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Why do Texas fans believe they are a blue blood?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:02 pm
You’ve won exactly 1 national title since 1970. The media loves you because you’ve got money and a large fan base who gives them eye balls and viewership but you haven’t been a dominant force in football since segregation ended.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:03 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:04 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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You’ve won exactly 1 national title since 1970.
That seems almost impossible for a school with those resources and a ton of high school talent. 1 title in 55 seasons and counting.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:13 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Texas is a blue blood.
They have more money than pretty much anyone.
They are in a recruiting hotbed.
They are (now) in the conference players want to be in.
They have a national title since 1999. Only 13 teams in CFB are on that list (recent champions).
5th in all-time wins.
6th in all time winning percentage.
They've also made the playoff in the 2-team era (BCS), 4-team era and 12-team era... which very few other teams have done.
They are a blue blood program, are currently relevant and are a top 5 job in college football due to the money they have, the history they have and the recruits they have access to.
Are they #1? No. But they're top 5.
They have more money than pretty much anyone.
They are in a recruiting hotbed.
They are (now) in the conference players want to be in.
They have a national title since 1999. Only 13 teams in CFB are on that list (recent champions).
5th in all-time wins.
6th in all time winning percentage.
They've also made the playoff in the 2-team era (BCS), 4-team era and 12-team era... which very few other teams have done.
They are a blue blood program, are currently relevant and are a top 5 job in college football due to the money they have, the history they have and the recruits they have access to.
Are they #1? No. But they're top 5.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:18 pm to DawginSC
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Are they #1? No. But they're top 5
They are not even top 5 in the SEC
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:21 pm to Foreskinski
There's one Blueblood in the SEC and that's Alabama. Maybe Kirby gets UGA there before he retires.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:23 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:I am hardly a 'sip fan, but this thread just oozes insecurity.
Why do Texas fans believe they are a blue blood? You’ve won exactly 1 national title since 1970.
In any case, a "blue blood" is just someone with social status arising from someone else's success, long ago. It is VERY difficult to lose "blue blood" status. It requires a LOT of less-than-mediocrity, over a very long period of time (e.g. Nebraska).
I can live with "nouveau riche," because it arises from contemporaneous accomplishments. But it IS a status that is much easier to lose.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:23 pm to Foreskinski
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They are not even top 5 in the SEC
This year? Nope.
As a program/job/destination? Absolutely. The only places that could be considered more desirable or better jobs than Texas are Bama and UGA. And UGA is only recently there so that might be recency bias.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:26 pm to DawginSC
they're top 5.
At what exactly?
Oh wait I know, the job in Austin is top 5 or maybe even top 1 at exposing rising next-hot-thing coaches, this includes assistants becoming HC's elsewhere for what they are which usually isn't all they were cracked up to be and I guess the ballot is still out on Sarkisian.
At what exactly?
Oh wait I know, the job in Austin is top 5 or maybe even top 1 at exposing rising next-hot-thing coaches, this includes assistants becoming HC's elsewhere for what they are which usually isn't all they were cracked up to be and I guess the ballot is still out on Sarkisian.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:29 pm to lazlodawg
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There's one Blueblood in the SEC and that's Alabama.
Is Oklahoma not in the SEC now?
They're Top 3 on ANY list.
Plus they historically have the same jaded mindset of SEC "Scools" outside of Vanderbilt..."We want a university that the football team can be proud of." - Oklahoma president George L. Cross (1960s)
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:29 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
this stings, especially coming from an Arkansas fan. but the thing that hurts the most is when you guys add an S to the end of Texas to make it Tex-arse like you’re saying Texas is a butt
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:32 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Que the deflection.....what has Arkansas done!
This is the typical response a texican
This is the typical response a texican
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:32 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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You’ve won exactly 1 national title since 1970. The media loves you because you’ve got money and a large fan base who gives them eye balls and viewership but you haven’t been a dominant force in football since segregation ended.
It is exactly the same reason that Texans are so baselessly full of themselves....they are fronting. The insecurity in the average Texan is crippling...they are all hat and no cattle as they themselves like to say about other people. This applies to Texas cattle barons as well. Texas has been settled since Europeans showed up by folks who could not cut it on the east coast and did not have the intestinal fortitude to make it to the west coast. They gave up in Texas. The modern day Texan is either a direct descendent of these quitters or they could not make it where they were and did the same thing, got as far as Texas and ran out of gumption. Their knowledge of how they wound up in Texas is a sore spot for them so they spend an inordinate amount of time blowing smoke up one another's arse about how great Texas is and they put forth that shallow facade among normal people and we are, for the most part, unwilling to point out their shortcomings because we was raised right and taught not to make fun of silly people. Texans mistake this social nicety for acquiescence....since we don't laugh at them non stop they assume we see something they know damn well doesn't exist and they over compensate for it.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:38 pm to swinetime
quote:You are trying to say "queue," but you mean "cue."
Que the deflection.....what has Arkansas done!
"Que" is just Spanish for "what?"
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:39 pm to RelentlessAnalysis
What? R U sure?
Que lastima!
Que lastima!
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:40 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Until Texas joined the SEC and Texas fans started posting on this board, I had no idea that Texas fans considered their program a blueblood. It was educational.
As a college football fan growing up in the '90s, they definitely didn't do blueblood stuff and I wasn't aware of their blueblood history.
Texas is one Southern Cal choke job away from "1970" being like "1980" was for Georgia fans.
For some reason, national championships won in the '60s and early '70s count more in mythical blueblood calculations.
As a college football fan growing up in the '90s, they definitely didn't do blueblood stuff and I wasn't aware of their blueblood history.
Texas is one Southern Cal choke job away from "1970" being like "1980" was for Georgia fans.
For some reason, national championships won in the '60s and early '70s count more in mythical blueblood calculations.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:44 pm to JacieNY
quote:It is the simplest one-word translation, though it obviously has other uses in Spanish.
What? R U sure?
Que lastima!
The POINT is that it definitely does not mean anything like the way it was used in that post.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:44 pm to JacieNY
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What? R U sure? Que lastima!
Que sueño con chicas bonitas!
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:46 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:Yes.
For some reason, national championships won in the '60s and early '70s count more in mythical blueblood calculations.
See the definition of "blueblood" set forth above.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 1:47 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Why do Texas fans believe they are a blue blood?
Define “blue blood.”
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