Barking Carnival

Let’s look at what Colt McCoy has done in his first (almost) three years as the starting quarterback at the University of Texas. We’ll skip all the “intangible” talk, and go right to the numbers, beginning with his freshman year.
1) Freshman Passing TD’s, season: Colt had 29, setting a national mark; next-best UT freshman (the [...]

When I noticed that Colt was moving into elite company with his 30th win, I became curious about College Football’s QB’s with the most wins. There’s no established source for this that I’m aware of. The NCAA tried a brief experiment with including winningest QB’s in their record book a few years back, [...]

Polls in general bug the crap out of me. Voters make choices I find impossible to understand. This week’s AP and Coaches polls show that Tennessee has moved to #1.
Congratulations, Tennessee. You got there on the strength of a 25-2 record, a win over #1 Memphis, and losses at Kentucky (15-10) [...]

I once had a co-worker say about me, disparagingly, “he’s lazy—he’s always looking for the easy way to do things.” Though I was briefly insulted, the more I thought about his comment the more I agreed with it, and the less insulted I felt. Fact is I am always looking for the easy [...]

Not sure I agree. Looking for sacks & explosive plays? Consider looking at these numbers.
From the 2007 roster to the 2008 roster quite a few changes took place.
+37 Greg Smith
+25 Tyrell Higgins, Josh Marshall
+22 Ahmard Howard
+20 Ian Harris
+15 Sam Acho, Cody Johnson
+12 Dustin Earnest
+10 Tray Allen, Rashad Bobino, John Chiles, Michael [...]

Every once in a while, my friends have seen me go off on a rant about various Texas football players failing out (excuse me–I meant to say “transferring to find more playing time elsewhere”). I get ticked about that happening, because I feel like with $70 billion dollar athletic budgets, there’s no excuse for [...]

Here’s a look at the Horns lineup.
Just my projections–happy to have any suggestions/corrections. I assume Muschamp will dramatically shake things up, but I’m basing this on last year’s depth-chart, the assumption that no one else commits, our verbals all sign LOI’s, older folks don’t get beat out, everyone heals up beautifully, no one changes [...]

1) Texas has now won 9+ games 10 straight seasons. We’re the only D-1 school with an active streak that long. To put that streak into perspective, only 12 other schools have had 10+ straight winning seasons, much less 9+ wins, and only 5 of those have had the same coach through that streak. Texas [...]

In the Greatest game of all time (that week), the Greatest team in college football history (USC) went up against the Greatest player in college football history (Vince Young) and the Greatest player won in dramatic fashion.
I’m a firm believer that without Vince, that would have been a terribly humiliating loss for Texas (pre-supposing that [...]

I suspect one has to be more than a bit odd to find any of this interesting, which makes it just perfect for me. I was the type of kid who studied the statistics on the back of his Topps baseball cards in the 70’s (except for the Cincinnati Reds cards that I glued inside [...]

Positive fan: Texas averaged 5.3 yards per carry against UCF–Greg’s a top-notch OC.
Cynical fan: Take out Jamaal’s 27-yard, 28-yard, & 46-yard run and Texas averaged 3.2 yards per carry the rest of the game. Add in two lost fumbles, and it’s clear Greg rides the special bus to work.
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Positive fan: Texas is averaging 30 points [...]