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re: Texas, Sark, and the all-out push to get the Horns in the College Football Playoffs

Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:31 pm to
Posted by TexasWranglers
Member since Sep 2024
1505 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:31 pm to
Improved enough to beat OU 23-6 and hold you to without a TD
Posted by TexasWranglers
Member since Sep 2024
1505 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:33 pm to
unsure if Kirby would have been ready but do I think Kirby is a better coach, absolutely I do. But Kirby Smarts dont grow on trees.

Agree with your entire post. He needs to be more CEO like Mack and less OC on game day but dont think he will check his ego for that.

Time will tell
Posted by dhuck20
SCLSU Fan
Member since Oct 2012
22863 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:33 pm to
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95% - 99%% of the time after a scoring possession a college football team does not attempt an onside kick that is not a desperation (last possession scenario).

You executed and won, great for you but dont act like thats a normal football play done each and every game because thats factually incorrect. If you are comparing these teams that play (and the 4th down off sides) completely changed what was a very close game.
I said “fairly normal” not that it occurs “each and every game”. You’re arguing semantics in attempt to downplay a 25 point loss. It’s fine brother I’ll let you have this one. Ol Kirby had to bust out his bag o tricks to beat the Horns by 4 possessions.
Posted by TexasWranglers
Member since Sep 2024
1505 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:37 pm to
Going to agree to disagree. An onside kick isnt even normal much less one in the early 4th which was a surprise.

Doesnt matter, yall executed and we didnt. But that game was def not a 25 point game and I am sure you watched the entire game. Texas gets ball back and doesnt jump offsides on that 4th and 5, the refs call a blatant PI on Archs pick when your DB was holding our WR shoulder, and the onside likely doesnt happen. Either way it snowballed because of those 3 things.

We are not better than UGA right now and Kirby owns Sark period.
Posted by DawgsLife
Ellijay, Ga.
Member since Jun 2013
61382 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:37 pm to
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In every other sport it's more about where you are at the end of the season vs the beginning. Only CFB does it like this.


This is incorrect. In the NFL if you win your first 10 games then lose your last 6 you would still make the playoffs, probably. That goes for just about every other sport, too, except the ones that are predicated on polls...which are college sports.
Posted by golfclap
Member since Jan 2015
73 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:43 pm to
Loser talk from a natural born loser. Sarkisian should be embarrassed but it's clear he doesn't have an embarrassment gene.
Posted by tpatten
Member since Oct 2013
46 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:48 pm to
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At the same time, zero reason for Texas (or any other SEC team for that matter) to continue scheduling big OOC games if the record is all that matters


That's true, as long as you don't go as far as Missouri and schedule only teams that don't challenge you enough for the SEC gauntlet.
Posted by hookem33
Belton, Tx
Member since Jun 2022
2633 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:49 pm to
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oh the irony about dramatics! You don't even notice the difference between lobbying for the perceived strength of your team vs threatening to take your ball and go home and cancel a scheduled game if you don't get your way!

y'all really are pathetic pussies.


More drama. No one is cancelling the OSU game next year. Trust me on that. The money and attention it will bring in to town alone will ensure that game is played. The gameday crew will be there for sure. You're really trying to suggest he'd try to cancel that?
The guy is fighting for his team just like Deboer and kiffin did last year. Your hysterics doesn't change that.
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
15640 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:49 pm to
It's not the OSU loss that gets them though you still play to win..... It's UF and getting whacked by Georgia a game that could have been a blowout in the first 2 quarters...
Posted by hookem33
Belton, Tx
Member since Jun 2022
2633 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:51 pm to
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Loser talk from a natural born loser. Sarkisian should be embarrassed but it's clear he doesn't have an embarrassment gene.


I don't like Sark either but I have no issue with him trying to make a case. Every year the bubble teams try to make a case.

Personally I think he should be working on how the frick he's going to beat Ryan Day next season and forget about this one.
Posted by tpatten
Member since Oct 2013
46 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:51 pm to
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Lobbying to get in and complaining about being left out are long standing SEC traditions.


I don't recall any team that's been in a 3 way tie for 5th place in the SEC ever complaining about being left out.
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
17813 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:53 pm to
Dude. Don't be so sure...there is a lot of butthurt there on the 40 acres. They are not thinking like those of us who have been around the block a few years.
Would not shock me at all if CDC did just that.
Posted by hookem33
Belton, Tx
Member since Jun 2022
2633 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:54 pm to
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Dude. Don't be so sure...there is a lot of butthurt there on the 40 acres. They are not thinking like those of us who have been around the block a few years.
Would not shock me at all if CDC did just that.


Dodds would. Definitely.

I would hope CDC is above that. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100249 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:01 pm to
If Texas gets in you’re about to see just how much pull they have
Posted by hookem33
Belton, Tx
Member since Jun 2022
2633 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:04 pm to
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If Texas gets in you’re about to see just how much pull they have


We're not getting in. I can't believe people are suggesting it honestly. People are getting worked up over something that will not occur. There's just no path where we get in.
Posted by BevoBucks
H-town
Member since Dec 2022
6360 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:24 pm to
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I don't recall any team that's been in a 3 way tie for 5th place in the SEC ever complaining about being left out.
Welcome to the playoff era. There’s seven quadrant 1 SEC teams. All with a legit case to be made. And, we’re 3-1 against them. Which is why Saban is lobbying for us to be in.
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