Texas / Texas Tech - Game On

[Boom_70]

My Feeling - this has the potential to be one of the great football games of this season.

 

[Paper Dragon]

Especially if you have something against defense.

 

[mustangj17]

I don't like the Big 12. Don't know why. Just want Bama or Texas to lose this season so PSU can get to the finals.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I think this game has the potential to have a lot of points scored.

 

[Chef]

If I didn't have another game to be at this Saturday night, I would be making the 7-hour trek to Lubbock.

Gimme a guess at the line;

UT (-4)

O/U; 85?....higher?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I would love for Tech and Penn State to wind up playing in the BCS title game.

I'm so sick of the USCs and Ohio States and every SEC team (except Georgia). Let's get some new teams in there.

Texas will probably beat Tech by 21, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and root for the upset.

 

[Matt1735]

Maybe the wrong thread, but this season and the number of great teams points out the need for a playoff of some kind.

• All the talk about Texas and Alabama and Penn State would be moot if Florida hadn't had a PAT blocked against Ole Miss. Florida wins that game and it's currently number 1, or at worst, number 2.

• All the talk about Texas is moot if Okie St. hits the hail mary, a play which had about as much chance of happening as the blocked PAT.

• Texas Tech may win this game, but will not go unbeaten.

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

ATM weeps.

 

[GB-Hack]

Or, you know, Florida could not get its PAT blocked.

Jeez, I think the Gators are a very good team, but they have no excuse for giving up 31 points and losing to Mississippi at home.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Maybe the wrong thread, but this season and the number of great teams points out the need for a playoff of some kind.

• All the talk about Texas and Alabama and Penn State would be moot if Florida hadn't had a PAT blocked against Ole Miss. Florida wins that game and it's currently number 1, or at worst, number 2.

• All the talk about Texas is moot if Okie St. hits the hail mary, a play which had about as much chance of happening as the blocked PAT.

• Texas Tech may win this game, but will not go unbeaten.

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

College football's regular season is the best in sports.

The postseason is the biggest joke in sports.

Why this still has not been fixed is beyond me.

 

[Boom_70]

Maybe the wrong thread, but this season and the number of great teams points out the need for a playoff of some kind.

• All the talk about Texas and Alabama and Penn State would be moot if Florida hadn't had a PAT blocked against Ole Miss. Florida wins that game and it's currently number 1, or at worst, number 2.

• All the talk about Texas is moot if Okie St. hits the hail mary, a play which had about as much chance of happening as the blocked PAT.

• Texas Tech may win this game, but will not go unbeaten.

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

College football's regular season is the best in sports.

The postseason is the biggest joke in sports.

Why this still has not been fixed is beyond me.

I've watched College Football for a long time and this might be the best run by far that it is enjoying.

You have to say its one of the things that ESPN does right. You can now go 4-5 days a week and see a pretty good college game.

 

[hondo]

Mike Leach vs. Mack Brown ... now there's a battle of coaching giants.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Mike Leach vs. Mack Brown ... now there's a battle of coaching giants.

Mike Leach vs. Will Muschamp

Greg Davis vs. Ruffin McNeill

 

[trifectarich]

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

No one's holding a gun to their head to make them play a conference championship game, are they? If you don't want to risk your league's top team getting another loss, then quit playing another game just for the money. (No, I don't ever expect that to happen.)

 

[mustangj17]

Maybe the wrong thread, but this season and the number of great teams points out the need for a playoff of some kind.

• All the talk about Texas and Alabama and Penn State would be moot if Florida hadn't had a PAT blocked against Ole Miss. Florida wins that game and it's currently number 1, or at worst, number 2.

• All the talk about Texas is moot if Okie St. hits the hail mary, a play which had about as much chance of happening as the blocked PAT.

• Texas Tech may win this game, but will not go unbeaten.

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

That shouldn't matter about Florida. Any team that is undefeated and as good as Penn State should be in position for the title game at this point.

Even if they win two out of the next three, beat Indy, Iowa and lose to MSU, they would be 11-1 and so far, there is no guarantee for them.

In a playoff we could see these 8 teams right now:

1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. Penn State
4. Oklahoma
5. Florida
6. Texas Tech
7. Boise State or Utah
8. USC

Round 1: Texas vs. USC, Boise State or Utah vs. Alabama, Penn State vs. Texas Tech, Oklahoma vs. Florida. (Tell me Oklahoma Florida, or Bama Boise State wouldn't be sick?

And **** that little 11 bull****. Nobody remembers when OSU defeated a great Miami team in '02 for the title. Or that two years ago Michigan and Ohio State were top 3 almost all season.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Mustang, I'd add Tulsa and Ball State to Boise and Utah as the potential BCS buster.

Man, the rest of that list is impressive, with Texas, Alabama, Penn State, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas Tech and USC.

Getting lost in the Texas-Texas Tech game is the Florida-Georgia game. It's being played on a neutral site and Georgia is favored.

I think both games can go either way, but if I had to pick the two winners straight up, I'd go with Texas and Florida. Florida is probably the best team in the SEC, but Alabama hasn't been knocked off. What Florida did to Kentucky was obscene.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

• It is still unfair that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 play championship games (and put an unbeaten season on the line one final time against a quality opponent) and the Little 11 and West Coast 10 do not.

All the Big1T1en and Pac-10 have to do is expand to 12 teams and then they can split into divisions and have their own championship games. The SEC, ACC, Big XII, C-USA and MAC are are getting extended paydays.

 

[txsportsscribe]

ATM sucks.

fixed

 

[cwilson3]

And **** that little 11 bull****. Nobody remembers when OSU defeated a great Miami team in '02 for the title. Or that two years ago Michigan and Ohio State were top 3 almost all season.

It's because that's convenient.

 

[Matt1735]

And **** that little 11 bull****. Nobody remembers when OSU defeated a great Miami team in '02 for the title. Or that two years ago Michigan and Ohio State were top 3 almost all season.

See, that little 11 bull**** is accurate in recent times. I'll give you '02, but two years ago, "everyone" was clamoring for a rematch between "the two best teams in the country" (which by the way, a conference title game would solve) and instead Florida smacked tOSU up one side of the field and down the other.

So big deal, Penn State is going to win that conference — Texas, USC or the SEC representative (Florida, Georgia or Alabama) will win that game easily.