40 Acres Sports

Things are looking better and better for Texas with blue chip QB’s Mustain and Snead.

Vince is #2 in the nation in passing, not that half the media knows it. (BugMeNot)

You can still get tickets to the game in Waco from the Baylor ticket office.

Their jerseys are orange on one shoulder and maroon on the other. Then a lot of the players are wearing long sleeves that are also orange on one side and maroon on the other. They look like a beer league softball team, especially the guys with the long sleeves underneath. Or maybe a team from Blitz: The League. How many different uniform variations do they have?

Man those things are seriously fugly.

Our Thoughts

Brian – Texas goes out and whips a top ten team last week and then has to spend all week defending themselves. There’s something seriously wrong with a system that creates that situation.

There is zero doubt in my mind that the Longhorns are playing like the best team in the country right now, and the rankings are starting to reflect that. They’ve played the tougher schedule (so far) and looked much more dominant in those games, so there’s not really much of an argument in my mind. USC seems to be getting a lot of credit for games they played last season, with a different defense and a different coaching staff. Someone ought to tell the USC defense to try stopping someone, then maybe a few more voters (human and microchip-based) will start putting them back at number one.

Matt – Lots of controversy this week as Texas jumped USC in the latest BCS poll. Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. Texas has played better against better teams so far this season. Texas’ opponents’ combined records to this point is 27-22 while USC’s is 22-28. I do think that USC will move back to the #1 spot in the BCS as we move further along in the season. But who really cares? If you are #1 or #2 it doesn’t matter (sorry Va Tech), it will get settled at the Rose Bowl.

Related Links

• Last week’s rankings
• Harris Interactive Poll (PDF, 69 KB)
• Master Coaches Survey

First time since 1984 that Texas was ranked #1 in any poll.

Let’s all cross our fingers that Vince is saying the same thing next January.

Nebraska big man [tag]Matt Hill[/tag] has become Rick Barnes and the Texas basketball team’s fifth committment of the 2006 class. Hill, in addition to having an absolutely fantastic afro, is a 6’10” PF/C from Lincoln who moves well and is an excellent scorer. He and fellow 2006 commit Dexter Pittman will team up to create a pretty formidable inside duo when they hit the Forty Acres in 2006. The class now is made up of the two big men, top rated small forward Kevin Durant, and two excellent guards in Harrison Smith and Justin Mason. That’s a pretty solid starting five.

Rick Barnes is making basketball recruiting almost as exciting as football recruiting, let’s hope our fans get out there and show him and the team our support when they begin the season next month.

We’ll have full analysis and discussion coming up later, but thanks to the few human first place votes we picked up and even moreso because we leapfrogged USC in every computer poll except one…

The BCS says Texas is the number one team in the nation today.

I don’t agree the blocked punt was what changed the game, other than 2 INT’s we were dominating before too.