Posted on 12/06/2009 3:35:50 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Oh boo friggen hoo.
Texas Fight! Beat the HELL out of the red tide!
Nebraska should have played loose prevent coverage and allowed a completion. As long as it wasn’t completed in the end zone, Nebraska would have won.
So the Heisman is awarded based on the best performance of December 5, 2009? That's rich.
Between the kickoff out of bounds and the horse collar tackle penalty, the Texas offense only had to gain 16 yards to get to the 29 yard line from which the ball was snapped on the game winning field goal.
Maybe or maybe not but the equation has totally left out the #4 team, TCU. If the BCS polling had any consistencies then Texas should have remained #3 while TCU should have leapfrogged to #2.
>> That game just about wore me out, and I was in my living room!!
At times last night my heart was pounding so hard I could see my shirt move.
When I was going to UT in the early eighties, it seems like game after game after game was like this: low scoring, good defense but unproductive offense, nail biting right to the last play of the game, even though UT usually pulled it out. But I was younger then and my heart could take it.
I’m either going to have to stop watching UT football, or install a defibrillator next to the teevee.
Three (candidates) went in (into the Dec. 5 games), one came out. And it wasn't Tebow or McCoy. I don't like the system but that is what happened.
I heard today that Alabama has met Texas 8 times in history. Texas 7 wins, one for the Tide. Wow, I didn’t expect that factoid if it was correct.
Get rid of the cameras and reviews. They are momentum killers and as it turns out the refs are almost always right.
Texas won, get over yourself. Neither team played their best effort and both had calls by refs that could go either way and totally change the outcome, but that is almost every game I’ve ever watched.
Your statements show nothing except you hate the University of Texas. That’s your opinion. However, it has a great program for sports, not just football, and scholarship.
Come back and tell me how brilliant you are when you become a NCAA coach and win a national championship.
Longhorn Class of 87
Hook Em Horns!
I think you left out the fourth candidate for the Heisman who didn’t play this weekend....Toby Gerhart. According to this ESPN poll its Colt #1 and Gerhart #2 for the Heisman:
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/rank?versionId=15&listId=363#topOfList
Nebraska screwed itself - an out-of-bounds penalty on the kick (inexcusable) and a personal foul. No way should Nebraska have lost that game the way they did.
Alabama will eat Texas’ lunch. Will not even be close.
I would like to see Toby win but the talk on the street was considering only the three.
>> If the BCS polling had any consistencies then Texas should have remained #3 while TCU should have leapfrogged to #2.
Why, exactly?
Texas played one more game than TCU — and, however ugly it was, they won it.
Only in a logic-free alternative universe should the following happen:
a) Two undefeated teams are ranked #3 and #4, after playing the same number of games
b) #3 plays, and wins, an additional game; #4 does not play, and so has played fewer games than #3
c) #4 leapfrogs #3 because #3 played “ugly” while #4 sat on their butts in front of a teevee watching it.
That just makes no sense!
You could argue that BEFORE the game TCU should have been higher than Texas — I don’t agree but at least that’s a valid argument. Or, you might argue that Cincinnati, who also played and won a game, should should move up because Pitt was ranked higher than Nebraska and Cincinnati’s additional game was “prettier”. That argument is also supportable.
But moving TCU ahead of Texas after Saturday is baseless.
Yes it was you. the horrified NCAA leapt at the chance to keep Texas alive for the win. the extra second was put on to preserve the BCS Nebraska was screwed.
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