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It's The Year 2000...
Gasoline is $1.26 a gallon. Oil is $30 a barrel. The St Louis Rams are your Super Bowl champions. Gladiator wins Best Picture at the Oscars. The World Trade Center attack still refers to a blind imam's followers setting off explosives in a parking garage. Y2K proves to be much ado about...
Basketball Polls Officially Out
Coaches' Poll AP Poll Big 12 Teams in the Coaches' Poll: #1 Texas #3 Kansas #12 Kansas State #24 Baylor ----------------- #30 Oklahoma State #31 Texas A&M #40 Texas Tech #42 Missouri Big 12 Teams in the AP Poll: #1 Texas #3 Kansas #13 Kansas State #22 Baylor ----------------- #26 Texas...
#2 in both final polls
Coaches' Poll AP Poll Boise State finishes #4 behind Florida. Cincinnati is #8/#9. They didn't look like a Top 10 team to me (for reference, we dropped from #3 to #12 after getting whooped by Miami in the Cotton Bowl).
Looking back at years of AP Polls
I noticed some things I found interesting. Perhaps you will as well. 73 total polls, 1503 teams listed: 1936-61 (20 teams ranked) 1962-67 (10 teams ranked) 1968-88 (20 teams ranked) 1989-current (25 teams ranked) 1) FBS Teams without a single final poll appearance: Akron, Ark St, Ball St, Buffalo,...
The 2008 BCS and Texas
I've put a lot of thought (and even more teeth gnashing and head-beating) into this post. I've tried to support it with data, but by necessity a lot of it is conjecture, although well founded in my opinion. If anybody can hack the numbers better, I would like to hear them. The November 30 BCS,...
New AP Poll
Texas is a unanimous number one. Other Big 12 teams: 4. OU 7. Oklahoma State 8. Texas Tech 16. Missouri 19. Kansas
Longhorns Record as a Regular Season #1
Here's a piece of trivia that will only be good to use until Saturday (I think). The first game Texas lined up as the #1 team in the nation during the regular season and the last regular season game that the Horns entered as the top team in the nation have both ended in a tie. In 1941 Texas was...
The Big 12 is now the best conference in college football
Get used to it, SEC fans. OK, I actually think the Big 12 deserves a meaningful discussion with the SEC, but since every SEC blogger and bulletin board posse have set Google Alerts for all discussions regarding best conference, I figured I’d poke them in the eye so their dander would be up by the...
The Definitive Football Guide For Filling The Cancellation Void
There is some fine football to be had this weekend, so fret not Carnivalers. Here's your comprehensive game-watching guide to maximal gridiron enjoyment. I've included all interesting national games and every Big 12 contest (even the dull ones) broken down by time slots: Friday evening Fri, Sep 12...
Anti-Parity and the 1971 College Football Season
This post was prompted by the good discussion taking place on Scipio Tex's Oklahoma Preview. The conversation starter was the fact that my ratings had 1971 as Oklahoma's best team despite their loss to Nebraska. While you can read the rest of the discussion there, the short answer is that the...
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