Packers, 49ers?
I'm honestly having a difficult time buying into all of the hype of this game for multiple reasons.
1) Texas is not even a relevant team when talking about national title contenders. Given, when the game was scheduled, UT was a national contender and battling Oklahoma for Big 12 Supremacy, but the past 2 years they have been irrelevant in the college football landscape (but so have the bears) even missing a bowl in 2010.
2) Texas has clearly much more talent and depth than UM and should put them away easily. Who exactly have the bears beaten and they haven't exactly looked dominant, especially against a Southland Conference opponent?
3) The allure of the grove and UM is overhyped and much overrated. To make a huge deal about the UT fans all flying in on their private jets and overloading the Oxford airport is ridiculous. Their fans do this for every game they play. They are the wealthiest university in North America. To say they are flying in to tailgate in the Grove is a stretch. I've tailgated at just about every SEC school (not UK or Vandy) and I can honestly admit that Tuscaloosa and Athens tailgate scenes blow the grove out of the water. Still don't understand the allure of tailgating half a county away from the stadium, but then again when your fans care about the tailgate more than the game it somewhat makes sense.
I live in New Orleans now and have met numerous people from numerous universities and states and they all have the biggest misconceptions of grove and UM as a whole. The perception amongst people who've never been to or experienced UM or Oxford is simply mind boggling. When you speak to someone who has been there, they will tell you that the actual place is much different than that which they had envisioned.
The same goes for Starkville as well. People think it's a one horse, stop sign town. But after they visit they cannot believe that it's nothing like what they see or heard in various media outlets.
I think the Horns win this one easily, and the Vaught is cleared out by halftime.
I'm honestly having a difficult time buying into all of the hype of this game for multiple reasons.
1) Texas is not even a relevant team when talking about national title contenders. Given, when the game was scheduled, UT was a national contender and battling Oklahoma for Big 12 Supremacy, but the past 2 years they have been irrelevant in the college football landscape (but so have the bears) even missing a bowl in 2010.
2) Texas has clearly much more talent and depth than UM and should put them away easily. Who exactly have the bears beaten and they haven't exactly looked dominant, especially against a Southland Conference opponent?
3) The allure of the grove and UM is overhyped and much overrated. To make a huge deal about the UT fans all flying in on their private jets and overloading the Oxford airport is ridiculous. Their fans do this for every game they play. They are the wealthiest university in North America. To say they are flying in to tailgate in the Grove is a stretch. I've tailgated at just about every SEC school (not UK or Vandy) and I can honestly admit that Tuscaloosa and Athens tailgate scenes blow the grove out of the water. Still don't understand the allure of tailgating half a county away from the stadium, but then again when your fans care about the tailgate more than the game it somewhat makes sense.
I live in New Orleans now and have met numerous people from numerous universities and states and they all have the biggest misconceptions of grove and UM as a whole. The perception amongst people who've never been to or experienced UM or Oxford is simply mind boggling. When you speak to someone who has been there, they will tell you that the actual place is much different than that which they had envisioned.
The same goes for Starkville as well. People think it's a one horse, stop sign town. But after they visit they cannot believe that it's nothing like what they see or heard in various media outlets.
I think the Horns win this one easily, and the Vaught is cleared out by halftime.
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