My Friend Is An Idiot Homer!!!

I spoke with a friend of mine about the Texas vs. Colorado game. My friend is a graduate of UT so you can only imagine how many excuses, and yes they were indeed excuses, he had for their poor performance.

For those of you who have been in a cave the Longhorns won the game 38-14. At no point did they look like a true national contender. Going into the game Colorado had been laughable at best. They had just one win against a Wyoming team that couldn’t beat most junior high squads. Colorado lost to Toledo 54-38 earlier this year….TOLEDO for crying out loud!!! At halftime they actually led the all powerful Longhorns 14-10. In the second half the Horns managed to take control of this high school group and secured the victory.

Now back to my friend and his lame excuses. Actually I won’t dive into the excuses because everyone would be dumber for reading them. I will dive into a ridiculous comparison he made in an attempt to make their crappy performance seem less crappy. He had the nerve to say UT’s win over the Buff’s was just as impressive as Florida’s win over LSU. He did this of course once he realized that the Horns fell from #2 to #3 in the polls. Alabama who easily beat #20 Ole Miss 22-3 jumped over Texas to take the #2 spot. Naturally he thought UT’s win over Colorado was much more impressive than the Tide’s win over a top 20 team, but that’s a whole other topic.

His logic was when you compared the Gators performance to the Horns both teams struggled but eventually won. He even pointed out that the Horns won by a larger margin. I quickly pointed out the following to which he had no credible response. 1) UT was playing at home while Florida was playing in front of an insane LSU crowd.  2) LSU was undefeated while Colorado only had one win.  3) Colorado was not ranked anywhere near the top 20 or 50 for that matter while LSU was #4 in the nation.  4) LSU vs. Florida is a huge rivalry with lots of passion while UT and Colorado have NO rivalry at all.  5) Tim Tebow was fresh off a concussion and didn’t look 100% and the Gators still beat the #4 team ON THE ROAD!  6) If LSU or Florida were playing Colorado neither would have trailed in the game for one second let alone one half. Either of those two teams would have won the game 70-0. Granted the last one can’t be verified but even horn’s fans know deep down inside that it’s true.

With all this said what does it mean for UT and Florida? Well if both keep winning, and winning the way they are, it will be a blowout in the BCS Championship. My prediction is Florida 45, Texas 14. Against Florida, Texas won’t be able to play poorly and only be down by a few points at the half. If they play like they have been it will be at least 24-7 at halftime. Also, if they continue their pattern of slow starts there will be no second half come back. A team like Florida will expose them for what they are…very lucky to be in the championship game. As a matter of fact they probably wouldn’t make it to the championship game if there were a playoff.