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*****GAME THREAD – No.2 Texas vs. No. 5 Georgia*****

– Our mistakes killed us.

– Georgia held on every offensive play and I think the refs called it once.

– Concerned about Bond's injury. He got rolled pretty bad.

– I never noticed how much of a whiney butt Smart is on the sideline. At times, it was outright weird.

– Quinn Ewers played a helluva game. Some of his passes were damn near perfect.

– Big Cam keeps killing us with the penalties. Thats got to end. Thats a shame because he made some good blocks tonight.

– Despite all the mistakes, the penalties, the turnovers . . . we still almost won. And it's too bad we didn't.

– I thought Sark's game plan with the long balls stretching out the defense enabled our running game to have success. But then we stopped throwing them. It was a good idea that he should have stayed with. Also, some over the middle passes would be nice.

I agree with all points.

Kirby is a disgusting cry baby on the sideline.

Ewers played his best game in a very long time. Lots of dropped passes that were on the money.

Refs didnt call holds, hands to the face, DPI, and RTP equally.

We outplayed them thoroughly in the first half. They had 55 yards in the first half to our 280ish? We just killed ourselves.

We absolutely need a better kicker no excuse to leave 6 points in a title game.
 
So you think Georgia moves to 2
I'm not sure how it all works, if the conference champs are automatically the top 4 sees but it is darn near criminal if Texas is not the highest seed after ND..Oregon-1, GA-2, ND-3, Texas-4. If OSU passes Texas, why play in the CCG. If the conference champs are automatically the top 4 seeds are the big 4 conf. champs, then Texas should be the 6 seed.

Another note, GA doesn't win the NG without a serviceable Beck. IMO
 
Texas can hopefully avoid playing Georgia and Alabama in the playoffs (assuming Bama makes it) for as long as possible. Coaching advantage still goes to those teams and their head coaches until proven otherwise.
 
Sark is handcuffed by having a QB he can't trust to throw down field. Whether anyone wants to acknowledge it or not, Quinn is not elite and we've won in spite of him bc the team is littered with talent elsewhere on both sides of the ball.

He's not a QB that will win you a natty. I'll be cheering our boys like hell, but I've tempered my expectations on the ceiling of this team with Quinn behind center.
Quinn's legacy for me will be that he is one of the best QBs to play at Texas, probably top 5ish or so but he has been too streaky. When he is on, he is down right amazing but he also goes into prolonged slumps that have lost us ball games.
 
Can you imagine if Guilbeau didn't celebrate and instead threw a block for Barron? We score a TD and win the game.

Simple things like that make the difference in winning championships and being very good. I'm surprised he didn't realize he should've blocked.
 
I predict:
1. Oregon*
2. Georgia
3. Boise
4. Ariz St*
5. ND
6. Texas.

*assuming current results hold: Oregon beats PSU and Clemson beats SMU
It'll be interesting to see what the committee does with ND.

Do they jump Texas and Penn State with losses today? ND has a weak Strength of schedule 54th, (Texas 32nd today before playing UGA).

We really need Penn State to lose. If they win, they take the 1 seed and oregon takes the 5. Leaving us at risk of ND taking the 6th and us the 7th.

The 5th (definitely) or 6th seed would give a favorable path. If we fall to the 7th, it'll be a tough match up right out of the gate.
 
Quinn's legacy for me will be that he is one of the best QBs to play at Texas, probably top 5ish or so but he has been too streaky. When he is on, he is down right amazing but he also goes into prolonged slumps that have lost us ball games.
Agree, “handcuffed” statement from OP is obnoxious. QE put up 360 yards against a team that got him benched earlier in the season. The issue was he had 2 offensive weapons that decided to show up in Atlanta. One pick bounced off his receiver chest and the receiver decided to give up on the play like a diva.

Special teams and play calling is what lead to the L. Auburns got to go. And punter right behind him.
 
Quinn's legacy for me will be that he is one of the best QBs to play at Texas, probably top 5ish or so but he has been too streaky. When he is on, he is down right amazing but he also goes into prolonged slumps that have lost us ball games.
I don't disagree that he'll be considered a Longhorn great... but I can also correctly say that he's held us back from being elite.
 
Can you imagine if Guilbeau didn't celebrate and instead threw a block for Barron? We score a TD and win the game.

Simple things like that make the difference in winning championships and being very good. I'm surprised he didn't realize he should've blocked.
Im probably pissed off about this the most.
 
I don't disagree that he'll be considered a Longhorn great... but I can also correctly say that he's held us back from being elite.
I don't disagree with that. Our few losses in the last 2 seasons have typically been multifactorial but he has certainly contributed. A QB like VY or Colt probably overcomes in those games and leads us to victory.

Hopefully Quinn ends on a hot streak and takes us all the way. I think that will impact his legacy but I'll still remember his streakiness.
 
Can you imagine if Guilbeau didn't celebrate and instead threw a block for Barron? We score a TD and win the game.

Simple things like that make the difference in winning championships and being very good. I'm surprised he didn't realize he should've blocked.
I think he did turn to start looking for blocks but the Georgia player was right behind him and snuck right past.

The other huge moment, the sack fumble by Collin Simmons, if that ball doesn't roll all the way out of bounds it is probably an easy scoop and score.
 
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Agree, “handcuffed” statement from OP is obnoxious. QE put up 360 yards against a team that got him benched earlier in the season. The issue was he had 2 offensive weapons that decided to show up in Atlanta. One pick bounced off his receiver chest and the receiver decided to give up on the play like a diva.

Special teams and play calling is what lead to the L. Auburns got to go. And punter right behind him.
Issac Pearson look pretty good now
 
I think he did turn to start looking for blocks but the Georgia player was right behind him and snuck right past.

The other huge moment, the sack fumble by Collin Simmons, if that ball doesn't roll all the way out of bounds it is probably an easy scoop and score.


He was looking down the field and focused on telling Barron to push downfield as opposed to seeing if there was someone to block. It all happened fast and I won't lay too much blame on Gilbeau but damn I think there was a second or two where if turn around he could've slowed down that GA player.

Anyways, we had plenty of ways to win the game. We just didn't execute.

I will say one thing despite some calls missed by the refs. Georgia is very very disciplined in fundamental football. We still have some room to grow up in that department.
 
Agree, “handcuffed” statement from OP is obnoxious. QE put up 360 yards against a team that got him benched earlier in the season. The issue was he had 2 offensive weapons that decided to show up in Atlanta. One pick bounced off his receiver chest and the receiver decided to give up on the play like a diva.

Special teams and play calling is what lead to the L. Auburns got to go. And punter right behind him.
You can call it obnoxious all you want. The evidence is in front of your eyes.

No QB in recent memory has had a bigger fall from being a Heisman frontrunner and QB1 in the draft, to possibly going Day 3 at best. There's a reason for that.

Again, don't get me wrong. I'm here to cheer our boys no matter what and always will, but I can still point out the obvious and be ticked off that we didn't capitalize on Offense after that first half performance by our defense.
 
You can call it obnoxious all you want. The evidence is in front of your eyes.

No QB in recent memory has had a bigger fall from being a Heisman frontrunner and QB1 in the draft, to possibly going Day 3 at best. There's a reason for that.

Again, don't get me wrong. I'm here to cheer our boys no matter what and always will, but I can still point out the obvious and be ticked off that we didn't capitalize on Offense after that first half performance by our defense.
Point is he played plenty good enough to beat Georgia. He did his part. Special teams will continue to get the horns beat. I’d worry about that more than QE
 
You can call it obnoxious all you want. The evidence is in front of your eyes.

No QB in recent memory has had a bigger fall from being a Heisman frontrunner and QB1 in the draft, to possibly going Day 3 at best. There's a reason for that.

Again, don't get me wrong. I'm here to cheer our boys no matter what and always will, but I can still point out the obvious and be ticked off that we didn't capitalize on Offense after that first half performance by our defense.
He won't ever rank in the elites to me unless he crushes it these playoffs (hope he does!) but because Texas hasn't had that many elite QBs, Ewers probably ranks at #5 given the team's accomplishments. He can move up but right now he's #5. He's a decent QB but generally is hurt, sloppy and just not a reliable QB. His potential is still off the charts but will he ever reach his potential? He looked sharper today most of the time.

1. VY
2. Colt
3. Street
4. Layne
5. Ewers

Of the 2000 and later QBs, I personally think Ehlinger would win more games than Ewers if he replaced him on this team in this era but that didn't happen. I also think Manning will be top 5 before he leaves and knock Ewers down to 6.
 
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