Cancel Ohio State Immediately

[wosmustangs1979]

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 

[GoHorns1]

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

Edited 2 hours ago by GoHorns1

[Alex Butler]

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

[Battrayal]

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.

[NothinButDaHorns34]

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

[SchoolColors]

11 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

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

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.

[genevalonghorn]

6 minutes ago, Battrayal said:

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.

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.

[Texas fan in Georgia]

15 minutes ago, NothinButDaHorns34 said:

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

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

[NothinButDaHorns34]

6 minutes ago, Texas fan in Georgia said:

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

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

[whereiend]

I support cancelling it if we don't make the playoff.

At the end of the day have to send a message that what the committee is doing is idiotic.

I'm holding out hope that it won't go down that way, though. If you look at it like they do in CBB we have a very good resume with three really strong wins.

 

 

[kirktex]

No question we should cancel Ohio state and Michigan and the two notre dame games after that. Zero reason to do those games. We don’t get to play Purdue, Minnesota, Rutgers, Maryland etc..  in conference play. We play 4-5 truly tough games a year while big 10 is unlucky to play 2-3. Zero reason to play those games. Winning them doesn’t help you with 12 team playoff and losing them could kill you and makes your margin of error extremely thin. 

[kirktex]

1 hour ago, GoHorns1 said:

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

No it’s smart. Not weak or timid. 

[kirktex]

We beat Ohio state we are 10-2 and in

We Beat Appalachian State instead and we are 10-2 and in. 
 

Winning these games matters zero and losing them matters too much 

Edited 36 minutes ago by kirktex

[Lnghrn]

1 hour ago, wosmustangs1979 said:

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 

Agree.  If the true strength of schedule isn’t going to factor into equation, get rid of the game.

[GoHorns1]

5 minutes ago, kirktex said:

No it’s smart. Not weak or timid. 

That’s weak!

[kirktex]

2 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

That’s weak!

What’s weak is not seeing the situation for what it is and adapting. Stupidity is a weakness and it’s stupid to schedule games with only downside and no real upside 

[DanielOnorato]

I'd rather Texas be weak and timid according to folks if it means Texas is in the playoffs. 

[marathon]

1 hour ago, GoHorns1 said:

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

It would be a smart and a strong  message to the selection committee and TV execs. Rewarding teams for playing weak non conference schedules is not smart. We either do the same or be considered idiots. 

[Philip Barber]

1 hour ago, Alex Butler said:

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

As long as there has been CFB, your win loss record is what counts first and foremost, not strength of schedule.  Then, with all things being equal, whose name is the most famous moves to the front of the line such as Notre Dame first, Ohio State second, then perhaps Bama.  There is a pecking order.  But strength of schedule means very little.  Check out BYU’s national championship or Georgia Tech’s UPI’s 91 NC vs Colorado’s, even the coaches leaned toward GT win-loss record vs CU playing a greatb non-conference schedule.  1st

[DanielOnorato]

2 minutes ago, Philip Barber said:

As long as there has been CFB, your win loss record is what counts first and foremost, not strength of schedule.  Then, with all things being equal, whose name is the most famous moves to the front of the line such as Notre Dame first, Ohio State second, then perhaps Bama.  There is a pecking order.  But strength of schedule means very little.  Check out BYU’s national championship or Georgia Tech’s UPI’s 91 NC vs Colorado’s, even the coaches leaned toward GT win-loss record vs CU playing a greatb non-conference schedule.  1st

Not necessarily. I would like them to go back to the BCS formula. 

The BCS formula was explicitly designed to incorporate strength of schedule (SOS) as a key component alongside human polls and a penalty for each loss. 

"Quality Wins" Bonus: Later iterations of the formula added a bonus for beating top-15 teams, further rewarding teams that challenged themselves.

Mitigating Penalties: Playing a hard schedule meant that a loss against a "team of substance" was not punished as severely as a loss to a weak team. 

Strength of Schedule Component: Teams were ranked 1 through 115 (at the time) based on the winning percentages of their opponents and their opponents' opponents. A team's rank in this category contributed to their overall BCS score (lower score was better, like golf).

Key Example: 2007 LSU Tigers

The 2007 college football season is the most famous instance where the traditional emphasis on an unblemished record was overturned by the BCS system's flexibility.

LSU's Record: LSU finished the regular season with two losses.

The Outcome: The Tigers were selected to play for the national championship and ultimately won the BCS National Championship, the first and only two-loss team ever to do so in the BCS era.

[MBHORNSFAN]

18 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

That’s weak!

Weak and in playoffs > Strong out of playoffs. 

 

 

[marathon]

11 minutes ago, DanielOnorato said:

I'd rather Texas be weak and timid according to folks if it means Texas is in the playoffs. 

Agree. The goal is to make the playoffs, not to have the toughest regular season schedule. 

[SchoolColors]

3 minutes ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

Weak and in playoffs > Strong out of playoffs. 

 

 

Even more so given we are going to 9 conference games.

[cdibbs]

With a 9 game SEC schedule, we will get plenty of big matchups. Get the big 12 and ACC on the phone or schedule cellar dwellers from the Big 10.