ArizonaLonghorn

I love it! Every four years play the other 6 teams home and away, the way it should be. Did they announce who our three annual rivals are? OU and A&M for sure, # 3 is hopefully Mississippi State? Nope? Probably Arkansas ... And now the Big 10 weasels wanting four guaranteed playoff spots can't whinge about us not playing 9 in-conference games ...

I thought of Tom when I read Archie's remark to Arch - 'get down or get out of bounds'. That's the same thing Tom told David Ash when he realized a) Ash had a history of concussions and b) the QBs behind Ash were not very good. The lesson didn't stick, I think Ash got clobbered trying for an extra yard or two (against a cupcake? near the sideline!!) and the Case McCoy - Jerrod Heard - Tyrone Swoopes era began.

I'm giving Georgia an asterisk since six (oops - 4 with two repeats) of their 11 are special teamers!

If you win the conference championship you're guaranteed to be in the playoffs. If you don't you are at the mercy of the committee. Sure, go 10-2 or something like that in the Big 10 or SEC, with at least a couple quality wins, and you are most likely in. But if you are borderline?

Could have been an anomaly given that Arizona State and Boise State were only in because of the since-ditched rule about 4 conference champs getting byes. And both were solid underdogs in those games. Georgia lost their starting QB coming in to this game, I think Stockton was making his first start. So they had an excuse. And Oregon - well ok, good point. Bad luck facing a rematch against a buzz saw OSU in-conference rival? But yeah, they looked bad. Sorry Joe Z Let's wait until after this year's CFP, when the top four seeds get the byes, and see if it holds up again? I would expect the (actual) top four seeds to do better this year, but maybe you are right. We'll see.

I remember Sark was recruiting him really hard, and Sayin was liking what he heard, given Sark's rep for QB development. Then Arch committed to Texas (with just a one year gap to Sayin) and both sides kind of moved away from the recruitment. Had Arch not stuck with Texas it sure looked like Sayin was Sark's top pick in the next class - all this talk about his shortcomings is funny, we would have taken him in a heartbeat under different circumstances.

Pretty sure he figured you'd only be jumping from a bed or couch, onto a pillow or other soft landing spot. Worse case maybe an ankle sprain. No need to go all drama queen on us ... if he tells you "go kill yourself" then you'd have a point. That would be mean.

Too bad you aren't attending the game, we would enjoy your analysis. But you mentioned the upcoming birth of your little wolverine so we understand ...

What's Blake's son's name?

How about Beyonce in a bikini rocking the David Ash # 14 jersey? (drops the mic)

Cleveland would claim him in a heartbeat ... you can never have enough QBs, right?

I know a site that lists student (since roughly mid-1970's) and degrees - it says Finkley, Justice Ali was a student between ... ah heck, read it yourself here ... no degree listed.

Too bad he couldn't get on with an NFL team ...

"Bryce Young 2.0" - Sark's first scouting note on KJ when Sark was still at Bama and first watched KJ play

I remember a few years ago, probably Jimbo era, when an Aggie done something wrong and was suspended for the first game of the season, against a real cupcake. Then a hurricane rolled into Texas and the game was rescheduled for later in the season. Second game was against a much better team - Aggies lifted the suspension for THAT game and said he'd serve the suspension later against the cupcake. I think you are probably right LOL

Odds he plays this year for OU? 101% ...

LOL. I didn't attend either school and don't have much of a rooting interest either way, even though I live just 8 miles from the ASU campus. Rarely watch their games, though I might check in this year to see if they'll make the CFP again. I was really impressed with Skatteboo though. I did like watching Lute's teams play, back in the day. Their national championship run was a thing of beauty.

Imagine how good he might be if he had another 3/4" arm length !!

I wouldn't spread this too far around the internet fan boards until we actually win the title. Otherwise the Monty Python parodies will practically write themselves if we don't. LOL

Seemed to me he got gun shy after the first Bama game when Dallas Turner did him wrong, and later after the Houston hits and the oblique issues. Never quite the same guy. I definitely wouldn't agree with "It's like the best parts of his game got coached out of him". More like "got knocked out of him by the hits he took"

Brock Purdy, act II ? I mean I agree with you that guys are piling on Quinn right now, for various reasons. But he was pretty bad for the Dolphins ... both things can be true. I'm not a Quinn basher myself, but there's truth in much of the criticism.

If your sister had gone to Notre Dame and your brother to Oklahoma your family tree would include pretty much every team we hate! Welcome anyway ... I would wish the Raiders luck but my heart isn't in it after the way Coach McGuire bad mouthed us as we were leaving the Big 12. Go Sun Devils! I'll leave you with this image of one of our incoming EDGE recruits matched up with Tech's $5,100,000 5* LT ... the ones with Kreul and Ford are even worse.

Highly confident in our defense. All three levels look solid, this could be the best D we've seen in decades at Texas. Hill is possibly the best LB in the nation and a returning All American. Taafe (S) made a few 2nd and 3rd team All American lists last year. Colin Simmons (EDGE) is probably the best player on the team, projected a top 5 NFL pick in 2 years. Lot of depth in the interior DL, maybe six deep right now. Plenty of talented young guys at most positions. We like our D a lot. On offense the WRs should be good (not as good as yours but good) but a bit thin on depth. TE - you got the # 1 transfer TE but we got the # 2 guy and think he'll catch a lot of balls. Behind him we lack experience but supposedly have talent. RB - returning 1,000 yard rusher with Wisner and a couple of talented backups, but no one knows when Baxter will be fully healthy. QB - we feel comfortable that Arch will play better than Sayin in this game, though the Heisman talk seems crazy right now. The biggest Q to me is the OL, after losing four starters. We'll see ... If our D is suffocating and our O doesn't make too many glaring mistakes we feel we can win, especially if we get a lead early and can unleash the pass rush. For you to win I think our OL needs to get confused or overrun at times and our young QB makes a key mistake or two (watch the first Georgia game for the nightmare scenario). Should be a great game and a key season indicator for both programs.

For those of us who don't have an hour to watch, can someone summarize the predictions our boys made? What were the most surprising? The consensus? Thanks ...

LSU, SMU and South Carolina look like the best teams Clemson plays and they get the first two at home. ESPN has them ranked # 40 in SOS right now so they could go 13-0 plus an easy first round game, but those last two wins to reach 16 they'll surely be playing really good teams I don't buy it