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re: Why is Texas considered a blue blood program in football
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:18 am to 3down10
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:18 am to 3down10
Of course you would think it’s ignorant. You have no leg to stand on with your argument. You’re trying to say nattys during the poll era were somehow legitimate. Some were, while most were highly debatable. I gave you 3 examples and you can’t say anything about them so you deflect and won’t engage because you’ll look like the clown you are!
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Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:26 am to LSUtigerNVegas
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Of course you would think it’s ignorant. You have no leg to stand on with your argument. You’re trying to say nattys during the poll era were somehow legitimate. Some were, while most were highly debatable. I gave you 3 examples and you can’t say anything about them so you deflect and won’t engage because you’ll look like the clown you are!
Presentism is for ignorant people who are incapable of understanding history in context. It's ignorant well beyond the discussion of college football.
You didn't give 3 examples of anything. You made up some shite and claimed otherwise.
I'm sure in 30 years there will be some idiot like you talking about how current day national championships aren't legit because it was before the 82 team playoff.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:32 am to LSUtigerNVegas
Here's a relatively simple way to determine who are the blue bloods of football...
go talk to some big football fans, whose families have been fans for generations. Do this across the country.
Ask multiple generations: grampa, dad, kids etc- what schools they hate and get excited to play. Ideally, you want at least 4-5 generations here, so "who did your great grandfather hate with a passion? Which games would they remember forever, having played against them?"
Get those results, and narrow them down. If a team pops up in every generation, it is either a rival, or a blueblood.
Now, compare the results across the different families (different regions). This elimates the rivals, because while LSU fans might list Ole Miss, and Arkansas might list A&M, you won't see them in the Midwest, Northeast, or West coast etc.
But you WILL see Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma etc. Those names will either be hated, or extremely memorable games. Across the timelines, across the nation. Those are the blue bloods.
go talk to some big football fans, whose families have been fans for generations. Do this across the country.
Ask multiple generations: grampa, dad, kids etc- what schools they hate and get excited to play. Ideally, you want at least 4-5 generations here, so "who did your great grandfather hate with a passion? Which games would they remember forever, having played against them?"
Get those results, and narrow them down. If a team pops up in every generation, it is either a rival, or a blueblood.
Now, compare the results across the different families (different regions). This elimates the rivals, because while LSU fans might list Ole Miss, and Arkansas might list A&M, you won't see them in the Midwest, Northeast, or West coast etc.
But you WILL see Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma etc. Those names will either be hated, or extremely memorable games. Across the timelines, across the nation. Those are the blue bloods.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:35 am to LSUbacchus81
The coattail riders from Austin don't have a blue blood football program despite their success the last two seasons after having mostly mediocre teams for over a decade. Real college football fans know this and don't fall for recency bias.
This post was edited on 3/28/25 at 11:36 am
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:40 am to Gunga Din
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This is interesting but I'm going to have to disagree a bit that it is this simple.
When CFB on TV emerged... Teams were restricted in how many times they could be on per year. It was two or three times a year. And if you were on three times one year... you could have only two games the next.
So lots of teams got on TV considering there was only one network televising CFB content.
To some degree the attention your TV games got was a function of who you were playing.
For example... Oklahoma would be on against Texas and Nebraska most years. Some years it would be one or the other and an OOC game.
For instance, In 1977, OU got on against Ohio State and Nebraska but not Texas.
Many other teams got the same amount of TV appearances as the so called Blue Bloods... but they didn't draw eyeballs. Partly because they weren't that popular themselves... and part of it is because their televised games didn't have the matchups that some of the Blue Blood teams had.
In a nutshell, TV might have played a part in the establishment of the Blue Bloods... but it wasn't because they were on TV all that many more times than other teams.
There were certainly other factors, no doubt. As I said, the teams were already popular when the sport started to gain national TV attention, it snowballed. Alabama for example gained popularity during the 20's and 30's by representing the south in a time when the south didn't get much respect nationally.
The guy getting dunked on in the basketball poster may appear on the poster, but he's not the attraction.
So yeah, who you were playing was part of it. When your team isn't doing great, you're basically only going to get TV games against better opponents. This lasted long after the bluebloods were established, and it still applies today when it comes to getting games on major networks rather than ESPN3 etc.
btw, 3 games was a lot back then. I listened to most games on the radio.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:45 am to LSUbacchus81
If anyone is next to fall off the Blue Blood pedestal, it's the big N, not Texas.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:54 am to GoGators1995
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Texas is 4th in wins and 6th in win percentage. Can't go by mythical national "titles" in CFB.
They didn't play in a real conference until the big 12. Despite being back for a significant portion of their time there, only won 4 times
Posted on 3/28/25 at 11:58 am to LSUbacchus81
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Why is Texas considered a blue blood program in football
Why would anyone consider them a blue blood program?
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:04 pm to BigBro
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Darrell Royal made us a blue blood.. not Mack Brown.
I guess I need to clarify my previous statement. I forgot how you Longwhorn soyboys are a bit slow. Darrell Royal was a great coach and yes, Texas was elite when he was there. But they were mediocre after he left up until Mack Brown, other than a few random years under Fred Akers. Texas epitomizes the phrase "all hat, no cattle."
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:17 pm to MtVernon
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And then one day he was shooting at some food and up from the ground come a-bubbling crude.
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Hook 'em
Did you even watch the show?
Jed was from Arkansas and the oil he found was in Arkansas.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:20 pm to samson73103
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Texas epitomizes the phrase "all hat, no cattle."
Texas as a state = Good
Individual Texans = Good
Texans in a group = Sheep, dumber than hell and smell funny
I like the Texas "30K Millionaire" handle.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:36 pm to OlGrandad
what does this have to do with Florida?
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:47 pm to Cheese Grits
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Jed was from Arkansas and the oil he found was in Arkansas.
Why must we get technical
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:48 pm to samson73103
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Texas epitomizes the phrase "all hat, no cattle."
Bevo says hi.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 12:59 pm to LSUbacchus81
Two things.
1) Can we pin this topic to avoid the next 500 times it comes up?
2) Do you like apples?
Texas is a blue blood.
How do you like them apples?
1) Can we pin this topic to avoid the next 500 times it comes up?
2) Do you like apples?
Texas is a blue blood.
How do you like them apples?
This post was edited on 3/28/25 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 3/28/25 at 1:23 pm to LSUbacchus81
it's a relic of the past. With nil, playoffs, transfer portals it means nothing going forward.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 1:55 pm to 3down10
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National Championships are awarded.
Keep crying because you dislike history.
Keep crying because you dislike the fact that national titles were mythical and claimed, Mr. 1941.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 1:56 pm to Dire Wolf
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They didn't play in a real conference until the big 12. Despite being back for a significant portion of their time there, only won 4 times
Still 6th all time against final ranked teams.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 1:58 pm to MtVernon
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If anyone is next to fall off the Blue Blood pedestal, it's the big N, not Texas.
Penn St has actually passed them in both wins and winning percentage.
Posted on 3/28/25 at 2:01 pm to GoGators1995
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Keep crying because you dislike the fact that national titles were mythical and claimed, Mr. 1941.
1941 was awarded by the Houlgate System.
A testament to how shitty computer models have been throughout history.
This post was edited on 3/28/25 at 2:02 pm
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