The stars at night are big and bright…
You’re not in the Big 12 anymore, young man. For someone who was on the roster of the two biggest ego tripping programs in the Universe – tOSU and Texas – I can’t blame him for thinking the world revolves around the Longhorns.
Though they did beat Alabama last year and came up short of playing for the National Championship in a loss to Washington, there were a host of games that the Longhorns barely survived during their 2023 campaign, including narrow wins against Kansas State, TCU, and Houston.
The 2024 schedule is rather pedestrian, with their biggest games being at Michigan, a home game against Georgia, the traditional tile with Oklahoma, and their final game in College Station against what should be a really, really hostile crowd in the wake of the Aggies head baseball coach jumping ship from the program and taking the reigns at Texas less than 24 hours of losing the College World Series to Tennessee.
Anyway, I feel like Texas got the easy route into their induction year in the SEC, but I wouldn’t say they are Georgia’s biggest game by a long shot. Alabama still stands as what I consider our “biggest game” and we still have Tennessee and Ole Miss as big ones, too.
Though they have a reputation as one of college football’s blue bloods, one has to wonder where the ego comes from with a program that’s had one CFP appearance and one conference championship since 2010. Maybe at Texas their own reflection in the mirror just means more than results in the field, but Quinn is just following a tradition that was born from a lousy Sugar Bowl some years ago.
They’re baaaaack…and as pompous as ever. Ugh, let’s try not to remember why Ehlinger ever said that.
Pisses me off, too, but it’s our own fault. Let’s hope it still pisses off the current Dawgs when we got to Austin.
https://x.com/RobbieDidThat/status/1807043231248470367
Just finished “Attack the Day” by Seth Emerson (I recommend reading it if you haven’t). Players were quoted as not being there mentally after losing to Bama again in the SECC.
I love our conference finally showed some nuts in adding the likes of Texas & Oklahoma. Both rich in tradition and championship athletics, they have owned their respective historical conferences; Big8, SWC & Big12. They will add some zest — and they trump the former (soft) additions of USCe, Ark, Mizzou & TAMU.
Quinn, go ask Tennessee in particular what it’s like when we roll into town focused. I don’t think you’ll like the answer very much.
Still don’t like the expansion (and never will). I don’t give a damn about playing Texas or Oklahoma because it likely means we’re losing the DSOR as an annual game.
I hate those fuckers already.
When your schedule is garbage, of course you’re everyone’s biggest game. Gawd, I hope we beat them.
kinda wanting them to get the Caitlin Clark treatment by ANY SEC opponent.
at least for a bit
I will go to my grave saying that loss to Texas was more about us than it was about them. There was something wrong on that team at that point. Kirby has since decided not to let opt outs travel with the team, Brian Herrien’s weirdo behavior since then makes it seem like he might have been a problem. Texas is going to have to show me before I believe it. They’ve been back every year for the last four forevers.
It absolutely was, and I’m glad Kirby learned a lesson as a result. We haven’t lost a bowl game since.
Texas has the players to be seriously competitive. If they think Georgia, Bama and LSU are going to move out of the way for them, they will find out soon that’s not the case.
“Brian Herrien’s weirdo behavior since then makes it seem like he might have been a problem”
Not doubting you, but could you elaborate. I’m, in the dark on this.
I live in DFW amongst the whiney T-sips and hated them even before they joined the SEC. They are going to have a meltdown when they try to throw their weight around and have multiple powerful programs tell them to go to hell. It’s not like they get to run rough shod over Kansas, OK State, Iowa State etc. Love them or hate them, TAMU, LSU, Bama, Tennessee, Florida, along with UGA have the clout to tell them to go fuck off (and you know TAMU is just aching to do that) without them being able to be the whiney bully threatening to take their big financial ball and go home. The SEC was making money hand over fist before them, and will still be doing it if they get their panties in a wad and threaten to walk away (not going to happen).
Some time not too long ago, the way time gets by to me anymore it could have been within the last year or two years ago, Herrien put out a tweet saying he wished he had never even gone to Georgia.
https://x.com/max_goldberg099/status/1759726695215468906?s=46
Thanks, I was unaware of that.
Kirby is a fast learner.
“I hate to lose more than I love to win.”….Getting an “L” may drive CKS more than we know….GO DAWGS!!
Texas certainly got an easier entry schedule to the league than OU. This week their AD leaked the SEC is going to a nine game schedule in 2026. Seems they are getting things their way so far. Hopefully their league schedule improves. If so they’ll quickly learn this ain’t Kansas.
Unless ESPN is going to make it worth Kentucky, Vandy, South Carolina and the Mississippi schools to take additional losses, I’ll believe it when I see it. ESPN/Mickey wants to keep a lot of the games that are being played over the next couple of years on permanent status, so I’m guessing they are willing to negotiate (i.e., pay) for it.
Anybody know what time it is…..?….GO DAWGS!!
I so far find them to be insufferable, arrogant som’bitches…I get what it’s like to be the flagship university of the greatest state in the union (Georgia), but show some damn humility cowpokes. I hope we beat them ‘horns like a rented mule. Go Dawgs!!
I interpret that as, “we’re going to lose some games because everyone we play will be super motivated to beat us.”
We’ve already got them right where we want them. We just need to bring that D-Nasty back!