UT hates Briles and he will never be the coach at UT. In 2008, UT finished 3rd in the final BCS poll, behind Florida. The big reason for them finishing behind Florida was that Briles voted UT low in the coaches poll after UT pummeled Baylor. This allowed OU to go to the Big 12 title game (their higher BCS ranking broke the three-way tie between OU, UT and Texas Tech). If Briles had voted UT where they were supposed to be, UT would have gone to Big 12 title game and would have played Florida had they won the Big 12.

Take Briles off the UT list.

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Posted by OrangeBlood

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Posted on 12/4/13 at 10:15 am to Chicken

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UT hates Briles and he will never be the coach at UT. In 2008, UT finished 3rd in the final BCS poll, behind Florida. The big reason for them finishing behind Florida was that Briles voted UT low in the coaches poll after UT pummeled Baylor. This allowed OU to go to the Big 12 title game (their higher BCS ranking broke the three-way tie between OU, UT and Texas Tech). If Briles had voted UT where they were supposed to be, UT would have gone to Big 12 title game and would have played Florida had they won the Big 12.

I'll disagree a bit with this - it's true that Briles voted Texas 5th, but even if he would have voted Texas 1st, that would likely not been enough to put Texas over OU in the BCS poll (which was the tiebreaker for the Big12). Four other coaches also voted Texas 5th (of course, 4-5 voted Texas 1st as well, amazingly Mack voted us #2...thanks Mack!).

Yes, there are some butthurt fans still (stupid in my opinion) but that alone would not rule Briles out. If anything, the bad blood between Briles and the Texas program (mainly Mack) due to the treatment of Briles's son at Texas is more of a hindrance.

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