Didn't see one up, so I'll throw one up in the fanposts for those who want to discuss the national championship game. The scumbag Calipari's team is admittedly well-coached and fully loaded, and they dominated the first half against Kansas. We'll see if the Jayhawks have one more second half rally in them, but I'm not holding my breath. Anthony Davis is dominating on the boards and on defense and Kansas' star, Thomas Robinson, can't get much going.

41-27, Wildcats. For those Calipari haters, take solace in the fact that even if they win this game, chances are he'll leave in a couple of years and we'll find out some creative recruiting practices that leads to this season being wiped off the books for him. Again.

The Big 12 season finished with one team making a demonstrative case for their inclusion in the BCS title game (Oklahoma State) and one player making a case for himself as the Heisman Trophy winner (Robert Griffin). The former, unfortunately, was not successful due to the collective stupidity of the voters and the irrationality of the system we use. They were not the only team shafted; Kansas State got to watch a Virginia Tech team that got crushed in its conference title game get picked ahead of them. Every game matters, of course... unless it's inconvenient for them to matter. Of course, Texas fans already know this do to the controversy surrounding the 2008 season. It's a system that gave Alabama the luxury of resting the final week while LSU had to play a game while still possessing a strong chance of making it to the title game. In other words, ‘Bama effectively got a bye week for losing to LSU. It is mindboggling how senseless this stuff can be.

Anyway, at least Robert Griffin seemed to have been more successful (unfortunately, against Texas) in his quest for the Heisman. I have been extremely skeptical that the knuckleheads who vote for the Heisman could pull themselves away from the hype and prestige of Andrew Luck and Trent Richardson and actually, gasp, watch all of these guys play and analyze them, but it seems like Griffin has gotten more attention and stands a good chance of winning it as he deserves. Props to the young man. He's lucky he doesn't have to go up against a Hollywood-beloved runningback playing at a glamour school, or else it doesn't matter what he did during the season...

It actually wasn't a bad week of football, but when the clear Big 12 winner gets shafted right after pummeling a Top 10 squad and another strong Big 12 team gets hosed from a BCS bid, it kind of puts a damper into so-called "Championship Week." Uh huh. We'll start with the de facto conference championship game anyway:

#3 Oklahoma State (should be #2 if we lived in a sane world)

LAST WEEK: I thought the only way Oklahoma State would have a chance to leap over Alabama in the minds of voters was to pound Oklahoma. My personal feeling was that even if they beat OU by three, they should get the national title bid because their strength of schedule was so much higher than Alabama's and I didn't want to see a rematch, but I knew that it was unlikely that voters would change their minds, and I also knew that it was unlikely that they would in fact destroy Oklahoma. Of course, all they did was blast the Sooners 44-10. It was 44-3 at the end of the third quarter, and it was a game that could have been worse than it was. I'm not a big fan of running up the score, but let's just say that I think Stoops would deserve it if Gundy decided to do so.

The Pokes didn't do this primarily through the air either; they gashed Oklahoma 278 rushing yards and an impressive 8.4 yards per carry. Their opportunistic defense went back to being, well, opportunistic, picking off Landry Jones twice and forcing a total of five turnovers. They more than made their case for the BCS title game. Unfortunately, our system is jacked up.

BOWL: The Pokes travel to Arizona to play Stanford in the Fiesta Bowl. This is one of the better matchups in the Bowl season, as I am curious to see how Andrew Luck plays against that opportunistic OSU secondary. However, I think OSU has the superior team and I think they should win this one comfortably unless their offense suffers from bowl-layoff rust.

SEASON REVIEW: I think everyone already knows all the reasons why the Pokes got screwed. I'll just reiterate a few more: Their strength of schedule is far stronger and they've defeated more than three times the amount of ranked teams that Alabama has. Furthermore, those that shoot back with the argument that Alabama has the largest margin of victory in the country have an extremely poor argument; of course you're going to have a better margin of victory if you play worse teams than OSU. Besides, Oklahoma State had several opportunities this season to run up the score or otherwise prevent garbage time scores, but they didn't. It's pretty pathetic that we're looking at system that is telling Gundy that he should have aimed for 60 in Bedlam and 100 against Texas Tech and Kansas to impress voters. As we know from 2008, voters can't help themselves but drool over massive scores, no matter the context of the game.

Make no mistake: If Oklahoma State were Texas or Oklahoma, they're in the title game. Their brand name lost to Alabama's brand name. The choice of voters by the BCS is astoundingly stupid. And I say all this as someone who does not really care about conference solidarity, as those odd SEC fans do. I'm not saying this because OSU shares the same conference with Texas; their body of work is simply better than Alabama's. - TheElusiveShadow

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Welcome to BCS Armageddon, where Iowa State upends previously #2 Oklahoma State in double overtime and defensively-challenged Baylor survives Oklahoma behind a masterful performance by Robert Griffin.  Add to this the fact that other contenders have dropped around the country, and we have a real mess on our hands that makes the likelihood of a SEC rematch pretty strong.  Barf.

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The Big 12 has proven to be pretty unpredictable this season other than the fact that Kansas is terrible, but I'm sure no one was thinking Iowa State or Baylor had much of a chance this past week.  The league is competitive and the last two weeks may still have some surprises for us, so while the Big 12 will not be sending someone to the national championship game, there is still a lot of good football to be played.

Quarterback play continues to define the conference; teams are rising and falling game to game based on how their quarterback (and the opposing quarterback) plays.  Even K-State, philosophically different than much of the conference, relies on the toughness and playmaking of Collin Klein.  It makes the league pretty interesting to watch for outsiders, although if you're a Longhorn fan, it's a fact that makes it somewhat terrifying as we watch our own QBs, unfortunately.  With that in mind, I'm going to claim this:  Robert Griffin is not only the best quarterback in the conference, I think he might be the best player in college football.  We'll turn to his great performance to start things off.    

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We got to see Vince Young start again tonight against the Giants, and I was honestly a bit worried for him.  He had virtually no practice time with the first teamers all year and the Giants have some pass rushers.  However, after a rough start, Vince settled and played pretty well, including a very clutch, 18 play drive he capped off with the gamewinning TD pass.

At the beginning, I felt he was a bit hesitant with the ball and wasn't really playing naturally.  The result was several late throws and inaccurate throws, and he wasn't always on the same page with his receivers.  He progressed as the game went on and started to look a lot more comfortable, and his accuracy started to climb as well.  Despite his three interceptions, the big encouragement is that he wasn't really making bad decisions.  His first pick was the right throw but he just threw it late and so it was underthrown, allowing Amukamara, who was beat, get back in the play.  His second pick was another good decision but a late throw, and our own Aaron Ross got away with pass interference that play, resulting in a deflected ball that got picked.  His third pick wasn't the best throw in the endzone but Riley Cooper ran a lazy route and let Ross get an easy interception.  Thus, only his first pick was completely his fault, and it wasn't because it was a bad idea either.

Vince stood tall in the pocket and didn't prematurely bail in the pocket, using his feet to buy time and keep his eyes downfield.  He made several big throws that way and it was great to watch.  It's maddening to hear morons out in the media think that he's a run-first quarterback when he clearly isn't.  He certainly can run, but he didn't do too much damage today simply tucking and running.  He used his mobility to set up the pass, and he was able to get his team a win despite missing some key players and despite the Giants bottling up Lesean McCoy until his late big run.

At any rate, the final stats don't look great because of those three picks, but he was 7 of 9 on that last drive with a touchdown.  He will never be a passer like Tom Brady, but he's long proven he's a guy who can make the necessary plays to win ball games.  It's not just a bare correlation that Vince Young keeps winning; he's very much a big reason for that statistic.

As sports fans, we like to believe that we can rationally explain, and subsequently predict, everything that happens and will happen.  After all, with enough knowledge, analysis, and evidence, we can confidently deduce which teams are superior to others and predict outcomes accordingly.  There is, of course, a lot of truth to this, which is why we bother to blog about this stuff in the first place.  Teams with more experience, talent, and/or skill beat others who don't have as much.

However, if you watch sports enough, you know that any given game can be decided by a whole host of factors that are not limited to a team's talent or skill level.  Teams can play out of their minds or play terribly, bad calls can be made, matchups can differ from game to game, and sometimes there's just plain ol' luck involved (boy, do fans hate admitting that last one).  If this is true of even professional sports, it sure as heck applies to 18-22 year old athletes.  It can be very dubious trying to predict the behavior of such young players sometimes.  Add to all this the fact that the Big 12 is pretty deep and competitive this year outside of one team, and you have a recipe for some chaos.

To illustrate, simplistic logic would have told us that since Oklahoma whipped Texas on a neutral field who thrashed Iowa State in Ames, Texas Tech, who took down OU in Norman, would therefore crush the Cyclones in Lubbock.  Instead, the Cyclones beat the Red Raiders silly to the tune of 41-7, one of the more surprising outcomes of the weekend.  And if I were a betting man, I'd bet that OU will pummel ISU to dust when they play them.

This inconsistency of play is embodied by the Aggies more than anyone else.  In their three losses, they've been outscored by a margin of 73-15 in the second half after jumping out to big leads in the first.  The undefeated Cowboys better take note because a flat game, or even a flat half, can get punished by almost anyone.

Undefeated Kansas State?  They've been living precariously for weeks, and finally things came crashing down.  We'll take a look at their game against OU first.

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It was another active week for the Big 12.  Not only did it add TCU as a replacement for the departing Texas A&M, several ranked teams had important games last Saturday.  Speaking of rankings, the first Harris poll was released on Oct. 9 and showed these teams in the Top 25:  #3 OU, #6 OSU, #17 KSU, #20 Texas, #21 Baylor, and #23 Texas A&M, with Texas Tech also receiving votes.  The first BCS rankings will come out this Sunday as well.  There is no substantial difference in the rankings here, so as long as the top teams keep winning they will be fine.

In any case, the Big 12 continues its reputation, for good or for ill, as an offense-first, quarterback conference, with four of the top six, and six  of the top twenty, leaders in total offense being Big 12 quarterbacks (Landry Jones, Brandon Weeden, Robert Griffin, Seth Doege, James Franklin, and Ryan Tannehill).  Let's see how these quarterbacks faired in Week 6, and unfortunately, we have to start with what Landry Jones and the Sooners did to our Longhorns.

(The following rankings will reflect the AP standings; subsequent weeks will use the BCS)

#3 Oklahoma

LAST WEEK:  What an impressive performance the Oklahoma Sooners put up against the overmatched Texas Longhorns.  The final outcome was all but decided at half time with OU pushing to a 34-10 lead with Landry Jones navigating his troops at will, finishing with three touchdown passes in the second quarter.  The Sooner defense added a couple more touchdowns off of Texas miscues.  The result was one of the top five most lopsided victories in this storied rivalry.

The Sooners manage several records in the process, too.  Most defensive points in a game (21).  Most tackles for loss in a single game (17).  I'm sure there are many others. 

THIS WEEK:  The Sooners visit Lawrence to play Kansas.  You can take a wild guess on how that's going to go.  The Jayhawks better hope that Stoops doesn't try to one-up what the Pokes did last week.

SEASON OUTLOOK:  While anything can happen, this Sooner squad appears headed to another Big 12 title shot which will come against their cross-state rival Oklahoma State in the annual Bedlam game.  That will definitely will be must watch TV. - TXStampede

#21 Texas

LAST WEEK:  No need to spend too much time on this one with all the post-game reviews here.  In a nutshell:  The defense struggled but hung in there, but the offense, especially the offensive line, just got whipped.  The Horns committed five turnovers and had three of them returned for touchdowns; in hindsight, with that kind of statistic, it's somewhat surprising OU didn't eclipse 60.    

THIS WEEK:  This young Texas team doesn't get a breather as Oklahoma State visits Austin.  The Pokes may not have as strong a front seven but they arguably have a better secondary, and their offense is just as good as OU's if not better (they have a more credible run game).  Mack has never lost the next game after OU weekend, even inexplicably defeating Nebraska last season, but that's likely going to change this week.  Anything resembling last Saturday's performance will earn this team another thrashing.

SEASON OUTLOOK:  Before the season started, any Texas fan paying attention would have predicted losses to both Okie State and OU.  In that regard, losing to OU last week was hardly a surprise; however, it was definitely disappointing to get pummeled like that, even though it was not altogether unexpected.  It was a reminder that this season is about the process of building up to 2012 and beyond, and Horns fans would do well to remember that this weekend as well.

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Several teams had their first conference game, and thus the Big 12 schedule is now fully underway.  There does not seem to be a pushover team in the conference save one (sorry Kansas), so this year should be very interesting going forward.  The Big 12 currently features six ranked teams, although Baylor (#25) and Texas A&M (#24) are barely hanging on.  I am excited for conference play this season, and this week has rivalry games between Texas-OU and A&M-Tech.  Speaking of the Aggies, they had another second half adventure last Saturday against Arkansas, and it is prudent to start with them.

#24 Texas A&M

LAST WEEK:  Sherman didn't abandon the run game this time and the Aggies piled up an incredible 381 yards rushing on 7.1 yards per carry... and they blew another three score lead.  It takes some special mishaps to lose when rushing like that, such as a porous pass defense that left the middle of the field wide open (Jarius Wright is grateful) and bad coaching decisions.  The Aggie defense was abysmal for the second straight week, and once again they looked exhausted by the last quarter.  Sherman didn't help by punting the ball back twice to the Razorbacks on fourth and short around midfield.  His explanation for that after the game was astonishing:

"If I felt like our defense was playing a little bit better, I probably would have gone for it. I felt like I just couldn't give them a shortened field," Sherman said. "If we were had been playing better defense--if this had been last year -- probably would have."

Huh?  Because your defense is getting thrashed, you kicked the ball back to a hot offense to net a paltry amount of yards in field position?  Yeah, that makes sense.  Naturally, the Piggies marched down the field in no time and scored touchdowns on both occasions.  Not a bright moment for Sherman.

THIS WEEK:  The Aggies travel to Lubbock and face another dangerous passing attack.  Lubbock is typically a tough place to play, although Texas A&M whipped Tech there the last time.  If any team has truly been A&M's rival in the Big 12, it's Tech, and they would love nothing more than to sink the Aggies even further.  The Aggies should not have a problem running the ball, but then again, they didn't have that problem against Arkansas either and still lost. 

SEASON OUTLOOK:  While close losses to ranked teams are normally forgivable, the way the Ags have blown the last two contests makes it safe to say that they do not belong in college football's elite this season.  That's a huge disappointment to Aggie fans who believed that this was their year to shine.  However, while A&M has some serious issues, namely an apparent lack of depth on defense, they still have a conference title to play for.  Of course, continued defensive performances like we're seeing will not allow them to finish their season without another loss. - TheElusiveShadow

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The Big 12 saw several entertaining games this week, if for wildly different reasons.  Oklahoma had quite the slugfest with Florida State, the Pokes had a game that went into the wee hours of the morning, Texas finally whipped UCLA, Baylor had a game called off early, and the Kansas Jayhawks gave up an unfathomable 604 yards rushing to Georgie Tech (I recommend you watch that carnage on ESPN3 if you can; it was surreal).  Only Oklahoma's game had an immediate impact on the national picture, but we'll see another matchup between Top Ten teams this week, and it will also be a conference game.

This time, we'll start with last week's marquee matchup before moving on to the other teams, and that's obviously the Sooners' game against the Seminoles. 

Oklahoma

LAST WEEK:  The nation got a taste of old fashioned smash mouth football Saturday night with a not quite unanimous #1 OU coming out on top of Florida State 23-13 in what was a highly entertaining game in front of a record crowd at Doak Campbell stadium and national television audience.  OU's offense did just enough to take advantage of two interceptions and benefitted from knocking out the Seminoles QB E.J. Manuel on a brutal ground crunching tackle to come away with the victory.  The stat line was not impressive unless you love defensive play and the Sooners line up an array of hard hitting linebackers and speedy safeties that deliver impressive results.

THIS WEEK:  #1 Oklahoma starts conference play hosting the Missouri Tigers at Gaylord Family Stadium spotting the Tigers an early line of 21.5 points.

SEASON OUTLOOK:  Oklahoma is the real deal.  Watching the game I came away impressed with their speed and decision making at each edge position.  As long as they stay away from the injury bug this team should ride to another Big 12 championship. - TXStampede

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The Big 12 lost a few members since last season.  As a result, the format is a winner-take-all schedule with each member playing the other, which is probably good news for all the former South division squads.  This year, TXStampede and I will take a weekly look at the conference race and give our perspective on each team's game the previous week and the next week and how they currently rank in the conference.   

The Big 12 had a couple of ugly games but escaped opening week without a loss.  Three teams sit in the Top 10 (OU, OSU, and A&M), and it will make for an interesting season for a conference that looks to be dissolving sooner rather than later.

Baylor

LAST WEEK:  In what was one of maybe two must watch TV games for opening weekend, the Baylor Bears all but gave away the game in the 4^th quarter to the visiting #14 ranked TCU Horned Frogs.  This was the first time since 2004 the Bears beat a ranked opponent.  Up 47-23 entering the final period, the Bears gave that advantage up plus one to trail 48-47 on a valiant comeback by TCU.  However, Robert Griffin put the team on his back and fought off a valiant Horn Frog effort leading on a game winning drive ending in a field goal with a little over one minute remaining for the final score of 50-48.  Griffin III made a strong statement out of the Heisman watch gate with 5 touchdowns on 21-27.  That is a strong stat line.  And Baylor was named the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week.  With all that said, Baylor had better figure out the non-offensive side of the ball heading into conference play because what they showed will not cut it against big-boy football teams.

THIS WEEK:  Coach Briles psyched the team out claiming the TCU game was a "one game season".  It worked as the Bears get their first bye-week out of the way early this season.

SEASON OUTLOOK: Baylor got off to a surprise start last year but faltered down the stretch losing its last four games.  The Bears have high expectations this year with a lot of talk surrounding their All-American candidate Robert Griffin III.  He, along with their dynamic receiver Kendall Wright, will be putting up ridiculous numbers but that is about as far as they go.  Baylor has three tough road games this year at Stillwater, Kyle Field and KSU.  This may be what keeps them out of contention for a bowl game. - TXStampede

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For those relaxing on Labor Day weekend.  The Ags are playing SMU right now and are 15.5 point favorites at home.  Give them a look if you're curious how Texas A&M looks this season.  We can all hope for a stunning upset, but it probably isn't going to happen.

So begins what is likely A&M's final campaign as a member of the Big 12.

As more and more Longhorns give up on incumbent starter Garrett Gilbert and pine for Case McCoy or the talented David Ash, it seems the narrative about his career is also changing.  Last year, the majority of Longhorn fans seemed more inclined to feel sorry for Gilbert for not only being thrown into the fire in the national championship game almost completely unprepared but also being thrown into an offense in which it was almost impossible for him to succeed. 

Now?  It seems that people are calling him a "miss" in the recruiting process, a guy that the staff did not evaluate well and who didn't have a hope in leading the Longhorns as a quarterback.  He's just a bad quarterback who doesn't have "it" and was the beneficiary of looking good against bad high school players.

Revisionist history isn't always a bad thing; after all, sometimes new information and more careful analysis can further clear up evaluations of the past.  Still, especiallly in the realm of sports, revisionist history is often the product of people lashing out with emotion or trying to save face, either in trying to gloss over past misstatements or claim, "I always knew (insert content here)." 

A great example of this is many Tennessee Titans fans who now try to discredit Vince Young's W-L record, a record they once adamantly defended, by pointing out that it gets demonstrably worse against +.500 teams.  Uh, no kidding; that happens to virtually every QB, and Vince's W-L record against +.500 teams is still pretty good compared to other quarterbacks'.  It is, frankly, an incredibly stupid argument, but fans enjoy finding scapegoats for their ills.

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I'm going to be honest:  With the threat of a lockout, this is the least I've paid attention to the NFL offseason in years, including the draft.  I've practically ignored it.  However, I always love football talk and I obviously care where Longhorn players are projected to go.

Aaron Williams, as PB pointed out, will most likely be the first Longhorn taken and has a chance to be selected on Day One, partially due to his ability to switch to safety.  After him, the next highest rated Longhorn prospect is his fellow CB Curtis Brown.  While the two corners provided a strong pairing for Texas in the secondary (if not for punt returning), the two are perceived quite differently.  AW developed a reputation for being a physical, mean tackler who had explosive athleticism, while Brown was often criticized for being "soft," although he was also credited with cat-like quickness.

Unfortunately, there are some Longhorn fans who never fully appreciated Brown's growth as a corner because he had to develop on the job, along with the rest of the secondary, during the 2008 season, and there was no more painful a lesson than that final play in Lubbock against Michael Crabtree.  The truth is that Curtis Brown became a very good cornerback, and he and Aaron Williams gave us one of the best pairings in college football.  We were justifiably expecting big things from them in the following season.

However, the problem was that our team, well, stunk last year.  And it stunk in a way that made it difficult for these guys to make plays in the passing game.  Texas only saw 305 pass attempts and 25.4 pass attempts per game in the 2010 season, good for 4th lowest in the country and 11th lowest in the country, respectively.  When your offense is as putrid as ours was, you give the other team very little incentive to take any risks in the passing game when they bother to pass at all.  To be fair, part of the fault lies with both Brown and Williams as well, dropping punts in pretty inopportune times, to say the least.  Nonetheless, they didn't get the best of chances to showcase their skill, and when other teams did pass, they often targeted our safeties instead (see:  Baylor game).

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With three of our top players declaring for the draft (although I would be surprised if Joseph didn't return), the optimism for the basketball season took a huge blow.  It probably makes it worse that we were knocked out of the NCAA tournament because a referee had trouble counting to five, leaving us with an empty feeling of an unfinished mission.  The departure of these players, especially Thompson, has reopened the discussion around here on early exits to the NBA draft, particularly the so-called "one and done" phenomenon.  It has obviously been a source of debate and controversy ever since the NBA put the age limit in place, and you will find plenty of college basketball fans who despise the rule for a variety of reasons.

However, I have normally found the a lot of the popular arguments against the age limit confused.  I addressed this topic a few years ago, and I pointed out that getting angry at the NCAA fails to appreciate who has the power here:  The NBA is the one who decides the age limit, and the NCAA can't do anything about it.  Thus, arguments that basically say, "The NCAA needs to do something" and "This is bad for college basketball" are not only questionable to begin with, they don't tell us why the NBA should care if it's not hurting their league.  Another example of these unconvincing arguments comes from this article by Pat Forde, where he rails against the age limit because it supposedly screwed over Josh Selby of Kansas.  In essence, Forde argues that the "one and done" situation is a sham that forces players to spend a year in school that wastes their time, wastes the school's time and resources, and endangers these talented players' futures in the NBA,

I do not mind Pat Forde, but I found the article pretty suspect in its arguments, and I will primarily be interacting with what he wrote in this post.  In doing so, I hope to address some questions surrounding the one and done, get some discussion going about it, and also argue this:  The age limit rule is perfectly within the NBA's rights, it doesn't always wastes the time of schools and players, and it doesn't endanger these players' future careers.

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When Belmont officially announced the resignation of Greg Davis, I expected full blown celebration with people singing Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.  After all, the guy has been hated on for about 12 years now and some of the most cynical Texas fans believed that Mack would never let him go (I'll raise my hand).  However, the reaction of most Texas fans seemed pretty subdued; it was more relief than anything, at least around here.  I experienced a similar reaction; I was happy because I knew it was the right decision for the program, but I felt no ill will towards Greg Davis and even felt a bit sorry for him.  For all of his flaws, he contributed to the Texas program for 12 years, and for that we should grateful.

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When it comes to analyzing the Texas offense, there is no disagreement that it is a horrific unit of epic proportions.  The only debate is about how bad it is and who should be held accountable for it.  A cursory look at the numbers only confirm what we knew from watching them on the field, and the offense has been so bad that it would have been virtually impossible for this Texas team to achieve the goals we have almost every year, no matter how good the defense and special teams were.  At least they put up yards and points against a really bad team last Saturday, for once.

The defense, however, is far trickier to understand.  While many fans were skeptical when Mack Brown said this could be his best defense ever, almost everyone expected a very good unit that would give us a chance to compete this year (of course, we were also expected a good special teams and something resembling an offense).  Instead, we have been given a mixed bag that has stirred some debate.  The defense has largely been solid and has shown flashes of great play, but has also committed a host of errors, such as awful penalties, big plays, and slow starts to games or the 2nd half.  There have been far worse units during Mack Brown's time (that 2007 defense was really bad), but it is safe to say that this unit is not Mack Brown's best.

Much of their struggles, as I noted in the link above, is because they are playing opposite an offense that is so bad that it will no doubt be a part of Texas legend for all the wrong reasons.  However, I also noted that however bad the offense has been, this does not get the defense off to hook for everything.  So I'll look at the defense, see how statistically they're doing, and try to figure out what the problems are and if we should be worried about the future.

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