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For the most part, it seems that OU fans understand that their anemic offense means that they will be walking a tightrope in any game they play. I don't think there would be much of a melt from the land thieves if Bama wins. They are just happy that Venables isn't looking like Gomer Jones anymore.

re: Note Dame in talks with the SEC?

Posted by twk on 12/10/25 at 8:00 am to
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I imagine that ND would also be looking for advocation on their behalf as well.
If they are, they are going to be shite outta luck. :lol:

re: Note Dame in talks with the SEC?

Posted by twk on 12/10/25 at 7:57 am to
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ND isn't looking to join a conference in football. They want to join as a partial member and just a scheduling agreement in football. Since the SEC doesn't do partial memberships, I don't see any deal being made.
I think the concept is that Notre Dame would join the Big East, which doesn't play football. If they do that, there's nothing wrong with considering a four game schedule agreement.

We already have a bunch of SEC teams signing deals with them. The difference here would be that we could work the calendar to both parties' advantage. Imagine replacing one of those cupcake games so many SEC schools play the Saturday before Thanksgiving with a game against Notre Dame. Combine that with two decent conference games, and you've got coverage for what is otherwise an embarrassingly weak slate of games. ND has a problem in that they can only schedule the Big Ten teams they traditionally play early in the season (Big Ten doesn't allow non-conference games once conference play starts, which is why their September TV schedule sucks arse even more than it does later in the year).

I agree that there is no way I'd take in Notre Dame as a partial member. But, if they park their other sports elsewhere, a scheduling agreement wouldn't be a terrible idea. Unlike the ACC, I wouldn't offer them a dime, just the opportunity to play us like any other non-conference opponent. The only twist would be working together on the schedule.
If we get out of our own way, we might pull away a bit late, but more than likely that this will be a close game down to the wire.

re: Hey Aggie Fans??

Posted by twk on 12/9/25 at 5:27 pm to
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Texas DPS was supposedly doing an internal affairs investigation into his behavior but the results of that sort of thing are never published.
You could make a FOIA request to get that information if you really wanted, but they certainly don’t go out of their way to publish it, unless they are going to fire the guy and want everyone to know it. I used to handle police civil service matters, and I can pretty much guarantee you that nothing will happen here other than a letter of reprimand, unless he’s got a prior disciplinary record.

re: Note Dame in talks with the SEC?

Posted by twk on 12/9/25 at 5:21 pm to
Like I said, people looking for clicks are trying to turn this into something more than it is.

Frankly, if I’m Sankey, the last thing I want to do is to further destabilize the ACC. He already fricked things up by taking OU and Texas, not that they were bad takes in and of themselves, but because that destabilized the Big XII and induced the Big Ten to do stupid things like killing off the PAC-12.

Having said that, if ND were to cut ties with the ACC and park its other sports in the Big East, a scheduling arrangement where ND agreed to play four SEC teams each year wouldn’t be out of the question as it would just provide SEC teams with an off the shelf P4 opponent, and could slip those games in throughout the season, rather than front loading them all in September.

re: Note Dame in talks with the SEC?

Posted by twk on 12/9/25 at 2:47 pm to
You gotta love it when some idiot looking for clicks takes Bevacqua's statement that, the only P4 commissioner he's talked with since Sunday is Sankey, and spins that into the SEC is talking with Notre Dame about taking them in as a member.
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Assuming the weather is decent, I’d bet we set an attendance record for a day game at Kyle. That place is going to be nuclear. Miami is damn lucky they don’t have to play there at night.
I hope you're right, but I'm a bit worried about the students getting back to campus for the game. With the way kids are nowadays about the holidays, it can be tough to get them back to campus for a game a week from Saturday if they are leaving town this week, and no one else in the country seats aside 38,000 seats for students. Hopefully, if they don't draw their full allotment, there will be enough folks who buy the Gig 'Em pass (who are mostly young folks, so you are trading like for like) to take up the slack.
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I imagine the seniors from these 5-7 teams assumed the seasons were over and have been checked out of the programs for weeks. Not to mention the guys who plan to transfer.
This. Pretty hard to change course on short notice.

re: SEC Shorts Playoff Train

Posted by twk on 12/8/25 at 9:28 am to
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This is top 5 for them. Impressive to get a train/station in there.
This is one of those times where they had to have the location and basic premise worked out in advance, but, obviously, they didn't have the playoff pairing announcement in hand until shortly before noon, and had to finish this in daylight hours. That's some impressive work on a short fuse.
Maybe. I'm not sold on Oregon.

In the latter years of OU's Big XII run, they did it mostly with offense in an offense oriented league. Tech is built rather differently. Maybe that will make a difference, maybe not.

re: 16 teams ... no byes

Posted by twk on 12/7/25 at 2:27 pm to
So, this year it would be:

1. Indiana vs 16 JMU
2. OSU vs 15 Tulane
3. UGA vs 14 Vanderbilt
4. Texas Tech vs 13 Texas
5. Oregon vs 12 BYU
6. Ole Miss vs 11 Notre Dame
7. A&M vs 10 Miami
8. OU vs 9 Bama

Logistically, that’s a lot of travel, and finding TV windows would mean playing on Thursday and even Tuesday.
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lol you’re smoking crack.
Meth is the drug of choice in Oklahoma
It’s not that hard. Maybe they spend five minutes discussing whether OSU or UGA should be 2, but they will go with OSU in all probability. The 4-8 seeds stay the same as last week, and 11 and 12 are Tulane and James Madison.

The rest of their time will be spent sorting Bama, ND, and Miami. They are not going to leave Bama out, so the question is, do they move Bama to 10 and put ND at 9, or do they leave Bama at 9, and swap Miami for ND, with BYU having excused itself from the conversation.

re: Alabama should not go to the playoffs

Posted by twk on 12/6/25 at 11:28 pm to
When you lose maters. For practical purposes, the committee simply doesn’t consider Bama a 3 loss team, but rather, a 2 loss team that lost their conference championship game. There is a difference.
Tech's got some real first line talent on defense. What they don't have is a lot of depth. If they played an SEC schedule, that would show up more.
Notre Dame is a better team, but Bama has the better resume. That’s the problem.
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Bama will be the 10 seed playing the 7 seed. So @ A&M. ND will be the 9 seed and play @ Oklahoma. That prevents re-matches too
I wonder if that will factor into the decision as to whether Georgia should be two or three? If you put Georgia at 2 and Bama at 10, theoretically, they could meet again in the Sugar Bowl. Leaving the Big Ten loser at 2 would avoid that, and set up a likely Georgia-Ole Miss Sugar Bowl.
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I get the argument for Bama making it with a loss, but it feels wrong deep down. We need to just win the game.
Bama is one of four SEC teams that went 7-1 in conference play. All four will get in. Bama will get the lowest seed of the four, deservedly, in light of its loss to FSU, but Bama will be in.
Perhaps not, but they have the better resume. When you are selecting the field for a playoff, resume gets you in, then there is room for some subjective evaluation of strength in setting the seeds.