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The season improved especially offensively but I didn't enjoy watching the offensive struggles, a turnstile at left guard most of the season. The run game was abysmal most of the year. The team really didn't play a full game where all three phases played well for an entire 60 minutes. Yesterday's game was probably the closest to that. Didn't enjoy the Ohio state game, San Jose State was a struggle, UTEP was ugly. Kansas was ugly, miss State was ugly, Florida and georgia games were disappointing. Second half vs OU, first half vs Vandy, offense vs Arkansas and Sam Houston State and yesterday's victory were enjoyable. If Texas replicates this season next year it would be a massive disappointment. Its not a complete waste but it fell below the standard that they have set, especially as a pre season number one. They improved tremendously which gives great optimism but the players and staff expected better and as fans, we do too.

Good post. Been a fan since the ‘60’s through thick and thin. This year didn’t meet our bloviated talk and expectations but we over estimated some things and had to develop some players further for next season’s success. We won the golden hat and Lone-star trophies. Got a bowl trophy still to win too. We will likely have to wait another year for the trophy we all wanted. We now have a serious QB and have developed some talented current and future starters. This team is still writing its story too so there is that.

Lots of upside

What bowl do you guys think we'll get? More importantly who is sitting out?

If you don't make a playoff you can't compete for a national championship, anything less than playoff birth is failure.

Not unpopular at all. I freaking loved last night. I was in my living room standing most of the time. I couldn't relax. I felt like if I relaxed, the team would relax. I know that's stupid but that's how I felt last night. At half time, I felt A&M was clearly the better team and I thought, "We'd better play like they are a better team" meaning turn Arch into a gun slinger and dial up run blitzes to compensate for inferior line play on both sides of the ball. Instead, the Horns just manned up and whipped them on both fronts. I've never been more proud of this team.

Not unpopular, exactly right. 9-3 with an outside shot to get in the playoffs. Not a waste.

Good sentiments by all. These message boards frequently frustrate me with all the negativity. “We suck”, “fire everyone”, etc. It has been a roller coaster of a season and I have been disappointed and frustrated at times. But watch the games, and those guys play hard and fight. I love the guys Sark is bringing in and I feel this year’s struggles will translate to more success in the future.

i think OU/tech/Aggy getting in along with vandy who we beat is what is the most disappointing.

Not a waste at all. We had an insanely tough schedule beat 3 top 10 teams, saw a young team mature, and watch Arch get better every week. I’m not counting us out yet. If SMU beats UVA maybe Miami doesn’t get in, maybe the committee shows us they want some insanely big draws and money in the opening round game if they put Texas in against a Tech, Indiana, Oregon, ATM, SMU, UGA, Bama, OU, or OSU at their place. That makes for great ratings AND gives the football world the message games matter, wins or losses not conference championships. We have an argument against every 2 loss team right now. I’d say this season is a great growth season for a program that continues to succeed even when we’re not playing our best ball.

Agreed, 9-3 was a reasonable expectation. In my eyes the oline was inexperienced and/or young which should have been changed sooner. Also look at past history in the SEC on how many times someone gets the unexpected upset Ask Lane Kiffin. We also lost a lot of talent with the draft and it caught up to us. These young bucks are showing a positive improvement and trust from Sark. For Sark most everyone is complaining about his play calling. Is it his play calling or timing of the the plays called which I look back is the most likely.

Excuses are like asshol*s, Everybody’s got one.

So we get to read your trauma dump because you don't like your friends laughing at you. Got it

We had to have been the last team Florida played at full strength. They’ve been without nearly all their big time players since the Texas game

We have most of the team back next year, so the growth and resolve built here and now will be huge in ‘26… wasted would be 7-5 and not showing resolve in those OT games.. wasted would be dropping to OU and A&M. But showing heart and growing is never a waste

Guess they forgot to show up against Bama.

I have no problem playing tOSU if our league schedule is weak. Slurp would be in the CFP even if they lost to ND - because they didn’t play anyone in the league until they played us. But if you have three rivalry games, UGA on the road, Vanderbilt, etc., it makes less sense.

Going to 9 conference games will automatically give us high SOS which the committee obviously doesn't reward. Going forward there is no point to these games and the goal should make the playoff.

Or we could’ve taken care of business when we were supposed to against a 4 win florida team 🤷🏾‍♂️

Yeah as long as it’s a 12 team bracket (really 9-10 with g5/bad conference champs) these games hurt more than help for SEC teams which is a bummer. Though moving to a 16 team bracket will give enough room for good teams to still get in. There seems to be a huge drop off around 14-15 every year rather than at 12 you’ll recall last year bama/USC/ole miss all were good teams left out that would’ve been in with a 16 team bracket.

Nope, I say fix the playoffs, it starts by respecting our tough schedule and rewarding quality wins AND losses.

That would be weak and timid which isn’t the Texas way.

I know that many will disagree. That’s why this site exists - to dialogue. Texas needs to focus clearly on one thing - The Playoffs. Period. It’s not about being scared. One less loss is all that matters. It’s fun and exciting to open the season with a NAME. We all get that. But, the ROI simply is not there. When our name does not show up in the bracket next Sunday, it will sting bad. This is avoidable with a strategic aim at what is more important. The SEC is a gauntlet enough. CDC - drop the game. It’s the smarter thing to do. I’ll trade that shiny game for the playoffs. This seems simple. Drop it! Hook ‘Em

UGA is a complete team. They don’t, however, always ‘show up’ with their A game. But in big games that matter they will show up.

One Carlton for Carlton....