re: Texas AM 1994

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finished 7th in the AP poll, because they tied SMU and a very weak SWC at the time

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This was my sophomore year.

Slocum's teams were an incredibly frustrating thing back then. He had some of the very best talent in the land, as evidenced by a crazy number of NFL draft picks during his tenure. He played incredibly conservatively, however, and the team would simply take games off against inferior opponents. We barely beat a 1-10 SMU team the next year.

That was a pretty bad LSU squad that year and we barely eked out a win in Baton Rouge.

The SWC was on its arse back then and most regional powers were in a funk. OU sucked, LSU was in a hole, Texas was mediocre.

We would flex on the crappy Texas competition and then either lose close games or get rolled in the Cotton Bowl.

And then came Bob Stoops and Mack Brown and Nick Saban and those great Nebraska squads starting cornholing R.C.'s teams when we joined the Big 12 and he was finally put out of his misery.