Makes perfect sense to me. We consider A&M to be Western Looozeeeeanna.
The rest of Texas considers my guys to be Eastern Arizona so there’s that.
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The rest of Texas considers my guys to be Eastern Arizona so there’s that.
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Those guys think it is. I like The Panhandlers. And at least that song stirs up all those drugstore cowboys in the Texas cities!
If you want to start an argument in these parts, ask different people where they think West Texas begins. I’d say their song accurately identifies the center of West Texas being from “the Llano Estacado (which is basically the Caprock….aka Lubbock area) to the Big Bend”.
Need to come visit sometime. I’d say we’re about 180 opposite of anywhere in Georgia. …at least climate wise. Hell, we’re 180 degrees opposite of East Texas climate wise.
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Sorry, but the rest of Texas knows New Mexico is a thing.
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I was always under the impression that "west texas" started at San Angelo
It is a big argument in these parts.
True story. When I was in high school we played in a basketball tournament in Irving. (While they were starting to build Texas Stadium…which is now demolished. I know, I know… I’m old.). The tournament announcer said they’d like to welcome the two teams from “ far West Texas. Snyder and Abilene Cooper.” Hell, there’s 450+ miles of Texas “far” West of Abilene!
In the book Empire of the Summer Moon, the author seems to think it starts West of Weatherford when the country loses “the tree line”. His rationale was the Cavalry started having a hard time getting the Comanches under control from that point West because the Comanches could handle the wide open spaces and the Cavalry couldn’t. They’d been successful with other tribes but the Comanches were much better horsemen in the wide open spaces than the Cavalry.
I personally think Weatheford is too far East to be the beginning of West Texas.
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Weatherford down to San Angelo, up to the eastern side of the panhandle is the start of west Texas. West Texas is just such a massive space that it boggles the mind.
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This argument has always interested me, because neither ND or OSU, were a great team. Much like ND did, I think OSU gets beat pretty handily if they face Bama.
As for the ND/OSU comparison, I do think ND was more accomplished than OSU, and they were certainly ahead in the metrics. It would have been interesting what an OSU B1GCG win would have done to their metrics. I don't think that would have closed the gap on ND though. OSU also played a very weak schedule that year, which killed them in the CPU's. Even a 1 loss Bama was rated much better than them by the BCS CPU's.
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We can definitely both agree about Bama being the better team, and in all honesty the OSU bowl ban allowed them to win the title they deserved.
That OSU team was an odd situation. I wonder a lot of their games how much motivation there was since they had nothing to play for other than pride. Again, if they had an actual postseason and Urban had a month to prepare for ND, he has the advantage. ND's offense was nothing scary, and OSU averaged 10 PPG game more, though the ND defense was tougher. At the end of the day, the best team that season won.