We’ve gone toe to toe in the inaugural season in a power 5 conference. It took Florida over 50 years to win an SEC title. I think we’re 1 QB and a few defensive players away from a run. No more Texas and OU but AZ looks tough. So will Colorado. I love this new conference.*

Does his belt not work?

The new darlings of the American lose to Bryant in their high school gym. 👀

Must win next week. We’re just as talented as the rest of the Big 12. Just been unlucky and dumb which has resulted in losses. We could easily be 7-4/8-3 rn. Frustrating but if we win next week we’ll be the only new Big 12 team to make a bowl. Assuming Okie State beats BYU. Need a win next week for extra practices.

This is big boy football and although it’s been frustrating I’ve also had a lot more fun in a 5-6 season so far than I was last year when we made the CCG. We need to show up next week and ensure we get the W. A win is huge for the program. Let’s get it done.

Charge On!

Now we lost to awful Texas Tech

Progress?

Playing a top 10 team at home and you’ve got to give away tickets to try and get people to come to the game.
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UCF lost on missed XP
UF loses on game winning fg
Miami lost on the 2
FSU lost Heisman Candidate Jordan Travis
usf lost
FAU loses to Bryant in bball


Damn

Lost this game. Missed fg and missed extra point. Add a horrible play before half time. Deserve to lose this game. We are who we thought we were.

Mcafee is on campus prior to game day and the crowd is completely electric.

Remember when we had this type of outsider rizz? Man it looks like so much fun

It would be a little bit nicer to have Houston come in here with nothing to play for. Being that they would not be eligible for a bowl if they lose today.

Simple game. Call the first score by your Knights. Winner gets name on the Wall of Fame and a pair of Coozies.​

Rules: you MUST call both the QB and receiver for passing scores along with the yardage. For all other scores RB, kickers, defenders, punt/ kick off returns you must call the yardage and the name of the player. Closest to the yardage wins. Price is right rules: If two people are exact yardage apart, closest without going over wins. You can only play once per account.


2023 Wall of Fame:
Kent State - sjb43


Boise- jackfs


Villanova - Raynman


Kansas State - Tony92


Baylor - HoopingKnight51


Kansas - Dungeon Skunked


Oklahoma - knights4lyfe


West Virginia - GingerBeardMan

Cincinnati - Nautiknight

Oklahoma State - Jd296

Texas Tech - ?

Congratulations to @Jd296 for the call of RJ Harvey from 2yds. Actual was 1yd. if you want the Coozies, please DM me your address. I mailed the other Coozies on Tuesday so those who are waiting should get them Friday/Saturday.

This week I’m calling Harvey from 8 yds.

I was using hotels.com to find lodging near UCF for a baseball game this season.

The Celeste Hotel, which I've wanted to try, was $244/night after fees.

Seems quite ridiculous to me for one night.

I realize the rooms are crazy nice but what am I missing here? Has anyone stayed there?

versus usf bulls on ESPN 2 @ 9pm. You know what to do Roadrunners.

I took some time trying to find the right emoji for the Texas Tech Red Raider for Saturday's game thread - WTF is a Red Raider? I ended up going down a rabbit hole to only find out their mascot is even dumber than it sounds.

In sum, the "Masked Rider” is the Red Raider's primary mascot - it looks like some kind of weird red and black incel lone ranger:


They also have some lame Yosemite Sam knock off they bring to away games because one of the conferences they were in wouldn't let them bring their horses:



I spent too much time reading some Texas Tech page about the Red Raider history and the way too long Wikipedia article - I will give you the cliffs so you don't have to --

- TT didn't have a mascot at first. Back in the 20's the head coaches wife thought they should be the matador's because of the Spanish architecture on campus - that's why they are red and black (like a matador's cape and costume). Yet people complain that Knightro makes no sense…
- Sometime in the 30's, they started calling themselves the Red Raiders because of their red uniform.
- In the 30s also some students pulled a prank where they dressed up in a cape and cowboy boots and rode a horse onto the football field and called it the Masked Rider. For some reason, Texas Tech thinks this is the funniest thing that has ever happened and will probably love playing silly pranks like hide the soap with BYU's football team.
- This horse "prank" became their tradition and they always had different students riding out on a horse in a mask. Apparently it was a big controversy when they had a girl do it because, you know, Texas.
- The most interesting part of all this, is how ****ed up the whole Masked Rider thing has been, here are some of the bullets:

• 1975 - dead horse - the horse was kidnapped and received chemical burns after being painted with orange paint prior to Tech's football game against Texas. The horse died a couple years later from ruptured intestines due to the effect of the toxic paint.
• 1982 - hospitalized cheerleader - the Masked Rider ran into an SMU cheerleader and put her in the hospital for a week with a bunch of injuries.
• 1992 - knocked out referee - the Masked Rider ran into a referree and knocked him unconcious.
• 2001 - dead horse - the horse was in a car accident and sustained serious injuries leading to euthanization.

But the craziest one was in Sept 1994. In a game against the New Mexico Lobos. While riding the horse, the rider's saddle broke and they fell off. So this being Texas, what happened? The horse ran into a wall... head first.... and immediately died.

At this point, it seems like everyone realized that there is something wrong with having these horses riding top speed around the stadium, resulting in people getting hospitalized and horses dying. So they would retire the practice and replace it with something more reasonable. Right?

From Wikipedia:
"The Masked Rider is the primary mascot of Texas Tech University. It is the oldest of the university's mascots still in existence today."


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What platform carries this station today?

OK or BYU? This is a hard one for me to choose. From a B12 perspective BYU winning would be better. For UCF I want to end the season as the best of the new comers so I wouldn’t mind OK winning.

Cinci or WVU? Easy WVU

Baylor or TCU? Toss up, I’ll take BU so they both end up 4-7 after and we have a good shot ending the season higher than both.

OKS or UH? OKS

KU or KSU? Toss up, maybe KSU because KU is going to dominate in MBB.

TX or ISU? Easy ISU

versus bethune-cookman wildcats on ESPNU @ 3:30pm. You know what to do Rattlers.

I mean if we are going to have game threads about ex-rivals from lower levels who we caught, passed, and left in the dust on our rise to the top, might as well have game threads for all of them.

Also, we are all San Diego Torero fans at Noon, versus $tet$on hatter$ on (checks TV listings....) your eyeballs @ Noon if you happen to be in DeLand at Spec Martin Stadium. Even though we never played them in football, the hatter$ were our biggest non-football rivals for years.

I wish rollin$ still had a football team so we could cheer for whoever was playing them.

Just started a couple days ago, but every time I come back on my phone it makes me log in then sends me to the main rivals.com. Anyone else had this and fixed it somehow?

Just rewatched the game film from okie state and I’m still not sold on our defense. OSU ran Ollie up the middle on most of his attempts. There was very little mis direction or runs to the outside. Our defense feasted on this by clamping down over the middle and putting 8 or 9 in the box. Not even Saquan could gain any yards running that play into that front.

Additionally it seemed they were moving the ball on us pretty easily after the rain stopped until they turned the ball over. I think some of the turnovers were rather fortunate for us and if the ball hit the ground instead I think they would’ve had a couple touchdowns going into half and it would have been a completely different game.

Ultimately, I think very poor scheme by OSU and us being very lucky on several game changing moments led to dismantling of the number 15 team in the country. I think if we play that game again and it doesn’t rain, and a few more things go their way it would be much closer.

Join the Gotham Knights at our Game Watch hub in Mid-town Manhattan, John Sulivans , as our Knights take on the Red Raiders in Lubbock , Texas .... Kick -off is 5pm

I’ve been watching a replay of the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Beats game from the mid 80’s. It was that Super Bowl shuffle year where the Dolphins were they only team to beat them. They actually used to stop play if the crowd was too loud. So funny. No penalty, but the refs just kept coming up and asking pretty please be quiet.

Reminds of the year UCF received a noise penalty on the crowd. I think it was a playoff game, maybe Div II or 1-AA playoffs. Was that even legal to give the cows a penalty back then? I know UCFmade hankies with the words “noise penalty” written on them.

Crazy to think of this being an issue considering the way it is today.