By RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
Randy Galloway says this line in the column below was wrong and stupid: “I’d pay Boss Hawg Bowl prices to watch Colt leave on a cart.”
Read his statementThis week’s Best Idea I’ve Ever Had is a state championship game in the sport of football.
No human polls allowed. No computer geeks accepted.
Forget the "Big" 12. Nobody cares. Bunch of mutts, except for the University of Texas, particularly once the people up north lost Sam.
The Mountain West? I’m not dismissing what Utah did to that Alabama outfit last January, but otherwise ...
Let’s talk about what really matters.
Longhorns vs. TCU. And the best football team in Texas is ...
"C’mon," declared my man Clarence, noted UT defender and the whine-king when it comes to being a Whiney Orange, "you know that TCU doesn’t play anybody."
My reply: Silence, with a grin, waiting on reality to smack Clarence upside the head.
"Well ..." he added. "we played ... uh, Oklahoma."
Yeah, except without Sam, and even then, Colt McCoy had to be the star of the game. On defense.
The Longhorns’ schedule has been so bad that in the B.S. that is the BCS, the computers, which lean heavily to strength of schedule, ranked the Horned Frogs ahead of UT this week.
Not that I’m exactly pushing that as a TCU bonus. Those same computers rank Iowa as the best team in the country, proving again that the country has no best college team.
The Frogs’ defense vs. Colt and his offense. Forget a press pass. I’d pay Boss Hawg Bowl prices to watch Colt leave on a cart.
The Frogs and the Longhorns — bring it up to any Whiney Orange these days and they move on in a hurry. No contest, they say. We’re after a national championship, they say. Yeah, sure.
But no contest?
Well, the boys in Vegas couldn’t care less about BCS polls, human or Dell. In Las Vegas, they just do numbers, known as point spreads.
What the large Vegas hotel sports books don’t necessarily like to do is volunteer a number on hypothetical matchups. But if you know the right people ...
Three Vegas oddsmakers were asked this question this week:
If TCU played Texas on Saturday at a neutral site, what would your point spread be?
One said he wanted to look at some information, and would get back. He did, with this:
Texas, a four-point favorite.
The second guy said he’d go off the top his head and make Texas a six-point favorite.
Split the difference and it’s Texas a five-point favorite. Consider that the Longhorns are playing Saturday at Oklahoma State — now the second-best team in the Big 12, if there is such a thing as second best — and Texas is a 9 1/2 -point road favorite.
Even with Sam Bradford starting for Oklahoma two weeks ago, Texas kicked off as a 3 1/2 -point favorite.
By those Vegas opinions, Texas and TCU are very evenly matched. Wouldn’t want to say told-you-so ...
But wait. Better news for Clarence and the Whineys came from Jay Rude, head of the massive MGM Mirage sports books in Vegas.
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