re: If Colt wasn't hurt Bama wouldn't have won

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The fact that a Freshman came in off the bench and had the ball in his hands late in the fourth quarter to take the lead, also says a lot.

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It says a lot about how complacent Alabama's offense got in the second half. Gilbert didn't light it up by any stretch of the imagination. He was 15-40 for 186 yards and threw four interceptions.

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Correct. The Big XII held the door open for them after slamming it in Nebraska's face.

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"Nebraska lost another heartbreaker to Texas Saturday. You saw it. Felt it. What you didn’t feel were the post-game aftershocks reverberating through the concrete tunnels of Cowboys Stadium. It hit hardest the Pelinis, who nearly orchestrated a monumental upset. The reason why they didn’t, according to Bo’s and Carl’s immediate reactions, was the officials’ decision to add one second to the game clock after Colt McCoy’s last throw out of bounds. Originally, the clock expired, sending a flood of Nebraska players onto the field. But a review changed that call, led to Texas’ game-winning kick and sent the Pelinis into madness. According to Dan Beebe, Big 12 commissioner, officials did the right thing. According to Walt Anderson, officials did the right thing. Where was the clock when the ball hit something out of bounds? “There was a second left,” Anderson said. But nothing or nobody could convince Bo Pelini. “I want an explanation!” Pelini yelled outside his locker room. Standing in that tunnel quietly watching him: Harvey Perlman, Paul Meyers, Eric Crouch. “Get Coach Osborne down here!” Pelini said. “Can you go get Coach Osborne?” Minutes later, Athletic Director Tom Osborne walked slowly toward the locker room in a black trench coat. He entered the double doors to meet Pelini. From outside the doors, one word could be heard loudest: “Cheaters!” Then Osborne strode back to the field, where Texas was wrapping up its trophy presentation. En route to midfield, Osborne said to a World-Herald reporter: “Where is Dan Beebe?” Beebe was standing at the 40-yard line talking to Assistant Commissioner Ed Stewart, a former Nebraska All-America linebacker. As Osborne reached Beebe, the commissioner extended his hand. But Osborne didn’t shake it. Osborne pointed at Beebe and said, “Would you go see Bo? Right now?” By then, Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman had come on to the field. Perlman and Osborne walked with Beebe off the field and down a stadium tunnel. The three exchanged no words on the walk. Down the tunnel, Osborne walked three steps in front of Beebe and Perlman walked to Beebe’s right. As Osborne walked, The World-Herald asked if Nebraska would appeal any part of the game. His answer: “I don’t know.’’ Beebe went immediately to the post-game press conference and waited for Pelini. Pelini lightened up a bit during the question-and-answer session. He even cracked a joke. But when he left, Osborne called to him. “Bo! Bo! Dan Beebe’s here.” Beebe suggested he and Pelini talk in private. They walked into a quiet area near some shiny SUVs, 100 feet from anyone else. Yet Bo and the occasional curse word could still be heard. Osborne watched the meeting with Pelini’s brother, Vince. Time ran out, Vince told him. They took it from us, Vince said. Osborne, whose facial expression never changed, calmed him: “I’ve been on both ends.”

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Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors met to discuss the future of the Big Ten at its winter meetings in Park Ridge, Illinois. This was a league without a conference title game, without the slightest bit of impact on college football's final weekend of regular-season play.

Fewer than six months later, Nebraska would have Delany on its campus, announcing the Big Ten had invited the Bugeaters, the Huskers, the Big Red... to the Big Ten.

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Gilbert didn't light it up by any stretch of the imagination. He was 15-40 for 186 yards and threw four interceptions.

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You're just proving the point that TEXAS would've won with Colt playing all game.

Aggie stalking/lurking on UT-Austin? Check.
Aggie dick riding/white knighting for Alabama? Check.

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imagine what a heisman caliber QB could've done

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Imagine how different both teams play if Colt is in the game. He was knocked out literally two minutes into the contest. And it's not like he was hit with some season-ending injury. He could have gone back in had he wanted to. He chose to sit and wait for the draft when the game was on the line.

McElroy, for all the good he did in that game, played through his injury.

It's obviously a what if - like about 1,000 other games in sports history - but that idea that it is open and shut that Texas wins is silliness.

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A bad call on the field is different than the eye test criteria found at some resort in TX. As bad as the call was, they still won it on the field.

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I mean, sure, why not

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I mean, sure, why not

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Then you agree?

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10 - 5-7
11 - 8-5
12 - 9-4
13 - 8-5
14 - 6-7
15 - 5-7
16 - 5-7
17 - 7-6

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This looks eerily similar.