That was wildly satisfying to watch. Ossai was a monster. Full on game changing monster against a good line. Adimora...where has he been? Coburn was disruptive. Jacquess?? Sterns flying around. Getting healthy mattered. I wish there were 4 more games to be played right now! I like everything Colin Johnson says, but he just missed so so many games and he seemed like he was always focused on next year, and that is understandable but frustrating. He showed up tonight. Duvernay is an all-time bad *** that was under-utilized for 3 years. He is a bigger faster Quan with better hands and Quan was an outstanding WR. Hard to not feel good for Craig Navair. How does this team go 7-5 til now? I want to believe scheme matters as much as it looked tonight. And Keontay was strong. Sam looked more like Tebow. Arm meh. Legs legit. No more football to care about for me to end of summer...thanks a lot cowboys, how did you not make the playoffs?
Just for Giggles, CFN typified a more balanced prediction for a Utah win just like everyone did for a Georgia win last year. Texas vs. Utah: Alamo Bowl Fearless Prediction, Game Preview CBS had 3 for Texas to cover but all had Utah straight up: Texas vs. Utah: Live stream, watch online, TV channel, Alamo Bowl kickoff time, odds, prediction Even 247 Texas completely whiffed: Jeff Howe remarked how glad he was wrong. Horns247 Alamo Bowl Staff Predictions
Post game, CFN had this to say: Of course Texas isn’t at the national title level that Clemson, LSU and Ohio State are – that’s what “back” really means – at least it’s a relevant program and team. Yeah, it wasn’t ranked by the College Football Playoff types all through the process, but LSU winning in Austin was still a big deal. Oklahoma winning in Dallas was a big deal. Playing Texas is a big deal because the program is a big deal. With a performance and a dominant win like this, this is what Longhorn fans are going to be expecting on a regular basis, and they’re going to be right. It’s Texas. It’s supposed to beat Utah 38-10 – and the Big 12 needs to thank the Longhorns for doing it. Oklahoma couldn’t have been worse against LSU in the College Football Playoff blowout loss. Iowa State couldn’t have been worse in the Camping World loss to Notre Dame, Kansas State lost to a Group of Five program – Navy – and Oklahoma State lost to Texas A&M. Before Baylor plays Georgia in the Sugar, the Big 12 is 1-4 in the bowls. Forget Texas being back. Texas showed up. Texas Wins Alamo Bowl Over Utah 38-10: Reaction, Analysis, 5 Thoughts
If you have to say "You're back", you're not back. Fact is I still believe talent wise we are a lot closer to the team that almost beat LSU than the team that has a 8-5 record. I think Naviar proved that a competent DC can put together a game plan to put talented players in position to make plays. I will tell you right now, the Dline was put in the right position to make plays, and damn, those guys made plays, and a lot of them. Ossai needs to be a DE now!!! We need a replacement for Roach, but a 4 man front with Ossai, Graham, Coburn, and a Badass DE would be exactly what this team needs to really take the next step. I dare say that if we ran this defense all year, we wouldn't have had nearly the number of injuries we had. This team is what I thought we would see all year. 8 returning starters on Defense 8 returning starters on Offense 2020 has to be our year or we are never going to win this conference.
same recipe that LSU had going into this season with a veteran proven QB...........cant wait for September...........Hook em!
Proud of this game!! Watched the win over the Utes with some solid crimson BAMA fans. They see Texas is on the upswing and know we will be dominating when we meet Sep 2022.
Oddity -- Texas has more bowl wins than ou this decade. Literally the worst decade in Texas football history.
Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley on the loss -- "We took it more as a vacation than preparing for a game, and it came back to bite us."
What was the defense? Roach said it was "entirely new." And we put it in place with just 8 practices. Sounds like it was Naviar's idea? I remember seeing Cort Jaquess' name early and will admit my immediate reaction was "uh oh" but he was terrific, deserved his PT.
Are you sure? There's a genius on this board who thinks we don't have enough talent and aren't deep enough. I think last night proved if we put our solid talent in the right position to be successful we can win a lot of games next year.
There were 4 DB not playing by the end of the game. Adimora was playing safety as a freshman at DBU. He and the other young DB made mistakes earlier but learned very quickly from them. That, folks, is development.
Texas lost 2 DB during the game. So not a very well founded statement. We lost only one LB (McCulloch) and a little of Mitchell for a few games and no DL.
And now they're making excuses for their lack of success and four consecutive one-and-dones in the CFP. It is great they got there, but they sure folded when they did.
I didn't make the statement, BOLH. I just agreed with it. ...Still do. I think it would be hard to argue that stouter play up front doesn't protect the players and action on the back-end, regardless of who may have been injured last night. JMO
I like the visuals of the game and even the commentary in second half , thinking all that could have a positive influence on recruits.
Put me in the injuries made a difference on defense this year team. But...there were more bodies up on the line last night The pressure was constant and coming from multiple angles. It looked good.
Speaking of basketball, the Lady Longhorns are on a 4-game win streak, including a win over previous #1 Stanford. Their next game is Friday on LHN against a pretty good TCU team.
So...titty baby excuses, as usual. Not sure how lack of preparation translates to being manhandled in the game itself. Once they are being mishandled, if they are better, can't they just be more physical?
This really is what losers say. It's sad. Sack up. Take it like a man. Give your opponent respect in public, even if you do think your team took the game too lightly. This makes me angry at baker Mayfield for some reason. Lol
Sounds like a dismissive excuse to me. Much like the Bulldogs excuse about being let down before the game last year.
That's a great point and speaking of recruiting.... Utah had more to gain tonight in that regard than we did, imo. A win over TEXAS would be a nice feather in their cap. It's not like "WE'RE UTAH" and everyone gets out of their way. They're not in a position to sleepwalk thru a game involving a program like ours. I tried this excuse after the 1984 blowout loss to Iowa in the Holiday Bowl or whatever it was. Didn't work for me then, won't work for anyone else going forward either
Well, first of all, playing a true freshman on December 31 is not like September or October. Second, against Utah, dbs were less the worry. If we had had to play last night without Roach, Coburn and Ossai, that would be more like Big 12 games being down 4 dbs.
