Ummmmmm...... can we say it.... so hard..... not sure...... ughhhh.... Yeah ok we're back Of course, I gotta qualify. We're not BACK back. We're back to better than relevant. We're back to contention. We're back to a team that we know can play for a conference title this year.
If we are "back", then we beat the Baptists next week and go into the bye week on a 6 game win streak.
Texas is Big 12 back, I want to see Texas National back, that means good enough to beat the big boys.
So now that we’re back, I looked at the remaining schedule, and I see something I’ve never seen in my life: What Power 5 conference team has ever scheduled 4 of its last 5 regular-season games on Friday instead of Saturday? Weird! (EDIT: Okay, never mind. It turns out I was misinformed. I’ll leave the post up just so you’ll know what idiocy on my part that other people were responding to. And I explain the source of my misinformation later in the thread. Anyway, we’re back! )
Beat OU again in Arlington and we will be back. Both Big 12 and National. This team can take nothing for granted. WVU and at OU lite are still there.
We will see if we are back by the "experts" when rankings come out. It will be interesting to see if we crack the top 10 on the first CFP ranking.
OU is a national contender every year and that makes three straight wins against Top 25 teams this year so we are more than Big XII back. Just gotta stay hungry and work through the rest of the schedule like their lives depend on it. That's what it takes to be a champion.
I will agree we are back when we win the B12. Be that this year or in the future. For the moment, I want to see the team keep improving each week.
OU is the best offense Texas will face this year, TCU is the best Defense Texas will face. WVU is also a very good Defense. We just have to go 1-0 every week. That’s the bottom line, just like Hager said.
We damn sure ought to. We have 3 wins over ranked teams, including top 10 OU. How many do they have? Same 5-1 record with the head-to-head win. It will be a joke if they stay ahead of us.
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blOwU is a pretender this year, it's pretty evident their offense is elite, but their defense is non-existent. We won't know if Texas is back until it's full body of work for 2018 is complete. If Texas wins the conference, no matter what happens in the bowl game, Texas is back, if they don't but get paired in a bowl game with a elite opponent and win, then i'll also say Texas is back. Either way, Texas needs to not worry about being back and instead worry about taking care of business every week.
Okay, I should’ve gone to texassports.com to verify this. On ESPN.com, if you go to Texas’s page, the schedule on the left side of the page has the correct dates for the Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and Texas Tech games - all Saturdays. But if you click on the Schedule link on that page, the Schedule page shows those three games as being on Friday instead of Saturday. So strange. Anyway, I was wrong, but it’s ESPN’s fault. Carry on . . .
This is what Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports thinks about our being back: It's OK to say Texas Longhorns football is back ... as long as you use an asterisk
You're wrong. They are not a pretender. Their offense is top 3 nationally and you're right their defense is awful, but that doesn't make them a pretender. Texas just beat a team that will finish the season in the top 10.
I agree. Their offense is lethal. Even with a bad defense, they are going to outscore teams and win most of their games.
Are you talking regular season or including championship games and bowl games? They have a lethal offense, one of the best in the country, but they are so bad on defense, it's pretty obvious a team with a great offense could score TDs on every series against them. By the end of the season Texas will have the confidence to do just that. This blOwU team is Texas Tech 2008, and that isn't championship material. If they are the best the Big 12 has to offer than the Big 12 doesn't deserve to have a team in the playoffs. I can't wait to see WVU and blOwU square off, you might see both teams break 100 pts.
They are a big boy on ONE side of the ball. They have no defense and got exposed (again). This was not a poor one-game showing...they have had no defense all season long. Their offense has picked up far better than I believed it would when their starting RB went down...they plugged in another car dealership employee and went on as if nothing happened. I believe Texas is back to being a team that controls its own destiny, at least within the conference. They have turned a few heads amongst the discussions at the national level but still have things to prove. This is not a bad place to be...but there is still room for improvement, especially in places like proper preparedness on defense and also in the punting game. Defense was NOT prepared at the start of the RRS...
I'm talking regular season. Until they actually don't win a conference championship I'm not going to bet against them doing it again. They always seem to figure out how to win almost every year. We all know they blow in the post season good defense or not. You called them a pretender and I don't believe that. While they aren't Bama (no team is), I think they are top 10-15 team at the end of the year.
I think we need to see a full season play out before we say we're back. With that said, I do think we're finally on the right course to being BACK. Also, I'm sitting here typing this with a sunburnt nose from yesterday... and OU still sucks.
"This blOwU team is Texas Tech 2008." Texas Tech of 2008 beat us. I still have nightmares of Gideon dropping the game winning interception. - Mike
