1. Texas has not finalized its schedule, or at least not to the point where they’ll announce it. Mack Brown was not pleased when a question about the rescheduling was put to him Wed. afternoon. He did admit it was a possibility.
2. The UT and UCLA websites continue to list Sept. 18 as the date they’ll play; Tech’s site has UT visiting Lubbock that day.
3. Playing TCU (for the Longhorns) was never in the cards. The Tech-TCU game was pushed into the future, as was the case when Arkansas asked out of this year’s meeting with the Longhorns in Fayetteville.
4. I doubt TCU’s strength this year had anything to do with Tech shifting that game to 2011 or beyond. The chance for big TV dollars and national exposure in a setting the Red Raiders feel they can win (Texas, at home, early, with UT breaking in a new QB) was attractive enough to ask TCU to move the game.
5. Weber State is the game Tech added; that school has not announced a 2010 meeting with Tech.
6. Longhorns can play UCLA the following week, Sept. 25, if Texas can relocate its scheduled Sept. 25 game with Florida Atlantic. UT currently has open dates Nov. 20 (the former Tech date, five days before playing Texas A&M) — and Oct. 9, the week AFTER the RRS (it’s Oct. 2 next year; bizarre, it having been played Oct. 17 this season).

I think the truth is Tech had miscalculated how good TCU was going to be when they scheduled this game earlier, now that you have seen TCU this year your pirate coach has chickened out and he doesn’t want to see TCU make the fat little Tech coeds cry. LOL!!