TEXAS-OU game thread 2023

I have to agree with the posters saying QE shouldnt run as he is not built for that game. Ehlinger was, QE no. We have enough weapons for him to use that he shouldnt need to. I hate to beat the dead horse but over the top of venables d is the weakness and we just didnt get to that yesterday, partly because we couldnt hold up the 4 man rush with 5-6 guys. Very frustrating. Not sure if its real but someone mentioned Banks being a little hurt. Never saw a report and it wasnt visible during the game. On3 noted that 5 out of 6 1st plays this year have been pass and almost the same consistencies on other downs. ou was very well prepared and new exactly what we were running before the ball was snapped. Sark has to do better!
 
theiioftx said:
Michigan or Ohio State will have a loss.
Washington or Oregon will have a loss.
Penn State will have a loss.

If we win out, OU will have a loss. It will be very hard to leave the Horns out of the playoff.
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If the coach k asks our guys to play that defense again—rushing three, soft zone, poorly disguised blitzes—they could easily lose again; especially if they also turn the ball over three times.
After that shocking defense failure, nothing can be taken for granted.
 
Robertson stepped in and was really gutsy playing Center for almost all of this game as a Freshman. He was ok, but still, there was a noticeable drop off from starting C Jake Majors.
 
LonghornCatholic said:
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WV may have just as easy a path to get to the B12CG. They may have already won their toughest conference games other than Blowu and I don't want to think about another Texas loss, but tceh and tcu will want to beat Texas more than they want to win a natty. The refs won't help either.
 
Another day helps ease the sting of the loss. Even as poor as we are on some facets of d, we were ahead with 2 minutes left. Yes I have to listen to inbread, toothless, shoeless and classless okies for a while, the sun came up and ou still sucks the sweat off a dead maggets scrotum!
 
I'm so happy this team gets to stew on this loss for two weeks and the staff uses it to stoke an anger inside directed solely at poor Houston. We need to see Cougar players crying on the sidelines by the end of the game. (I'm obviously joking about crying....I don't expect actual tears but I hope you get my point).

If the team comes out flat and it's a close game at halftime, this staff has failed miserably. There's a reason they have long held the nickname Cougar High.
 
I expected us to win, but we are doing a lot better than I thought we would this year.
A lot of football and wins are left to enjoy.
National championship hopes are still alive for now.
Being Top 10 is on schedule.
 
Random thoughts are clouds in my coffee this Monday morning:

As others have stated, ou seemed hungier to win
We clearly missed Watts and Majors Sat.
Fake punt was brilliant
Punt block & TD swung momentum big time
Ewers was sacked 5 friggin' times!
Gabriel was sacked 1 time for a 1 yard loss
Gabriel had a ton of rush yards - why didn't K adjust and spy him?
Penalties and turnovers were absolute killers! Especially running into the kicker!
I doubted Auburn last week but he delivered 3 FG's & all PAT's
 
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theiioftx said:
Michigan or Ohio State will have a loss.
Washington or Oregon will have a loss.
Penn State will have a loss.

If we win out, OU will have a loss. It will be very hard to leave the Horns out of the playoff.
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I think if the horns win out they're in the 4 team playoff. You would have a conference championship where they avenged their AMAZING loss and you won in Tuscaloosa. That's two big chips on the table. I guess if you had a one loss tOSU/PSU/Mich/Pac 12 Champ you might have a point but none of them would have a Bama win. You need Bama to keep winning. Luckily for all of us, ND took their second L. And, let me be very clear, while I would like to win a Big 12 and it would be cool for us to close out the Big 12 together, I don't want to see Longhorns again. That's an explosive team.
 
longhornlegend said:
I have to agree with the posters saying QE shouldnt run as he is not built for that game. Ehlinger was, QE no. We have enough weapons for him to use that he shouldnt need to. I hate to beat the dead horse but over the top of venables d is the weakness and we just didnt get to that yesterday, partly because we couldnt hold up the 4 man rush with 5-6 guys. Very frustrating. Not sure if its real but someone mentioned Banks being a little hurt. Never saw a report and it wasnt visible during the game. On3 noted that 5 out of 6 1st plays this year have been pass and almost the same consistencies on other downs. ou was very well prepared and new exactly what we were running before the ball was snapped. Sark has to do better!
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I think Sark is doing fine. 500+yards against ou, 30 points and all that with 3 turnovers.
Coach K must do better. A lot better. He keeps making the same mistake. That soft zone 3 man line got us beat, pure and simple. Allowing Gabriel time to throw unpressured while his receivers work their way open (against a wounded D backfield) was a moronic coaching decision.
 
X Misn Tx said:
I'm on record already, but I love this. How big are we in their eyes.
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I was at the fair on Friday night and they had a parade with a mob like something called the Texas Tech band marching totally out of sync and doing the down horns sign. They looked pitiful enough without exposing to all their Big XII penis envy of their idols. Only small minds can go as far as these Big XII schools in their jealousy. They are too stupid to see how they look.
 
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WorsterMan said:
Gabriel was sacked 1 time for a 1 yard loss
Gabriel had a ton of rush yards - why didn't K adjust and spy him?
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Yes^^^^
K failed on so many counts:
1)He didn't spy on Gabriel
2)He continued the 3 man rush "prevent defense" that played right into Gabriel's strength.
3)He refused to dial up the pressure on Gabriel in the second half which gave ou receivers time to work open against our wounded D backfield.
4)He ordered our D backs to play a soft zone, again making it simple for ou to find space to work the ball down the field in the final 75 seconds.

ou's OC couldn't have asked for a better set up to march down the field and score.

Also no one is pointing out that the zebras didn't call pass interference when the ou d back ran over Worthy on the long pass attempt; and in the last minute our D back is called for pass interference for a fraction of the contact. Why?
 
OUBubba said:
I think if the horns win out they're in the 4 team playoff. You would have a conference championship where they avenged their AMAZING loss and you won in Tuscaloosa. That's two big chips on the table. I guess if you had a one loss tOSU/PSU/Mich/Pac 12 Champ you might have a point but none of them would have a Bama win.
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OUBubba, I think you have a good overview. IMO, three of the four slots are almost certainly locked in:

- Georgia (I think they run the table)
- Ohio State or Michigan, whichever wins the conference
- Florida State (I think they run the table)

That leaves the fourth spot TBD. If ou runs the table, they obviously get it. If Texas beats ou in the Championship game, there's a strong case unless Washington/Oregon/USC produces an undefeated team (which I don't think will happen). The other potential hiccup - suppose Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC Championship game. Does Georgia (as the two-time defending National Champ) get in along with Alabama?
And the real nightmare scenario - suppose WVa beats ou. Then you are guaranteed a one-loss Big XII Champion. Now what?
I'm getting a headache thinking about all the possibilities.
 
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HornHuskerDad said:
OUBubba, I think you have a good overview. IMO, three of the four slots are almost certainly locked in:

- Georgia (I think they run the table)
- Ohio State or Michigan, whichever wins the conference
- Florida State (I think they run the table)

That leaves the fourth spot TBD. If ou runs the table, they obviously get it. If Texas beats ou in the Championship game, there's a strong case unless Washington/Oregon/USC produces an undefeated team (which I don't think will happen). The other potential hiccup - suppose Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC Championship game. Does Georgia (as the two-time defending National Champ) get in along with Alabama?
And the real nightmare scenario - suppose WVa beats ou. The you are guaranteed a one-loss Big XII Champion. Now what?
I'm getting a headache thinking about all the possibilities.
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you have to look at what you know. We need to win out to have a chance to play in the big 12 championship game. Not worried about anything else.
 
caryhorn said:
Yes^^^^
K failed on so many counts:
1)He didn't spy on Gabriel
2)He continued the 3 man rush "prevent defense" that played right into Gabriel's strength.
3)He refused to dial up the pressure on Gabriel in the second half which gave ou receivers time to work open against our wounded D backfield.
4)He ordered our D backs to play a soft zone, again making it simple for ou to find space to work the ball down the field in the final 75 seconds.

ou's OC couldn't have asked for a better set up to march down the field and score.

Also no one is pointing out that the zebras didn't call pass interference when the ou d back ran over Worthy on the long pass attempt; and in the last minute our D back is called for pass interference for a fraction of the contact. Why?
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Did we also have a 3 man front at the end of the first half when OU went the length to get 3 points
 
HornHuskerDad said:
OUBubba, I think you have a good overview. IMO, three of the four slots are almost certainly locked in:

- Georgia (I think they run the table)
- Ohio State or Michigan, whichever wins the conference
- Florida State (I think they run the table)

That leaves the fourth spot TBD. If ou runs the table, they obviously get it. If Texas beats ou in the Championship game, there's a strong case unless Washington/Oregon/USC produces an undefeated team (which I don't think will happen). The other potential hiccup - suppose Bama wins out and beats Georgia in the SEC Championship game. Does Georgia (as the two-time defending National Champ) get in along with Alabama?
And the real nightmare scenario - suppose WVa beats ou. The you are guaranteed a one-loss Big XII Champion. Now what?
I'm getting a headache thinking about all the possibilities.
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Horns can't do anything about anything except win the remainder of their games. They need to go all ou style points (the way ou did in 2008 against all but Texas) and win most of them by 30+ looking completely dominant along the way. The Horns can and probably should win the remaining regular season games (not going to worry about ccg until we get there), but I doubt with the style points they need given their habit of playing to the level of the competition.
 
Sark has to address the horrible red zone offense. 11 for 24 on TDs. That is bad, like, tear it all down and start over bad. We will find out if he is the right guy at the end of the year when we look back and see if this and other problems exposed on Saturday are fixed or not.
 
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