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Texas A&M’s Upset Over Alabama Sends The 2021 College Football Season Into Full Tilt
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 10-10-2021 | AP

Posted on 10/10/2021 9:03:07 AM PDT by blam

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To: blam

Don’t sleep on SMU, they’re unbeaten and still play Cincinnati.

And then there’s UTSA at 6-0.


61 posted on 10/10/2021 12:27:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 353FMG

Good coaches don’t kick the team when they’re down. Saban will build them back up.

Actually I was impressed with Mullen’s reaction at halftime even though the Gators were winning 21-0:

Davis: “Coach, we just saw you walking off with both your quarterbacks (Emory Jones and Anthony Richardson). What’s your message to them?”

Mullen: “Play better.”

Davis: “OK, fair enough. Vanderbilt, almost 50 plays on offense but no points. How would you assess your first half defensively?”

Mullen: “Awful.”

The time to lay into your team is when they are winning, but not playing well.


62 posted on 10/10/2021 12:40:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PAR35
Texas A&M beat A L A B A M A, which was the game under discussion.

Check context.

63 posted on 10/10/2021 12:43:57 PM PDT by G Larry (I speak to be precise and refusing to change doesn't mean you can assign imprecise labels.)
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To: Old Yeller
Looks like the Sooners have an easy road the rest of the way, if they can get past KU.

Might have an easy path to the Big 12 championship game but will have to beat someone, likely Texas, a second time. No easy task.

64 posted on 10/10/2021 1:06:54 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: G Larry

Well, Texas A&M might be called TAMU, or A&M, or the Aggies, but they are NEVER called TX. There is a difference. On the other hand Texas might be Tx, the Longhorns, or the T-Sips.

One needs to be able to tell SEC teams apart.


65 posted on 10/10/2021 2:34:00 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: 353FMG

I love the sound of that!


66 posted on 10/10/2021 2:38:17 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: PAR35

Ya, in a post about the Texas A&M vs. Alabama game, it’s hard to know who TX is referring to.....


67 posted on 10/10/2021 3:22:28 PM PDT by G Larry (I speak to be precise and refusing to change doesn't mean you can assign imprecise labels.)
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To: PAR35

In the SEC, “UT” means the University of Tennessee.


68 posted on 10/10/2021 3:24:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

UT University of Tennessee

tu texas university in Austin. Moscow on the Colorado River.


69 posted on 10/10/2021 3:28:32 PM PDT by Texas resident
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To: dfwgator

Yep.

Well, I suppose it would be safe for the fans to wear orange if Tennessee plays Texas in a few years.


70 posted on 10/10/2021 3:44:40 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dfwgator
The time to lay into your team is when they are winning, but not playing well.

Good point. There's a story from the lore of the New York Giants football team in their 1986 championship season that relates to this.

They were 13-2 going into the last game of the season and had to beat a mediocre Green Bay team to clinch home field advantage through the playoffs. They were up 24-0 early but the Packers came back in the second quarter and they went into halftime at 24-17.

Coach Bill Parcells was so pissed off at the team's performance -- especially the defense -- that he went on a rampage in the locker room. He told the team they were playing like garbage, so he was going to treat them that way. He proceeded to storm around the locker room, picking up all the garbage cans one at a time, and then dumping the contents on the heads of the players as they sat there. I can't even imagine the sight of Bill Parcells dumping trash on the head of Lawrence Taylor. LMAO.

So the Giants went out in the second half and played like a team possessed. They steamrolled over Green Bay and ran away with the game. I think the final score was 55-24.

For the Giants, that incident actually started the tradition of dumping Gatorade over the head coach at the end of a big victory. Team captain Harry Carson swore he'd get his vengeance on Parcells someday, and he had his opportunity at the end of each lopsided postseason win over San Francisco, Washington and Denver.

71 posted on 10/10/2021 3:57:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: Old Yeller

I have given up predicting at this point. I think the Sooners just like to give me more gray hairs than I alreayd have. :-)

Their last 3 games are tough - Baylor, Iowa State, and arch-rivals Okie State in Stillwater. We shall see...


72 posted on 10/10/2021 8:08:31 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: FamiliarFace

I hope the RATs will learn to fear that name.


73 posted on 10/11/2021 11:51:18 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: dfwgator; blam

I won’t declare these wanna-be teams dead as long as their winning

AZ ST is on ESPN ESPN3.
Ole Miss is surviving

Not many interesting games next week. Clemson at Pittsburgh

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2021-college-football-predictions/


74 posted on 10/16/2021 7:48:31 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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... as long as they’re winning


75 posted on 10/16/2021 7:49:12 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Well since Iowa left me high and dry yesterday. I decided to go local and root for SMU. They are unbeaten and still have to play Cincinnati. But what if they win and run the table?


76 posted on 10/17/2021 9:06:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Im sure Cincy is the only team that can make it from USAA ... maybe SMU schedule is too weak

But I’d like to see it

Why does Pittsburgh get no respect?


77 posted on 10/17/2021 9:57:43 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: campaignPete R-CT
Why does Pittsburgh get no respect?

Losing to Western Michigan tends to do that.

78 posted on 10/17/2021 10:34:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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