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It would make no sense to turn down an opportunity to win seven games and end the bowl losing streak.

I don't see how Texas State is beneath us. We're an underachieving G5 program that struggles to win more than 6 games or achieve signature wins against bigger OOC opponents. Until that changes, we have to prove we're above schools like Texas State by beating them.

Do you think being ranked No. 8 a week ago meant anything? Take the teams out of the question and a No. 8 team losing by a last-second field goal in a Power 4/3/2 conference championship game probably wouldn't make them fall out of the top 12.

I'll meet you halfway and hate on Texas.

Clemson losing three games including eight days ago probably had something to do with it.

This isn't about right and wrong. It's just a bunch of jiggery pokery to keep the cool kids in the club, like Nick Saban's Alabama getting in last year because ESPN secretly knew he was going to retire. The Barcalounger crowd doesn't feel that way about the new coach whose name sounds like a Lethal Weapon villain.

I was going to lament SMU getting in but Nick Saban's tears are delicious.

Don't use Oregon as the example of why it's OK for schools to change their look more than Lady Gaga. Oregon is sui generis. They have the brains and riches of the biggest sports brand in the world backing what they do. We, uh, don't. I'd favor any uniform look for us as long as we used it all but one or two times a year. We could even go back to the helmet from my era where the eagle has been broken into pieces by a T sexing an N from behind.

I gotta start following our polo team. Beating SMU to become back-to-back national champions is the kind of headline I need.

SMU is about to buy each of the playoff committee members a Trans Am.

CBS Sports projects that we will play Texas State in the New Mexico Bowl. The unholy clash of two former Incarnate Word coaches.

Get yourself some Lexington-style barbecue while you're there so the trip won't be a total disappointment.

SMU is 11-1 and playing in a Power 4/3/2 conference championship game in just two days. Yet their fans are hanging out this week with us. Does anyone find that utterly bizarre? If UNT was 11-1 and playing for a spot in the College Football Playoff this weekend I wouldn't even remember that SMU exists.

Who do you think we should organize -- fat cat boosters? I will start a Facebook group "Mean Green Alumni Billionaires" and see who joins.

You make cheating sound so considerate. As for SMU remaining near the top of the ACC in the future, you might take a look at how things are going in Tallahassee just 12 months after FSU went undefeated. The portal giveth, the portal taketh away.

One of my sons goes to UCF. Fans are giddy he is leaving. The only trend in play here is a coach leaving before he got fired.

Has our stadium ever hosted a concert? That was a big promise made in the push to get it financed. Since then, streaming and other changes have forced musicians to go on tour all the time to make money. Here in St. Augustine, Florida, we had an amphitheater in a public park we were only using for a yearly state history play, and now The Amp is a major venue getting big-name acts all the time. DATCU would be a desirable concert venue.

SMU got the death penalty because they were incredibly stupid back then. When the NCAA announced new cheating rules in 1985 that included the death penalty as the most severe potential punishment, SMU responded by phasing out payments to players instead of ending them immediately. At least one of those players got kicked off the team and spilled the beans in a TV interview. Now SMU thinks it deserves revenge because it was told not to piss on an electrified fence and did it anyway. Mustang nation would be smarter to leave the past in the past and enjoy the run they're on.

I can't believe anyone here uses the Eye Roll, which is the most embarrassing of all the emojis. Even if no one knows you did it, Touchdown Jesus knows. Man up. You're a fan of a tough sport and out there acting like a Mean Girl. Use the Down Arrow or the Rick Villareal or the Puking Eagle for God's sakes. Have some pride.

Yep. Look at the apathy at Temple with that cavernous nearly empty stadium. Angry fans still give enough of a shit to care. Bet that school would take an angry fan base that puts their butts in the seats over what they got today.

It's a bigger slight to them to be on a bad team. We shouldn't make it personal when talking about athletes and coaches, but there is nothing wrong with criticizing the product on the field.

I think I prefer the scoreboard over hypotheticals. We won. Our defense held them to 17 points after our offense fell apart, which is a nice change after Caponi. Are we great? No. Are we good? Can't go that far either. But at least we can go for seven wins instead of ending the season with no bowl and complete ruin.

We got in. Have some faith there might be another bowl-eligible team with our dodgy pedigree.

What does it mean to "deserve" a bowl game during an era when every six-win team goes to a bowl? Winning ugly is still winning, and if we win a bowl, this season isn't a total loss. Seth Littrell's teams never could.

SEE YOU LATER TEMPLE!