Some people have really silly notions! You would rather watch us play in a high stakes September game rather than win a National Championship? You should just go be a USC fan. They always play tough OOC slates but then can’t get up for games against the second and third tier teams in their conference and then miss out on the Championship because they end up with the worst loss of the contending teams. I want my team playing its best football in November, December, and hopefully January. Why risk not getting to play in January by playing a high profile team in September?

I bet Oregon thought it was a good idea to play Boise State first game out until they lost. Because there are no pre-season warmups, it’s better to have a team that you know you can beat so you don’t gwt upset before coference like OU playing BYU. It’s at high risk to a top tier team to play a tough team OOC like Texas playing Ohio State. Worked fine with a win in the Championship year, but backfired the next year at home.

Mack seems to be obsessed with hiding schemes in September (even against Tech, he claimed they weren’t running the full playbook on either side of the ball). The 2005 Ohio State game was probably closer than it should have been due to conservative play calling compared to what was unleashed later in the season. The 2006 team may have been as hamstrung by conservative play calling as by their inexperience. We did nothing creative offensively in an attempt to win the game. Mack has a formula and if we make to Pasadena again this year, I will say its hard to dismiss the successful nature of the formula even if it has some warts.

We are Texas. We play in one of the two toughest conferences and year-in-year-out perhaps the toughest division in college football. Put one decent BCS conference opponent on the schedule and we shouldn’t have to make excuses to anyone. We don’t need to play USC or Ohio State in September, much less Boise State. If we are going to schedule a tougher non-BCS opponent rather than a decent BCS team, let it be past rivals TCU. They will give us better computer mojo since they at least play in a conference that produces one or two other quality teams each year. BSU will always be one of the worst possible ‘top’ teams to face because SOS in the computers is built not just on the opponents record but also that of their other opponents.

1) It didn’t?! What did then? Enlighten me with your wisdom. Idiot.
2) No we don’t, and neither does TTU. We do schedule a Sun Belt, Wac and CUSA team (or 2) pretty much every year. We’re not as bad as TTU obviously, because if we were my hyperbolic statement wouldn’t have been hyperbolic.
3) This is going to blow your frickin mind, but not every Texas fan lives in Texas. Instead of UT/UTEP in high def I got a look back at the 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates. I live in Illinois. Fuck FSN.
4) And seriously? I don’t know where to begin. From Mack Brown being a crybaby/diva but every other coach just loves there team, to “sure Reggie Bush got paid, but did you see Cedric Benson got drunk on a boat!” we get less love than Jan Brady.

Nothing unites half-wits and jackasses like CFB. We even like the same team.

Even if they are only .500 clubs the years we play them they will guarantee us good SOS because they will play good teams. If we play BSU and they end up going 8-4 we get nothing but a huge penalty from the computers.

We don’t have a problem getting BCS teams on board, we just had a problem this year of the one we did schedule dropping us for a better opportunity (not only to actually win the game, but also financially and in terms of recruiting).

The problem we have is there isn’t a BCS team in-state that isn’t also in the Big 12. I wish we had somehow gotten Arkansas to agree to a ‘permanent’ arrangement. They aren’t likely to be a year-in-year-out contender, but they are a longtime rival. But Arkansas would rather have a chance to win once in a while so they moved down to Aggie. TCU could almost fit the bill, but what happens in a couple of years if Patterson leaves and they become no better than Rice or SMU? They would then kill us with the computers since half the MWC is utter crap.

We need to find another Arkansas-like BCS team to get a long term contract with us. I think its better to know your enemy than having to readjust to a new opponent every year. Florida is easily taking their yearly FSU game now that FSU’s program is so ossified. Florida used to play the U every year as well, but got wise to the risks of having both on the schedule every year. They have FSU on their slate for the next 6 years but only have Miami scheduled for 2013 (though it doesn’t look like they have filled up their OOC sched for many of those years). Next year they do have USF to go along with Miami OH and D2 Appalachian State and in 2011 they have FAU, Ala-Birmingham, and D2 Furman. I would much rather have a more balanced schedule than having 2 BCS teams one year and only 1 the next. They also consistently have D2 teams and I hope we don’t ever go that route.

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OOC Schedule

most good teams don’t want to play a team like Texas for their OOC schedule. Most teams want an easier OOC schedule because of their coference schedule. Not to mention that most OOC matchups are set several years in advance, when the game is set, the team might have been a solid team but have since fallen off some.