Nothing Wrong With Some Competition
Curse that Colt McCoy. He made it look so easy over his four seasons starting under center for Texas, setting up massive expectations not only for his immediate predecessor, Garrett Gilbert, but also...
View ArticleA Big Ten Blueprint: B.C.S. Themes
The blueprint is out on how to beat Nebraska, and the rest of the Big Ten is taking notes. The Cornhuskers were the conference’s biggest unknown heading into September, which makes sense, seeing that...
View ArticleTen Themes for Saturday: Week 3
Ten teams, themes, games and players to watch on Saturday. Pretty straightforward. And here we go: Oh, it’s you It’s a three-game series, and that may be normal for the Mariners and the Royals but...
View ArticleRed River Rivalry Renewed
Texas was terrible in 2010. Oklahoma, thanks to injuries, stumbled to 8-5 in 2009. So it’s been three years since we’ve seen a Red River Rivalry with this sort of national meaning — and, if you...
View ArticleEyeballing Center Stage; Q.B. Needed
The Texas you saw on Wednesday night was the Texas you saw all season, which was not necessarily surprising news. The defense, as it was for a strong portion of September through December, was...
View ArticleNo. 8: Texas
DeLoss Dodds and Texas are consistently painted as out of touch with reality, puttering along like money-mad oil barons as the F.B.S. continues to draw and redraw its borders through conference...
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