Daily Round Up: We’re Not A Cesspool

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Is Texas is in desperation mode? “I don’t know about being in desperation mode, but the margin for error the rest of the way is non-existent. While the Longhorns can win their remaining seven games there’s nothing I’ve seen through the first five contests that gives me any reasonable level of confidence in that happening.” - Jeff Howe

Charlie Strong deserves four years. “Now there's no question that Charlie needs to get things going, and he deserves at least four years, barring a complete disaster.”

Can the Cyclones get over the hump? Iowa State’s program is improving from week to week and Wide Right Natty Lite predicts the Cyclones will beat Texas.

Here are five things you need to know about Iowa State.

Bill Self is not taking Shaka Smart’s team lightly. “I think Texas is gonna be ridiculously young, but I think they’re ridiculously talented. They signed a couple McDonald’s (All-Americans) that could play into being all-league type performers either this year or early in their careers. So I wouldn’t sleep on the Longhorns at all.”

This is a great response to Kirk Herbstreit’s cesspool remark: “Austin is no worse and probably much better than many football hotbeds like Columbus, Ohio, where Kirk played for the Buckeyes.”

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Congrats to the Pokes! OSU was awarded a retroactive natty.

The Cleveland Browns have hired Art Briles as a consultant.