Whining is for losers

by Xerxes on Oct 19, 2008 4:58 PM CDT Comment 6 comments

when I went to look at the Coaches poll I noticed Texas didn't get all the number one votes. that seemed odd to me, first as an underdog they beat the #1 team and then did what not many teams have done this year and proved they deserved being ranked #1 by beating a top ten team this week. Not only beat them but played almost 1 perfect half of football. Scored on every drive, stopped their opponent from scoring on every drive but one where they got a field goal. Didn't have a turnover and only 1 penalty in the half.I don't remember any team playing so flawlessly. This was against a team that never had to punt the ball until the 5th game of the season and was a top pick to get to the championship game and not some talentless cream puff.

I though maybe I should look at the schedules of the other two teams that got #1 votes maybe that was why they got the vote.

Texas the consolidated win loss record of the teams it played was 27-22 and it scored 337 points to 123

Alabama played against teams with a win-loss record of 24-25 and it scored 226-101

and Penn St. (what a joke it's the big X) it opponents were 22-35 but of course it beat them 363-94

Both Alabama and Penn St. played only 2 teams with winning records and 5 teams with losing records.

Texas had played 4 teams with winning records and 3 teams with losing records.

Texas has played twice as many teams winning teams as Alabama and still scored more than 100 more points than they have.

The quality of the Big XII is still underrated and the bowl season is sure going to be a shock to some writers.

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You can't use logic and reasoning

it’s the BCS. If we take care of business it really doesn’t matter what an AP writer or a coach thinks.

by UT2001 on Oct 19, 2008 5:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

big XII underrated or overrated

Oklahoma = we know is good but not the best
Kansas = we know is mediocre, but is better than the rest of the Big XII north?
Missouri = over rated, slumping? or beaten and destroyed by better opponents?
Okie light = underrated? or lucky?
tech = overrated and lucky? or knows how to win?
Texas = absolutely awesome over good competition? or better than mediocre competition?

by karmaHorns on Oct 19, 2008 7:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Read your headline too fast

Looked like “Winning is for losers” at first glance…

To give some perspective from here in Alabama, last week they were questioning the relative strengths of Texas and the Big XII. This week, they’re still wondering (a little) about the Big XII, but nobody’s questioning Texas anymore. They’re just glad they’re still #2 in the polls right now.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones

by beast in bama on Oct 20, 2008 11:49 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

nice to hear that ...

but nobody’s questioning Texas anymore

considering, as always, that the rest of the country never gives Texas our props.

For what it’s worth, I think Bama is scary good. I watched that Bama-GA game with glee and thinking CRAP I’d hate to have to play them!

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 20, 2008 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Next year...

Is the year to avoid playing the Tide. I’m dying for a UT/Bama matchup in the Orange Bowl this season on a couple of levels:

1) I believe we can take on all comers at this point, but I’d prefer Bama over anyone else due to favorable matchups and their lack of depth.
2) I would get to walk around in my Texas t-shirts and say “0-8-1 all-time, bitches, 0-8-1!” and have them stare back at me like cows at a passing train.

It’ll all be moot for them in the next three weeks. They’re lack of depth is going to catch up with them. They are pointing toward 2009, much like we were earlier in the season.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones

by beast in bama on Oct 20, 2008 12:48 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs