Yeah, but ya gotta love the class of most non-longhorn fan Texans. Take my friends Michaleah and John, who both got their BA's from Aggieland. When I called to gloat last night, they both told me that as much as it killed them to do it, they busted out with the 'hook 'em horns!' That said a lot about their character. As huge of a longhorn fan as I am, had it been the Aggies in the National Championship, I'd have put on some overalls and been full of 'Gig 'Em'. Cause when a non-Texas team is playing ANY Texas team and the stakes are this high, you root for the Texas team. It's just what we do here.

Incidentally, if it had been Baylor in the National Championship game (stop laughing out there, I'm trying to make a point here), I would have gotten a pet bear or converted some heathens or whatever the Baylor folk do to show school pride.

Will they ever allow coaches to request review like they do in the NFL? After this game and how Iowa was killed by bad calls in the Outback Bowl, they really should.

it shouldnt even matter anymore about the knee down. usc was up 12 late in the game and had a million chances to secure the win. instead, they let texas come back and win by three. because of that, they shouldnt even deserve to win.

question: how did they distribute rose bowl tickets? was it not 50/50 to both schools? it looked like there were more texas fans than usc fans. maybe 60/40.

The schools themselves usually get very small allotments of tickets, I think 20-25,000 for the Rose Bowl, and then you have the "Season" Bowl Tickets (tickets renewed each year just like season tickets would be), sponsors, advertisers, business leaders, etc. The difference between USC-TX is a result of TX fans just buying more tickets, whether from the Bowl itself or from business sponsorships, ebay, etc...

Congrats to Texas, tho obviously, this SC alum is disappointed. But gotta say it, I'd rather lose by 3 in Nat'l Championship than lose to Notre Dame or UCLA in reg season. lol

RE: Young knee down forward lateral. Yes the logical thing would have been for SC to call a time out. Except Pete Carroll is not a fan of replay in college ball, so no SC fan knowing that expected him to call a time out for that. And yes, UT probably would have scored on the next play or two anyway. And SC screwed up on a number of occasions. It was a great game but as much as it pains me to say it, Texas deserved to win.

RE: Leinart's comment. I agree it was uncool, but give the guy a break. He's just lost his first game in over 2 years, only the second loss in his collegiate career as a starter. Its not like he has any experience with handling that type of emotion. And upon further thought, I think he probably meant HE still feels USC is the best team, more of an I love my team statement than a put down of UT. (At least that is how I choose to keep my Matty love alive. lol)

you would think usc fans to have a much bigger showing since the game is practically in their own back yard and a national chapionship on the line.

Ticketmaster got 1,000 tickets for sale to the general public at $175 face value.

Most tix I saw were 800-1000 for endzone, 2000-3000 for anywhere else. So I chose not to go. lol

Unfortunately, as much as I wish that were true, it isn't. I live in Lubbock & went to law school at Tech, and I can't tell you how many Texas Tech fans I heard say "I HATE UT, and I hope USC destroys them. I don't even care if they are from Texas."

Seriously, what's up with that? Why are they so bitter? Even my Aggie friends were respectful of the season the 'Horns have had!

I think Texas Tech should lose their Texas citizenship. Maybe New Mexico will take them.

My brother e-mailed me from his blackberry during the game a few times...one was an "oh well" and the other was "what the hell?" I can't imagine how much fun that game was to watch live...it made me kind of nauseous on tv!

HOOK 'EM!!!

Dude believe me. I was at the game. My face value was worth 300 bux. I didn't pay for em. My friends are ballers and wipe their ass with benjamins. There were SOOOOOO many Texas fans outside CRYING, like bawling because they couldn't get tickets. Hundreds...thousands. On the same token, there were ALOT of SC fans saying selling their tickets to TExas fans because they figure, "ok dumbass, pay 5 times as much".

THis is how a conversation could have went down.

UT: Hey yall! I'm from TExas! I'll need Tickets!
SC: How much you got
UT: I brought 2 grand sir
SC: Throw in your daughter and we got a deal
UT: Older or younger?
SC: Older you idiot. And throw in your cowboy hat.
UT: Ok sir


The Texas fans next to me got their tickets for 800 bux. Pretty good deal now that I think about it


And PS. I'm sorry but I watched those replays of the game from last night. BetaRulz, sorry man. but that WAS a fumble. He caught the ball had posession and immediatly WHACK.

Next Vince Youngs knee WAS DOWN! Holey shit. And it's not like Texas hurried their ass off to get the next play in. They took just the same amount as time as they normally did .Why the hell didn't the replay guys replay that crap? And PETE CARROLL should have used a TIMEOUT to call a replay!?!?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! Why should HE have to call a timeout? It's the replay peoples freakin JOBS to get their shit right. But no. they didn't. SCREW THAT. I knew they got freakin jipped. I knew it.


And Lifesaver, that whole Temple Owls 2005 thing is weak. Yeah Temple probably wuold have beaten those guys from OKlahoma back then, but you know damn well the reason why they never were brought up is because they were what 0-11 ? Tell that jackass he's not funny and I will take a #2 on his chest.


God I can only say, someone please clone Vince Young, someone teach him how to throw the football correctly so I can watch him as a QB in the NFL, and hell...Reggie played some QB in HS....make the switch Reggie!

Yeah man. that game was epic. I'm glad I can say I was part of it.

Yeah. I would NEVER....EVER!!!!!!!!! Pay for something that much. Ok maybe if my name was Fletcher Jones the III. Spoiled motherf'er. It was fun, and my friend could have made atleast a 10 grand if he sold all of our tickets

exactly. There were some really questionable moves by SC. I don't wanna sound like a dick, but it seemed as if SC was saying " here Texas, we've won before here you go"


It was really uncharacteristic. In the stands we were like, wtf are you doing? Give the rock to Lendale! You're scoring TOO Fast! AH!!!!! Keep VINCE off the field!


Hey, Texas was the shit last night and took advantage of SC's mistakes. When someone gives you a lemon make some lemonade right?

Yeah well Texas got some "Country Time" and pour some liquor in it.

Congrats Texas

The worse part of last night was making the LONG drive home from Pasadena to Huntington and getting a phone call from my cousins from...yeah, UT.

I swear how can I have cousins with accents like that? I wanted to strangle them through the phone.

" Hey bawwwwwb! It's ya cuzzzin Tuan! Ya Californyuh boyz lost to some Texas boyz!"

" Hey bawwwwwb"

"Hey Bawwwwwwb"

"Hey Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwb!"

YEAH!!!!!

We hooked 'em! :)