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Texas has turned its 4-0 start into the biggest average TV audience in college football, as the Longhorns lead Nielsen's list of the most-watched teams of the 2026 season through Week 4.




Texas 9.038 million viewers per qualifying game
LSU 7.623 million
Wisconsin 7.421 million
Ohio State 6.960 million
Ole Miss 6.235 million, round out the top five.

I posted in another thread ESPN's strategy on putting a marquee game in the early time slot to compete with Fox's Big-Noon Game.

Get the audience early and hold them the rest of the day, where ESPN already dominates the market.

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He did ball out in the second half of the OSU game I'll give him that.

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Tell me 3 QB or teams you think can make 3 70+ yard drives, in a row, against Texas or Ohio State or Georgia.

Texas doesn't pretend to be a pass first, pass happy team. Guess what, nobody in the NFL is either.

They run the ball, keep possession, eat clock, and let the well rested defense feast.

Of his 3 interceptions, 1 was a bad choice, 2 were on the WR.

He also has had at least 1 long pass dropped, or not caught, in every game.

Most important, it is September, and Texas is 4-0. There is ample time to improve and build momentum.

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Love Pates content. He tells you in detail why he thinks something, does not just say shite. Is rare now it seems in sports.

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Yes, he pushes his sponsors, the gambling houses/sports books.

And Academy, which explains his love fest for A&M.

He spends more time reading stats than watching games.

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Simmons is lucky the Vols OL couldn’t block x xxxxxxxx xxxx.

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Fixed it for you.

I watched these YouTube videos on the Texas-Tennessee Game; from Brooks Austin, Josh Pate, and Landon Tengwall;

Tennessee's Offensive Line Destroyed by Texas

Texas BEATS Tennessee

Colin Simmons Record Setting Day

One is pretty adamant that you don't throw a freshman QB under the bus, Ever. With that said, it wouldn't have mattered.

One watched from the field level and thought Tennessee had open receivers all day long.

Anybody that watched the game knows the QB was under pressure all game long. Any QB on the planet would have been under the same pressure.

He got sacked 10 times, by the stat sheet, 12 times on the field. They should have had more. He got hit many more times. He played hurt with an unknown injury, that probably affected his throwing motion.

Some PFF #'s are a joke. Brandon may not have thrown the ball for 5 seconds, but that doesn't mean he had 5 seconds to throw the ball, if he was running for 3 of them.

A few obvious takeaways.

1. Don't be a hypocrite. You would take Colin Simmons on your team in a heartbeat, no questions asked. He was Choosin' Texas before Ella started singing about it.

2. Colin Simmons is the best pass rusher in college football. Destroyed is the right word. Lawrence Taylor 2.0

3. Texas has 2 monster DT that ate up Tennessee's double teams all game long. One of which was Simmons HS teammate and Player of the Year. DT is probably the deepest position group.

4. Texas defense is well coached, and has great players. The biggest question Muschamp had was to rush 3 guys or 4. Texas blitzed very little in the game.

5. Texas doesn't need Arch to be great, and Texas doesn't have to score 50 points a game.

6. At this time last year, Texas was 2-2, coming off a shite show in Florida. It was ugly, but it was a win.

* Brooks said he was asked to look at some North Carolina game film; "I ain't got time for that!"

:cheers:

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I don't understand how Aggies could fall off so much


Their natural state is 8-4.

In the last 100 years they have only won 10 or more games 12 times with 1/3 of those coming in the 90s

76 times they won 8 or less games.

76% 8 or less
12% 10 or more.

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It's not even 8 & 4, more like 7 & 5.

Since 2000, they have only won 9 or more games 7 times. 7 times in 26 years.

Since 2000, they are 197 & 132, an average of 7.3 & 4.9 (7 & 5), winning a whopping 60% of their games.

That includes a bunch of FCS games. They get The Citadel Bulldogs next month.
:rotflmao:

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So they cheated and still lost the game? Heupel

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The worst 2 minutes of officiating in the history of football.

Blatant face mask. Penalty not called. Simmons would have planted Brandon.



Blatant hold not called, on the same play, 1 second later. Penalty not called.



By not calling any of the penalties within 5 yards of the ball carrier, Barndon ran for 16 yards, boosting his rushing total for the day to +2 yards , a whopping 1.04 inches per carry.


Moving laterally before he kicked the ball. Penalty not called.

Ball not kicked from 35 yard line. Penalty not called.

The ball was kicked from between the 33 and 34 yard lines. There were 4 Tennessee players offsides and past the ball when he kicked it. Penalty not called.

5 obvious penalties happened within 15 seconds of game time, none of which were called.

SEC! SEC! SEC!

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Neither team has much to brag about. 16 sacks and 130 combined rushing yards. What happened to the blocking? Looks like the Neyland crowd got too drunk and screamed when both teams had the ball.

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Most of y'all said Texas would lose. Texas won. That's all that mattered.

Not a game you want to rewatch. But if you like aggressive, physical football, not a bad choice.

Watching film guys break down Colin Simmons is kind of fun. He's extremely talented, and emotional.

Colin Simmons is a good person. He used his NIL money to create, with his mom, the 501(c)3 nonprofit Clay's Color Crew in 2024 to support the entire Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community, in honor of his 9 year old brother, Clay.

“That’s literally my heart and I’d do anything for him.”

Don't act like any of you wouldn't take him in a heartbeat.

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Sun God: LSU

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I personally 100% guarantee it will not be Texas.

Sun God, you still have the best Avatar on the planet. I may be biased.




Perpetual drought and the absence of tropical storms, ...


... but all is well. The sunsets are still Burnt Orange.

Don't think I've seen a post from one since Saturday.

:cheers:

Bevo is arguably the most iconic mascot in sports. Nothing is more associated with the State of Texas, and the University of Texas.

Ralphie is cool, but nobody outside of college football associates Colorado with Buffalos.

Still can't tell the difference, huh?

Must not have done very well on that damn square peg/round hole thingy.

You only think you want some of that 2100 pounds of beef.