. either way, the true injustice isn't not getting in because of utah, it's being #5 and watching at least 4 teams ranked behind us possibly getting in, one of them being a pitiful big east team. of course, we still have to beat tamu.
