[Marcello] Only three teams since 1936 have lost back-to-back games against unranked teams when they entered the streak No. 1 in the AP poll: 1939: Pitt 1961: Michigan State 2026: Texas

[u/Kimber80]

https://x.com/bmarcello/status/2111542445615776210

[u/Dependent-Effect6077]

Arch so far has actively moved Texas backwards

Beyond the "Texas is back" jokes in 2023 and 2024 they were legitimately making progress up to being consistent playoff contenders but with him at the helm they're going in the wrong direction

Honestly I think if he comes back to college they should seriously consider trying to look elsewhere potentially missing a 12 team playoff back to back with all the hype they've gotten is a disaster

[u/SparkMaster360 → u/Dependent-Effect6077]

Deadass, they were legitimately close to two national championship games. Now I don’t see them consistently making the semis. Ewers was better

[u/Arkehn → u/SparkMaster360]

The issue with Ewers was that he was usually terrible when the pocket collapsed.

The issue with Manning is that he's terrible.

[u/Crying_in_99Ranch → u/SparkMaster360]

Serves Texas fans right for being so arrogant and trashing Ewers thinking he was holding them back. He wasn't even welcome back for his final year after making back to back CFP semis. Now they're about to run Arch off after this year. Won't matter if Sark is still your coach.

[u/Jonjon428 → u/Crying_in_99Ranch]

They disrespected Dolphins legend Quinn Ewers

[u/silverhk → u/Dependent-Effect6077]

Silly to blame Arch when Sark is right there.

[u/bcoates26 → u/silverhk]

Same coach new QB tho. Sark isn’t great but Arch is god awful.

[u/weoutherebrah → u/bcoates26]

Yeah but Texas fans couldn’t wait to get rid of Ewers either. The second highest ranked recruit ever.

[u/silverhk → u/bcoates26]

Ewers also generally underperformed per every Texas comment I ever read. Texas has done great on the recruiting/talent side, but Sark does not seem to have it from an elite X+Os standpoint on gameday.

[u/10000Pigeons → u/silverhk]

Yeah this is where I'm at. Ewers was a much better QB than Arch has turned out to be, but neither were developed into NFL talent which is what you should expect when the prospects are this good coming in.

[u/silverhk → u/10000Pigeons]

It is genuinely almost impossible to find a coach that can nail all three of recruiting, development, and gameday strategy, so there's that too, but I'm not sure Sark is elite in anything but recruiting, think he's much closer to average otherwise.

[u/mhite10 → u/10000Pigeons]

And when your head coach is a former collegiate quarterback…

[u/dinosaurkiller → u/bcoates26]

Please keep both

[u/CumAssault → u/Dependent-Effect6077]

Little bit of QB regression, Ewers was better than this. But that OL has also gotten way worse over time

[u/Chambanasfinest]

Michigan State catching strays everywhere these days.

[u/Dorazer → u/Chambanasfinest]

Heart breaking loss for them today. Now this.

[u/wit_T_user_name]

It turns out Texas is much closer to the first-third quarter Texas we saw against OSU than fourth quarter Texas.

[u/Dependent-Effect6077 → u/wit_T_user_name]

Ohio State under Day are funny because they barely lose but all of their losses feel like horrible chokes

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/Dependent-Effect6077]

I think it’s because we are so good generally, that it’s expected of us. day’s record is pretty absurd.

[u/8footpenguin → u/Dependent-Effect6077]

I feel like that describes OSU before Day also.

[u/Whatsth3dill → u/8footpenguin]

I mean, Purdue and Iowa beat the brakes off meyer osu teams. No last minute chokes there

[u/DataDrivenPirate → u/Whatsth3dill]

Yeah I don't think Day has lost to a team that finishes the year outside of the top 25 since he took over 8 years ago. He gets flack from the fan base because he chokes in close games and didn't get to play against Brady Hoke Michigan teams like Meyer did, but he so far hasn't had any slip ups the way Meyer seemed to every year

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/DataDrivenPirate]

one time.

[u/silverhk → u/DataDrivenPirate]

Does he really choke or does he just lose a normal amount of close games? My biggest takeaway on Day is that his worst sin is letting his foot off the gas against extremely talented opponents as if he was playing a weaker team. Like it's not Day's fault that OSU's kicker missed against IU last year.

[u/DataDrivenPirate → u/silverhk]

Definitely just loses a normal amount of games, but yeah the way in which he does it leaves OSU fans feeling like we should win more than we do. He has a winning percentage against top 5 opponents, only other coach who can say that is Kirby Smart

[u/silverhk → u/DataDrivenPirate]

College football fans are really bad at understanding that winning football games can still be really hard even when you are the better team, since for a lot of top programs you're usually the WAY better team.

[u/wit_T_user_name → u/Whatsth3dill]

I can’t really think of a Meyer choke job. When they lost under Urban, they lost.

[u/Whatsth3dill → u/wit_T_user_name]

I guess the one thats comparable is the msu loss in 15, where it was just a slow realization that despite being one score away the whole time, we were gonna lose

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/Whatsth3dill]

2013 was worse. 2015 was infuriating all game.

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/wit_T_user_name]

msu 2013. run wide. Twice.

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/wit_T_user_name]

Texas is really starting to fuck with our Quality Loss

[u/athras882 → u/Inconceivable76]

It's okay, they are a SEC team, can't have them not be a quality loss 

[u/Muted_Translator_230 → u/wit_T_user_name]

Reminded me of the SCAR and A&M game last season. TAMU didn’t win that because they were just that good, SCAR just choked everything away

[u/pew_pew420420]

And so it was written.

[u/Raptorhands2012]

I love Texas history

[u/Rockne2032]

It sounds bizarre today, but both Duquesne and Fordham (the teams that beat Pitt) were very good. Duquesne went undefeated that year, and Fordham didn’t lose all year after they beat Pitt. In fact, they went to the Cotton Bowl the next season, where they narrowly lost to Texas A and M.

In Michigan State’s case, it’s more of a quirk than anything else. They lost to a 4-1 Minnesota team that would go on to win the Rose Bowl, but the AP was only ranking the top ten that regular season. If they ranked 25 like they do today, certainly Minnesota and possibly Purdue would have been ranked.

[u/Arkehn]

https://i.imgur.com/p4kRXBc.jpeg

[u/Muted_Translator_230]

Sark out here talking bout “I told you guys Florida was good!”, just for them to get spanked by the middlings that are Mizzou and SCAR and then somehow lose to them again. From the looks of it I don’t think Texas is every going to be back

[u/FlounderingWolverine → u/Muted_Translator_230]

Florida is a decent team. But probably like the 20th best team in the country. Texas was coming into this year as one of the favorites to win the title. Florida's defense had been stinky booty cheeks the last few weeks, and the vaunted offensive play caller that is Sark with the elite, 5-star, NFL potential of Arch Manning put up a grand total of 17 offensive points...

[u/SimilarOnion1655]

Arch costed Texas both games. He is so inconsistent 

[u/bcoates26 → u/SimilarOnion1655]

He’s not inconsistent. He’s consistently bad

[u/MyTakesAreGoodOrBad]

MSU 🏃‍➡️ 🪄 🏃‍➡️Texas

[u/irregular_stork]

When Florida and Oklahoma meet in the SECCG you'll all eat your words

[u/RNGezzus]

Fire Sark, Hire Brian Kelly

[u/redditgolddigg3r]

keep going, im almost there.

[u/Kingof40Acres → u/redditgolddigg3r]

kinda like auburns drive into the end zone just now?

[u/weoutherebrah]

Elite company 

[u/TDStarchild]

Why is Sparty always catching strays?

[u/LiveMarionberry3694]

Awesome stat. Thanks for making my day that much brighter

[u/Alexcox95]

The best part of this is that loss to Texas looks REALLY BAD for Ohio State now.

[u/Just_One_Victory]

Is there are any way Sark gets fired this season? I ask because that would be hilarious.

[u/musicantz → u/Just_One_Victory]

0 chance he gets fired this season short of him getting into some major off the field trouble in my opinion. If we lose several more games he is going to be on a warmer seat though since we have maybe the most expensive roster in college football.

Also he’s probably going to be forced to fire himself as offensive play caller.

[u/Just_One_Victory → u/musicantz]

Beating Ohio State and then crashing out to a losing season is a helluva trajectory

[u/Acsteffy]

Texas going down in the record books

[u/Fit-Appeal-9047]

you hate to see it. but more than that, you love to see it

[u/solomonrooney]

I remember that ‘39 Pitt team, they were dog shit.

[u/laprasrules]

Yeah, but did those Pitt or MSU teams have a Manning at quarterback? I think not.

[u/Crude-R-Us]

This is a strong case to get rid of Preseason rankings. Don’t rank anyone till week 5 and go from there.

[u/Significant_Youth921]

Out here making history boys

[u/TimAppleSockPuppet]

As much as I want to point and laugh at Texas for this (and I am), Cal just missed being the 3rd team in 2007. We were ranked #2.

[u/SJCitizen]

Texas needs to do what Miami has committed to the last few years and just write a blank check to whoever the best QB in the portal is. Mensah or Mestemaker would absolutely have Texas in the playoffs this season.