HookemTexas

I live in Houston, Rice alumni are extremely well off on average, if they wanted to be competitive in NIL and field a strong football team, they could. It's just not a priority for them.

Likely not Elko if Bobby’s theory in opposite style replacements. Elko is defensive mind.

BYU would be a massive step back considering he's at a blue blood with other blue bloods courting him (Bama).

Penn St. fired Franklin early hoping to get a jump on a coaching search only to be left out in the dust with no great options. They aren't who they think they are.

And that was Georgia's only loss I believe, so they got screwed that year. Bama was in because they won the championship game, and Texas beat Bama that year head to head, so they couldn't leave Texas out without leaving Bama out, but then you can't leave out the SEC champ. FL got screwed because their QB got hurt.

Methinks those hoping for Cam Coleman to enter the portal might not like the result of it. Gerry stated before, Texas wouldn't be the only team chasing him - I would say that given he was committed to the aggies prior to flipping to Auburn that he'd give them a hard look considering what he's seen from their wideouts this year. Those farmers won some major portal additions last year, they'll be a thorn again this portal season.

Bama is not going to be left out, they lead the SEC going into the conference championship game. imo it’s the Notre dame live fest that trumps Texas because among the names at the bottom half, only Notre dame has the same type of national pull as Texas. if Texas doesn’t make the cfp, maybe that’ll light a fire under Sark to run up the score next year on everyone. He sounds pissed enough last few days. also Sark needs to politic for the team to go to the cfp to keep the team’s trust in him. If he says they don’t deserve to go, then likely there’d be some fallout with the players. It’s like an old boss of mine always said to us - “I’ll always have your back if you keep me in the loop. Even if you screw up.”

Like you said, Saban made the Bama fanbase spoiled with impossible expectations. If you're not winning multiple championships, they'll call for blood. Those fans won't even be happy just to competitive for the post season.

Which is odd considering he left ou to run away from the SEC.

What's he done that would make him desirable? Tennessee's been so up and down, and this year, down compared to expectations. And they just got spanked by Vandy in their rival game.

If Texas is on, they should be able to make it to the final four. Hopefully freshman don't make too many mistakes.

There will be openings in the big 12 and ACC, Riley would absolutely kill it in those conferences because there's only 1-2 major games a year. a la when he was at ou in the big 12.

Yep, Texas is being punished for the Florida loss because while they beat some teams above, no one has as bad a loss on their resume.

This stuff is what makes college football fun. Reminds me of when in high school, when our school played against the rival last week of the season, there were so many pranks, the various clubs from each school would play each other in non-official football (band vs band, choir vs choir, German club, etc. I was a "band nerd" and my senior year both band directors bitched out their respective bands because of all the injuries from people hitting each other so hard that bones were broken. In our side, our 1st few chairs (aka the best people for their instruments) were all injured and could no longer participate in UIL marching competition because there were broken arms, broken legs, etc. Good times.