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2025 Random Games thread
Someone else made an observation that I think is totally true: It's hard to remember a Texas-OU game in the last 10 years with fewer momentum swings. OU fans had almost no big plays to cheer for. No turnovers. Very few chunk-yardage plays. Nothing on special teams. Just a few first downs and a couple mid-range FGs. Their biggest cheers all day were for pregame OU douchebaggery (trying to pick fights during warm-ups) and for Mateer taking the field.
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2025 Random Games thread
Yeah, they're what Georgia was up until the last 5 years: Pre-season top-10 Feast on cupcake schedule Go 3-3 vs teams with a pulse. Finish 9-3. Pre-season top-10 Repeat. They'll make the playoffs, but I cannot imagine a Miami team winning four tough, physical playoff games to end a season.
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2025 Random Games thread
- 2025 Random Games thread
Calling two timeouts there is kind of bush league.- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Texas vs. ou - 2:30pm on ABC
- Tell me about ou
I'm still angry too. Coming into that RRS, the *consensus* was "OU is playing better than anyone!"... and we kicked their ass on a neutral field, scoring TD after TD in the second half while they were punting, fake punting, and flop punting. We were clearly the tougher, better team, and we proved it, winning by two scores and leaving no doubt. That was one of the most satisfying wins in UT history. Then a few weeks later, we lost on the road to a top-5 team... on the last snap from scrimmage. Which put us in a 3-way tie, in a round robin where we were the only team not to get a home game, and OU was the only team not to play a road game. And at the end of the year: "OU is playing better than anyone!" while Briles, Stoops, and their entire coaching trees were voting UT #5 in the coaching poll (which was part of the formula at the time). Such bullshit. Did I already say that I'm still angry?- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
- Auburn @ Oklahoma
I really cannot remember the last time "let's bring in our rules expert" led to an insightful comment.- 2025 Random Games thread
When Fox cuts away to the shot of the Big 12 review center, does anyone else's brain automatically fill in the Benny Hill theme music?- Alabama @ FSU - ABC
Did anyone see this coming? I don't follow Bama all that closely, so I didn't really have an opinion on the Tide... but I sure heard a lot of pundits assure us they'd be "back" this year.- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
Yeah, I thought the biggest question marks were 1) can the transfer DT's just be serviceable vs good running teams, and 2) are the WRs who waited their turns to be starters good enough to threaten a defense? So far: yes, and no. Man, what I would give for Golden, Bolden, Worthy, or Mitchell.- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
Yeah, our transfer DTs have done a pretty good job, and that felt like the biggest question mark coming into the game. The defense is one poorly-timed penalty from shutting out some of the best skill players in the country. The offense is just terribly out-of-sorts, and given Sark's history of superb pre-game preparation in games like this (Bama, Michigan), that's a massive disappointment.- #1 Texas vs. #3 Ohio State - 11am on Fox
- Nebraska / Cincy - 8 pm central ESPN
Yeah, at the beginning of that drive, they were averaging 6.8 yards per rush and less than 2 yards per completion. And they came out with five wide. Ugh.- Nebraska / Cincy - 8 pm central ESPN
Cincinnati has done Nebraska a huge favor by making themselves one-dimensional when there was still two minutes left in the game- Nebraska / Cincy - 8 pm central ESPN
Cincinnati goes into the fourth quarter averaging 5.7 yards per rush, yet they only have one touchdown. That seems like bad coaching to me. They're like a bear, with these fangs and these big claws. And they're just saying, "How do I kill the bunny?"- The Guitar Pron Thread
Careful, AUTF. tbone is going to bill you for 75 minutes of work related to this case.- The Yogurt Shop Murders: HBO Max
"Creek people" is such ominous shorthand for "kids who lived in the neighborhood and used to sneak out and meet up to drink alcohol." (edit) If that is the criteria, then pretty much everyone on this thread was a member of "vacant lot people," "local park people," "undeveloped wooded area people," etc.- The Yogurt Shop Murders: HBO Max
A few random thoughts after episode 3: 1. In a case with both incriminating and exonerating evidence, the filmmaker has a lot of power to influence your opinion. In this case, it seems like Margaret Brown had a shit ton of hours of "confession" footage to pick from, and she could show either the most absurd moments (things that objectively couldn't have been true) or the most incriminating moments to push us either way. 2. The fact that two of the suspects in completely separate interviews told a story about one of them (Scott?) attempting to rape a girl but being unable to "perform".... I mean, that seems like a HIGHLY specific and consistent anecdote where it strikes me as EXTREMELY unlikely that each of them just came up with that detail independently. 3. It occurs to me that this might be a case study of the failures of the Reid interview techniques: it generates confessions (often false) from the weaker and arguably less-culpable suspects, but fails to obtain one from a the ringleader/sociopath. There doesn't seem to be any dissent from either these four suspects or from law enforcement or from the "creek people" who casually knew them that Maurice was the "alpha" among these four (though lately that term is wildly overused). 4. My observations in both #2 and #3 might be wholly due to #1.- The Yogurt Shop Murders: HBO Max
Really? I don't know anything about that theory, and maybe you know a lot more about this case than I do (which is admittedly not much). But that doesn't ring true to me. It's way more shocking, way more titillating, way more seductive in the way that conspiracies are seductive. But that would be a *big* conspiracy which would require the silence/complicity of a lot more people, which, to me, makes it way less likely than the much simpler theory that "teenage losers" did it and got away with it.- The Yogurt Shop Murders: HBO Max
Raider would be an example of "violent people are going to continue to do violent things," right? Maybe that's the point you were making(?). I'm just saying: Sometimes when even the most horrific of crimes is solved, it turns out that the murderer went on to lead a law-abiding life. - 2025 Random Games thread
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