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Basically none. The small hope that maybe the offense can score 35+ for the first time. Can't see Ole Miss scoring less than 28.

The fan base is doing some revisionist history with Quinn this year. He was NOT good his last year at Texas. There's a reason he was drafted where he was. 2023 was Quinn's best year, he never touched that in 2024.

How'd the optimism that wasn't based in reality work last season?

9-3 no chance, 10-2 they won't be able to keep us out. Would end the season on a 6 win streak including multiple ranked teams. Tennessee is looking like they will have a pretty good record also. Ohio State is definitely vulnerable with backup QBs, but it's still Ohio State.

Great minds

Trap game after the huge win at Alabama, away game at SC maybe? Only way I can think of.

Start Arch, let him play for the 1st quarter. He'll probably get 10 points on the first two drives, then the quarter ends. Bring in KJ for the second quarter. New script, he can score based on a lack of film with KJ at QB. Different script. Bring Arch back in to start the 3rd QB. Same script as you started the 1st with. Let KJ finish it out with his script again. Prevents the 3 quarters of 0 offense. People forget that they have free will and can legit do anything they want. Desperate times. You can basically do anything, it won't be worse than what it has been.

With the Big 12 schedule, it seems very unlikely they don't get at least 2 teams in. Same for the Big 10, they will have teams that face 1-2 good teams all year. It is not a good season for a 9-3 team to get in. We would have quite an argument with quality of wins, good news is that losses early in the season mean much less than at the end of the season.

You beat Ohio State before their QB got hurt and Tennessee before they beat Alabama. The teams we would beat the rest of the season would make our resume untouchable with the quality of wins. Zero chance they leave Texas out with a 10-2 record having wins over those teams.

Agree, but it seems like reality at the moment.

Currently sitting at 4-2 with wins over Ohio State and Tennessee, with losses to 3-3 OU and 5-2 Florida. Remaining games: vs Ole Miss ---Bad defense, gonna have to score some points most likely vs Miss. St. ---If Kamario Taylor is out, this game becomes exponentially easier. @ Mizzou ---Hard to predict if the team that smoked Florida and A&M shows up or the team that got smoked by Ole Miss/lost to Miss. St. shows up @ LSU ---Not confident at all vs Arkansas ---Only 99%+ confidence game @ A&M ---Like OU, will we be the only game they look competent in? Generally, feel like we should have a very good chance against Miss. State, especially if Kamario Taylor is out. Arkansas is a win, otherwise there will be no coaches left. Those are the only two remaining games on the schedule that seem like there is a 80%+ of winning. If the team plays well on Saturday, I like their chances of at least 8-4. If they play poorly again on Saturday, we could be staring 7-5 or 6-6 directly in the face.

We'll see, guys can make some money Saturday. Gonna have to earn it that's for sure.

Agree that the change was mostly pointless. I would say that Cryer seems to be one of the smarter defensive players we have had in a while. It is very evident that he is in complete control and very prepared, including calling out the offensive play. However, tackling has taken a significant step back. Biles misses a ton of tackles, Kobe Black had a terrible game tackling. Tackling got worse as the defense got more fatigued, but I have noticed a ton of missed tackles this season. I would still say that Florida's offense is clearly talented, new QB without film was always a concern. Especially when you give their offense so many chances to figure it out. Artificially giving them a chance for momentum at the end of the half was killer. Can't do much more on that 4th and 12 if you're a DB

For sure. Maybe this will be the week the offense looks like a varsity team. Otherwise, defense is gonna give up points again. Ole Miss has scored 30 in every game this season except against Florida where they scored 28. Meanwhile, we have only scored 30 points against Texas State and UTSA (30 exactly).

Even with 1 out there, it was going to be a very difficult matchup against Ole Miss for the Texas defense. Without his presence, not only in the pass rush but against the run also, I don't see the defense doing much better this week than against Florida. He has been the only Edge consistently providing pressure and consistently setting the edge against runs. Richard Wesley has definitely shown he can get a push, but he has lost contain consistently. I personally have no clue how we are favored this weekend. On one hand I wouldn't be surprised if Texas wins, on the other hand I would be shocked if they do win?? It's an impossible team to predict, the game on Saturday won't change how I view the team one way or another. Tackling needs to improve either way.