re: We just stomped Texas in front of a rabid packed house on primetime national TV

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That was their main excuse they kept telling themselves last night, "well this was y'alls super bowl haha... we don't care that much about you so that's why we didn't play as hard"

They don't realize that EVERY week in the SEC will be just like that.

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To their credit, the guys on the LHN Texas GameDay Final show (Lowell Galindo and some former Texas players) were saying the same when they were dissecting the game. They said it was obvious the team and staff didn't take Arkansas seriously as a rival and thus took them lightly, and they echoed the fact that you can't do that in the SEC because every week is a dogfight with a quality opponent.

The "they're just another opponent" stuff is what gets coaches fired. It's why Bert could never seem to beat Gus, because one guy had it circled and the other tried to act like it didn't mean anything, and their respective teams played like it.