Texas vs. Texas Tech

[Pony Soup]

I'll call it now. Texas Tech & Penn State for the National Championship.

Won't happen

[Alaric]

the talent Tech has assembled on defense is proving for the 2nd straight week beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are very much improved on defense. Its called recruiting. Combine a Heisman quality QB, the Best Receiver in the Country and the Best Offensive Line in the Country playing at home in Lubbock in the biggest game in school history on National TV and UT's got trouble. I bet they make a run in second half but this is a big hill to climb. If Tech wins they'll stumble in their gaunlet run through Big 12 South.

Tech would have won last year in Austin had in not been for the perfect storm of pro-UT officials that absolutely influenced the outcome of the game on three crucial, game effecting calls.

[Pony Soup]

the talent Tech has assembled on defense is proving for the 2nd straight week beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are very much improved on defense. Its called recruiting. Combine a Heisman quality QB, the Best Receiver in the Country and the Best Offensive Line in the Country playing at home in Lubbock in the biggest game in school history on National TV and UT's got trouble. I bet they make a run in second half but this is a big hill to climb. If Tech wins they'll stumble in their gaunlet run through Big 12 South.

Tech would have won last year in Austin had in not been for the perfect storm of pro-UT officials that absolutely influenced the outcome of the game on three crucial, game effecting calls.

whine much? 2007 is dead

[MrMustang1965]

the talent Tech has assembled on defense is proving for the 2nd straight week beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are very much improved on defense. Its called recruiting. Combine a Heisman quality QB, the Best Receiver in the Country and the Best Offensive Line in the Country playing at home in Lubbock in the biggest game in school history on National TV and UT's got trouble. I bet they make a run in second half but this is a big hill to climb. If Tech wins they'll stumble in their gaunlet run through Big 12 South.

Tech would have won last year in Austin had in not been for the perfect storm of pro-UT officials that absolutely influenced the outcome of the game on three crucial, game effecting calls.

Interestingly enough...the head official in yesterday's game reportedly has a degree from U.T.

[Alaric]

the talent Tech has assembled on defense is proving for the 2nd straight week beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are very much improved on defense. Its called recruiting. Combine a Heisman quality QB, the Best Receiver in the Country and the Best Offensive Line in the Country playing at home in Lubbock in the biggest game in school history on National TV and UT's got trouble. I bet they make a run in second half but this is a big hill to climb. If Tech wins they'll stumble in their gaunlet run through Big 12 South.

Tech would have won last year in Austin had in not been for the perfect storm of pro-UT officials that absolutely influenced the outcome of the game on three crucial, game effecting calls.

whine much? 2007 is dead

I'm not whining...Stallion's making the argument that it took the perfect storm of events for Tech to beat UT, that their victory is effectively an outlier. I'm saying b.s., if not for a few bad calls, Tech would have won in Austin last year.

[Stallion]

I said they had a Heisman QB candidate, the Best WR in the country and the best Offensive Line in the Country. I also put my neck out last August responding to the Tech bashers and stated in no uncertain words that this was the Best Tech defense in the Leach era and would be highly improved. I stated after the OU game that UT was winning "playing perfect" football which is not likely to last forever. I didn't say Tech needed a Perfect Storm to win the game only that at halftime with the score 19-3 it was a Perfect Storm. Now get this this-Tech will not win out. They are only starting the gaunlet UT passed hroughlast nite. You do know I have a graduate degree from Tech? I've been laughing my [deleted] off all week at all the Tech bashers that thought UT was going to waltz into Lubbock and Tech would fold. My words were Tech would give UT everything it could handle-should have said and more.

[SMU2007]

I said they had a Heisman QB candidate, the Best WR in the country and the best Offensive Line in the Country. I also put my neck out last August responding to the Tech bashers and stated in no uncertain words that this was the Best Tech defense in the Leach era and would be highly improved. I stated after the OU game that UT was winning "playing perfect" football which is not likely to last forever. I didn't say Tech needed a Perfect Storm to win the game only that at halftime with the score 19-3 it was a Perfect Storm. Now get this this-Tech will not win out. They are only starting the gaunlet UT passed hroughlast nite. You do know I have a graduate degree from Tech? I've been laughing my [deleted] off all week at all the Tech bashers that thought UT was going to waltz into Lubbock and Tech would fold. My words were Tech would give UT everything it could handle-should have said and more.

shut up stallion. stop acting like you are some great prognosticator. If Gideon doesn't drop a sure interception, no one is talking about texas not being as good as predicted- they are still talking about them being the best team in the country. Tech played an absolutely perfect game and Texas looked like crap. They are both very good teams but Texas is a great team that caught a bad break last night.

[Stallion]

No they really aren't that GREAT (in capital letters) a team-only a team that plays great. They have all kinds of weakness. They have well below average UT talent at RB and WR. Colt McCoy is probably my favorite player but he is not the greatest talent in the world-he has suceeded by "playing perfect'-it caught up to him yesterday. There will come a game when you've got to win w/o hitting on 90% of his passes. Remember this is the same guy who threw 18 Interceptions last year. He may not even get drafted in the NFL-certainly not early. Texas is young and inexperienced in the secondary and are playing a very average guy in Gideon. I'm certainly not prejudiced against UT because my dad was a former President of the Dallas Texas-Exs and always knocked on here for praising Mack Brown. To get this rather mediocre talented UT team to the brink of the National title truly has been the greatest achievement in the Mack Brown era.