As a huge college football fan, the president is looking forward to the Rose Bowl and pulling hard for the Texas Longhorns.
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You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.
I think it's very exciting. It gives college football a great jump-start into the '05 season. We have the good fortune that a lot of people know who we are and who the Longhorns are.
This team continues to impress us as a staff. Our guys were excited about this game. But we are still a work in progress and we have the ability to play much better than we have yet. If you don't play your best game and you are still able to score 52 points, you know you have a special team out there. This is such a great win for the Longhorns.
If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.
If the Longhorns get Mouton, that would just be a huge bonus to end a great recruiting year. It would be a muscle-flexor, one that just shows the power of the national championship. To go in on a kid that late against USC and Michigan, and to get him, that's huge. Texas had not worked the kid at all.
My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.
The Lone Star State's best college football team is alone at the top of the Bowl Championship Series standings, but even the Texas Longhorns know Monday's rise might be fleeting. It's a compliment, ... We understand the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning.
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
AM doesn't deserve (an NCAA berth) over Houston, in my opinion. They haven't beaten an LSU on the road or an Arizona, which has turned out to be a great team. AM had a wonderful win over the Longhorns, but that's it.
Longhorns traveled the Chisholm Trail.
1. The integrity of the polls comes into question. That Texas is playing in the Rose Bowl instead of Cal is not by itself an injustice. You can make plenty of arguments in favor of either 10-1 team. What is ridiculous is the way the Longhorns got in, sitting on their couch while Cal traveled across the country and won at Southern Miss -- but apparently not by enough for the tens of voters who moved Texas up and the Bears down in their final poll, knowing exactly what the ramifications were when they did it. If you have to go in and blow people out, ... that doesn't serve the integrity of the game.
The No. 2 Longhorns passed the first test before a record crowd of 105,565 at Ohio Stadium No. 17 Oklahoma, ever the killjoy, awaits Oct. 8. (The win) gives us the opportunity to stay at (No. 2) and hopefully get better as a team, ... Last year, when we lost in October, we lost some of that and couldn't get back up. It by no means gives you a right to the end, and that's what our kids have to understand. It's a long, hard 11 weeks left.