November 23Nov 23 27 minutes ago, Valmy77 said: Beat A&M. Nothing else matters. Look let's be honest. We're not that good of a team and that's the bottom line. If we somehow slipped in it would be bullshit and we all would know it. If we somehow miraculously get in, it'd be because TV and advertisers love them some Longhorns ratings. Just like Notre Dame
November 23Nov 23 Beat the shit out of Aggy and we have an outside shot. We can bump a big 12 team. Need some help still though. Bama, OU, and Vandy losing would be very helpful and probably guarantee us a spot.
November 23Nov 23 1 hour ago, Valmy77 said: Beat A&M. Nothing else matters. Look let's be honest. We're not that good of a team and that's the bottom line. If we somehow slipped in it would be bullshit and we all would know it. And we sure as fuck aren't going to win the national title. Just beat A&M and call it a year. Get better and try again in 2026. Yes, just beat A&M. Look at the CFP contenders barely in or on the bubble and tell me we’re definitely worse than them. It’s not true. Some of them we’ve beaten head to head.
November 23Nov 23 5 minutes ago, Sal said: Yes, just beat A&M. Look at the CFP contenders barely in or on the bubble and tell me we’re definitely worse than them. It’s not true. Some of them we’ve beaten head to head.
November 23Nov 23 5 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said: I think we're in if we beat aggy. Give us the @Texas Tech game in the first round! 49 minutes ago, Sal said: Yes, just beat A&M. Look at the CFP contenders barely in or on the bubble and tell me we’re definitely worse than them. It’s not true. Some of them we’ve beaten head to head. The committee operates differently than the AP. They don't flip flop teams weekly after wins. If a team in front of you wins out you're not jumping them. Texas needs other teams to lose at this point
November 23Nov 23 2 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said: Could be, but was it over when Germany bombed Pearl Harbor?
November 23Nov 23 5 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: The committee operates differently than the AP. They don't flip flop teams weekly after wins. If a team in front of you wins out you're not jumping them. Texas needs other teams to lose at this point Not sure about that. We are on a 1 year sample size right now. While I think Texas has a low shot of getting in, I wouldnt use past precedent as an argument.
November 23Nov 23 5 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: The committee operates differently than the AP. They don't flip flop teams weekly after wins. If a team in front of you wins out you're not jumping them. Texas needs other teams to lose at this point Yeah if we wanted any shot, they needed to have us ahead of more than just two 2 loss teams (Michigan and UVA) after last week, not behind seven 2 loss teams. we’ll jump now 2 loss Ga Tech and now 3 loss USC this week, but would have been nice to have been right behind vandy last week instead of on Tuesday. And for Utah to have been a spot or two lower last week.
November 23Nov 23 1 minute ago, UTexasFight said: Yeah if we wanted any shot, they needed to have us ahead of more than just two 2 loss teams (Michigan and UVA) after last week, not behind seven 2 loss teams. we’ll jump now 2 loss Ga Tech and now 3 loss USC this week, but would have been nice to have been right behind vandy last week instead of on Tuesday. And for Utah to have been a spot or two lower last week. I dont think Utah is gonna be a factor here. So ignore them. BYU on 2 losses against Tech is gonna be the cock block for us. It's either that or we need two of Bama/Vandy/OU to lose.
November 23Nov 23 does anyone have a better strength of schedule as Texas? Playing 5 top 10 teams at the time of their ranking. 3 Ohio St 6 OU 9 Vandy 5 Georgia 3 Aggy Edited November 23Nov 23 by yoladu
November 23Nov 23 4 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Not sure about that. We are on a 1 year sample size right now. While I think Texas has a low shot of getting in, I wouldnt use past precedent as an argument. my guess is what is going to happen is if you can limit to 2 losses you have a very good chance if you are an SEC team. realistically you are playing for 10 spots, and given the unbalanced schedules with superconferences, anymore than 2 you are basically out.
November 23Nov 23 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said: my guess is what is going to happen is if you can limit to 2 losses you have a very good chance if you are an SEC team. realistically you are playing for 10 spots, and given the unbalanced schedules with superconferences, anymore than 2 you are basically out. Exactly why playing a team like Ohio State in the preseason is playoff suicide. We need to cancel the game for next year. We would be in with a win without that garbage on the schedule.
November 23Nov 23 2 hours ago, Valmy77 said: If we somehow slipped in it would be bullshit and we all would know it. So, we’d essentially be getting the kind of preferential treatment that Notre Dame gets on an annual basis and no one bats an eye at? Edited November 23Nov 23 by horn009
November 23Nov 23 15 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Not sure about that. We are on a 1 year sample size right now. While I think Texas has a low shot of getting in, I wouldnt use past precedent as an argument. We've got 11 years of a sample size. Outside of a couple playoff seeding changes they have only dropped 2014 TCU and 2023 FSU that i could find. Both of those are outliers with the first being the first playoff and the second FSU losing their qb.
November 23Nov 23 3 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: I dont think Utah is gonna be a factor here. So ignore them. BYU on 2 losses against Tech is gonna be the cock block for us. It's either that or we need two of Bama/Vandy/OU to lose. Yeah. Tennessee over Vandy in Knoxville is very doable. LSU win at OU Sat afternoon would be nearly on par with 2001 OK State over ou (also a 2:30 kickoff the Saturday afternoon after T-Day in Norman) that back doored us in to the Big 12 CCG that year. sucks that it takes us having the same record as two teams we beat before we can jump them but here we are
November 23Nov 23 2 hours ago, yoladu said: does anyone have a better strength of schedule as Texas? Playing 5 top 10 teams at the time of their ranking. 3 Aggy #3? That's utterly baffling to me. Edited November 23Nov 23 by wood
November 23Nov 23 1 minute ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Exactly why playing a team like Ohio State in the preseason is playoff suicide. We need to cancel the game for next year. We would be in with a win without that garbage on the schedule. Wouldn't OSU have to agree to that also? Would we have to buy them out if they say no? Also, don't think that the athletic department wants to jettison a top matchup in front a sold out DKR, on national television, with Gameday also in Austin a very likely possibility too.
November 23Nov 23 2 minutes ago, UTexasFight said: Yeah. Tennessee over Vandy in Knoxville is very doable. LSU win at OU Sat afternoon would be nearly on par with 2001 OK State over ou (also a 2:30 kickoff the Saturday afternoon after T-Day in Norman) that back doored us in to the Big 12 CCG that year. sucks that it takes us having the same record as two teams we beat before we can jump them but here we are Yep, especially considering, everyone in the entire NCAA except MAYBE UGA wouldve lost the road opener to OSU. So we are getting all the negative and none of the benefit of scheduling them. Shouldve scheduled Texas State. Hopefully a lesson learned.
November 23Nov 23 2 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said: Wouldn't OSU have to agree to that also? Would we have to buy them out if they say no? Also, don't think that the athletic department wants to jettison a top matchup in front a sold out DKR, on national television, with Gameday also in Austin a very likely possibility too. We wont but we need to stop scheduling these. It will cost us a spot this year. It could cost us a spot in the future. BUT if the rumored changes to the playoff structure occurs (big IF), then these matchups are okay again and then I would be for scheduling teams like OSU every single year in the preseason.
November 23Nov 23 3 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Exactly why playing a team like Ohio State in the preseason is playoff suicide. We need to cancel the game for next year. We would be in with a win without that garbage on the schedule. With all other wins the same. At 9-2 with no tosu with the Florida loss and Georgia blowout we'd likely be at #14ish right now. 8-3 with closer loss to Georgia and we're #14ish right now. 9-2 with either the tosu or Georgia result reversed and we're #8ish. The Ohio state game does more good than bad. In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game
November 23Nov 23 4 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: With all other wins the same. At 9-2 with no tosu with the Florida loss and Georgia blowout we'd likely be at #14ish right now. 8-3 with closer loss to Georgia and we're #14ish right now. 9-2 with either the tosu or Georgia result reversed and we're #8ish. The Ohio state game does more good than bad. In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game You are high as a fucking kite if you believe that. You cant actually be that retarded. Texas with wins over top 10 Vandy and OU is ranked ahead of OU, so probably #8 right now. After we beat aggy, we would be hosting a playoff game. 4 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game No shit Sherlock. That has nothing to do with this year. Like absolutely 0. Edited November 23Nov 23 by The_Great_Hornsby
November 23Nov 23 3 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: With all other wins the same. At 9-2 with no tosu with the Florida loss and Georgia blowout we'd likely be at #14ish right now. 8-3 with closer loss to Georgia and we're #14ish right now. 9-2 with either the tosu or Georgia result reversed and we're #8ish. The Ohio state game does more good than bad. In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game I think ESPN really wanted Bama in the playoffs and they couldn't justify that if they left Texas out or even put them at #4.
November 23Nov 23 I’m still on board here. If we Beat A&M, and chalk holds, we’ll have wins over 3 top 15 teams (Vandy, OU, A&M) with three losses on the road. We’ll also have played tOSU closer than anyone else by a pretty wide margin (pending Michigan result). If you look at resume, our 7 pt loss to the #1 team will end up carrying a lot of weight (again pending Michigan). If Michigan wins against tOSU all bets are off.
November 23Nov 23 5 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: You are high as a fucking kite if you believe that. You cant actually be that retarded. Texas with wins over top 10 Vandy and OU is ranked ahead of OU, so probably #8 right now. After we beat aggy, we would be hosting a playoff game. No shit Sherlock. That has nothing to do with this year. Like absolutely 0. 0.0 chance we're still in the top 10. Alabama is currently #10 with 2 losses to a 6-6 Florida state and Oklahoma loss. They won 4 straight against Georgia, vandy, Mizzou and Tennessee. Their wins are better and their losses are way better. Theyre only "bad" win was south Carolina who are better than Kentucky and Mississippi state.
November 23Nov 23 1 minute ago, Sir Ulrich said: 0.0 chance we're still in the top 10. Alabama is currently #10 with 2 losses to a 6-6 Florida state and Oklahoma loss. They won 4 straight against Georgia, vandy, Mizzou and Tennessee. Their wins are better and their losses are way better. Theyre only "bad" win was south Carolina who are better than Kentucky and Mississippi state. Lol okay dude. The bottom line is that Texas with wins over Vandy, OU, and Aggy are not missing the playoffs on 2 losses. If you think they wouldve, then you are an idiot and we dont need to continue this conversation.
November 23Nov 23 7 minutes ago, yoladu said: does anyone have a better strength of schedule as Texas? Playing 5 top 10 teams at the time of their ranking. 3 Ohio St 6 OU 9 Vandy 5 Georgia 3 Aggy No. But I don’t know how much you can hang your hat on what a team was ranked when you played them. dumb argument to puff your chest over a win against a top 5 Clemson or Penn St from September, for example. Us, Indiana, and Georgia are the only teams that have won 2 against current top 10. We’re the only team that could end the regular season with 3 wins against the current top 10. Only 6 teams have played at least 4 teams currently in the top 16. Us, South Carolina (5) Wisconsin (4), Auburn (4), Florida (4), LSU (4).
November 23Nov 23 At this point there are 4 teams within the state of Texas (aggy, Tech, SMU, UNT) with better odds of making the playoffs than Texas.
November 23Nov 23 1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said: At this point there are 4 teams within the state of Texas (aggy, Tech, SMU, UNT) with better odds of making the playoffs than Texas. Which is an indictment on the flaws of the playoff system (UNT, SMU) and unbalanced league scheduling (aggy). Tech deserves their chance to dance if they win the Big 12.
November 23Nov 23 Losing to a bottom feeder in Florida will do us in. Inexcusable loss, just a god awful team.
November 23Nov 23 3 hours ago, Valmy77 said: You kidding me? I just hope we win another game. One more game. Two. Don't want to win our bowl game and lose to A&M 😉
November 23Nov 23 33 minutes ago, Sir Ulrich said: In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game The season you're referencing was only a 4 team playoff. With a 12 team playoff, there's zero reason for us not to be in this year if we beat aggy. If this committee is going to let Notre Dame along with multiple Big 12 teams in the playoffs, we should also be in if we finish at 9-3. If that ends up not being the case, the game against OSU next year needs to be cancelled, along with all future marquee OOC games. The Big 12 in particular played absolutely no one OOC this year and will likely get rewarded for it. Edited November 23Nov 23 by horn009
November 23Nov 23 10 minutes ago, UTexasFight said: No. But I don’t know how much you can hang your hat on what a team was ranked when you played them. dumb argument to puff your chest over a win against a top 5 Clemson or Penn St from September, for example. Us, Indiana, and Georgia are the only teams that have won 2 against current top 10. We’re the only team that could end the regular season with 3 wins against the current top 10. Only 6 teams have played at least 4 teams currently in the top 16. Us, South Carolina (5) Wisconsin (4), Auburn (4), Florida (4), LSU (4). Ok.. then.. current. 1 Ohio St 8 OU 14 Vandy 4 Georgia 2 Aggy
November 23Nov 23 7 minutes ago, horn009 said: The season you're referencing was only a 4 team playoff. With a 12 team playoff, there's zero reason for us not to be in this year if we beat aggy. If this committee is going to let Notre Dame along with multiple Big 12 teams in the playoffs, we should also be in if we finish at 9-3. If that ends up not being the case, the game against OSU next year needs to be cancelled, along with all future marquee OOC games. The Big 12 in particular played absolutely no one OOC this year and will likely get rewarded for it. 2024 Alabama was 9-3 and the first team left out with similar wins to ours this year. They got close cause all they lost to a 10 win Tennessee that made the playoffs and to vandy and ou who made bowls barely. They also didnt struggle to beat bottom dwellers in their other games. We should be in but losing to 3-9 Florida left us out not the defending camps who are blowing everybody out.
November 23Nov 23 17 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said: Losing to a bottom feeder in Florida will do us in. Inexcusable loss, just a god awful team. I challenge anybody here to find a worse loss than this for a top 17 team this year.
November 23Nov 23 4 minutes ago, Drifterwood said: Bama loss to FSU is pretty close Florida State vs Florida next Saturday will decide who is worse
November 23Nov 23 If Vandy beats Tennessee they’re 10-2. Would make it interesting to see if they value a bad loss or a head to head more.
November 23Nov 23 1 hour ago, Sir Ulrich said: With all other wins the same. At 9-2 with no tosu with the Florida loss and Georgia blowout we'd likely be at #14ish right now. 8-3 with closer loss to Georgia and we're #14ish right now. 9-2 with either the tosu or Georgia result reversed and we're #8ish. The Ohio state game does more good than bad. In 2023 at 11-1 without Alabama we're not in the playoffs. The committee would have taken the undefeated teams and left us out. They only snubbed fsu because Texas and Alabama played that game we'd be at 8 at 9-2 with no tosu and pick a random mid level P4.
November 23Nov 23 1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Exactly why playing a team like Ohio State in the preseason is playoff suicide. We need to cancel the game for next year. We would be in with a win without that garbage on the schedule. Jesus. Don’t be a pussy. If we don’t get in the playoffs it’s not because we lost Ohio State by 7. It’s because we lost to Florida and got fucking embarrassed by Georgia. If you’d rather be playing teams like Samford, there’s a team down the road you might like to align with. The solution isn’t to dumb down the schedule, it’s to get better. We played Michigan last year and Alabama out of conference the year before and it worked out just fine for us in a more selective playoff. Ohio State opened their season against the number one team in the nation and it has worked out just fine for them. The fact that we had a down year this season isn’t an indictment on the whole philosophy of playing hard teams.
November 23Nov 23 Home versus Road needs to be considered. Seems many of you completely ignore it. If we beat A&M, we should be in assuming OSU and UGA win. Let’s assume OU and Vandy win. That is potentially 3 top 5 opponents. Two on the road, one at home. 1-2. Potentially two others in the top 10. 2-0. One at a neutral site. One at home, which we led for almost 60 minutes. They didn’t even touch the ball with a chance to tie or lead for the last 57 minutes or something. Ole Miss is sitting at home for 8 games. We just played our 5th. That’s pretty significant. We were away from home for 42 days. We only got our second conference home games today. Many SEC teams don’t even play consecutive road games. That matters. To this point, we’ve played more of the top 7 SEC teams than anyone. Yeah UF isn’t good , but they had Georgia and Ole Miss quite nervous, neither at home. We have to win the next one. If we do, we have earned the right to advance.
November 23Nov 23 If we beat Aggy then UT needs an immediate fake media leak sent out saying "we will be closely monitoring the CFPs decision to decide whether or not we will cancel Ohio St and all upcoming big OOC games to allign our OOC schedule with the other 2 loss teams ranked ahead of us."
November 23Nov 23 2 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said: Lol okay dude. The bottom line is that Texas with wins over Vandy, OU, and Aggy are not missing the playoffs on 2 losses. If you think they wouldve, then you are an idiot and we dont need to continue this conversation. Groan what is this stupid shit? it was the loss to Florida and the pantsing by Georgia that is hurting Texas, the loss to tOSU by 7 is the best loss in the entire field, we were legit getting props for that loss as pathetic as it sounds. This season was a failure, limping into the playoffs is still ultra low odds because UT plays like dogshit in a true road environment (10 ppg)
November 23Nov 23 6 hours ago, BevoBuck14 said: If we beat Aggy then UT needs an immediate fake media leak sent out saying "we will be closely monitoring the CFPs decision to decide whether or not we will cancel Ohio St and all upcoming big OOC games to allign our OOC schedule with the other 2 loss teams ranked ahead of us." No. I’d rather miss the playoffs than be that kind of whiny high maintenance bitchass team that handles adversity the way a middle school girl handles drama. If we miss the playoffs we should blame ourselves and next time don’t lose to bad teams like Florida.
November 23Nov 23 9 hours ago, Sir Ulrich said: At 9-2 with no tosu with the Florida loss and Georgia blowout we'd likely be at #14ish right now. Lol what? We’d be top 10 easily. 9-2 OU, who we killed on a neutral field, is #8.
November 23Nov 23 6 hours ago, BevoBuck14 said: If we beat Aggy then UT needs an immediate fake media leak sent out saying "we will be closely monitoring the CFPs decision to decide whether or not we will cancel Ohio St and all upcoming big OOC games to allign our OOC schedule with the other 2 loss teams ranked ahead of us." we don't need to, this was discussed at length 2 years ago by bama when they got in over FSU and its been discussed this year at length already they are probably hoping we drop to a&m , or tennessee beats vandy or any handful of other small outcomes that makes this a non issue. they can tweak around the results one final time, and beating #3 gives them a lot of options there's a ton of ADs in the committee who are not unaware of what leaving us out with our schedule will do hopefully we force them to make a decision , because it definitely will cause ramifications one way or another
November 23Nov 23 Everyone remember when Texas A&M joined the SEC, their whole identity was SEC, SEC,SEC. Well,…..the bill has come due. A loss next week will not hurt their chances at the CFP. Time for them to step up for the good of the conference. A Texas blowout win will put both teams safely in.
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