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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Writer at Blogging regularly about college football at:

Michigan, USA

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Joined July 2009

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@Ian_A_Boyd

Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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If you want to learn about the Veer and Shoot offense because your team (Tenn, USF, OU) runs it or you need help using or stopping it in NCAA 2025, you should read my book which has a chapter devoted to it:

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Flyover Football: How the Big 12 became the frontier for modern football

The Big 12 has been defined by spread offenses for years now but every level of football is coming to be dominated by the "hurry-up, no-huddle" style of spread. How did the Big 12 conference, with...

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Sam Ehlinger celebrating Jordan Whittington’s arrival at Texas.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Later tonight...

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Someday I'd be curious to see Texas play Alabama with their starting quarterback healthy the whole game.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Years ago Texas tried to poach Nick Saban from Alabama. They failed. This time they let him develop one of his championship staffs, and just poached the whole staff.

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Sark stealing Xavier Worthy from Michigan was such a massive win.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Trash move by ESPN. How about the coach who’s getting paid millions to bring Texas back and can’t do it even with his QB trying to bail him out of every game?

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How it started: How it's going:

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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“As good as I once was” oughta do the trick.

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Barstool Sports

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No-Brainer: Oklahoma Football's Newest Tradition Is Blasting Toby Keith Through The Stadium For A Sing-Along Between The 3rd And 4th Quarters

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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@KeganReneau "You couldn't close the door? You see I've already put my things in, aight? And now the door is just left open and in my way? Aight, i've got things to go get done. Ms Terry wants me to help pack up. I've got a tee time in Florida at 4 pm, aight? And you're not doing your part."

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Texas would have won the Big 12 with veteran QB play this season.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

10 months

For two years Jahdae Barron has been arguably the best all-around DB in the big 12. For two years he’s been left off the 1st team All-Big 12 squad.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 month

Credit to Gibson for his first score...but Cam Williams is really the one who scored here 😂

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Justin Wells

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1 month

JERRICK GIBSON, TEXAS SIZED EFFORT. TD, TEXAS. 🤘 @InsideTexas

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1 year

Maalik Murphy throws the ball like he's trying to bring down a buck.

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3 years

Lincoln Riley when Oregon hires Matt Campbell.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Okay Big 12. Fold and doom college football to a year of purgatory, or reabsorb Nebraska and be legends.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Looks like his Red River Shootout highlights.

@NFLRookieWatxh

NFL Rookie Watch

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2 years

Bijan Robinson took this bag out like it was NOTHING 😳 The Texas RB is currently prepping for the NFL Combine.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Adonai Mitchell heard the complaints about his blocking.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

7 months

Those Worthy and Mitchell 40 times tell the story of the Texas season. Teams played DEEP safeties, Texas ran over squads, then they’d get to the red zone and run out of space and that’s where the game would be decided.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

The slander that Jimbo is running the wishbone at Texas A&M cannot stand. Jalen Preston lead Aggie receivers with 17 catches last year. 1969 Texas’ Cotton Speyrer had 30 catches. When Jimbo opens up the offense we can revisit the wishbone comparison.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 months

Quinn looks like he just won the western conference finals.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

There’s that Todd Orlando tackling.

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USC Football ✌️

3 years

Beastmode. @mtrigg_23 #FightOn ✌️

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1 year

Texas has been subbing in underclassmen heavily on defense. They've played freshman Derek Williams, gave Anthony Hill new chances at LB, J'Mond Tapp. Heavy substitutions.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

5 years

Joe Ossai is probably the best edge player I’ve seen at Texas since Sergio Kindle.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Watch Hayden Conner's right hand on this crucial 4th down offsides by Alabama.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Texas beating an SEC power A&M hasn’t defeated with physicality in prime time is just too much for the Aggies. Worst case scenario.

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TexAgs

6 years

File > Save As… > EveryFutureTexasLoss.mp4

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3 years

Texas' second O-line playing like they're auditioning for the starting jobs.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Drafting Hurts in the second round is going to doom this franchise for a while.

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John Clark

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Jeff Lurie has instructed Eagles to build around Jalen Hurts this year and not have a QB competition, according to @mortreport

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Is Kelvin Banks already LT1 on the All-Big 12 team?

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

5 years

So last night, Clemson played a 3-1-7 and dared LSU to beat them with the run game. They didn’t take the bait and Burrow threw 49 passes for 463 yards at 9.4 ypa with five TD and zero INT. RIP to “run the dang ball.”

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Bama building a lead and icing the game by running an angry 3-star RB from Oklahoma that OU didn't offer down their throats is like poetic injustice.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

This game may come down to whether Tom Herman or Spencer Rattler can do the most damage to their own team's efforts.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Anthony Hill bends around the edge for a sack. The Micah Parsons comparisons are proving more apt than I would have guessed.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Reflecting on one of the most meaningful friendships of my life:

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The triumph of Jonathan Tjarks

Reflecting on one of the most meaningful friendships of my life.

americaswargame.substack.com

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3 years

Texas A&M when they saw they’d have to play Wake Forest in a bowl game again.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

This crew is starting to look shady.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

I think the most likely outcome in the B12 is that West Virginia defeats OU at home, loses their rematch to Texas, and OU fans forever scream into the ether about how they would have beaten Texas in the rematch.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Tom Herman absolutely belongs in the NFL based on the decision making I’m watching in this game.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

10 months

Man, Banks flattened Xavier Benson on this.

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Justin Wells

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10 months

CJ’S TURN. TD, TEXAS. @InsideTexas #HookEm

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

7 years

Sadly that impact dissipates when they actually play on the field.

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Tim Brewster

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The impact that Kyle Field has on recruits is ridiculous‼️😎

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I named this GIF, "Ehlinger vs the SEC."

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

@ipbb5 @JamesALight 3rd and 10...

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2 years

No one in the Big 12 wants to see Texas beat Alabama.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

The next time Quinn Ewers and Xavier Worthy are on the same page will be the first.

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1 year

Texas faces a more potent offense on Saturday in Austin than they will the following week in Dallas.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Maybe Jimbo should have his recruiting staff quit for now and resume again when they’re ready to give 100%.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

I hope this makes clear how close to useless these exercises are in evaluating quarterbacks.

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Billy Liucci

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We've all seen the Zach Wilson and @justnfields throw. Here's @TheKellenMond with his own long-distance DIME 🔥

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Am I right in understanding that Oklahoma is going into the SEC next year with: -A sophomore, 1st year QB -New OC -Entirely new offensive line ???

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Jonathon Brooks takes an outside zone run to the house on Oklahoma.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Texas’ numbers in the Draft during the height of the Mack Brown era: 2005: 3 2006: 6 2007: 7 2008: 5 2009: 4 2010: 6

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Quinn Ewers and Xavier Worthy connect for a 44-yard touchdown. Only took 200 attempts.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Freshman Derek Williams in here

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Travis Roeder

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Man beater to the boundary; it's the right read, but Texas just plays it too well.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

I bet Sark wishes he'd given Bijan one of those two chances to pick up 1 yard before 4th and 3.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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On Ewers' touchdown run, Kelvin Banks blocked a defensive end into a blitzing linebacker.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Texas fans are going to be more than ready to say farewell to Caden Sterns with Thompson playing like this.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Used to drive me crazy that Texas fans weren’t seeing this. Now the only nonbelievers are rivals who don’t want it to be true.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Every place Chad Morris leaves immediately becomes amazing. Lake Travis in 2009: 3 straight state championships Tulsa in 2010: 8-5, 11-3 next 2 seasons Clemson in 2014: 5 straight playoff appearances, 2 national championships. SMU in 2017: 20-7 since. Arkansas in 2019: ???

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Sweep play pulling Kelvin Banks.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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The reason Texas couldn’t run the ball against Washington was that they kept fumbling it.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

This seems to be a favorite call for Sark in big games.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Kelvin Banks holds off the initial pass-rush by DPOY Felix Anudike-Uzomah before getting ahead of Bijan Robinson and pancaking a DB down the field.

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@RedDirtSport

RedDirtSport

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How the hell do you Texas fans do this every three years. It's nine hours in and I'm exhausted.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Alright, a thread on how not to defend shallow crossers. AKA, why Texas vs Houston was competitive. Part I: eternal recurrence. Man coverage. 5-man blitz...middle hook defender shadows the back, so there is no middle hook defender.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Art Briles looks like he’s trying to sneak back into college coaching with a disguise.

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The real moment Michigan was beat. Quarterback power on a 6-man box. No gain.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Not targeting. Amazingly precise hit.

@DerekDuke25

Derek Duke

2 years

Could very easily be targeting right here

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

11 months

Oklahoma lost to Kansas in football.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Have your fun, Sark. Say what you want about Big 12 defenses but they don’t try to defend the spread with the 4-4 stack.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Why would Texas want the game but A&M prefer to avoid it? The answer isn’t complicated. A&M DOES pick up a recruiting advantage from being in the SEC and Texas would erase it if they could get back to beating them regularly again.

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Paul Finebaum

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"A&M isn't looking back at Texas...Longhorns are the ones openly begging for the game that *they* canceled...but you'd be hard pressed to find someone outside Austin that doesn't see A&M as an ascending program in the SEC." - @billyliucci updates the Aggie/Horn rivalry status

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Every iteration of this play is nasty. I've yet to see it successfully defended.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Outstanding win for Oklahoma. RIP to my mentions.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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Texas is now 9-2 against the spread. 4 of the team's 5 losses were to teams ranked in the top 25 and two of those came in overtime. Not a "breakthrough" season but definitely a much improved team from 2016.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

God forbid Texas use him aggressively late in games.

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Texas Football

4 years

Sam Ehlinger's 14 passing touchdowns and 15 total touchdowns are the most ever by a Texas QB in a three-game stretch.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Kris Boyd is one of the best players in the conference, Texas missed him badly in the first quarter. His mistakes are notable but they often play him on an island against the league’s best. I guarantee you that opposing OCs don’t think he’s trash.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

5 years

There are risks to leaving your feet...

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

No lie, Texas faced a better defense last week.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Amazing game by Duggan. Turtle Tom is the main story tho. How in year 4 after a dozen disasters is he still trying to run clock and sit on tiny leads with multiple possessions worth of time left in the fourth quarter?

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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@josephcook89

Joe Cook

1 year

Competition is brimming on the Texas offensive line, from @justinwells2424 and @EricNahlin (On3+) #HookEm via @on3sports

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Another benefit of crew cut Quinn is the improved aerodynamics when scrambling. Less drag.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Gullette has some twitch to him…

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

2022 TCU was like one of those mid-majors with a bunch of seniors who beat down a #1 or #2 seed and get to the elite 8 or Final Four before being murdered by a team with NBA players.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

5 years

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Wife: you got her a white jacket to go with white pants?? Me: yeah, it’s a road game...storm troopers.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 months

Making this too complicated. Texas had a much better season than OU in 2023 and is bringing an ultra talented and experienced OL and QB into the season while OU is building a patchwork quilt to protect a true sophomore. That’s it.

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Josh Pate

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They tell me there's a gap between Texas & Oklahoma so I went searching for it

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Some Aggies found a way to lose the bye week.

@mattywatty01

Matt Bohmfalk

2 years

Note: Texas did not actually win this game. Like many of their games, it should have an asterisk on it, and multiple people should be fired due to intentional misconduct.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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This play to set up 4th-and-3 was also cool. It's split or wind back zone but with "flex fullback" Jordan Whittington sliding back across the formation to block the end while JT Sanders releases to the 2nd level.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

11 months

A bold statement to make when your matchup in the contest is T’Vondre Sweat.

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HornSports

11 months

Iowa State LG Jarrod Hufford on Texas coming to town for the final time: "It's going to be one heck of a farewell present. They are going to come in here on senior night in the dark. I don't think they really know what is going to be coming for them. We've beaten them 4 out of

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As soon as the announcer said “it’s Casey Thompson time,” you had to know what was coming.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Kirby Smart knows Herman and Orlando, he's met with them at least once to pick their brains and trade ideas. There's a lot of mutual respect between the staffs, I just don't know if the Georgia's players (or mascot) realized Bevo was playing for blood.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

With today’s news Texas’ prospective 5-man skill lineup goes: X: Worthy H: Billingsley Y: Helm Z: Whittington R: Bijan

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Montgomery is better than both.

@AhearnAlley

Ahearn Alley

6 years

@Ian_A_Boyd Your thoughts on Justice Hill over Alex Barnes for first team RB?

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

6 years

Time for play call #8 .

@peta

PETA

6 years

@86_cmh Thanks for asking! This will tell you more:

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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This is the guy we weren't sure could execute an Air Raid offense?

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Texas mixing in some Air Raid passing concepts and Sam Ehlinger has 400 yards and 5 TDs at the half. Who could ever have guessed he might be effective with such schemes?

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Safety saw Kelvin Banks coming and said, "Nope."

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

2 years

Easiest narrative boost of all time would be for Quinn Ewers to come back next fall camp with like an Ivy League and clean shaven saying “it’s all business from here.”

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

3 years

We’re about to get a deluge of “actually, Lincoln Riley is the worst. This one time…” stories from Norman.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

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The explosion of Texas' point spread against Oklahoma State is wild. -1 early Sunday, -3.5 once action took hold, -6.5 today. Doesn't seem like bettors believe Spencer Sanders will play.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

4 years

Every time I see Majors reach a DT on outside zone and springs a huge Bijan run it just makes me want to kick something.

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

1 year

Someone is gonna get a great transfer from Bama next season in Milroe.

@ShehanJeyarajah

Shehan Jeyarajah

@ShehanJeyarajah

1 year

Alabama turning to Tyler Buchner at QB? Notre Dame transfer expected to replace Jalen Milroe against USF

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Captain Bruisin, cruise director

5 years

Normal posture in which to find an Oklahoma safety.

@LonghornNetwork

Longhorn Network

@LonghornNetwork

5 years

This was not our doing. Promise.

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An amusing element to this was that half the time he had his hands over his ears their band was blasting “boomer sooner” because they’d just successfully picked up 2 yards on 2nd and 7 or something.

@Chris_Oven

Christopher Oven

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Very minor in the grand scheme but this was painful to watch and certainly can’t be making things any easier

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