TexArcher

Rankings after week 9 -- guess who's back on top? http://texarcher.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/big-xii-power-rankings-after-week-9/

Unbiased observer: Definitely an illegal hit. Would he have gotten suspended if the NFL didn't have its panties in a wad about hits like this one? Meh, who knows. But he absolutely led with the crown of his helmet, no question about it.

Yeah, I think Nebraska will hand them their first loss and regain the top spot next week. They're a good team, but I keep thinking back to how badly they played in two of their first three games. Were they underachieving then, and this is who they are, or are they overachieving now? Might be a bit of both. Either way, I can't picture that team running the table, they're just not that great.

Martinez should have won it outright. 435 all-purpose and 5 scores is ridiculous.

Week 8 if you're interested: http://texarcher.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/big-xii-power-rankings-after-week-8/

Wow, that is a surprising stat. You should beat Okie State, though. They're mostly a passing offense and you have a very strong secondary, plus their whole defense is awful. I think you win this one, not easily, but by something like 38-28.

Week 7 rankings: http://texarcher.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/big-xii-power-rankings-after-week-7/

A couple of these might help...

I thought we had maybe, MAYBE, a 5-10% to get that game. But all of sudden we had a workable offense again. It's like someone (probably Muschamp) hit Greg Davis in the face with a shovel and he all of a sudden realized, "Wait a minute, we've been kicking ass with the spread for years and Garrett ran the spread to perfection in high school, what kind of moron would force him under center to try to be a power running team with a bunch of B running backs and C- run blocking, you'd have to be an IDIOT to think that's a good idea". Yeah, Greg, you would. I cringe when I think how the UCLA and ou games might have gone had we used the offense we used against y'all on Saturday. Anyway, at least now I can hope that we might win out and keep the streak of 10+ win seasons going and maybe even get an at-large BCS bid. Or... Maybe ou drops two and you get another shot at REDemption against us in Jerryworld... I'd sure like to see that -- the last ever Big XII CCG as a rematch of the first ever CCG would be perfect. So good luck to both the Horns and the Huskers winning out.

Heh, I changed it because for some reason it came out huuuuuuge on here. But they both work.

Given the amount I'm going to need to deaden myself to the pain tomorrow, I think I'm just going to get a half gallon of the cheapest vodka available. There's no sense wasting money on scotch or good beer when you're going to be in a bad mood anyway. I'll save the good stuff til next weekend's celebration after we blow out Iowa State by about 6 points.

That's why it's 12, not 7.

The "Klanwhorns" stuff from aggy is hilarious. I just looked it up and only 3.5% of your school is black. So that's like most of your athletes and maybe 15 others. You're a real bastion of cultural diversity there in College Station. P.S. Who is making sure the chickens are screwing while you're playing around on the internet?

LOL

I promise you I will! If we're playing you in a 2012 bowl game, it's probably for the championship, or at the least it's in a BCS game. Keep in mind that we're probably going to the freaking Independence Bowl this year. I hate football.

I think if they were ever gonna push him out, they would've done it back in '04 when they were coming off back-to-back losing seasons. I remember some talk about how "the game has passed him by" and all that, but he's put together some good years since -- they've won 11 games three times. So if the '03 and '04 years didn't get him shoved out, it's hard to imagine this year will. And good, I say -- I think what FSU did to Bowden was embarrassing. Who the hell were you before Bowden? Who was Penn State before Paterno?

It was a great game, indeed -- not sure I've ever seen a better defensive game from two teams at the same time. Barely 300 yards of COMBINED offense. Are you serious, Clark? We doubled Suh most of the game and I think he still had 4 sacks. Beast mode. And yeah, Hunter Lawrence hit arguably the biggest FG in school history (Dusty Mangum hit from 37 yds to beat Michigan in the '05 Rose Bowl). So, yeah, we're gonna finish Big XII play at 8-2 against you, but you'll always have scoreboard. Until 2012 when GG is a senior, Malcolm Brown is a sophomore, and we play y'all for all the marbles...

Nebraska 24 Texas 10 208 rushing yards 156 passing yards

True or false: The ball landed out of bounds with one second left. You know it's true. Cornhuskers can't even argue that the wrong call was made. Some of you would rather have had the timekeeper's mistake stand so you could benefit from it, but you all know they got the call right in the end. So it wasn't the Big XII who rigged it, it was the NCAA who rigged it using Big XII officials? That's some conspiracy. When did they decide it would be Texas and Bama in the championship? When both were still unbeaten by midseason? At the beginning? Man, I sure would've expected us to get some calls in College Station when Texas A&M was giving us a hell of a fight. Turns out we got called for 6 penalties to their 5. I guess the NCAA just knew we'd pull that one out. And in the CCG, why did the refs make us take over a possession at the 1 yard line when the returner's knee hit down even though he was muffing the catch and didn't have possession? I guess they have to make it look good, right? Come on. Put the X Files conspiracy stuff away, bro.

Wow, that article is terrible. Some of the points are valid, but the whole thing is really poorly written and obviously wasn't proofread. This is the first I've heard of anyone being upset about Jerryworld being added to the rotation. That was about money, as it seats tens of thousands more people. LOL at Texas being behind that. And as for Austin being a mere three hours from Arlington, so is Norman. So why isn't anyone accusing the conference of "taking care of the Sooners"? Sigh. Teams that are on tv more get a slightly larger percentage of tv money. Every other team that isn't on tv as much still makes money off of Texas, OU, and Nebraska being on tv so frequently. That's why the smaller schools' ADs were even willing to pony up some money for Texas A&M (20 million promised by Beebe, much of which is coming from other schools' tv payouts) just to keep this conference together so they could keep making money off of the top tier teams' tv appearances in the future. Also worth noting is that a similar payoff (bribe?) to what A&M is getting was offered to Texas and OU, who both declined it. I've heard this argument before, but only from people who don't know what they're talking about. ALL of the BCS bowls paid $17 million last year, including the championship game. So if the conference was actually rigging games for the sake of money, they would have rigged it for Nebraska, not us. Then NU gets the auto bid as conference champs and we get an at-large BCS bid as a one-loss team and the conference gets two 17 million dollar paydays instead of one. Hellooooooooo.

You mean like calling us TexAss, UTerus, or Whorntards? I like that guy's OP, though: "If we can stop the run, we will win." That's like going into a fight with Mike Tyson and saying, "You know, if I can just keep him from hitting me, I can win".

I wish Mack would instruct Muschamp to make Davis have an accident instead...

I'm in north Austin right this moment with a full fridge...