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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

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Just now, The Dog said:

Most people and national sportswriters only saw Texas play once this season and that was the home loss to Georgia.

Then they look at our schedule and see zero current top 25 teams, and they conclude that we've lost to the only decent team we've played and, therefore, shouldn't be ranked very high.

It's lazy, but that's where we are.

Compared to our conference mates we have had the easiest schedule so far

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We will however pull ahead of Ole Miss, Mizzou, & Tennessee when the final games are played as a guess.

The bigger story line should be what a fucking dumpster fire the Big Ten is...

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75% of the Big Ten CFP contenders have had worse schedules than us and 100% of them are likely to finish behind us when the dust settles.

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    I'd rather stay behind Georgia until they come to Austin.  Same way I felt about being behind SC in 05.  I'd rather have something to prove than something to defend.

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    You say a lot of stupid shit and you do it at a rapid, voluminous rate. You’re like a shit howitzer, just fucking blasting the board with constant bullshit. 

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13 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Most people and national sportswriters only saw Texas play once this season and that was the home loss to Georgia.

Then they look at our schedule and see zero current top 25 teams, and they conclude that we've lost to the only decent team we've played and, therefore, shouldn't be ranked very high.

It's lazy, but that's where we are.

And yet we're ranked third by the only organization that matters.

Georgia complaining about our strength of schedule is fucking rich. Don't get me wrong, their schedule this year is a motherfucker but those dickbags have been riding the second tier SEC east gravy train forever. Last year, Georgia essentially had a one game regular season schedule against Ole Miss (at home) and you could give them credit for a "tough" game against 9-4 Tennessee (who lost to every team they played who had a pulse). Their nonconference schedule was UAB, TN-Martin, Ball State, and Georgia Tech. 

There are always going to be inequities in the conference schedules when you have way more teams than games available. That's life. Unless you want to go to a round robin like the Big 12 had and kick a few teams out, you can't control that. It's a function of luck and circumstance (and by god karma) that OU is terrible. We scheduled Michigan for fuck's sake, not Ball State. As if we planned for them to crater after a national championship.

I suppose all this could be good motivation purposes. It may not be a bad idea to play the "lack of respect" / "we haven't beaten anybody" card with the team.

6 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Compared to our conference mates we have had the easiest schedule so far

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We will however pull ahead of Ole Miss, Mizzou, & Tennessee when the final games are played as a guess.

The bigger story line should be what a fucking dumpster fire the Big Ten is...

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75% of the Big Ten CFP contenders have had worse schedules than us and 100% of them are likely to finish behind us when the dust settles.

tOSU got hosed with their conference scheduling. They have to play Oregon (twice probably), Penn St, and Indiana. The other three good teams only had to play tOSU,

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24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And the other wins: 

Miss St - 14-6
Vandy - 21-10
Arky - 10-0

We've held a double digit halftime lead in 8 of 9 wins. 

Outside of Georgia, we've trailed twice this year.  0-3 to OU and 0-7 to Vanderbilt.  Both times, we immediately went down and scored a TD on the next drive and never relinquished the lead.

I understand we have not been perfect, but we have played 540 minutes against teams not named Georgia.  For less than 8 of those minutes, the other team has been able to look up at the scoreboard and see a lead... and never in the second half.  

The complete collapse of the "good" teams on our schedule is forcing our fanbase to overanalyze a season that has genuinely been pretty remarkable.

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I understand we have not been perfect, but we have played 540 minutes against teams not named Georgia.  For less than 8 of those minutes, the other team has been able to look up at the scoreboard and see a lead... and never in the second half.  

NoT gOoD eNoUgH

2 hours ago, heso said:

Those guys are morons. They’re talking about who you’d kick out to let army in if they win out beating notre dame and they conclude that you can’t kick out any of those teams for army.

You’d kick out fucking notre dame because they’d have two losses to army and northern Illinois. 

but they have the huge win at aggy on the road...and 1 huge win offsets 2 shitty losses.  just ask Ole Miss.

26 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Compared to our conference mates we have had the easiest schedule so far

 

That's true, but something we've done that Alabama, Tennessee, and Ole Miss have not is to take care of business against everyone else. If we beat Kentucky this weekend, we will have beaten a team that beat Ole Miss on the road. None of those teams have any argument to be ranked ahead of us as two loss teams.

If anyone wants to complain about our schedule then be sure you didn't lose to one of the shitty teams on it.

22 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Georgia complaining about our strength of schedule is fucking rich. Don't get me wrong, their schedule this year is a motherfucker but those dickbags have been riding the second tier SEC east gravy train forever.

I don't have a problem with anyone saying Georgia should be ranked ahead of us in the CFP rankings as a two-loss team. They're the only team whose strength of schedule should be considered and they kicked our ass. They should be ranked ahead of Ohio State as well. 

24 minutes ago, Pimphand said:

Compared to our conference mates we have had the easiest schedule so far

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We will however pull ahead of Ole Miss, Mizzou, & Tennessee when the final games are played as a guess.

The bigger story line should be what a fucking dumpster fire the Big Ten is...

image.thumb.png.4dd1bd294a027d2f561f3429b76e762f.png

75% of the Big Ten CFP contenders have had worse schedules than us and 100% of them are likely to finish behind us when the dust settles.

The sec has no business talking down on anyone’s strength of schedule until they start playing 9 conference games. Uga and Tenn both play 2-8 ooc games this week where they’re favored by 40+, A&M played NM st last week, 2-8 favored by 40+. Bama played fucking Mercer on Saturday. 

Oregon and Penn state would much rather be playing Mercer or Umass in November instead of Wisconsin & Minnesota. 2 loss sec teams practically getting a week off in November instead of playing Vandy, Arky, Kentucky, or LSU. 

4 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Predicts aggy beats Texas.  Then aggy loses to Bama -- both aggy and Texas miss out on the CFP playoffs.

College Football Playoff BRACKETOLOGY, Week 13 | CFP after BYU, Tennessee fall in BIG 12, SEC play

 

That's absolutely silly...whoever loses the SEC Title and Big 10 Title game are getting in.  The comitee will NOT punish the loser of those 2 games for having to play a game that no one else did.

 

I hate aggy, obviously...but if they beat us and lose in that game they're most likely in.

1 hour ago, field said:

Are they bitching about Tennessee's SEC schedule?  Let's compare:

Texas          Tennessee

v. MSU        v. MSU

v. KT            v. KT

v. FLA          v. FLA

v. OU           @ OU

v. UGA         @ UGA

@ Arky        @ Arky

@ Vandy     @ Vandy

@ A&M       v. Bama

Hmmm.........

 

And their Non Con isn't going to be better than Texas either...

Bitching about this shit is stupid.

Beat Kentucky. Beat aggy. Beat whoever in the CCG. Beat whoever in the playoff. People will stfu.

Don’t do that and, well, diarrhea of the mouth will ensue everywhere.

Bitching has nothing to do with it.

19 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Here's my prediction for chaos.

 

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You would win a ton of money on that parlay...

Bama opened at -2 versus OU?? 

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Bama opened at -2 versus OU?? 

Not knowing when that site starts tracking the lines, that was probably one of a handful of games that had lines at the beginning of the season. 

3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Bama opened at -2 versus OU?? 

It's gotta be a typo.... I imagine they opened at -12 just someone forgot to type the 1

Or as stated pre-season

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1 minute ago, Pimphand said:

It's gotta be a typo.... I imagine they opened at -12 just someone forgot to type the 1

Or as stated pre-season

Very odd to even show a line from 3 months ago

Scattershooting... 

November fatigue is real for teams with depth problems.  Heard a few analysts talk about Oregon struggles in their night game @Whisky being predictable due to so much travel and no bye game since September.  One commentator thought it was probably helpful for Oregon to be tested in a tight game.

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Also thought the following info from Kirby was interesting:  

“Kirby also talked about planning for the Playoff,” Finebaum said. “I mean, this is in the off-season. He essentially said we knew were going to lose a game or two. We just didn’t know to what degree. He was planning for a 16, 17, 18 game schedule, not the predictable 12 game schedule.”

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An old ballcoach once said that the same team doesn't show up every week in a 12 game season and 1 or 2 challenging regular season games can be helpful before the playoffs.  Also, when you play an opponent during your schedule factors into how well your team might play.

example #1: Texas plays jawja in a physical home game then travels to Vandy the following week and struggles.  

2nd example:  Catching the gators in Austin with their 3rd string QB starting.

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All of the above was to set the table for discussions on how the heck do CFB coaches have to adjust to a 15/16 game season???  I'm glad that Sark has been able to rotate more players during the first 10 games and still currently have only 1 loss.

Matchups in the 12 team playoff bracket may be every bit as critical to winning as having the best team.  Sometimes it can come down to styles that are a tough matchup.  The example I use here is Vandy can beat Bama early in the season because Vandy is not banged up and Bama's defense while decent was not that physical.  By the time Vandy played a very physical S.Carolina team with no bye week since Sept they were toast.  So which teams will Texas matchup better against in the CFP playoffs if we get there???   Obviously jawja's defense seems like our kryptonite.  😬

Finally, just wondering how much having an easier playoff draw will likely factor into winning this new 12 team plays ???

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Possible Seeds

#5 PennSt vs #12 BoiseSt  then   #4 Colorado

#6 Georgia vs #11 Indy    then      #3 Miami

#7 OhioSt vs #10 Bama    then      #2 TEXAS

#8 ND vs #9 OleMiss       then     #1 Oregon

 

 

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8 hours ago, field said:

Are they bitching about Tennessee's SEC schedule?  Let's compare:

Texas          Tennessee

v. MSU        v. MSU

v. KT            v. KT

v. FLA          v. FLA

v. OU           @ OU

v. UGA         @ UGA

@ Arky        @ Arky

@ Vandy     @ Vandy

@ A&M       v. Bama

Hmmm.........

 

Yea, but Tenn had to play UTEP, while we played at Michigan!

I guess the question for pawl and others would be would you think we were better if we had beaten Georgia but lost to vandy and arky?  Because that would put us on par with miss and Tenn.  but with an ooc slate with a pulse, and no November cupcake to relax against. 

8 hours ago, HenryJames said:

tOSU got hosed with their conference scheduling. They have to play Oregon (twice probably), Penn St, and Indiana. The other three good teams only had to play tOSU,

What a shame. I'm all broken up about that.

1 minute ago, texifornia said:

 

when did we get beat down by Georgia? did I miss that game. someone should remind him

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3 minutes ago, Hookem10 said:

when did we get beat down by Georgia? did I miss that game. someone should remind him

No reason to sugar coat it, we got our ass kicked.

But Kanell is an imbecile (or troll) per usual. Last I checked, Indiana has a strength of schedule in the triple digits, compared to 50s for Texas. Texas has 5 FPI Top 50 wins compared to Indiana’s 2 (3 to 0 if you look at Top 40).  Indiana barely beat a Michigan team at home that Texas dominated on the road. 

I would think Indiana losing by 2 tds like we did does qualify as keeping it close- provided the margin isn’t because of a couple of late touchdowns to get it down from 28. 

6 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

No reason to sugar coat it, we got our ass kicked.

But Kanell is an imbecile (or troll) per usual. Last I checked, Indiana has a strength of schedule in the triple digits, compared to 50s for Texas. Texas has 5 FPI Top 50 wins compared to Indiana’s 2 (3 to 0 if you look at Top 40).  Indiana barely beat a Michigan team at home that Texas dominated on the road. 

I've seen Texas get an asskicking much more than id like to admit, but that Georgia game was tale of two halves. it was an 8 pt game most of second halve. I thought we were gonna fuck around and win for a bit. 

but if your a longhorn fanatical and watched the whole game and came away that we got our ass kicked than I can only imagine what non Texas fans think.  

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We made mistakes and gave them short fields. I thought we could have won if we had played them again, I did not feel like it was some kind of ass kicking.

Ah well. Doesn't matter. Which is the nice part. All these people bitching about how we don't deserve shit don't matter. We either win or we don't. Our destiny is entirely in the hands of our team. Very refreshing compared to the old days when those idiots opinions decided everything.

I was at the game the dawgs whooped our ass. We have to win every game going forward. We don't have the benefit of the doubt the way we have played lately. Win baby win.

35 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

he's a fucking idiot/troll.  It isn't like we scored a late TD to make it a 15 point game.  It was 23-15 until about 10 min left in the game.  we were actually driving back down after the TD and then quinn fumbled..  We drove back down again and turned it over on downs in Ga territory.

Georgia made 2 fucking plays the entire 2H.

10 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

I was at the game the dawgs whooped our ass. We have to win every game going forward. We don't have the benefit of the doubt the way we have played lately. Win baby win.

I wasn't physically at the game so maybe the asskicking wasn't properly communicated on TV.

Anyway getting into the playoffs after losing to one of two shitty teams like Kentucky and A&M should be too shameful to contemplate anyway.

1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

I wasn't physically at the game so maybe the asskicking wasn't properly communicated on TV.

Anyway getting into the playoffs after losing to one of two shitty teams like Kentucky and A&M should be too shameful to contemplate anyway.

Why?

7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Why?

Because they are terrible and we should win convincingly.

But seriously, a playoff team should be able to handle its business. I don't want to see Texas back into anything like we are Sooners or something.

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15 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Because they are terrible and we should win convincingly.

But seriously, a playoff team should be able to handle its business. I don't want to see Texas back into anything like we are Sooners or something.

Well, and I can only speak for me, I couldn't care less if we back in because that means we have a shot at winning the national championship.

6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Well, and I can only speak for me, I couldn't care less if we back in because that means we have a shot at winning the national championship.

Well hopefully we won't be in that position anyway.

I just don't see a team who can't beat A&M and Kentucky winning the national championship. But I guess anybody can get hot at the right time.

1 hour ago, Hookem10 said:

when did we get beat down by Georgia? did I miss that game. someone should remind him

Their offense didn’t do shit. One possession over 35 yards with points. Our D is consistently great

2 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Their offense didn’t do shit. One possession over 35 yards with points. Our D is consistently great

Well I guess if you want to say their defense beat down our offense that would be accurate.

13 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Well hopefully we won't be in that position anyway.

I just don't see a team who can't beat A&M and Kentucky winning the national championship. But I guess anybody can get hot at the right time.

I haven't seen anyone claim we CAN'T beat a&m. Of course we can.

WILL we? I certainly think so. The oddsmakers think so. Most here think so. Doesn't mean an upset won't happen. 

But, even if we don't, we are still certainly CAPABLE of winning the title. I think we are on a short list of teams with a decent chance to do so.

1 hour ago, Hookem10 said:

when did we get beat down by Georgia? did I miss that game. someone should remind him

Guys Texas shit its pants on big time national prime time TV. Stop trying to act like that was even close to a respectable loss. The defense looked salty and the offense looked like a fucking liability. 

30 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Well hopefully we won't be in that position anyway.

I just don't see a team who can't beat A&M and Kentucky winning the national championship. But I guess anybody can get hot at the right time.

There isn't a single elite team in college football this year. It's wide open.

10 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

And we exposed Carson Beck to the world

Carson Beck had been exposing himself weekly...

Not like that.

4 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Carson Beck had been exposing himself weekly...

Not like that.

He's not the only SEC QB exposing himself weekly...

Not like that.

It’s funny how perception works. This has been Ole Miss’ conference journey:

-Loses at home to a horrible Kentucky team
-Plays South Carolina with Sellers playing through injury
-Loses to a horrible LSU team in a game where they had a 96% win probability at one point in the 4th quarter 
-In a 16-14 game at home halfway through the third quarter against the worst Oklahoma team in 25 years
-Smoked Arkansas in a game where Taylen Green got hurt and Ja’Quinden Jackson didn’t play
-Beats Georgia at home

So they lost to two bad teams, played two backup or hurt QB’s, played with their food against OU and got up for one game against Georgia and all of a sudden they are now a lock for the playoff. Of course add in their non conference slate of Furman, Middle Tennessee State, Georgia Southern and Wake Forest.

It’s funny how in the eyes of some, winning one big game apparently excuses losing to two horrible teams.

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5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

It’s funny how perception works. This has been Ole Miss’ conference journey:

-Loses at home to a horrible Kentucky team
-Plays South Carolina with Sellers playing through injury
-Loses to a horrible LSU team in a game where they had a 96% win probability at one point in the 4th quarter 
-In a 16-14 game at home halfway through the third quarter against the worst Oklahoma team in 25 years
-Smoked Arkansas in a game where Taylen Green got hurt and Ja’Quinden Jackson didn’t play
-Beats Georgia at home

So they lost to two bad teams, played two backup or hurt QB’s, played with their food against OU and got up for one game against Georgia and all of a sudden they are now a lock for the playoff. Of course add in their non conference slate of Furman, Middle Tennessee State, Georgia Southern and Wake Forest.

It’s funny how in the eyes of some, winning one big game apparently excuses losing to two horrible teams.

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oh man , thank you for this. you'll probably see this copy pasted somewhere soon 

OU is similar to Texas in that they're at the mercy of which version of their QB shows up. Our QB is much, much better so that masks much of the comparison, but Arnold has shown brief flashes of competency.

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