Texas College Football (Houston: tickets, ranking, deal)

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by JJG

Nope.

SMU has a very good shot at it! I think Baylor will drop a game or two at the end.

[Mark Senior]

Go SMU, or Memphis, or Cincinnati, which are ALL from the American Athletic Conference, trying to again achieve the New Years Six Bowl Games, with it's 15-20 million payouts, for the conference schools. This would also help, the almost impossible task of the AAC, which member schools and now even ESPN are calling the conference, the AAC, The Power Six Conference, hoping to become the sixth conference of the Power "5" Conferences, lol. The league schools are pouring millions into academics, programs, facilities to upgrade to become one of the New Power Six Conferences. Eastern Conn State University is withdrawing from the conference, to join the Big East Conference which does not have football. ECSU is likely withdrawing, likely, one, they can't compete without major expenditures. That leaves,

Yep, I know, I know, and the AAC Universities know, they have their work cut out for them, without doubt, lol

East Carolina, Navy, and Tulsa, are not to my knowledge "pushing hard" to become Power 5. Navy, has recently had a football program approaching Power 5 standards, the other two, not.

The University of Houston, SMU, Cincinnati, Memphis, Temple, UCF, South Florida, even Tulane are "pushing". lol

Now, attack my position, I know, I know, lol

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by Treasurevalley92

SMU has a very good shot at it! I think Baylor will drop a game or two at the end.

Surely, Baylor's good play as well as good luck, like against West Virginia, will run out. However, it does help to have "stumbling" Oklahoma and not so "stable" Texas games being played AT Baylor. Oh, well, stumble Baylor, lol.

[Rogarven]

Interesting thread. A lot more expertise than I have. I just know that I ALWAYS am against UT.

Last weekend , I was in Fayetteville and while UA is a beautiful campus and the stadium is impressive, I couldn't help remembering how UA started the breakup of the SWC. Yes, A&M didn't help matters, but I don't really blame them .

In Fayetteville, the restaurant we were having dinner in at first had the Bama vs. UA game on , after the first few minutes , the channel changed to another game. Then , back the hotel , no UA game either. I guess it was too painful. I will say the city STILL has a lot of spirit.

[UnfairPark]

For a change, let’s grow up to put our petty issues aside and support Texas colleges, if your college is still in the race, good for you. If not, adopt one. This cutting off the nose to spite the face philosophy is sad.

[DanielWayne]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

For a change, let’s grow up to put our petty issues aside and support Texas colleges, if your college is still in the race, good for you. If not, adopt one. This cutting off the nose to spite the face philosophy is sad.

That philosophy exists for a reason. Actually there are lots of reasons, and I won't go into them because that would take a lot of typing, and some of the reasons have already been pointed out earlier. If the larger, wealthier universities didn't resort to trampling and suppressing their in-state brethren, then there would be no petty issues, just your everyday rivalries would exist. It's hard to turn the other cheek when you look at a lot of the facts.

Heck the big dogs even trample each other. You know it must be bad when not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 major state flagships have left the Big 12.

That being said, I will always support teams like SMU, TCU, Tech, and the smaller division Texas universities who get to experience a true football playoff experience instead of the SEC invitational beauty contest.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

For a change, let’s grow up to put our petty issues aside and support Texas colleges, if your college is still in the race, good for you. If not, adopt one. This cutting off the nose to spite the face philosophy is sad.

But why would you support a rival just because you share a state with them? It's weird. Either you are rivals or not.

The Omni Hotel in Dallas was lit up for the Astros when they won the world serious which is embarrassing. They play in our division for crying out loud, are we going to Light up for the Angels when they win? Plenty of people here are from SoCal anyway.....

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Surely, Baylor's good play as well as good luck, like against West Virginia, will run out. However, it does help to have "stumbling" Oklahoma and not so "stable" Texas games being played AT Baylor. Oh, well, stumble Baylor, lol.

I think both OU and Texas will beat Baylor. Still, it has been an impressive season for them and they have played well beyond what I expected. Nothing to be ashamed of.

If they in theory win out and go to the playoffs they will get murdered and it will look bad for the whole big 12.

UT played LSU very closely. TCU was a weird loss, but TCU has dominated this rivalry recently and seems to have Texas's number. Texas will beat Baylor.

[JJG]

Originally Posted by treasurevalley92

smu has a very good shot at it! I think baylor will drop a game or two at the end.

smu (8-1) . . .

[UnfairPark]

Originally Posted by JJG

smu (8-1) . . .

No!!! SMU dropped the ball? Now only Baylor is left there holding the fort. Lets converge supportive prayers behind last of the Texans. When and where is their next game? I rarely go to college sports but I’ll try to make an exception and treat myself to some excitement. How much are the tickets?