I'm not feeling the champ game like some. I don't know if we get picked high enough but I could see this year going a lot like the year we lost to Leach in the Alamo.
This probably isn’t going to age well….
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I’m not looking farther than baylor right now. Win and a bowl is likely, lose and it’s going to be some work.
I like the optimism as it's better than some of the doom and gloom here. We need everything to play out just right and some help to make the Big 12 Championship as it seems like OU vs Texas is destined unless the rest of the conference muddies things up. We need to win the games we should and make that late game against Texas mean something. I've been saying I hope it's like our last home game last year and its cold and snow on the ground as I would love nothing more than to hand Texas a loss in Jack Trice Stadium under the lights in a meaningful late season game on their way out of the Big 12. Oklahoma and Texas have avoided Ames in November way too many years so playing in front of a packed house in the freezing cold with a trip to the Big 12 championship on the line would be my ideal scenario.
Late season road trips to Ames have been a challenge for TU in recent years. Halloween night 2015, ISU curb stomped Texas 24-0. Early November 2019 was the Connor Assalley walk off FG to win the game. Mid November 2021 saw the Cyclones deliver an old school butt kicking to Texas 30-6.
If Iowa State is good and the weather is bad when Texas rolls into Jack Trice Stadium on November 18, 2023, who knows what could happen.
I think I'm at 3-2 the rest of the way, as well. Given how the Cyclones are playing and the remaining schedule, 2 wins should be the bare minimum expectation. Entertaining 4 wins is enticing, but this is still a young team, 3 of the last 5 are road conference games and the two home games are against teams that will be or have been ranked this year.
Gross game.
Minshew
I was there. I especially appreciated the City of San Antonio and the Alamo Bowl concerned about keeping Busch Light in our hands.
The scoreboard would tell me what sections still had Busch light for sale.
We've had some games in November that have been way warmer than average over the years and some that were really cold. In 2020 we had 2 that were really warm in November that we could not tailgate at while we all sat in the stands spaced out in masks which now seems ridiculous in hindsight. I remember driving up to those games thinking what a great day it would be to tailgate only to hear on the radio hosts say the same.
Last year on Nov 19 it was bitter cold and snow on the ground. We tailgated indoors then parked at Vet Med 2 hours before kickoff. We basically picked our seats mid field in the lower level and flipped off Manning in the press box for not being aggressive when the season was already lost.
That's still one hell of a year considering how we all felt after Ohio.
Any team can have a get right game or play really out of the blue but Tech just trashed them and yes they came back and beat UCF but that was more about UCF just absolutely self-destructing. Because in the end, Baylor was still down 35-7 in the third quarter. I hope if we get them in a hole early we don’t take the foot off the gas.Well....we certainly can't take early games as a definition of the team right?
They aren't good but that UCF game showed some flashes and you never know when a team will 'find it'.
Agreed though--if ISU goes down there and flops around like the last two times it's a step back from the last two weeks.
Unless we are improving and then we have a shot to get road wind and pickup some upsets at home.
CycloneErik
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We dont get to where we are now without the Ohio loss. Going 3-0 in non con and this year would look similar to last year
Yes, its possible. And that... would be incredible, amazing, mind blowing , etc.
I just am ignoring that for right now since we are so young as a team not to mention - that would require an insane winning streak. All possible. And would be incredible.
I just want a bowl so the team gets the extra practice. And if we can manage to win 3 more and guarantee a winning season, well, that's even better
I'm excited to see what new wrinkles Nate puts on his game day play sheet after the open week.
We control our own destiny. If we win every game we have 1 loss and one of those wins would be over UT which would then have 2 losses. But if you mean everything has to go right, meaning that we need a lot of luck to win every game, you are right. Maybe we are due for that TCU kind of season.
It is possible, but very unlikely....I think we can beat Baylor although we've struggled in Waco historically speaking, and Kansas is capable of winning even with Bean, but if Daniels plays, that game is much harder. BYU might be a bad team but Provo is a tough place to play, we are playing the best Texas team in a decade and a half, and K-State is on the road as well......another place we've historically been terrible at.
All that said, just take it one game at a time. Beat Baylor!
All that said, just take it one game at a time. Beat Baylor!
That's exactly what I've been thinking - best case is a TCU-like season. Obviously the ceiling is lower, but there's no reason we couldn't win every game left on our schedule if we play clean football and get a few bounces here and there. Usually the coin flips both ways (thread reference), but like TCU's season last year it can happen.
The flip side is that we could reasonably lose every remaining game. None of them are gimmies.
More than ever, this has to be a "one game at a time" type of team. And I think it would be wise for fans to follow that advice too.
Big 12 non-con play was terrible....obviously part of the reason why the conference is down right now
