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That was a shocker to me. I worked at UVA for about 15 years and could never get behind that team. Not many Longhorns or Longhorns fans there. I did follow the baseball team some because they were good. Interestingly, like everywhere else there were some Dallas fans, though most were Redskins/Commander fans.

I get it, when the team you root for doesn't play as well as we'd like or doesn’t win it sucks. At the same time just because it didn't happen as we expected doesn't mean it won't or can't. Sark was 8 win Sark until he won 10 games or more and made the playoffs in back to back years. There's issues that this team has to fix if they want to make the playoffs or win it all. That can be said for every team in college this year, the good thing is Texas issues are noticeable and aren't being hidden even when we face inferior opponents. Texas has an elite defense and health issues at key positions on offense that's holding them back. We've had guys like Tre, CJ, Moseley, and Moore miss time who everyone figured would be key contributors. I get the next man up, but when the next man and the man after him, and the man after him who was supposed to be a depth piece is thrust into action struggle and drop off is to be expected. We haven't run the ball anywhere near what we did against OSU because experience matters. As this team gets healthy we'll forget all about San Jose and UTEP. We just have to get to that point, no amount of stressing over past results is going to fix it. One day I'm going to wake up and be part of a fanbase that doesn't care who we face because we are TEXAS and you don't matter. I want to have what Alabama and UGA have, you think either of those teams would be worried about who they're gonna face? Nope! When they step on the grass they have a confidence about them that says we're better than you and its up to you to prove me wrong 🤣 and if they do lose it's only because they ran out of time.

Must be PTSD from the 2010s. I remember the OTF guys saying all off-season that we would treat the non-conference games (other than Ohio State) as "training" sessions for the young guys to prepare for the long haul and avoid injuries as much as possible. We'd stay vanilla. Might win by 25-30 instead of by 40-50. Well, that's what happened. Arch struggled against UTEP and the world ended. Now Mateer is a football god, and we'll be lucky to win eight games. Our own OTF guys say they'd pick the criminals if Mateer plays. It's nuts.

That's just what happens here. Anyone Texas faces with a little bit of competence is the best we'll face until the next obstacle we face. We heard all off season about how great Smith and Downs were, then we played them and they were none factors, and Smith was locked up by a true freshman. Next week we're going to face the best defense we've faced all year and the toughest environment we've played in so far until it's not. Then we're going to forget about Florida's defense and Oklahoma will become the best defense we've faced to date. Just once, I'd like to see and read how Texas takes advantage of the weaknesses of their upcoming opponent and not go into a game with tails tucked just hoping somehow Texas can eek out a win.

To put this in perspective, Mateer isn't even one of the top dual threat QBs in the SEC, to say nothing of actual passers. Green, Chambliss and Pavia are all quite a bit better than Mateer. I don't know if you'd count Aguilar as a dual threat, but he's clearly better too. Pribula is just as good if not better. Shapen and Simpson are certainly better passers. Arch will quickly surpass him. Nuss is a petter passer. I'd say Mateer is about on level with Stockton from Georgia and Reed. Not exactly Heisman quality.

Maybe. But you're not playing 1 on 1 in football. Football is the ultimate team sport, so you can't evaluate talent in a vacuum, because if ten players do the right thing and one player misses an assignment, that play is blown up or you don't get what you should have gotten out of the play. Stats are cool and all, but you have to take it game by game and opponent by opponent. Like what does player X do well and can the team they're playing take that away. If you're on the grass on Saturdays, talent is never a question. It all comes down to coaching, scheme, and what can you do when your strengths are taken away. We just witnessed it. FSU is undoubtedly more talented than Virginia, Virginia won because they had more counters and answers for what FSU sent their way.

cJ is the best young moderator hands down. Not even close. Bobby knows how to pick talent.

Does one of their names start with a C and end in a J?

Not saying any names but there's at least two mods here loves a qb that is mediocre for 75% of the game but then makes a 10 yard run🤣 Its Mateer magic

Agree 100%

It seems in giving power to the players, we've taken all the power from the schools. I've no problem with them doing any of this. You're going out of your way to red shirt, why should you get paid? The players can't have everything working in their favor, there has to be some give and take.

So what you're saying is, get their entire OL and RB to enter the portal? Lol. In all seriousness, they played really well and got up over Florida State. I still think Florida State is good, which probably makes me weird. We'll see how they go.

I'm also from MOJO!

If you’re gonna be that literal then you should know if they could do that, they would do that. Mid semester be damned…it’s big time college athletics, what am academics?

Nope

Fantastic game. Happy for UVA and it helps Texas bump up hopefully.

Is UGA rated?

Some tough instant replay calls that could have gone either way but I love how the ACC started making the instant replay officials mic’d up. Makes those couple of mins way more interesting to hear their actual thought process. A+ for transparency.

I thought football was a required sport? Men's and women's bball, baseball, softball, football and volleyball is how I thought it was.

agreed

The best part of this game is listening to the replay officials as they review calls. This should be a standard on all games

Texas sweeps 27-25. Texas now 10-0 Next match is at Georgia Wed SEC+

21-19 Texas TO Missouri

16-16 TO Missouri