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Post by archie on Sept 9, 2013 14:45:50 GMT -5
TCU at Texas Tech - This is a real litmus test for both teams. TCU is supposed to be a darkhorse contender, games like this are ones they have to win if that's going to be true. For Tech, it's a great chance to make a really good impression to people around the country
Georgia State at West Virginia - GSU has no business being a FCS team, the entire football program is only in their 4th year of existence
Tulsa at Oklahoma - Not much intrigue in this one, should be over after the 1st quarter
Iowa at Iowa State - ISU has shown over the years that they give Iowa all they can handle
Massachusetts at Kansas State - KSU needs to keep building, sharpen things up a little before the Texas game next week, nothing more than a tune up in this one
Lamar at Oklahoma State - just like KSU, just iron out those wrinkles on offense and defense, they're the early season favorite for the conference title, but nobody is really making a statement so far
Kansas at Rice - Rice is a tricky team, they have some offensive threats and can make you pay if you're not careful
Ole Miss at Texas - Not a good team to rebound with after a terrible defensive effort, I see this as a swing game for Texas' season, win and they can rally to 9 or 10 wins, but 7 or 8 losses isn't out of the question if they lose again
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Post by longhorn99 on Sept 10, 2013 19:06:47 GMT -5
TCU at Tech figures to be the game of the week in the Big 12 after Texas tanked in the mountains last week. Picking TCU on the road but Tech can also come up with a big win at home.
With easy wins over rivals the likes of Georgia State, Mass and Lamar, better games in the conference include Tulsa at OU, KU at Rice and Iowa at Iowa State where I am only picking OU to win.
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Post by archie on Sept 11, 2013 12:08:21 GMT -5
The Texas-Ole Miss game is very interesting. It's a major indicator of what we should expect from Texas this year. The defense got all the criticism, but I also wonder if the offense is really fixed. The most troubling thing about the BYU loss is that BYU isn't very good, they're not bad, but not good either. They're a middle of the pack, others receiving votes, type of team, and they made Texas look bad on offense and defense. Texas needs this game against Ole Miss! Despite what pollsters thought in the preseason (pollsters who only ever look at recruiting rankings, btw), Texas is NOT and never was a title contender this year. They weren't going to compete for the national championship regardless of the BYU game, but if Ole Miss runs them off the field Saturday, then it could be a loooooong season.
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Post by lynchmob42 on Sept 12, 2013 9:31:26 GMT -5
TCU at Texas Tech - I'm stoked to watch this and get Big 12 play under way!
Georgia State at West Virginia -GSU lost in last year's semifinals to NDSU. I don't know what they bring back, but if they're that good.... they can win at WVU.
Tulsa at Oklahoma - No intrigue? After what I saw from OU last week, I'm intrigued.
Iowa at Iowa State - ISU is very bad.
Massachusetts at Kansas State - UMass is awful! The only thing to measure in this game is K-State's defense. UMass was blanked by Wisconsin, and only scored 14 at home in a loss to Maine. K-State's starters shouldn't give up a score.
Lamar at Oklahoma State - Who is Lamar, and how is one guy going to take on the entire Cowboy team? They've got money, pay-for-play, recreational drugs....
Kansas at Rice - it would be a BIG step forward for KU to win at Rice
Ole Miss at Texas - Ole Miss is not a good SEC team, but this UT thing could turn into one of the biggest train wrecks of our time. They could pretty quickly lose to Mississippi, K-State and Oklahoma and be 2-4, when they were supposed to be conference title contenders.
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Post by archie on Sept 12, 2013 10:58:43 GMT -5
Lynch, you're thinking of Georgia Southern, not Georgia State. Georgia Southern is a FCS powerhouse that regularly goes to the playoffs and competes for the FCS title. They lost to North Dakota State last season. Georgia State is a commuter and transient school in downtown Atlanta, they only started their football program in 2010 and went 6-5, 3-8 and 1-10 in their first 3 years of FCS football, now they're moving into FBS to play in the Sun Belt. They're trying to model their program after the University of Houston, and U of Alabama-Birmingham. They're an infant football program that is trying to grow too big too fast, they might get there one day, but today they're an atrocious football team!
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Post by longhorn99 on Sept 12, 2013 12:53:06 GMT -5
Ole Miss is ranked #25 is considered an up-and-coming "good" SEC team. Better than UMass I presume  Let's see if Texas at BYU was an anomaly or if Texas is truly going to be a trainwreck. We did beat a good Oregon State team in our bowl and the defense played better in the last few games. Based on that one would think Texas should be better this year since we return almost everyone from last year. It remains to be seen. Beat Ole Miss and they go on to have a good season like Archie said. |
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Post by archie on Sept 12, 2013 13:24:04 GMT -5
Texas fans don't realize it right now, but they're in the worst place a sports fan can be... their team is stuck "the middle" with no way to win your way out of it. When the best case scenario for a team that is supposed to be a contender is still "middle of the pack", then it's time for fans to root for losses. That's a horrible state of mind for fans to be in, but it's the only way a change is going to happen. Mack Brown is not going to get this team back to national championship contention, and the administration is not going to fire him despite middling results, the only way out is to lose! Lose enough games that fans quit showing up and the admins simply don't have a choice anymore!
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Post by Mohawk on Sept 12, 2013 22:10:50 GMT -5
Impressive win by Texas Tech tonight. Congrats.
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Post by lynchmob42 on Sept 12, 2013 22:19:48 GMT -5
Impressive win by Texas Tech tonight. Congrats. Weird. |
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Post by archie on Sept 13, 2013 9:50:59 GMT -5
Definitely weird! Breaking in a new head coach, entirely new staff, young QB and young offensive line... we'll take a win any way we can get it. We're in the program building phase right now, winning tight nail biters like that is good for the team morale.
I wouldn't call it an "impressive win", we scraped and clawed and held on in the end. I doubt we end up ranked after this win, but with one more tune up game next week and a bye the week after, we should be ready for a very friendly start to the conference schedule with @kansas-Iowa State-@west Virginia.
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Post by Mohawk on Sept 13, 2013 15:30:52 GMT -5
Texas fans don't realize it right now, but they're in the worst place a sports fan can be... their team is stuck "the middle" with no way to win your way out of it. When the best case scenario for a team that is supposed to be a contender is still "middle of the pack", then it's time for fans to root for losses. That's a horrible state of mind for fans to be in, but it's the only way a change is going to happen. Mack Brown is not going to get this team back to national championship contention, and the administration is not going to fire him despite middling results, the only way out is to lose! Lose enough games that fans quit showing up and the admins simply don't have a choice anymore! There was a discussion on another board this morning speculating who would lose their jobs first between Mack Brown, Rick Barnes and Deloss Dodds. Now reportedly Dodds will step down at the end of the year. I think that pretty much spells the end for Mack Brown as well. |
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Post by lynchmob42 on Sept 13, 2013 15:49:57 GMT -5
At the end of the calendar year, no less.
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Post by architechguy on Sept 15, 2013 17:05:23 GMT -5
I expect Texas to totally clean house this offseason. And by "clean house", I mean that place will be so clean and sterile you can do heart surgeries in at football complex.
I've been saying this for years, but Texas fans told me I was crazy, but I think we're seeing years worth of problems bubbling to the surface. Texas fans, you have been lied to, plain and simple. Lied to by the media, lied to by recruiting services, and lied to by your own coaches. The simple truth is that your players aren't not as good as you've been told. Herein lies the problem, your fanbase is so large that it commands the attention of the media, a media whose job it is to tell you whatever they have to tell you to keep reading, listening, or watching. Examples of this are the marginal, unheralded recruits who conspicuously get an extra star rating added to their profile after they commit to Texas, or that magazine with a financial incentive to rate hugely popular teams a few spots higher than normal, or a major tv network with a multimillion annual contract to broadcast your games. All these people have sold you a bill of goods because its profitable to do so. That leads us back to that simple truth, your players are not as good as the financially motivated liars told you they are. What's worse, your over reactive coaching staff has drastically overhauled their offensive and defensive schemes and play books every offseason for the last three seasons, therefor undermining the ability of your players to develop. The truth is in the pudding, ask NFL scouts and they'll tell you that Texas players are not any better at their senior day than they are as freshmen.
Simply put, the system is broken for Texas Football!
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Post by lynchmob42 on Sept 15, 2013 19:54:43 GMT -5
Besides that Texas didn't bounce back, and TCU's not a conference title contender, did we learn anything in Week 3?
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Post by archie on Sept 16, 2013 8:27:43 GMT -5
Besides that Texas didn't bounce back, and TCU's not a conference title contender, did we learn anything in Week 3? Iowa State is worse than we thought. Kansas is not improving. Tech is the front runner for the annual prize of "Least Deserving Top 15 Team of the Year" award. Last year, Mississippi State won the trophy by racing out to 7-0 and a top 15 ranking before finishing the season with 5 of 6 games against ranked opponents and losing all 5 of those games and finishing outside the top 25. Tech is 3-0 right now, with the upcoming stretch of Texas State, bye week, @kansas, Iowa State and @west Virginia. Tech may be 7-0 and ranked in the top 15 going into the last weekend of October with zero resume to back it up. |
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