I said talking parity among conf members meaning the XII.

Résumé comparison:

#6 Oregon:
• Beat 5-3 Northwestern on the road
• Beat 3-4 Penn State on the road
• Lost by 10 at home

#13 Texas Tech:
• Crushed #22 Houston by 24 on the road
• Crushed #24 Utah by 24 on the road
• Lost by 4 with backup QB on the road

Why is Oregon #6? pic.twitter.com/KZdu5vzWLC

— CFB Kings (@CFBKings) October 26, 2025

They better keep Morton upright

Brutal break for Texas Tech. Hammond has a really bright future. Expect Behren Morton to return vs. Kansas State this week. https://t.co/8oDAX1bnnc

— Max Olson (@max_olson) October 26, 2025

boognish_bear said:

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Résumé comparison:

#6 Oregon:
• Beat 5-3 Northwestern on the road
• Beat 3-4 Penn State on the road
• Lost by 10 at home

#13 Texas Tech:
• Crushed #22 Houston by 24 on the road
• Crushed #24 Utah by 24 on the road
• Lost by 4 with backup QB on the road

Why is Oregon #6? pic.twitter.com/KZdu5vzWLC

— CFB Kings (@CFBKings) October 26, 2025

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I mean….there is a difference between losing by 4 to an unranked team vs losing by 10 to the #2 team in the nation.

Dia del DougO said:

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It really seems like a weird time to be bashing the most successful run of football success in Baylor history.

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Bashing? No. Realizing what it all cost the victims and the schools reputation by being one of the stories on the national news every night? Yes..

Another sign of the @TexasTechFB football momentum, heading into a giant clash with No. 10 BYU on Saturday. https://t.co/GCfSwnkjL6

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) November 1, 2025

Texas, oil and football: How Texas Tech has raised a football monster in no time at all

"Eight months after the unveiling of that new facility, in the wake of arguably the most lucrative and aggressive recruiting effort from any program in the country, the Texas Tech football team is 8-1, ranked as the eighth-best team in the land and poised for its most momentous game in nearly two decades this Saturday when No. 7 BYU (8-0) visits in a Big 12 showdown in West Texas.

The Red Raiders are scoring in bunches and stuffing opponents. After all, they are one of only three teams that rank inside the top 10 in both total offense and total defense (the others: Indiana and Oregon). Issues that have plagued this program for years defensive lapses and physicality up front are no longer problems.
They are led by a genuinely gregarious Texan as coach, Joey McGuire, who fits here like a wide-brimmed hat atop the head of a cowboy. And they are funded by some of the richest oil barons in the world, a group that pooled their resources this spring in an effort to elevate this place into a different stratosphere."

Good article

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Dia del DougO said:

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It really seems like a weird time to be bashing the most successful run of football success in Baylor history.

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Bashing? No. Realizing what it all cost the victims and the schools reputation by being one of the stories on the national news every night? Yes..

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I guess that was primary among the concerns when members of our own board of regents decided to make things look as bad as they possibly could in the Wall Street Journal.

Texas Tech's $7 million defensive line is paying off - ESPN

Robert Wilson said:

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BUAL said:

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Dia del DougO said:

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It really seems like a weird time to be bashing the most successful run of football success in Baylor history.

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Bashing? No. Realizing what it all cost the victims and the schools reputation by being one of the stories on the national news every night? Yes..

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I guess that was primary among the concerns when members of our own board of regents decided to make things look as bad as they possibly could in the Wall Street Journal.

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Yes really stupid to do. BOI.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46871916/college-football-texas-tech-7-million-defensive-line-paying-off

Tech has bought their way into future expansion while we embarrass ourselves with our AD and coaching.

Big boys did this under the table. Now that it is out in the open you see how the game is no longer a kids game.

There is no future expansion involving XII teams or ACC teams except maybe 2 ACC teams. With the play off expanding, the landscape is pretty settled right now. Having a 9 or more win season was also not the ticket to the B2 anyway when the expansion era was occurring.

That's 2020 thinking, Expansion is coming and realignment into regional powers.

Teams like Tech and ISU with large fanbases will be invited. The only thing that matters will be the size of fanbase for advertisers.

ISU isn't getting in if there's further expansion. Tech and BYUs pockets are deep enough that they maybe get invited. But don't think the P2 see any value in any of the B12 and that includes Tech

If your stadium holds 60k and you regularly fill it you will be invited into expansion.

Not necessarily. Expansion would have to benefit the B10 or SEC financially. None of the B12 teams do that.

I envision expansion to about 30 or 40 teams back to regional basis. The SEC has already expanded geographically.

The B1G will come to realize travel costs of coast to coast conferences are not sustainable.

Aliceinbubbleland said:

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That's 2020 thinking, Expansion is coming and realignment into regional powers.

Teams like Tech and ISU with large fanbases will be invited. The only thing that matters will be the size of fanbase for advertisers.

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Ask OSU about this. They won 9 or more games almost every season from 2006 until a couple of years ago, have 2-3 XII titles and played for more and filled it up every Saturday as well. That never made them a candidate during the most tumultuous of periods of expansion. It really has nothing to do with how many come out to your stadium or the number of wins you achieve in a given season.

Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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And we would probably have to spend the $10 million on getting rid of that coach and not on bringing in players

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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Tech is showing that the staff is not that critical if you can spend twice as much as everyone else in the conference. If this team was bought for UH, WVU, TCU, Baylor the results would be substantially similar.

I think the lesson is focus the money on players not the staff as much as in the past pre pay for play.

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Aliceinbubbleland said:

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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Tech is showing that the staff is not that critical if you can spend twice as much as everyone else in the conference. If this team was bought for UH, WVU, TCU, Baylor the results would be substantially similar.

I think the lesson is focus the money on players not the staff as much as in the past pre pay for play.

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If you gave our staff Tech's roster they would not be 8-1. More like 6-3 with luck.

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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Tech is showing that the staff is not that critical if you can spend twice as much as everyone else in the conference. If this team was bought for UH, WVU, TCU, Baylor the results would be substantially similar.

I think the lesson is focus the money on players not the staff as much as in the past pre pay for play.

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We know you don't like Joey...but would you say the same about Saban and Urban Meyer winning with the most talented rosters?

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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Tech is showing that the staff is not that critical if you can spend twice as much as everyone else in the conference. If this team was bought for UH, WVU, TCU, Baylor the results would be substantially similar.

I think the lesson is focus the money on players not the staff as much as in the past pre pay for play.

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If you think Tech's staff is subpar it is because you are completely biased.

I'm saying I don't think this is legendary coaching like some of you do. I didnt say their staff is sub par. On the contrary I'm saying they are about par in the XII. However Tech spends 2x what the rest of the XII does for players. That is why they are having the season they are having. Sorry to have upset some of you with this.. I forget this is sort of a Tech board using green and gold colors.

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Aliceinbubbleland said:

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BellCountyBear said:

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Tech's defense makes Baylor's look middle-schoolish.

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If only we had $10 million. It might make our D look like Tech's. Oh wait. I forget who coaches D.

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Tech is showing that the staff is not that critical if you can spend twice as much as everyone else in the conference. If this team was bought for UH, WVU, TCU, Baylor the results would be substantially similar.

I think the lesson is focus the money on players not the staff as much as in the past pre pay for play.

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If you think Tech's staff is subpar it is because you are completely biased.

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Confirmed

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I saying I don't think this is legendary coaching like some of you do. I don't think they are sub par on the contrary I'm saying they are about par in the XII. They spend on players 2x what the rest of the XII does. Sorry to upset. I forget this is sort of a Tech board using green and gold colors.

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I wouldn't say they are legendary, but I would take them over Baylor's staff, even without the NIL money.

Which is odd to say actually because all things being equal our staff with our team has beat their staff with their teams on par with ours 2 out of 3 times.

If we switch places Rhoades would be on the sidelines pushing, shoving and hitting Cody Campbell.

It's embarrassing how far Tech has moved ahead of us.

Aliceinbubbleland said:

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If we switch places Rhoades would be on the sidelines pushing, shoving and hitting Cody Campbell.

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kinda how we metaphorically treated our former BMDs...

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If we switch places Rhoades would be on the sidelines pushing, shoving and hitting Cody Campbell.

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kinda how we metaphorically treated our former BMDs...

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Exactly.

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I saying I don't think this is legendary coaching like some of you do. I don't think they are sub par on the contrary I'm saying they are about par in the XII. They spend on players 2x what the rest of the XII does. Sorry to upset. I forget this is sort of a Tech board using green and gold colors.

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I wouldn't say they are legendary, but I would take them over Baylor's staff, even without the NIL money.

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We probably came close to having almost that exact same thing, but Baylor passed.

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It's embarrassing how far Tech has moved ahead of us.

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They have Joey, JKB and endless buckets of $$. I just want to see them face the ags and beat their ass. I miss the ol raider ag battles like the one in the early 2000s when there were fights in the stands of the Jones among the aggys.