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This was the first game where the defense play for each other and really flew to the football. This team surprised me and most fans. They really stepped up for Mack. Win the next 2 games and things look a lot better. However, if this team gets happy and satisfied it will lose. No margin for error. Other than the 3rd quarter "play not to lose" play calling, this was a complete win.

Huge game for the program. Now there is a legitimate chance at a 9-3 regular season and a ten win season. I honestly expected us to play much better today than we had last week. Kansas was the classic trap game where a young team comes in completely flat and lays a huge egg. Too many people don't understand the psychology of football. Look at what happened to Notre Dame today after their big win over OU last week. Emotion is such a huge part of this game.

The offense came out on fire in the first half. I'm disappointed that we became conservative again in the first quarter and took the foot off the pedal. I would never have guessed that 31 points would win the game. At some level, we were fortunate that Tuberville took a classic approach and settled for field goals and punted , rather than going for fourth downs like we saw against WVU and Baylor. But the young linebackers did play much better. Edmonds had by far his best game of his career. Bobby pointed out his great pass break up; but he was making tackles across the entire LOS . Thompson was solid as well. Hopefully; he will be able to be back next week; TCU at the latest.

Great games from Gray, who now clearly is a starting tailback even if Brown comes back. Its getting close to time to tell Bergeron to learn the fullback playbook. Espinosa actually had a nice game when he was pulling. Having Hawkins back at starter at left tackle was a boost. Other than his hold, Cochran played well at right tackle.

I lol'd

You know, if we played like this all season, we don't get blown out by OU or nearly lose to Kansas.

A different team took the field today, and I can honestly say I feel good about them not laying down and responding to adversity.

Having said that, I really dislike that it took adversity to turn the intensity and urgency up.

Agreed, I thought they did a good job getting Espinosa in space where he is far far better

Agree. My point wasn't Cochran as much as it was Texas shooting itself in the foot.

This was a great win for the team and they and the coaching staff should be proud of the greatly improved effort.
Having said that, do you seriously think that the team has underperformed because of the fan base? I would have put preparation and performance on the field higher on the list of reasons that they have performed below their potential and our expectations.

Good game. i could see they worked their tails off. I am on the fence on whether Mack should retire or be fired. Most of us were wrong in thinking we would lose this game. Its interesting how last year we thought we would be beat OU and we were pathetically wrong. Even more pathetic this year with OU. What this team hasnt had is consistency. What they do have is high potential if the right team shows up, if coached right, and comes in with the the right mentality.

Defense is improving each game with whoever's left on the team. Offense on the other hand flip-flops... when expectations are low they play well and when its high, they let things down. Kudos to them for their efforts today but based on past history I can only dread whats going to happen next week...With last week being bad and today being great, I can only dread whats going to happen with Iowa State next week. LOL.Maybe we should keep our expectations low and the right team will show up :-)

I'm not certain what that meant; but if you don't understand trap games; you don't understand college football. Ask Notre Dame about trap games after today. Remember the miracle that we needed to beat KU in 2005. There simply are games teams don't show up for; especially young teams like this one.