• ToasterOverlord@fanaticus.socialOPM
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    8 months ago

    UTSA @ 1 Texas

    The first (and until now, only) time these teams met was in 2021, when I was a professor at UTSA. I showed up to that game in Texas gear but rocked a UTSA hat, thinking I could root for both teams. As soon as it kicked off though, I realized I could only root for my alma mater. Soooo UTSA, I love ya, but go horns go

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    Driving home from Raleigh looking like a crazy person yelling at the South Carolina refs through my radio!!!

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    8 months ago

    Only South Carolina can find a fool proof way to snatch defeat from the hands of certain victory 😐

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    8 months ago

    Texas A&M @ Florida

    This Florida team looks so unremarkable. I know the weather is ass… but so are Billy’s Gators. If A&M didn’t play dumb, the score would be a lot worse.

    On the plus side, I boiled some peanuts the other days, and I just warmed some up.

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      8 months ago

      Why does Desmond Watson, the largest of the foot-ball players, not simply eat the others?

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      Billy: “We need to get some rhythm on offense.”

      Also Billy: “Yeah, we’re gonna keep switching quarterbacks.”

      I’m gonna tell ya’ll a secret. A 2-QB system has never been a good thing at Florida. Palmer, Johnson, Brindise, and young Grossman all had holes in their games, and the Leak/Tebow thing was not a true time-share.

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      This is one of the best setups for a college game. Backup qbs, miserable weather, sloppy play, the gators are losing just about everything you could ask for

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      Christ on a cracker, Florida is making the tin soldiers from Aggieland look like a good team.

      TCU better not suck this bad tonight.

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    The average ancient Egyptian’s diet consisted almost entirely of grain.

    This was sustaining, but only barely. Compared to contemporary societies in every direction, they lived shorter lives, had smaller stature, and poorer health. The coarse millstones left grit in the flour that wrecked their teeth over the few decades of their lives.

    It was, of course, all they had.

    My college football soul is being nourished entirely by the grain of FSU’s sucking and it is sustaining, but only barely.

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      I’m intentionally not tuning into this one so as not to jinx it. I hold a degree from the red school, but, well, frankly, fuck 'em.

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    UCF @ TCU

    Frogs looking good in the early going. Hoover is very sharp, and Savion Williams is probably going to get drafted in the first round and then completely forget how to play football, as is tradition for TCU #1 WRs.

    UCF is going to wear some teams down, though.

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      Seems like one of the teams UCF will wear down is TCU, but they’re going to have to stop the Frogs several times, and also get at least one 2pt conversion because their entire kicking unit seems to somehow have the yips.

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        Ugh. Tired Frogs D gets a critical late-game stop, and suddenly the TCU playcalling turns to overly conservative garbage.

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      8 months ago

      LOL. Before UTSA had their 12-win season in 2021, they were frequently mislabeled as USTA (the tennis association), which I could understand. But the University of Texas getting mistaken with the Southwest Texas State Normal School? I am insulted

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        Are you disrespecting Toobin’ State University? Alma Mater of LBJ and home of the Center for Texas Music History?!?!?!?