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Time to Straighten Out My Poll

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Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hurt your feelings?

BONer jokes aside, I've got just enough time tonight to completely screw up my running attempt at learning how to put together a Top 25 for this week.  Click ahead, I promise there are no more bad jokes.

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Time to Improvozize

The Inaugural Horn Brain Poll of Unlimited Vagary and Speculation

Rank Horn Brain's Picks Why I Hope Not to be Ridiculed

1

USC

Oh God, I've got West Coast

Bias-itis.

2 Florida

Started slower, but beat Hawaii

just as bad as Georgia last year.

3 Oklahoma

Can't beat a 1-AA team and get

into my INCG (Imaginary).
4 LSU They'll go back down, just wait.
5 Georgia Quit getting hurt!
6 Texas

Showed that some offseason

questions could be answered

with a "YES!"

7 Ohio State If Wells is ok, you'll go back up.
8 Missouri

Mizzou fans wish they had our

old defense.

9 Auburn
Solid, like your ranking.
10 West Virginia

Too much of Pat White's arm,

not enough defense.

11 Alabama Most impressive win thus far.
12 Wisconsin Please lose to Fresno.  Please.
13 Fresno State

Beating Rutgers means more

than it has in the past.

14 Brigham Young

Imagine if you let them have a

cup of coffee...

15 South Florida Grothe's still all you've got.
16 Kansas

We know nutzink.  Have some

schnitzel.

17 Utah

I'm basing this on Michigan's

defense supposedly being ok.

18 Oklahoma State

Why , despite being a man and

all that, does Mike Gundy look

like a 6th grader?

19 Wake Forest Ok, I'll bite.  Whatcha got?
20 Texas Tech Ar Defens isu nstopabil!
21 Penn State Well... That was different.
22 Oregon

You can't get your QB killed

against Nobody State.

23 Illinois

If Juice can throw like that, losing

Mendenhall won't seem so bad.

24 UCLA

Style points, but I'm having a hard

time overlooking the hippy with

the headset.

25 East Carolina

This one's for giving Beamer

the Beam.

This week's lesson:

Don't expect coaches to change, unless they're Mack Brown (thank God). The media and I bought into the talent advantage that Clemson and Pitt were supposed to have, forgetting something that I regularly gripe about when discussing the Longhorns:  All the talent in the world does you no good if you don't teach them how to play the game of football.  When your only touchdown comes from your best player on a kickoff return, you know that you've been outcoached.  When you get beaten by Bowling Green, well, you send your agent a flower basket for not letting you sign that contract without the guaranteed cash clause.  At this point, we're still too early in the season for this poll to mean a thing, which as BZ pointed out, is a threat to the Constitution and the Independence of our sovereign Right to Declaration of Emancipation.

Whatever.  It's not like I'm dropping bombs on your battleships, people.  I'm just trying to bias your thinking with a narrative that's easier to write about than what's actually going on.  It's not like anyone ever got hurt by that.

As always, if you convince me to move someone around, I'll do it.

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Eh??

Under Oklahoma:

“Can’t beat a 1-AA team and get
into my INCG (Imaginary).”

WTF is INCG? “Intentionally Noxious Compressed Gas”?

Dammit, man! WE NEED ANSWERS! NOT MORE QUESTIONS!! ;)

OFF TOPIC: Oh man…I gotta share this one: I was looking for a “WTF” image, and this one came up. I…I just don’t even know how marketing works at Breyers.

It's Mean to Ween

by Bombilla on Sep 3, 2008 7:52 AM CDT reply actions   1 recs

Well...

NCG is National Championship Game, and I told you I is Imaginary. Come on Bombi, maybe if you spent a few more seconds thinking and few less seconds searching for “Lickable pre-teens” in Google image search, you’d have gotten that one on your own.

by Horn Brain on Sep 3, 2008 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ahhh...

Gotcha. Sorry, I wrote that question before I finished my first cup o’ joe.

Yeah, can you image the ad campaign for Creamy Creations? Whew!

It's Mean to Ween

by Bombilla on Sep 3, 2008 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

that ad is pretty shocking, at least they weren’t “peach sensation” creamsicles

by longhornglory on Sep 3, 2008 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions   1 recs

HA!

Awesome! I never heard of that site. I’m actually very relieved that it’s a fake!!

It's Mean to Ween

by Bombilla on Sep 3, 2008 11:24 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

world still spinning on its axis. Also on the sexually suggestive front, this one seems to have riled up a lot of people around USC a bit.

by longhornglory on Sep 3, 2008 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

ONCE AGAIN!

HEY everyone its been awhile since I have been on here a long while. Love the new look. Now down to business. I am in North Carolina and am Dieing to see the renovated DKR filled with fans 98,000 + is fricking SWEEEEET! Any one got pictures?

TEXAS ORANGE ITS IN THE BLOOD!

by ousuxHOOKEM on Sep 3, 2008 9:51 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, the “I” is for imaginary, and the “M” in “MNC” apparently means “mythical national championship.” Neither the “I” nor the “M” is really all that necessary or even astutely applied in either case.

by burntorangehorn on Sep 3, 2008 9:56 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

you

rank Texas ahead of Mizzou? That’s homerific.

Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!

by Jon Johnston on Sep 3, 2008 10:49 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Missouri

Hey, corn blight… Until Missouri beats us they’ll always be the underdog. Sound familiar?

HA!! Actually, I’m really looking forward to seeing how y’all do with Bo this season! Go Big Red!!

It's Mean to Ween

by Bombilla on Sep 3, 2008 11:26 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

You

Rank Mizzou above Texas after Mizzou let’s Juice F-in By God Williams throw for 450? Where did you rank Tech? Probably top 15?

by Horn Brain on Sep 3, 2008 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

ousuxHOOKEM

I know what ur going thru. I’m in North Carolina too and I HATE ABC Regional coverage because instead of watching Texas-OU, I’m watching a crappy Maryland-Virginia game. At least I just found out how to watch whole games on TexasSportsTV. Where u at in NC?

by DONSLIQ on Sep 3, 2008 1:12 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

DONDLIQ

i’m in Fayetteville/Fort Bragg. I woud up listening to the game on the net because crappy ESPN Game Plan doesn’t show hardly any UT games.

by ousuxHOOKEM on Sep 3, 2008 1:19 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

The Big 12 needs to follow the Big 10 and have their own network

by DONSLIQ on Sep 3, 2008 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions   1 recs

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