From his post:

“In other sure-to-please news, Texas does indeed remain ahead of Oklahoma for reasons that have nothing to do with having beaten Oklahoma (though that doesn’t hurt): The Longhorns have faced a slightly tougher schedule — their opponents have the highest collective winning percentage of any schedule in the nation — and their three/four best wins are the tiniest sliver of a hair better than Oklahoma’s. This time next week, though, if the Sooners beat Oklahoma State, expect the corresponding boost in strength of schedule and quality wins to push OU in front.”

As for loosing my mind, I’m not the one that said home field advantage “is among the most ephemeral and overrated concepts known to man and location is the last possible factor to consider...”

But his dismissal of homefield advantage and other things was a bit surprising. He needs to only look at Tech’s record away in big games. How many times as Leach beaten Texas and OU on the road? that’s what I thought.

If the UT loss to Tech should be diminished because it was so close and in Lubbock, then does that make the even closer-score win over OkSt not mean anything? With the way it played out, would that have been a Cowboy win in Stillwater or neutral field?

So you got from “diminished” all the way to “not mean anything” all by yourself??? But just to play along, yeah, it does not mean as much as a close win in Stillwater would have. Undeniably it helped us out to have that game in Austin. And if the Cowboys had pulled it out, they would have deserved far more credit for it.

On the other hand, it came directly and without any bye week respite after OU and Mizzou in previous weeks. That, although it never seems to be addressed much (except by whills just above…), is a huge thing. You see that affect pro teams in a tough schedule stretch, it seems clear those games become cumulatively harder. And that should be taken into account. Of course, adding that fourth one, on the road, in a night game with a drunken frenzied crowd, well, that really gets tough. Fighting our way back from that nightmarish first half is one of the most impressive things this young squad has done this year. And, despite some teams rolling up huge scores late in already-decided games, it’s probably one of the most impressive things anyone has done in college football this year.

I haven’t heard near the complaining from OSU fans about that loss as UT fans about the Tech loss. OSU seems to have had a "hard fought loss against a great team" while UT had a "fluke road loss to a decent Tech team with definite home-field advantage."

Let me do a little thought experiment with you - if OSU had played that game without Pettigrew and also without Perrish Cox, and then lost Bryant in their first series, and then say Ulatoski did a WWF-style suplex on Ugo Chinasa and knocked him out for the second half. If despite all that they managed to take it down to the last second, then maybe you’d hear it pitched a little differently. In fact, if that loss was the only thing separating them from a sure spot in a national title game, you’d probably hear it pitched a little differently. If they’d followed up that loss by winning out, then I think you’d hear it pitched a little differently. Since all those apply, I’m actually shocked that you’re not making our case for us… or perhaps that’s what you’re trying to do with all the score-comparing – pointing out the paucity of the case for OU by demonstrating that they run the scores up late into the fourth, while Mack contents himself with just winning, since his team has already shown its superiority on the actual field of play…