Colin Heard Backs Horns - Voice of Reason

by realmccoy on Nov 11, 2008 5:15 PM CST Comment 19 comments

I am in SoCal this week and I picked up the morning edition of in the Herd. It is the hour or so before he goes national with ESPN.

Colin, who is more football savvy than most talking heads said that if Texas, TT, and Oklahoma end up in a 3 way tie - the Horns are the logical, and deserved higher ranked BCS team. His logic on the round robin of games played by the Big 3:

Texas Tech would have defended its home field - and lost on the road.
Oklahoma would have defended its home field and lost at a neutral site.
Texas would have beat the Sooners by 10 on a neutral site - and come within one second of beating the Red Raiders on the road.

Makes sense - keep promoting the Horns Colin!

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The other thing

that almost everyone is forgetting is that we played Mizzou this year and neither Tech nor OU play them.

aka MyPoolLeaks

by afaeguy on Nov 11, 2008 5:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Are we talking about Colin Cowherd here?

I can’t… wha?… Cowherd… football savvy?

Never forget unforgivable stupidity!

by amorphous on Nov 11, 2008 5:22 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I think if Colin Cowherd thinks your team deserves to go

in a three-way tiebreaker, the computers should count that against your team.

Go register. Or else.

by Skin Patrol on Nov 11, 2008 5:43 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

I think if you think your team deserves to go

in a three-way tiebreaker, then you are wrong.

by Horn Brain on Nov 11, 2008 5:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I really don't give a shit what you think, though.

Go register. Or else.

by Skin Patrol on Nov 11, 2008 7:22 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't care about what Tech fans think either..

That’s why I am constantly commenting on Double T Nation. Wait. Oops. That’s you commenting here. Sorry.

by the1austin on Nov 11, 2008 7:30 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

My friend runs this website.

I read it a lot because of that.

I do care what he thinks. I sometimes care what you think. I don’t care what Horn Brain thinks.

Go register. Or else.

by Skin Patrol on Nov 11, 2008 8:42 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

That's 9 thinks.

I've been fuelin' my dreams eatin' greens and beans.

by 16thLonghorn on Nov 12, 2008 7:51 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm pretty sure it was a joke

Horn Brain. From what I’ve read from Skin Patrol, he seems to be pretty clear headed and has never made any “antiswarm-like” comments. I think this got blown way out of proportion.

by Sweed4Heisman on Nov 11, 2008 9:25 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

ok...

but I don’t see the bad intent from HB.

by vy til i die on Nov 11, 2008 9:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

When you get a chance

Click on Antiswarm’s user name and check out his blog. It puts everything into prospective.

by Wells on Nov 12, 2008 2:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Ummm...

…wow. Yes, it definitely does.

by Sweed4Heisman on Nov 12, 2008 3:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

by BoddickerIsClutch on Nov 12, 2008 4:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good natured elbowing...

… returned by fist to face. I see how it works here.

by Horn Brain on Nov 12, 2008 12:44 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

careful where you place your trust

I also caught some of the Cowherd show this morning. While I did not hear him explain his reasoning in the manner relayed above (which of course does make perfect sense), I did hear him respond to a Tech fan/caller with the following rationale as to why Texas is the superior team:

“Texas played 7 straight bowl games and only lost in the last second of the last one.”

He then started listing Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and then droned off. Forget for a moment that the stretch from AR to TT is only 6 games. Giving the Horns sizable credit for beating the Hogs and the Buffs and referring to those teams as “Bowl Teams” is absurd and shows a lack of understanding of the current college football landscape beyond the top 25. For me, it honestly undermined Colin Cowherd’s credibility on the matter. I doubt either of them gets to six wins in reality.

My point: There are many reasons a case can and should be made for Texas to be voted in front of OU and Tech in the polls in the event of a three-way tie in records. Beating mediocre-at-best teams like the piggies and the fightin Darrell Scotts is not one of them. Cowherd predicated some of his argument this way and everything else he said became white noise because of it.

by hca4 on Nov 12, 2008 3:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs