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Horns put it all together - win 55-30

Texas Tech 52
Longhorns 31

Not with Blake in there. If he's picking against Texas you know it's bad.

Texas - 100
Tech - 3

Predicting Mack's hands stay out of the Offensive playcalling cookie jar and Harsin bounces back with a "Funky" asz game plan!
52-49 Horns

I miss 2004-2009. I became a Horn fan in 1989. 1989-1994 and 1997 really sucked with a couple of decent years sprinkled in there. The long-term trajectory of this program is not encouraging. Seeing these predictions just makes my morning suck.

Mack believes we are going to win out. I'm gonna hold him to it.

The problem with predicting this game is we have no idea what game plan we will show up with.

So far this year we have been schizophrenic to say the least with regards to our offensive gameplanning. If Mack meddles and gives voice to the self doubts that permeate his psyche in these sorts of games I could see him calling for a more conservative approach in an effort to dominate TOP like he tried to do against WVU and OU. If we do that, we lose and it plays right into the hands of TT. The strength of their D is the interior of their line. Hyder and Simmons are actually playing at a really high level for them. Repeatedly trying to pound Bergeron and Gray at the interior will yield predictable results. Their weakness along the DL is their ends. Even with the deficiencies we have at TE and FB, we can have some success setting the edge against them with our pin and pull and power sweeps and this should be the approach. It will open up everything else in Harsin's play book if we do this and get them to adjust to try and contain it.

On Defense, We need to stop the DL dumbF&%kery on 1st and 2nd downs and save the stunts and twists for obvious passing downs only (and even then i would employ them very sparingly). Okafor has a real mismatch against McDaniel as do most of our guys along the line. The only guy on their Oline I see as decent is Le'Raven Clark (he is going to be really good one day) but he is a RS Freshman. We can line up and beat them straight up, and if we do, Doege has shown a propensity for mistakes when pressured.

If we come in playing the same asinine games on Defense and with an uber-conservative ball control plan on offense we get boatraced. If not, we can win this game but until I see what our plan is, I'm not making any predictions.

Horseshoes and hand grenades....

If I have a minute today I'll go back and see who's been closer with scoring margin.

Its really sad. My Tech friends that I have known for years have been talking smack. This has never happened.
Having to go to a watching party with a bunch of Techies - I will have to start drinking early to deal with this crap.

I really cannot stand this team.

Damn fine picture!