Tech-Baylor 4th Quarter Open Thread (aka OMG!!!1! Go Bears!!!11!!1)

this hurts them with any voters that are watching (on VS., not likely). maybe if OSU wins tonight, this helps keep us in front of Tech. getting blown out by OU, then struggling at home against Baylor. not a great way to finish off the season.

also, the showing today makes it seem possible that they could actually lose to Mizzou. time to root for the Cowboys.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

If oSu wins tonight

Tech goes to the Big 12 championship, but we’re basically guaranteed a spot in the BCS title game.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Seriously, they should drop a couple spots after this game.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

exactly

i do think that conference championships are under-rated (both in Football and Basketball), but obviously a chance to play in the National Championship game FAR outweighs the chance to play in the Big XII Championship game.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

...

I’m not particularly thrilled at the opportunity to play Florida, tho. I don’t think we win that one.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

I do.

and I wanna see our D chew on Tebow a little. take his swagger down a notch.

txex92 - November 29, 2008 reply

tbh

I’d love to see an OU/UF game. That’d be something else.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Exactly.

And OU seemed unstoppable until Texas beat them.

Kool Hand - November 29, 2008 reply

Harvin hurt today

haven’t heard if it’s anything serious or not.

I think we could go toe to toe with Florida. I really think our offense can keep us in ANY game.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

ESPN news talking right now

that this miserable tech performance takes a lot of luster off OU’s big win, making it all but clear that texas should be voted above OU.

cwofford - November 29, 2008 reply

Agreed

How do all the commentators believe in us but the f’ing pollsters keep voting against us???

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

Because

Pollsters are stupid. Always have been, always will be.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

give 'em a chance

they reversed course a few weeks ago when we jumped back over OU after the Tech loss. they may come to their senses again. let’s root like hell that OSU at least keeps it close. a blowout win in Stillwater, and OU almost certainly jumps us.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

So how do they decide their votes?

They don’t watch all the games, they don’t watch commentators … Is the box score all they care about?

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

for the coaches

sadly yes.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

I like that argument

until it extends to Texas’ loss vs Tech.

Kool Hand - November 29, 2008 reply

extending that argument to Texas' loss to Tech is fine

the argument makes Texas’ loss against Tech look worse.

okay, so OU’s win doesn’t look as good, and our loss looks worse.

so now what? how do i decide who should be ranked higher between UT and OU? can i put them on a neutral field? oh. 45-35

APinAustin - November 29, 2008 reply

45-35

mtntrance - November 29, 2008 reply

41-38

bamfor - November 29, 2008 reply

this wasn't the same baylor offense we saw in the first half

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

If some idiot receiver would catch a pass

They had a chance.

TheElusiveShadow - November 29, 2008 reply

if some frosh safety catches a floating INT...

oops, wrong tech game

txex92 - November 29, 2008 reply

lol

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

ouch

Kool Hand - November 29, 2008 reply

no doubt

Griffin had zero help in the second half

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

Two more plays should do it.

milevin - November 29, 2008 reply

Baylor wins this one if the officiating/coaching was competent.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

How the fuck did we lose to Tech?

the1austin - November 29, 2008 reply

Our guys were exhausted.

girlslikefootball2 - November 29, 2008 reply

Have you not seen a GD called offense?

We blew chunks in the first half and the DB tackled high instead of going for the push out of bounds.

milevin - November 29, 2008 reply

Tech won't take a knee

mtntrance - November 29, 2008 reply

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

I despise Tech

Super Saiyan Patrick - November 29, 2008 reply

Leach needs to find a new job for next year

This was his best team and the schedule worked in his favor.

Next year, his QB and star WR are gone. And he has to go to Stillwater and Austin.

milevin - November 29, 2008 reply

Leach has a chance at a Big 12 title once every 3-4 years...

And that’s about as good as it can get at Tech.

the1austin - November 29, 2008 reply

I'd want to see him at Miss St.

bamfor - November 29, 2008 reply

So close..

ugh..

nyclonghorngal - November 29, 2008 reply

Well in other news

Brantley is going in for Florida next possession

blazzinken - November 29, 2008 reply

It's nice to see him get some playing time.

I wonder how he’s liking his decision to spurn Mack Brown.

Kool Hand - November 29, 2008 reply

Baylor played way past my expectations

mtntrance - November 29, 2008 reply

And yet

they still underachieved in the 2nd half.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

so close and yet so far away

poteet76 - November 29, 2008 reply

Is Leach drunk?

Super Saiyan Patrick - November 29, 2008 reply

No more than usual

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

He's a mormon so no.

ajax77777 - November 29, 2008 reply

You're kidding, right?

He’s not a religious person in the slightest, even if he is from Mormon parents.

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

He's not religious...

…he’s Satan.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

BU is gonna be VERY interesting to watch over the next coupla years

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

yep

I’ve been saying all season that if they ever manage to build depth around him, they’ll be very dangerous.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

well, with crabtree out with a boot, i don't see him playing in the big12 title (in case OSU wins). that's good for texas. nt

cwofford - November 29, 2008 reply

We need tonights game to look exactly like this one.

EXACTLY.

the1austin - November 29, 2008 reply

Refs

took away two turnovers for baylor… Amazes me that two bad calls (and a bunch of no calls) cost texas a spot in the title game.. I hope those refs burn in hell.
(yes I am furious)

Hook'em13 - November 29, 2008 reply

God...

Auburn sucks.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Were those same refs from the Texas - TT game? Just curious.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

Surely they'll be in Stillwater. .nt whills

Horn Brain - November 29, 2008 reply

really though

at the end of the day, this was a LOT closer than it should have been. Tech is red-faced right now for trailing through three quarters at home to Baylor, when they’re trying to make a claim to one of the top two spots. OSU winning tonight should absolutely punch our ticket to Miami.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

ok, so...

do i root for oklahoma and hope that the numbers work out for us?

do i root for oklahoma state because i think mizzou has a better chance against tech?

APinAustin - November 29, 2008 reply

Dunno

it’s such a clusterfuck this season.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

no kidding

APinAustin - November 29, 2008 reply

mizzou beating tech may allow us to back door into miami

APinAustin - November 29, 2008 reply

If oSu wins tonight...

…we’re in Miami no matter what happens in KC.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

i really

don’t think it would matter if Tech goes to KC. anybody else agree with me?

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

yes.

ryanlionrah - November 29, 2008 reply

Doesn't matter to us, no

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

root for OSU

if they lose a close one, that’s also as good.

littlevisigoth - November 29, 2008 reply

well, time to swallow the pride...

and go root for (yuck) ou. again. dammit.

txex92 - November 29, 2008 reply

Root for OSU and pray.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

I dunno...

mizzou lost to kansas, don’t see them hanging anything on tech

txex92 - November 29, 2008 reply

Tech's MNC hopes are DONE!

There is NO way Tech will jump over a 1 loss Texas. 39-33 at home at night in last second won’t be enough for them.

goingforthecorner - November 29, 2008 reply

it was snowing and maclin and coffman both got hurt..

maclin could run circles around tech’s d.

jacobb23 - November 29, 2008 reply

Why? Let Tech have the South. GO POKES.

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

You're rooting for OU to pass us up in the standings?

goingforthecorner - November 29, 2008 reply

nope just holding out for numbers...

txex92 - November 29, 2008 reply

unfortunately, especially considering Mizzou lost..

I just don’t see this happening.

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

Terrible coaching job in second half by Baylor

Griffin is a premier playmaker. Tech knew this and still couldn’t stop him yet you largely choose to ignore his playmaking abilities in the second half? Coaching 101: let your playmakers make plays.

ryanlionrah - November 29, 2008 reply

I saw we root for OSU.

Everytime we root for someone, they do something we don’t want them to. So OSU will probably lose to OU, but just barely. That’s my plan.

Horn Brain - November 29, 2008 reply

Just a side note...

Mizzou lost to Kansas… it would hurt us very much if OU win tonight,
but it would defnitely help us if Tech goes to Big 12 Title against 9-3 Mizzou. (instead of 10-2 Mizzou).

austinite - November 29, 2008 reply

i cant see why we would root for OU

if OU wins, they go to the big 12 champ, stomp missouri, and head to miami.

if they lose, they are out, tech goes to kansas city and wild speculation ensues.

UTrumbo - November 29, 2008 reply

That's been discussed to death, but it's not clear how the human polls would end up if OU wins a close one in Stillwater.

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

I don’t see us gaining enough ground on them in the human polls to mitigate the jump they’re going to make in the computers.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Did Mississippi State

just fire Sly Croom?

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

He 'retired'. Who knows if he was forced out or not.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

Hey...

…at least they beat Vandy.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Herbstreet on ESPNN saying Bedlam doesn't matter, Texas should be in front of OU

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

Again

Who the hell votes UT behind OU with all these commentators saying we should be above?!?

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

It's a mystery.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Well, kind of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Interactive_Poll#2008

http://www.math.tulane.edu/~mnicholas/College%20Football/coaches.html

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

"Experts"

Like John Hunt of the Oregonian. He has Texas behind ou….and USC (4), Penn State (5) and Ohio State (6).

Wiggin - November 29, 2008 reply

AP Poll

don’t mean sh*t in the BCS :)

afrokinger - November 29, 2008 reply

Aware.

But since that’s the only poll where voters votes are published (until after next week’s games), it’s the only poll where a specific example can be given.

Wiggin - November 29, 2008 reply

Damn, I could have been working on my 12-page paper right now if BU had won.

Now I get to have a heart attack and criticize OU all night.

Oh wait, this could be fun.

HornPossessed - November 29, 2008 reply

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Hook'em13 - November 29, 2008 reply

One of these days...

…Time Warner Cable needs to start the 24/7 Erin Andrews Channel.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Amen to that

seth78 - November 29, 2008 reply

Texas Tech is not a good football team

We choked in Lubbock, plain and simple.

andy_wooster - November 29, 2008 reply

I agree

girlslikefootball2 - November 29, 2008 reply

Wouldn't call it a choke

A choke is when you’re winning and then blow it (like Baylor). We just didn’t show up until midway through the third.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

I think losing to a markedly inferior team

when that team is all that stands between you and the BCS title game is a choke.

andy_wooster - November 29, 2008 reply

It's a bad loss, yes...

…but that’s not what the word “choke” means.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

yes it is

andy_wooster - November 29, 2008 reply

Hm...

…are you also one of those people who says “untracked” when you really mean “on track”?

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Well technically...

We were winning and then blew it. So that would make it, by any definition, a choke job.

jw4425 - November 29, 2008 reply

It's not a choke if you had to come from behind to get the lead in the first place.

If we’d have held on, it would have been a choke on their part.

Microtonal - November 29, 2008 reply

Let's remember...

how hyped up Tech was for the biggest game in the program’s history. And that it was the end of “the gauntlet”. Football is an emotional game… it matters.

I certainly think it was a disappointing loss, but not a choke.

crackaTX - November 29, 2008 reply

Any team that has to rally to beat Baylor at home

should just be given a loss.

seth78 - November 29, 2008 reply

Defintion of "choke" according to Webster's:

“Blake Gideon with :08 left to play in Lubbock on Nov. 2, 2008.”

utlonghorn24 - November 29, 2008 reply

Oregon just scored

7-0

bamfor - November 29, 2008 reply

Go Oregon.

I really don’t even want to see USC again. Ever.

utlonghorn24 - November 29, 2008 reply

Wouldn't this hurt us though?

If Oregon wins, that makes USC the Pac – 10 champ, no?

If Oklahoma State beats OU tonight, that puts Tech in the Big 12 Championship Game.

Assuming Tech loses (or even if Tech wins some might argue), the argument is that we are in the MNC game.

But with USC winning the Pac – 10, won’t all the media talking heads try to argue you can’t put Texas in the MNC game since they didn’t even win their conference?

I just want to eliminate that argument.

Therefore, we need Oregon State to beat Oregon.

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

Well they are already talking about

how if OU loses and Tech wins the Big 12 title game, that Tech should jump over Texas and go to Miami.

HookEm34 - November 29, 2008 reply

I hate to say it, but I can't argue with that argument.

As much as I want Texas to go (and I think Texas will still go even in the scenario you mention above), I can’t disagree with that argument.

Tech beat us. Assuming they win the Big 12; they beat us head-to-head AND won the Big 12. Can’t argue with that.

But, I still think we go to the MNC because of Tech’s computer averages. I don’t think/know if they can pass us in BCS, especially considering Mizzou is now 9-3.

And this example highlights how bad the BCS is. Playoff anyone?

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

Looks like the Oregon St. offense is really hurting without Jacquizz Rogers

bamfor - November 29, 2008 reply

I say go OSU and

let tech go to b12 game. unless they put up 70-3 on a now down and out Mizzou team, they arent Texas and arent going to get the votes to get to the NC game over us or anybody else for that matter.

RICHUT96 - November 29, 2008 reply

Good...

Oregon State scored.

10-7 Oregon leads, though.

Top Jimmy - November 29, 2008 reply

it's not over

root for OSU, the numbers are against us, but we can still go to the MNC. go pokes!!!!

guerro - November 29, 2008 reply

Burnt Orange Nation

Tech-Baylor 4th Quarter Open Thread (aka OMG!!!1! Go Bears!!!11!!1)

Comments

Come on little bears

Baylor desperately needs a turnover.

That offsides

So bad

Fumbled it!

What the hell was that penalty for?

flag

anyone else those were the 2 ugliest girls at tech just a second ago?

that thread title is hilarious

WTF THIS IS SUCH BS!

please fumble

why do refs love Tech?

Leach better shut the fuck up about bad officiating the piece of shit

oh gosh

Leach will find a way to complain.

tech is getting so f'n lucky right now...OMFG!

baylor putting helmets on the ball all game..

that ball is coming loose!

I'm sure Tech did so they could try to keep leach

Trump called at half time and payed the refs.

the commentators are all on Harrells jock right now...

"I'd like to hold you." - Tech's O-Line.

Brian Norwood looks a lot like Charlie Strong.

shit can someone sack him.

Please rush more than 3

HOLDING?

I have no clue. No one has called it on Tech this whole year.

I don't mind the hand placement

nope and they never will

well baylor is just about done...

Yep.

Disagree... they just can't abandon the run.

wtf? play was already run!

cant sit on a lead with playing Tech

*when

12 minutes left.

we don't take extra points for granted

well his knee isn't down.

Harrell is a freaking prick

he's nearly as bad at mcgee

He is worse.

So, it's a TD either way isn't it?

yep'

its fine, get a nice 6 or 7 min drive for baylor after this, still got a chance

yeah, the play will turned to a TD it appears

These announcers need to STFU!

his middle name is prick

Come on football gods.

You need to make a small sacrifice or some entreaty to them. nt

BLOCK IT!

I'm so mad

Penalties I couldn't even see.

"Hey, ref, we're not supposed to lose. Remember?"

and the baylor d has played well.

Geez, Baylor doesn't even try to block kicks.

That Baylor field goal looks awfully important now.

you ain't kidding

Yeah, that's the real killer; they should be ahead still. nt

a baylor score here would be large

Baylor needs a TD drive here

12 min drive ending with a TD too much to ask? lol

If Illinois can put together a 9 minute drive and not even make it to the end zone...

Rice 56 to 28 UH

Missed FG

Who knew Tech could be a 2nd half team.

They have had big rallies in the second half before

well they scored 7 in each quarter as of now

Baylor needs to stop committing monster penalties

Baylor is baylor

Why did he run into the pile.

Phantom blocks by his teammates. .nt whills

The best kind?

Ok, lets run right into 5 Tech defenders on the return...

Refs..

GET OUT OF HIS WAY

Griffin took a hit

and slow to get up.