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I would rather have a receiver with more size and hands a la Matthew Golden (Cam Coleman!) We already have Jermaine Bishop coming in- I think he will take the role we’d want from Williams. Williams seems like a bit of a diva

I don’t think he was taking up for Brando. He was saying the post about Strong was dumb and vulgar. Which it was.

Which is exactly why I’d rather play a team without a pulse in the bowl. No one will remember the quality of opponent. People will always discredit the strength of Texas’ opponents no matter what anyway. Then if we lose, we lost to a crap team

What type of statement can you make against a 9-3 team that hasn’t beaten a ranked team all year? That actually just seems like a lose lose situation to me. If you win, you’re just one of the 4 ranked teams that beat Michigan. If you lose, you’re the only ranked team that lost to Michigan. UGA could at least say they “destroyed an undefeated team” even though we all know that was garbage. There was also a minuscule chance of UGA losing that game. It was like the games where the NFL mascots play against children.

Gross

That was purely to set up a "Top 15 matchup"

It’s in the top 5, but not biggest. 1. Ohio State over us 2. Bama over UGA 3. UGA over us

AP poll may put Vandy ahead, but I have a strong feeling we’ll be ahead of Vandy in the CFP poll. I think bama losing alone could have gotten us in. Then I think they could have went: 1. Ohio State 2. Indy 3. UGA 4. Tech 5. Oregon 6. Ole Miss 7. TAMU 8. Notre Dame 9. OU 10. BYU 11. Texas 12. Miami I think we’ll be sandwiched between Miami and at 13.

Lincoln Riley has turned USC into a ferocious paper tiger. Made of premium Dunder Mifflin stuff. USC is the Mizzou of the Big10. Stays ranked even though they can’t beat a serious team. Solely for the purpose of Big10 teams/Notre Dame saying they have an impressive win. The Big10 and Notre Dame should hold a day of mourning and remembrance when USC finally parts ways with Riley.

Notre Dame finessed the system this year harder than any system has ever been finessed. Here is their path to their current AP poll ranking. L to ranked TAMU: -16 to #24 *First team in 37 years to remain in the poll at 0-2. W vs Purdue: +2 to #22 W vs Arkansas: +1 to #21 W vs BSU: +5 to #16 W vs NCSU: +3 to #13 W vs #20 USC: +1 to #12 Bye: +0 to #12 W vs BC: +2 to #10 * After starting 0-2 then getting five wins over bad to mediocre teams and one 10 point win to a ranked but overrated USC, Notre Dame made it back from #24 to essentially back in the CFP field. This is insane. They were 1-2 vs ranked teams at this point, yet back in the CFP field. *Coasted the rest of the season (one spot up for added security) W vs Navy: +1 to #9 W vs #22 Pitt: +0 to #9 W vs Syr: +0 to #9 W vs Stan: +0 to #9 If Notre Dame would have fallen completely out of the AP poll after starting 0-2 like everyone in the last 36 years, they wouldn’t have moved back up into CFP field by beating the joke of schedule they had after their first two games.

1000% agree. Came here to say it

If I was PSU I’d be making a push for DeBoer with Sitake as a backup. If DeBoer gets his @$$ handed to him in Atlanta Bama fans may be disgruntled enough for DeBoer to feel like he’s had enough

He’s talking lateral move for PSU

It will be beautiful if BYU loses to Tech and then Sitake takes the PSU job. Will immediately have BYU out of the CFP convo

I would be shocked if any contributor sits out of the CFP for Ole Miss. If for some insane reason they’re excluded, I hope they all sit

I think they will be more competitive than 2023 FSU with a backup QB. That team would have gotten curb stomped. As Bobby Bowden once said, it’s more about the Jimmies and the Joes. Ole Miss may be deficient in the X’s and O’s. But they still have the same Jimmies and Joes, and I’m sure they will be competitive. But again, bottom line all we have is conjecture. In 2023 we literally had evidence FSU didn’t look good and could barely move the ball against a mediocre Louisville team. It would have been much more controversial if FSU’s QB went down late in that Louisville game after a resounding win and we didn’t get the on field evidence of the dip in play

The difference between Ole Miss and FSU is that FSU played a game without their QB and PROVED they were not as good without him. Right now, it’s purely an assumption that Ole Miss is worse without Kiffin. However valid that assumption may seem or prove, it’s still purely an assumption. Which is materially different than the FSU case

Bama pretty much has to be a lock. As Josh Pate put it, Bama is the #1 seed in the SEC. If the CFP excludes the SEC #1 seed based on the outcomes of a conference championship game, the SEC would go nuclear. Add to that- it would be the second year in a row leaving pre-eminent SEC darling Bama out (after much moaning by the SEC last year). The SEC would go thermonuclear.

so the Ole Miss logic. How about no? 😂 Do you have a great Sark replacement up your sleeve? Options seem a bit scarce to me

Strongly agree. I would also argue that Florida has an AD problem. That’s what saved Texas. Florida needs a better AD. But I’ll happily wait for them to realize that until they fall off our schedule for a couple of years.

These guys were fantastic, but Arch deserves an honorable mention at least. He was cookin in the second half. Can't we do 3 HMs in honor of taking down "#3" TAMU? lol

Florida played 5 teams that are in contention for the CFP: @Miami vs Texas (true home game) @ TAMU vs UGA (neutral) @ Ole Miss These were all one score games in the 4th quarter. Which one doesn’t look like the other? Florida played 3 home SEC games and went 2-1, with a late loss to Tennessee after the team had already given up. Florida was a talented, capable team. Out of 5 good teams, they were due for one upset. We just happened to be the lucky team that caught them at the right time in the right conditions (no Muhammad, etc). Florida losing to USF also did not help. Florida truly was the most annoying team in CFB this year. Thanks Sun Belt Billy!

Eternally shade to those charlatans

Florida played a close 4 quarter game against every one of their SEC opponents that will be in the CFP (TAMU, UGA, Ole Miss). Difference for those 3 is none of them were in the swamp. Also didn’t help not having our starting CB

Texas DID NOT FOLD. Penn State got hit in the mouth and folded. Clemson got hit in the mouth and folded. LSU got hit in the mouth and folded. Tonight, TAMU got hit in the mouth (FOR THE FIRST REAL TIME THIS SEASON) and folded. The list goes on and on. We were in literally every game this season. This team fought. We came up short in three games. They heard all the crap talk. We came up huge in three games (two of which were very special). This is what Texas’ defining feature should be. Through thick in thin, never fold. This team has not REALLY let me down one time in three years now. Almost all of our losses in that span have been to very good teams. Thankful for these guys and thankful for our coaching staff. They made 2025 a year to remember no matter what comes next.