I can completely understand that, but I believe they’re better than every team on our OOC schedule next year. We’ll learn a lot about them in the next 2 weeks though, as they play Boise State and BYU. However, even if you debate Utah State, you can’t possibly argue that anyone on our 2022 OOC schedule is (or was ever expected to be at the time the schedule was made) as good as Texas.
I don’t like cupcakes. It’s that simple. I don’t care about making a crappy bowl game. If we’re a quality team, then we’ll earn a good bowl game even against a tough schedule. If we’re not good enough to do that, that’s fine too. Playing tough competition makes your team improve. I think 75% of the current bowl games should be eliminated. Only truly good teams should go to bowl games. I realize it won’t ever happen, but I detest bowl games with two teams that have no business playing in a post-season game. Not everyone deserves a trophy. If you want one, earn it!A trophy? Lol what kinda trophy? We winning the National Championship next year?
You make no sense. The point is these games are good for us to not be able to take a beating before SEC play.
SEC play is what matters. Beating SEC teams is what matters. WE ARE AN SEC TEAM. Out of conference games don’t matter.
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Texas is a perfect example. That sounds like a marquee game. When it got scheduled years ago, that Vince Young National title was a pretty recent memory. The reality though is that they’ve been a mediocre Big 12 team for the last decade that’s probably more like Pitt than you think. I’ll bet their overall win totals have been about the same.
When did I ever mention a “bowl game” we need to beat SEC teams. The current OOC schedule we have allows us to be healthier during those SEC games, you know…. The games that matter. You know what would be awesome? Finally winning the East. We currently don’t have the depth right now to play tough OOC schedules.
I agree about your comment about being able to predict the future. However, at the time schedules were made, I think reasonable people can agree that Texas was expected to be a far higher quality opponent than Pittsburgh, Army, Akron, UT-Martin, etc. Texas was expected to be a marquee matchup, and that may not end up being the case. However, there is no reasonable basis to believe that any of our OOC opponents were ever believed to be a potential marquee matchup for UT in 2022. We intentionally scheduled extremely weak opponents.
I just did the research on this because I agree it was a potentially valid point. The Alabama/Texas series was announced in May 2018, so the 2017 season was the most recent completed season at that time. Texas’ record for the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 to-date seasons was 34-19. Pitt‘s record over that same time frame is 28-25. Personally, I think the Big 12 was a better conference from top to bottom than the ACC over that time period. Regardless, those were their records.
But you’re acting like this is the first time that Tennessee has done something like this. They did the same thing in 2010 when they bought out the UNC series that was slated to start in 2011. Dooley and Hamilton came to the conclusion that Tennessee was in a bad spot roster wise and would rather play vastly inferior opponents in hopes of having a winning season.
