bear2be2 said:
D. C. Bear said:
bear2be2 said:
Chuckroast said:
I think the 13/14 team destroys every team on our schedule this year except for OU. Because it was a home game and because this OU team has a poor defense, I think we still win that game handily and are easily sitting undefeated.
I have been pleasantly surprised by our team this year, but OSU, KSU, and TCU are all down, and TX is their usual average team. There are probably at least 20 other teams this year that would have only 1 loss with our schedule.
Art Briles teams never finished their own schedules undefeated. In fact, they never finished a season with fewer than two losses. All this nonsense about contending for national titles is revisionist history of the highest order.
And OSU and KSU are not down. They're right about where they were most years during the Briles era, and Oklahoma, Texas and Iowa State are all better than the teams they fielded at the height of Art Briles' time in Waco. It's fine to like Briles and think he was a good football coach. But let's keep some reality and objectivity in the discussion.
Of course we were contending for national titles. In 2014, were were the first team out of the playoff. In 2015, we were 7-0 and ranked second in the nation when Seth went down. We ended up losing three games that year, all of which were very likely wins if he didn't get hurt. That is not "revisionist history," that is, unfortunately, reality and objectivity.
And to just assume an undefeated finish in 2015 is absolute folly, particularly given the fact that the Oklahoma State game in 2013 and the West Virginia game in 2014 were "very likely wins" until those games kicked off.
I don't think they are using hyperbole when mentioning the 15' team.
The 15' team a few weeks into the season was I think second or third in the futures to win the national title. They were probably the second or third best team in the country. They had room for error as well (which great teams do) because it was a very good college O-line with a great athlete at qb. There are only a few college level defenses each year that can even slow that kind of combination down.
We most likely would have beat Tex and Tcu by two score or more with relative ease. We were much better than every other team in the conference that year. Much better. Now would we have a scare, probably so, most teams do.
We probably beat OU 8 out of 10 that year too but they would be the biggest test. I would have to agree a conference title and a playoff berth were likely that year (80% for conference / 65% playoffs). Now we had a truckload of injuries and mismanaged Seth a bit so it never came to be. And we know how it all went down after. But that team was going to be extremely good and at most 1 loss in the regular season.
