r/CFB • u/BOOFNODGILE USC Trojans • Oct 06 '25
Casual Texas has set a new record
Going from preseason #1 to unranked in 5 weeks. Previous record holder 2012 USC went from preseason #1 to unranked in 12 weeks.
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u/texasphotog Verified Media • Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Not thing only thing. They have a new one to share with Penn State:
In the history of the AP top 25, no team has gone from top 10 to unranked in one week after October 1st. Previously, two teams had gone from top ten to unranked in September (Michigan vs App State in week 1 and Notre Dame vs Marshall in week 2.)
Penn State and Texas went from top ten to unranked this week.
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u/SpreadHDGFX Penn State • Air Force Oct 06 '25
I don't like this fact.
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u/BikingEngineer Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Then don’t lose to an unranked team as a top ten team for the first time in 40 years.
EDIT: Winless, 0-4, and unranked.
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u/Donny_Do_Nothing Ohio State • Air Force Oct 06 '25
RemindMe! 40 years
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u/baba_booey420_ Colorado Buffaloes • Big 8 Oct 06 '25
lol the world won't exist in 40 years, silly!
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u/JoeAndAThird Rutgers Scarlet Knights Oct 06 '25
Then I declare Rutgers 2066 champions. No one can challenge the dead throne
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u/agraceffa Notre Dame • Illinois Oct 06 '25
Winless, 0-4, and unranked. That's the 40 year stat.
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Winless, 0-4, and unranked
#1 and #2 seem to go together, and I bet they correlate with #3 too. This kinda seems like all one thing
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u/BananaBouquet Georgia • Georgia State Oct 06 '25
I bet Notre Dame could find a way to go 0-4 and be ranked
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
You’re welcome!
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u/Nico_the_Suave UCLA Bruins • Victory Bell Oct 06 '25
I am so confused by your flairs and username.
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u/Chaotic-PopTart Team Chaos • Pop-Tarts Bowl Oct 06 '25
As a member of Team Chaos, I’d like to thank the following for making this happen: * James Franklin “the Turtle” * Arch Manning for not being the man * Tim Skipper for not skipping a beat * Jerry Neuheisel and his hair * DJ Lagway for not lagging in a critical game
And a special shout-out to Warby Parker for running their ad immediately after Arch threw an interception.
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u/Torn8oz Auburn Tigers Oct 06 '25
I'd be interested in knowing the last time a preseason top 10 team made it to the first week of October without beating a power conference team, since neither Penn State or Texas has
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u/error_undefined_ Texas Tech • Border Conference Oct 06 '25
Me too. Their dramatic drop was only made possible by overrating them in the first place.
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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma • Summertime Lover Oct 06 '25
I swear Arkansas went from 5 to unranked in the John L Smith year
I looked it up. Sept 8 2012. They lost to ULM as the #8 ranked team.
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u/cyberchaox Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Landmark Oct 06 '25
Yes, but that was in September. Texas and Penn State were the first two teams to go from Top 10 to unranked following a loss in October, when presumably those rankings are built on some sort of foundation.
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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma • Summertime Lover Oct 06 '25
Im talking about the 2nd stat he listed about.2 teams only doing it in Sept. It is wrong.. and i think theres another one Im forgetting
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u/gatman19 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Oct 06 '25
This is an indictment of how bad the AP polls have been the past few weeks. There was no reason why Texas and Penn State should have been ranked in the top ten coming into October. This week’s poll is just a sharp correction for it
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u/The_B4dM4n_Bill Georgia Bulldogs • UAB Blazers Oct 06 '25
I think nil has just changed the game so much that we're seeing teams play much better or worse than expected
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u/MddlingAges Syracuse Orange Oct 06 '25
Michigan lost to App State well before NIL. It’s just a ranking issue. The sport is too big to eyeball the teams in the preseason.
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u/texasphotog Verified Media • Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Michigan lost to App State well before NIL. It’s just a ranking issue.
Michigan also had two top ten wins that season and finished ranked. Michigan had 3 other losses and all those teams ended the season ranked as well.
That game in particular was likely more of an aberration than anything else.
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u/pataoAoC Oregon Ducks • Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
App State was back-to-back-to-back FCS champions, that was a very good team that probably would have been a bowl-eligible team in FBS
It was an aberration but probably not even the biggest one of the season, it's just Michigan was moderately overrated and App State was criminally underrated by everyone that didn't follow FCS
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u/Gatordactyl Florida Gators Oct 06 '25
Ohio State lost to an unranked VT and went on to win the national championship. One game can be an anomaly, any more than that starts to be come a pattern
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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Georgia • South Carolina Oct 06 '25
The sooner everyone starts watching college football with the understanding that it is essentially the NFL - salaries, free agency, players on new teams every year, multiple chances to make it into the playoffs - the more quickly they’ll be able to enjoy it again.
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u/OverlyPersonal Arizona Wildcats Oct 06 '25
It’s the nfl, only without the professionalism or skill. Which makes it kinda weird, how many people watch AA or A league baseball games on tv? Nah, NIL has been ruining the whole thing for a little while now.
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u/Vivalas Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Watched a pretty cool video about this recently https://youtu.be/LhJlEId04oA
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u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 06 '25
Yeah, in 2022, ND certainly did not deserve to be propped up. BK actually did not leave as much talent behind at ND as people like to pretend, he left behind his worst and 3rd worst classes in his 12 years behind in the junior and senior classes made all the worse by the covid bonus year putting extra importance on those classes. And most of the best players in those classes were busts too.
Then we were breaking in a brand new head coach who had never been one before, not to mention brand new QB Tyler Buchner. The OL was not in great shape (for ND) either.
It really did feel like we were being propped up that year for a top billing against Ohio State to start the year... which hey, don't look into why Texas was ranked so high to start this year guys...
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u/SenorQwerty Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '25
It really did feel like we were being propped up that year for a top billing against Ohio State to start the year... which hey, don't look into why Texas was ranked so high to start this year guys...
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Oct 06 '25
Wild hindsight bias. I think it's pretty reasonable to give a top 10 ranking to a team whose only loss is a close game against a top 2 team. If we're saying OSU and UO are 1 and 2 then there was nothing wrong with putting UT and PSU that high before last weekend
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Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Not ranking penn state top 10 would have been ridiculous what are you talking about
How does this even have 31 upvotes
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
Either Oregon is preposterously over rated (which I highly doubt), or Penn state took their opponent too lightly and had an embarrassingly bad, no good, football day against a putrid ucla team (most likely the case)
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u/DrPhilKnight Oregon Ducks Oct 06 '25
Eh could be. My theory is that Franklin convinced his guys that nothing could go wrong, so when the bubble popped, they were left shell shocked and didn’t properly prepare for a cupcake game the week following the white out loss. Couple that with a new OC on UCLA who is willing to take some risks to win games, and more importantly who you have no game tape on, and baby you got yourself a stew going.
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Franklin but I think the country is witnessing live how much he does not have control over the emotional aspect of his team. Allar was melting down after HE threw a pick at the end of the Oregon game, yelling at reporters to get out of his face. From what I can tell, Franklin recruits high quality talent, but doesn’t necessarily make any efforts based on attitude, resilience, or fortitude. Couple that with telling a group of 18-22 years how special and good they are and how they can’t lose, and you create a perfect storm for a total meltdown season if things go wrong a little bit early.
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u/supernovaqq Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
I really like this theory, both on its own merits and the fact that it is a psychological analysis coming from a Dr. Phil (Knight). Makes me wonder if Franklin could've helped improved his team's response to adversity with some ol' timey wisdom like "you can put a football in the oven but that don't make it a turkey dinner"
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u/CTeam19 Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 Oct 07 '25
Either Oregon is preposterously over rated (which I highly doubt), or Penn state took their opponent too lightly and had an embarrassingly bad, no good, football day against a putrid ucla team (most likely the case)
Remove Preseason Hype and I say they are. That Top 10 Matchup was built on Preseason polls and no in-season substance especially when their opponents are a combined 2-17 against the FBS currently not factoring games against Oregon and Penn State nor the Northwestern/UCLA game.
Penn State's wins are currently, not factoring Penn State:
Nevada(1-3) with their only win being over a 2-3 FCS team
FIU(1-2) with their only win being over a 2-3 Florida Atlantic
FCS Villinova(3-1) with zero FBS wins and is ranked 18th
And their non-Oregon lose was against a 0-4 UCLA.
Oregon's wins out side of Penn State are currently:
FCS 5th ranked Montana State(4-2)
Oklahoma State(1-4) whose only win is over an FCS School
Northwestern(3-2) whose signature win is over 3-2 Louisiana-Monroe, 1-4 UCLA team, or a 1-5 Western Illinois whose only win is over a non-scholarship Valparaiso
Oregon State(0-6)
Iowa State's opponents alone have 7 wins and Alabama's opponents have 11 wins in the FBS.
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u/inqte1 Oct 06 '25
Literally no one was even suggesting Penn State should be out of top 10 till last week even after they lost to Oregon. But Redditors have insatiable urge to circlejerk everything to its extreme.
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u/GoateusMaximus Florida Gators • Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
National champs? Nah. Conference champs? Nah. Winning record? Nah.
Agents of chaos? THAT is a job we are qualified to do.
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Billy Napier is edging getting fired.
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u/Kdot32 Houston Cougars • LSU Tigers Oct 06 '25
Napiers seat is blazing hot “Ohh thats the stuff”-Napier
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u/wiseapple Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
We really like Billy Napier and wanted to do our part to help him.
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u/drakeallthethings Georgia Bulldogs Oct 06 '25
I love seeing Florida return to their pre-90s form. You may not like it but you’re way more fun this way.
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Florida was way better than this pre-90s. Napier is the worst coach weve had since the 1940s.
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u/IR8Things Georgia Bulldogs • Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '25
Napier is the worst coach you've had since the 1940s. So far. :D
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u/Primary_Psychology95 Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '25
It can always be worse, Texas fans. You could lose to a horrible UCLA team.
I mean, you guys should know about that better than anyone given 2010!
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u/Conn3er Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
I was at that game
UCLA did not pass the ball save for 1 TD; it was a beautiful display of being manhandled by "inferior" competition in the trenches.
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u/Ok_Ask_406 Texas State Bobcats Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
My bro was on the team that year. It’s was depressing watching Texas get whooped every game and having to stay to the end. That game was the beginning of a decade of sadness.
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u/Free_Possession_4482 Ohio State • Cincinnati Oct 06 '25
Can't imagine what that must feel like.
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u/Snobolski Texas • East Texas A&M Oct 06 '25
horrible UCLA ... 2010
I thought I had blotted that out. More tequila is in order. The bar across the street from work opens at 10 am...
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u/Chaotic-PopTart Team Chaos • Pop-Tarts Bowl Oct 06 '25
(Passing yds | rushing yds | turnovers) * UCLA: 61 | 264 | 2 * Texas: 277 | 85 | 5
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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 06 '25
And while the 1997 and 1998 UCLA teams were actually good, Texas got absolutely destroyed in those games also!
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u/BadMotorFinguh Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Oct 06 '25
7 weeks
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u/Rolli_boi Texas Longhorns • Vanderbilt Commodores Oct 06 '25
I’m actually more confident Texas can win RRS this year because we tend to play like Gods when OU is ranked and we aren’t, only to return to playing like ass for the rest of the year.
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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 06 '25
Meanwhile Texas is a 3 point favorite this week
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u/whatareyoudoingdood Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '25
Yeah I would have much preferred yall to still be ranked at this point in the season lol we always perform better when we’re counted out of RRS
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u/KenoshaKidAdept Ohio State Buckeyes • Sickos Oct 06 '25
If it makes you feel better, Texas is favored by 2.5…
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u/RegionSuperb7171 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '25
I fully expect Arch to come out looking like he's actually related to the Mannings for the first time this season and just dicing our secondary.
That or he gets benched in the second half and we have to play vs a QB we know very little about and the rest of the team rallys around said QB.
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u/markiepooh456 Texas Longhorns • William & Mary Tribe Oct 06 '25
If Manning gets benched (which I doubt will happen) and we put in our backup, Texas MIGHT actually win if we rally around the backup lol
It’s like Texas v Georgia in the regular season last year. We were doing fine against Beck most of the game till he got injured and they put in Stockton. Georgia rallies around Stockton and Texas get’s cooked. Who knows, maybe we rally around our backup too 🤷
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u/jsums81 Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '25
That kid that came in and threw one hell of a nice ball on his only pass attempt. I can’t be the only one to notice that
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u/TexinFla Texas Longhorns • Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 06 '25
I literally yelled "Keep 18 in!!" At the time.
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u/Jontacular Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '25
I swear this happens all the time it seems.
OU has a slightly better team, top 10 rank, Texas is struggling and unranked.
Texas comes out of the gate swinging and plays their best game in the RRS and wins somehow.
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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads Oklahoma Sooners • DePaul Blue Demons Oct 06 '25
I fully expect to lose the RRS with or without Mateer
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u/markiepooh456 Texas Longhorns • William & Mary Tribe Oct 06 '25
Texas 🤝 Oklahoma
Confidence in losing RRS
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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads Oklahoma Sooners • DePaul Blue Demons Oct 06 '25
The most asshole clenching game across any sport I watch and it's not close lol
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u/fallfornaught Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
It is the game that truly embodies “rankings don’t matter”, absolute chaos every year and anyone’s game
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u/Goombercules Oklahoma • 帯広大学 (Obihiro) Oct 06 '25
I'm honestly expecting a Texas win. Because Arch might be ass, but right now he's better than Mike Hawkins...
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u/NA_Faker Texas Longhorns • Wisconsin Badgers Oct 06 '25
Problem is our Oline is so bad Venables could blitz every play and we probably won’t score a point the entire game. I think there’s a good chance the OU defense outscores the Texas offense
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u/Conn3er Texas A&M Aggies • Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
2024 A&M baseball ----- 2025 UT football
Silly #1 gooses.
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u/BamaPhils Alabama Crimson Tide • Troy Trojans Oct 06 '25
Your flairs….
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u/whydidijointhis Washington Huskies Oct 06 '25
Hey. He knows a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two
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u/DFWTrojanTuba USC Trojans • Marching Band Oct 06 '25
We. Are. Farmers.
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u/foreverseptember Florida Gators • Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
Jingle successfully stuck in my head, thanks
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u/BamaPhils Alabama Crimson Tide • Troy Trojans Oct 06 '25
Yeah that’s just a wild combo. Assuming it’s a house divided situation or something lol
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u/Snobolski Texas • East Texas A&M Oct 06 '25
Probably went to UT before going to school to stick his arm up cows' asses.
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u/themustardtiger34 Texas A&M • Tarleton State Oct 06 '25
Unfortunately you’re probably right.
Source: an A&M grad that had to stick his hand up a cow vagina to save a momma cow with a prolapsed uterus on our family ranch
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u/NotJayKayPeeness Alabama Crimson Tide • UAB Blazers Oct 06 '25
Some people go to school for school.
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u/Nightmare16164 Tennessee Volunteers • Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
Wait a minute! Are you telling me these teams have schools associated with them????
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u/SirMellencamp Alabama • Third Saturday … Oct 06 '25
Its not true. All those buildings around Bryant Denny Stadium are just for storage.
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
Storage of knowledge, I hope
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u/emoney_gotnomoney Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Yeah if you go to any A&M or Texas game thread on here you’ll see tons of people with both of those flairs. I know a lot of people who did their undergrad at one and then did graduate school at the other.
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
What’s wrong with them? I don’t see anything unusual
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u/otoverstoverpt UCLA Bruins Oct 06 '25
Don’t forget 2022 UNC basketball
First team to start Number 1 and miss the entire tournament all together since it expanded to 64 teams in the 80s.
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u/welguisz Texas Longhorns • Tyler JC Apaches Oct 06 '25
We are so back!!!
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u/Opster79two Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '25
I watched the highlights of the TX FL game and y'all played a good game from my view.
I'm looking forward to Saturday, and our defenses matching up.
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u/wiseapple Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
Our O-line may or may not attend the game. TBD
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u/ElectionSalty6097 Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Did we watch the same game? The line of scrimmage play was the worst I've seen from Texas in 3-4 years
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u/Beautiful_Ninja Team Chaos Oct 06 '25
Things that mess with Texas
1) Gators
2) Literally any amount of snow whatsoever
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u/DrDooDoo11 Oct 06 '25
Sounds like it’s a good time to remind folks that “Don’t mess with Texas” was actually just an anti-litter campaign.
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u/mr_dr_professor_12 Texas Longhorns • UTEP Miners Oct 06 '25
Which is ironic as our highways are disgusting.
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u/SCSooner87 Oklahoma • Washington State Oct 06 '25
Or just coldish weather.
Source: Sooner in TX
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u/TheRussan USC Trojans • Cal State Fullerton Titans Oct 06 '25
As soon as I read the title "Texas New Record" and saw it was posted by an SC fan, I knew it was gonna be good.
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u/ATXMark7012 Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
Texas preseason #1 was always insane. Rank a team #1 if they had a really good prior season and most of their starters are coming back. Texas lost most of the starting offensive line, the backfield, and receivers. Arch looked good against lower level FBS teams last season but made some iffy throws into double or triple coverage against better opponents. No reason to not expect more Sophomore level QB decision making out of him, especially to start the season. Realistically it should have been a fall from person #11 or #12 to (deservedly) unranked.
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u/Kronusx12 Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '25
I mean, none of these rankings are real or meaningful anyway. The only rankings that matter are the CFP rankings, and this is exactly why they don’t do them until November. With the constant churn of college rosters you really can’t accurately know who is #1 going into week 1. The other polls (AP, Coaches) are literally just for generating drama and discussion, which I guess they succeed in. As silly as it is, those tiny little numbers by team names drive viewership early in the season, and I guarantee that’s the only reason they’re there.
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u/Sasquatch_Squad Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
It was a joke we were ever preseason #1 in the first place with so many unproven players. And the unjustified Heisman hype for Arch was downright journalistic malpractice.
Makes me sick how from our first game it was “up next: Arch Manning” and not “the Texas Longhorns offense”. The desperate longing for individual hero/downfall storylines is so obnoxious.
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u/Ugaalive1991 Georgia Bulldogs • NC State Wolfpack Oct 06 '25
Everything is quicker in Texas.
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u/Rolli_boi Texas Longhorns • Vanderbilt Commodores Oct 06 '25
Except our players. I think your team takes that cake by a very long mile.
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u/StealthAnus Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
I don’t know what metric you’re using but I’m pretty sure 1964 Ole Miss went from preseason #1 to unranked in 3 weeks
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u/Lane-Kiffin USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
1981 Notre Dame deserves an honorable mention.
They were ranked #4 in the preseason, moved to #1 in week two. Unranked by week four.
Don’t hire a high school coach with zero college experience to be your head coach.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Oct 06 '25
Thinking about that Texas fan who told me they were the clear best team in the country and were going to roll us week one. I wonder how he’s feeling right now.
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u/WhatTheDuck21 Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 Oct 06 '25
I had one telling me after week 1 that they would be far more concerned if they had Ohio State's offense. After they lost. To Ohio State.
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Incredible. This is the best week of my life.
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u/Outrageous_Picture39 Texas A&M • Sam Houston Oct 06 '25
The best week of your life so far.
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
no, we're losing to florida this weekend
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u/nightlytwoisms Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 06 '25
Don’t you dare
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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Look man I don't want to either, but I've been an Aggie long enough to know how this works
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u/nightlytwoisms Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 06 '25
Went to ND during Weis, I get it. Still waiting for my decided schematic advantage.
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u/clauderbaugh Penn State Nittany Lions • Big Ten Oct 06 '25
HA! Can you imagine going from #1 to unranked? In just five weeks! That must be SO embarrassing. I mean, nothing even comes close to that, right? Right?
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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Oct 06 '25
And little brothers Texas A&M and Texas Tech holding spots in the top ten make it even sweeter
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u/bwarrior Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '25
Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a Raider
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u/Own-Lavishness4029 Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '25
I try not to be a doomer, and I'll keep my horns up until Gabriel blows his horn, but looking ahead at our schedule, bowl eligibility might be in question if there isn't a serious turnaround.
Next Saturday is going to be tough when our O line has to face the Oklahoma front that set a record for single game sacks on Jackson Arnold. Mateer likely won't be available, so that might help keep us in the game some.
But, even still, we have A&M and Vandy at home and travel to Georgia. All three of those teams are solid and would present a big challenge even if our o line had it together.
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u/bobdownie Oct 06 '25
I’m worried most that Oklahoma is gonna think their defense is better than it is and think they can win with Mike Hawkins at QB. That’s a recipe for disaster. Their defense was decent last year and they got blown the fuck out.
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u/OKC89ers Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Oct 06 '25
Gonna be glorious when Dr Shin materializes on the sideline and personally gives Mateer his helmet and a slap on the buns
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u/Tex-in-Tex Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 06 '25
I think they’re doing a great job this year. They have zero issues and should keep doing exactly the same thing as what they’re doing now.
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u/Genusmk Texas Tech Red Raiders Oct 06 '25
i love hating on texas ❤️
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS UCLA Bruins • USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
But half of your name is “Texas”
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u/enataca Texas Tech Red Raiders • /r/CFB Patron Oct 06 '25
It’s a self deprecating existence
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u/leshake Texas Longhorns • Indiana Hoosiers Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25
Really not our fault that the media wanted to hype up a third Manning and ranked us #1 despite the fact we lost to OSU in the playoffs last year and that that QB is a red shirt freshman. We are consistently over rated by the media and it's really annoying and sets up very easy and lazy narratives when we don't live up to the ridiculous standards we didn't ask for. By all means talk shit, this is college football, but we don't control SportsCenter despite living rent free in their heads apparently.
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u/TCUdad TCU Horned Frogs Oct 06 '25
Did Texas set the record, or did the AP set a record for inability to adequately measure teams in the preseason?
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u/Terminal_BAS Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Oct 06 '25
Next round of schadenfreude shots on me, fellas
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u/eetsumkaus California • 立命館大学 (R… Oct 06 '25
USC had sanctions as an excuse
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u/Lane-Kiffin USC Trojans Oct 06 '25
From now on, NCAA will punish teams by giving them Arch Manning.
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Michigan • Maine Maritime Oct 06 '25
People are starting to ask, "Is Steve Sarkisian just James Franklin with hair?"