Yet all the so called “also-rans” are the ones that won their bowl games last year. Even the guys who lost put up a fight. CU lost to Bama 24-30. A&M lost to Penn State 24-17. KU, Missou, T-Tech, and OSU all won. Oklahoma was the only one who got it handed to them…..imagine that!! Had OU one their bowl game we would have had the same record as the SEC in bowl games.

Texas hammered Arkansas, scoring 50 points with ease. We could have scored 60!! Now take a look at the SEC teams they played, and get back to us.

Okie State played Bama in a bowl game a couple years ago. They scored 31 points and 419 yards. Missou played Ark last year in a bowl game with McFadden and crew…. They scored 39, and laid down 459 yards. Kansas scored 24 points, and 344 yards on V-tech. I know they aren’t an SEC team per se, but they have defensive speed like one!

The point is the SEC is the “old school” conference. Their coaches are so afraid of spread offenses, that they fire their offensive coordinator after 5 lousy games, because they don’t believe they can win with one. Yet the only team that plays with a spread offense, just happens to be the best offense in the conference…….coincidence??….. and they aren’t even good at it, although they have good players! Tebow is a mediocre passer thus far in his career. I would be interested to see what Colt could do in that system.

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But I will just say this. I think a strong indicator of the true strength of the B12 will come next week. OU plays KU and UT plays MU. If both those games goes as I think they will and they both end up as cakewalks for both UT and OU, then you sort of have a pretty good indicator of the true strength of the B12. If UT and OU both blow out MU and KU, then it would suggests that all those “play on the field” numbers were pretty much offensive stats overinflated due to playing crappy competition. Don’t know about all this evidence stuff, just know that when you look on the field, the B12 just has a sparse level of athleticism across the board on the defensive side of the ball. And I think anyone with a set of eyes can see that. Don’t need much evidence for that. Anyway, let’s wait to till the outcome of next week’s games and we will sort of get an indicator then.

I will readily admit that if you just ignore the “play on the field”, it becomes much easier to defend the supremacy of the SEC. In point of fact, that argument is actually quite difficult to make this year if you do NOT ignore the actual “play on the field”.

At the end of the day, if you want to say the SEC remains superior based on “NFL measurables”, you’re welcome to it, but please don’t expect anyone who’s actually been paying attention to such mundane details as the “play on the field” to take you at all seriously. Maybe you are a huge fan of the NFL combine, and that’s what you’re referring to, but I actually prefer college football to the combine, and in college football, the Big 12 quarterbacks, as well as the offenses, are vastly superior to the SEC. I’ve seen no evidence, and you’ve certainly provided none, that it’s because SEC defenses are just so much better at stopping those offenses. Merely stating that opinion as fact does not, alas for you, make it a fact. The evidence at hand (for an example, check out the interesting factoid regarding Arkansas’ offense vs SEC teams and Texas, since you seem to have misplaced that…) seems to suggest that the Big 12 offenses put up better stats because they play better offense, you know – “on the field”.

Well I wasn’t really arguing this, but I guess that was what I was implying and I do believe it, so let me just put it this way. Just watch how Texas dismantles and dominates the upcoming B12 teams in the next few weeks and then just stop and reconsider the issue. Texas probably would not be able to do that in the SEC. Teams there are just too physical, week in and week out. In the B12, there is Texas and OU and then there is everyone else and no one else is even in the neighborhood. And while it may appear that the league has become better balanced with more parity, from what I can see, none of this seems to apply to UT and OU. If anything, they’ve managed to increased the separation between themselves and the rest of the league, as opposed to the gap become smaller. Now I could be wrong on this, but I see both Texas and OU running roughshod over the whole league and basically blowing the doors off just about every team they face. Just from a physical standpoint, none of the other teams seem as if they could keep up. And if Texas can do this, then that may just tell you how strong the B12 really is. My guess is that it is better than usual, but not too much better.

With the D that Texas has right now, we are going to just butt stomp every B12 team we run into all the way to the MNC. This is the first Mack Brown D with an actual bonafide pass rush, and, as such, it will just hammer the finesse O’s in this conference. Like a bug hitting a windshield, we are going to splatter the other teams who are unfortunate enough to run into us. By the end of the season, this D may just wind up being the best Mack has ever fielded at UT and especially when concerning these nutty ass spread O’s that are all over the place in the B12. Mack, with this D, may have finally caught up to the spread. I happen to be a big believer.

I jumped to a dumb conclusion yesterday about Davis and his game plan. It was pretty damn good. Colt ran the offense to perfection and Greg kept calling plays for him that worked.

Amazing win. Now let’s go kick the shit out of Missouri.

Fuck you if you sold your UT side tix to sooners! I understand times are tough, but that’s some bullshit. I saw more crimson mixed with the Burnt Orange yestarday than any amount of money can justify. Of course, watching them hang their heads at the end was nice, but beside the point.

Now that my rant is over, great post agian, and WOW! Alot of UT fans had a special feeling going into this game. About mid-way through the 1st quarter that feeling turned to dread. At half, we we’re thinking “if we get some lucky breaks…” By the the end we were thinking “With decent officials we would have won by 3 touchdowns!”.

As a GD hater, I too will give him his props for this game.

Muschamp, I’ll pay for your children to go to private school and college if you stay another year or two.

There is indeed a long road ahead, but if this team does not get complacent, we play for MNC!