Texas just lost to Kansas

Submitted by Toby Flenderson on November 13th, 2021 at 11:42 PM

This is why I am afraid of firing Jim Harbaugh (other than us being 9-1 lol). 
 

We don’t want to become UT. 

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Don

November 14th, 2021 at 7:38 AM ^

"Texas has been a mess for years."

Some mess:

Texas 2018 recruiting class: #3

Texas 2019 recruiting class: #3

Texas 2020 recruiting class: #8

Texas 2021 recruiting class: #15 including Xavier Worthy

Now let's take a look at Kansas:

Kansas 2018 recruiting class: #60

Kansas 2019 recruiting class: #71

Kansas 2020 recruiting class: #56

Kansas 2021 recruiting class: #63

"This really isn't that big of a deal."

• Kansas entered Saturday 0-100 as an underdog of at least 24 points since the FBS/FCS split in 1978, by far the worst in the FBS over that stretch
• Kansas, which was 2-13 all time against the Longhorns and had lost 13 straight prior to then
• 5 straight losses for Texas, longest skid in last 65 seasons and tied for third longest in school history
• 18 Consecutive conference losses for Kansas prior to Saturday, tied for longest in FBS
• 21 Consecutive losses for Kansas vs. FBS teams prior to Saturday, longest active streak in FBS
• 56 Texas points in the loss, most in school history
• 57 Kansas points in a road game, most in school history
• Texas entered Saturday 79-0 as a favorite of at least 24 points since the FBS/FCS split in 1978

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Qmatic

November 14th, 2021 at 12:08 AM ^

We have been in the top 6 of the CFP in late November 3 of the last 6 (5 really since last season wasn’t even a season) seasons. Texas hasn’t been there one time. We will go into The Game with 9 or 10 wins for the 5th of 6 times and 3rd time that the CFP is on the table.

Jim has had his issues, but we continue to be in the hunt in late November more years than not. Just have the one monkey we need to get off our back. When we do, it’s gonna be great.

FFS we are awful officiating and MSU going 100% on half a dozen make or break 50-50 Plays from being #2 in the country. After a year ago losing to IU, getting humiliated at home vs Wisconsin, and needing overtime to beat Rutgers…it’s incredible to be where we are at right now. We went to Madison, Lincoln, and Happy Valley and won. This year has been a success 

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jermrs

November 14th, 2021 at 1:04 AM ^

Some awesomestats I saw posted on the Reddit Post game thread from a Georgia fan.

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  • This is Texas' first 5-game losing streak since 1956

  • Steve Sarkisian is now 50-41 all-time as a head coach. He has just two seasons where he has won more than 7 games.

  • Texas hasn't finished in the AP Top 20 in back-to-back years since 2008-2009.

  • From 1901-2015, Kansas beat Texas twice. They've also beat them twice since 2016.

  • Texas was favored by 31 points over Kansas.

  • Sarkisian has finished better than 3rd in his division just once as a head coach.

  • Texas has 52 blue-chip recruits on their roster. Kansas has 1.

  • Texas has to beat West Virginia and Kansas State to make a bowl. If they do not, it'll be their first time missing a bowl since the Charlie Strong era.

  • Tom Herman never had more than a two-game losing streak in a season. Sark has almost tripled that in his debut season.

  • Ever since Bevo's cowardly attack on Uga in the Sugar Bowl, the Longhorns' total wins have decreased each season (10-8-7-4)

  • Texas has lost consecutive games at home for the first time since 2016.

  • Texas had won 79 straight games as a 24+ point favorite.

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Yeoman

November 14th, 2021 at 10:44 AM ^

This has happened before.

In Fred Akers's ten years at Texas they finished top-10 four times, top-20 six times, went to bowls nine straight years. They fired him because "Helen Keller could win 70% if she coached here" and he hadn't won a national championship (and of course, it being Texas, for internal political/factional reasons).

They only made two bowls in the next nine years, and it was 15 years before they finished top 10 again.

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Don

November 14th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^

I remember both the '78 Cotton Bowl—in which heavily favored Texas gets horsewhipped 38-10 by Joe Montana-led ND—and the '83 Cotton Bowl debacle in which #2 Texas fails to get in the end zone and loses 10-9 to Georgia. If Texas wins either bowl game they clinch the NC.

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Don

November 14th, 2021 at 7:53 AM ^

Worthy is one of the best receivers in the country as a pure freshman. I wonder if he even cares that there's a good chance he's not playing in a bowl this year. Given Sarkisian's track record as HC, it's unlikely Worthy will ever sniff a conference championship.

 

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1VaBlue1

November 14th, 2021 at 9:10 AM ^

While I agree that Worthy made a mistake, how many downfield throws does he get in a Michigan uniform this year?  Does he make the lists of WR plaudits and get SportsCenter highlights every weekend with Cade checking down on nearly every pass play?  With a pass game that uses deep throws as change of pace and occasional 'shots', rather than as a consistent weapon?

Maybe he does?  Maybe his route running would eclipse everyone else's and leave him open enough downfield to be consistently used (it wouldn't surprise me - I've thought that UM's WRs don't run good routes more often than they do)?  

I wish he was in a winged helmet, but I won't disparage his choices.  Sark's offense is a better fit for WR's like Worthy, even if his coaching/team sucks ass overall.

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Bo Harbaugh

November 14th, 2021 at 5:24 AM ^

They'll get better real quickly....just like A&M was a middling program and has now seen their profile go up.

The ESPN-SEC marriage almost guarantees that Texas and OU (with their history and recruiting footprint) will become more relevant very quickly.  

UT probably needs a better coach as well.  OU will start getting better defensive recruits.

TLDR:  They'll probably look meh at first but get better quickly because of ESPN - SEC marriage.

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Gulogulo37

November 14th, 2021 at 6:47 AM ^

Huh? Texas A&M had plenty of good seasons before they joined the SEC. They haven't won their division once in the SEC. If Harbaugh can take criticism for that, so can Jimbo as the highest-paid coach in the country. The whole SEC West can't be good. Even a good program like Auburn has trouble staying consistently good. Of course Oklahoma and Texas can get better, but Oklahoma has been in the playoffs almost every year. Besides actually winnings NCs, it's literally impossible to improve upon that.

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1VaBlue1

November 14th, 2021 at 9:13 AM ^

"...Oklahoma has been in the playoffs almost every year."

That will come to an end when they start playing games in the SEC.  Unless, of course, part of that deal was an expansion to 12 teams.  Maybe this is a reason why the SEC seems to want that so much?  Seems plausible...

I want it, too.  EXPAND TO 12 NOW!!!!

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L'Carpetron Do…

November 14th, 2021 at 11:17 AM ^

I disagree, I'm in favor of expanding the playoff but only a little (in fact, I'm a maniacal purist and I would go back to the old pre-BCS bowl system.  A 12-team playoff strips the regular season of almost all of it's significance. College football at the Division 1 level has prized performance in the regular season more than any sport. If you thought two SEC teams consistently making the 2-team playoff was nauseating, wait until middling 8-4 Auburns, Ole Misses and Floridas are in the 12-team playoff every year. 

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blueheron

November 14th, 2021 at 7:41 AM ^

Here's a contrarian take: They'll be much worse off in the short term.

They're both high-profile football schools that have been recruiting well. With decent coaching Oklahoma has benefited from being in a second-rate conference for many years. Texas has shot itself in the foot in the same conference. Exactly how do you think they're going to improve in a tougher conference?

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Yeoman

November 14th, 2021 at 10:50 AM ^

And a contrarian prediction: one of the schools left behind in the remnant B12 (I don't know who, it could be anyone but Kansas or Texas Tech I suppose) will play for a national championship before Texas or Oklahoma do. Imagine the Texas fanbase watching a Baylor/Alabama title game....

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A Lot of Milk

November 14th, 2021 at 4:36 AM ^

They hired an underperforming alcoholic as head coach (who was only hired because his name was attached to the Bama juggernaut), KYLE FLOOD AS OC, and a no-name as DC and people are surprised they suck?

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MH20

November 14th, 2021 at 7:58 AM ^

This right here. Sarkisian was the Bama OC flavor of the week that ADs have been fawning all over for years. It's even more mind boggling when you look at his prior head coaching stints that give nothing to indicate he's an actual good head coach.

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