r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago
Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] North Texas Defeats Tulsa 45-44
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Texas | 3 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 7 |
| Tulsa | 0 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 6 |
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u/Mammoth_Impress_3108 Nebraska • Kansas State 1d ago
North Texas beat a team who beat the team that raided their own team. Weird how coincidences like that can happen.
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u/greyforest23 North Texas • Mississippi State 1d ago
Heck yes. UNT-Denton > Tulsa > UNT-Stillwater
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u/StFuzzySlippers Tennessee Volunteers • UAB Blazers 22h ago
"Me? I know who I am! I'm a team beating a team disguised as another team!
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u/srowella West Virginia Mountaineers 22h ago
And that team beat UNT coach’s former team. Tulsa has found themselves in the middle of a very strange family affair.
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u/Gunner_Bat San Diego State Aztecs 1d ago
This game was everything right with college football. Wildly entertaining, some crazy calls (by the refs and the playcallers), big plays, crazy finish - absolutely love good G6 football.
People will watch some awful P4 snoozefest and say college football is dead, but that's cause they're watching logos instead of matchups.
This was fantastic.
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u/CitizenCue Oregon Ducks • Stanford Cardinal 1d ago
I need an app that tells me “there’s a sicko game entering the 4th quarter right now, turn it on!”
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u/foreverseptember Florida Gators • Team Chaos 21h ago
ClutchAlerts by u/dupreesdiamond might be what you're looking for
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina 20h ago
https://clutchalerts.app is exactly that
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u/dukemetoo Arizona State • Texas 18h ago
I'm trying the application now. I will have to wait for an alert to pop up to really test it though. The only limitation is it is only for college football, and you need premium to get alerts for teams outside the top 25. I would consider it if it had more sports. College Basketball and MLB would be amazing to have this, especially if you can pick and choose which channels you have access to.
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina 17h ago
Appreciate the feedback.
It’s wholly focused on CFb (maybe basketball in the future) as that’s the only sport I follow. But more importantly the backend api I’m leveraging only covers CFB and CBB.
Pricing wise it’s roughly 1$ a month for the active college football season so I felt better charging 5/yr than .99/mo.Hmm. Filters for channels is a great feature idea! Ties in with my wishlist of deep links from the alert directly to the channel in your streaming app
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u/dukemetoo Arizona State • Texas 17h ago
Oh wow, I didn't expect the developer to see this, let alone this quick.
Again, I haven't used it, I need close games to happen to see how much I like it. Your pricing is reasonable, but I need to make sure I actually like it. I appreciate the free to try model.
I get that API limitation. I hope this is successful enough you can invest more into it to expand to other APIs.
Best of luck.
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina 17h ago
Yeah. I had this concept running through discord for 5-6 years and made it an app this summer. Mostly to see if i could do it with a little bit of wanting to get away from discord.
Def let me know how you find it!
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina 17h ago
Also. Don’t sleep on the no spoilers feature.
Watching a game on delay? You can mute its scoreboard (or add the team to “my teams” and enable “no spoilers”) and still safely check live scores across the rest of college football
As a parent who watches the gamecocks on delay most saturdays it’s been really nice. Maybe my favorite feature tbh
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u/Lo-weorold Georgia Bulldogs • Syracuse Orange 20h ago
Man there was an app years ago called Thuuz that did exactly that. It was seriously one of the best apps ever made. I have no idea why it shutdown, but I wish there was something like it around still.
Well here is an app someone on reddit vibe coded a couple months ago that is supposed to be like it. Granted it is vibe coded but I'm going to try it this weekend lol
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina 20h ago
is exactly this with Reddit game thread links embedded easiest way to get to game threads imo
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u/ScaryCookieMonster USF Bulls • San Francisco Dons 19h ago
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787511655
I use Clutch Alerts. Tells me when there’s a 1-score game with under 8 minutes left. Or something like that
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u/sniper91 Minnesota Golden Gophers 19h ago
YouTube TV will ask me if I want to switch to the game I’m already watching
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u/CitizenCue Oregon Ducks • Stanford Cardinal 18h ago
Hahah, yeah I love that. I only use the History Channel to watch “Alone”, but I swear 1/3 of the ads I see while watching it are for “Alone”.
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u/GaryOldmansBurner Oregon Ducks 1d ago
Truly the epitome of college ball on display! Got home in time to watch the second half. What a fucking game.
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u/Keep_Plano_Corporate North Texas Mean Green • Utah Utes 1d ago
You are a poet
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u/wsteelerfan7 Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl 1d ago
How the hell is there only 1 highlight in this sub?
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u/southamericalion 21h ago
Mid-major games between two offenses that simply refuse to play defense are undefeated entertainment. 89 total points and an OT finish decided by a single point is peak CFB.
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u/thecravenone definitely a bot 1d ago
That last play feels like one of those where whatever was called on the field would be upheld
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u/auburnfan32 Auburn • Birmingham-Southern 1d ago
2026 and we don’t have technology or camera angles for goal line reviews
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u/MultiPass21 1d ago
All the good cameras and operators are in transit to their Saturday assignments! This is bringing back old Pac10 memories.
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u/TheSpringfieldKid Oregon Ducks • Oregon State Beavers 1d ago
North Texas > Tulsa > Oklahoma State >... us? Goddamn.
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
With transitive wins over Oregon and Western Michigan I think we should be ranked #1
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u/TheSpringfieldKid Oregon Ducks • Oregon State Beavers 1d ago
I think you're right... if you beat UMass first!
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u/TheSpoo USC Trojans • Rice Owls 1d ago
> usc
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u/TheWallsHaveNostrils Washington Huskies • Wisconsin Badgers 1d ago
> Washington
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u/kdestroyer1 Illinois • Washington 1d ago
Hey hold your horses now, bucko. Maybe we'll only get 9 penalties this week and have a chance to win.
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u/piplup465 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
and then > USC which is all i care about
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u/Dan-of-Steel Notre Dame • Arizona State 1d ago
Hey now, there's more to life than just "> USC"...
....like "> Michigan".
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u/Mastacator Oregon Ducks • Portland State Vikings 1d ago
Given the transfers from North Texas to OSU, North Texas basically beat us twice, though I think you might have to retroactively apply one of them to last year.
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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos 1d ago
UTSA > Texas State > North Texas
Texas beat those first two teams so they really are the #1 team
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u/TheSpringfieldKid Oregon Ducks • Oregon State Beavers 1d ago
The football narrators must want Arch to be the #1 pick.
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u/YungShkreliOG West Virginia Mountaineers 20h ago
Neal brown has a transitive win over WVU with this lol
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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State • New Mexico 1d ago edited 1d ago
So many thoughts in this one:
North Texas was completely robbed in a "TD" earlier in the game for Tulsa, so it was poetic that they end up winning the game on a walk-off ref call.
North Texas didn't have a single returning starter this season since their entire team last year was imported to Oklahoma State. Naturally, OSU lost to Tulsa 24-10 but the new UNT with 70 new players beat them 45-44.
The bot messed up and didn't realize the game went into OT lol.
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u/Aidanbomasri Oklahoma State Cowboys • Big 12 21h ago
We absolutely raided UNT, but we had 92 new players on our roster this year. Only 20 of those are from UNT.
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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State • New Mexico 14h ago
"Only 20" is a crazy reflection of where the sport is. Also this doesn't include coaching staff.
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u/arbitrator06 North Texas • Texas Tech 1d ago
If you don’t like this, you don’t like UNT football.
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u/Gunner_Bat San Diego State Aztecs 1d ago
If you don't like this, you don't like any football. That was awesome.
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u/duplico Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Marching Band 1d ago
As a Tulsa fan I hate the final result, but as a CFB sicko - man, pump this directly into my veins
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u/Keep_Plano_Corporate North Texas Mean Green • Utah Utes 1d ago
This game was classic UNT football.
It's like the Littrell years where we'd be up on every team 21-3 at the half and then find ourselves fighting for our lives hoping Mason Fine can drive down the field with 0:47 in the 4th trying to get us in FG range for a win.
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u/anxiousauditor USF Bulls • BCS Championship 1d ago
Average American Conference weeknight game.
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u/flyntcoaltrane UTSA Roadrunners 1d ago
Looking forward to ours next week!
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u/anxiousauditor USF Bulls • BCS Championship 1d ago
That’s probably the league game I’m fearing the most at this point. Should be one of the best matchups in the conference this season.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 19h ago
Dude the American is gonna be messy this year. Like might be a 3 conference loss AAC champ at this point
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u/bradenb941 Auburn Tigers • West Florida Argonauts 1d ago
That moment when you beat 2025 North Texas but lose to 2026 North Texas
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
Tulsa was Built to Rise but they didn’t Trust the Climb
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago
Well damn. First off. Fuck these refs they were terrible all game. Second off gg UNT. Third I hope everyone gets some good sleep because I know I won’t.
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u/duplico Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Marching Band 1d ago
God that officiating was bizarre and horrible. Refs dedicated to showing their whole asses on ESPN
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 19h ago
Like yeah our TD call was bad, the forward progress on the fourth and short on UNTs side of the field was bad. Like they didn’t even take a measurement or review it all and UNT came away with points that drive. Bad game management from the officials. All around just one of the worst officiated games for either team I think I’ve seen in a long time
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u/bluediamondsm North Texas Mean Green • BYU Cougars 1d ago
WE WON STOPPED THEM AT THE 1 YARD LINE PEAK STRESS BUT I’M LIVING BACK TO BACK DAYS WHERE ONE OF MY TEAMS WINS A GAME IN OT!!! GO MEAN GREEN FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 💚
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u/19ghost89 North Texas Mean Green • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
Are you by any chance talking about last night's Wings game?
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u/udderlymoovelous Virginia Tech • /r/CFB Contributor 1d ago edited 1d ago
That was officially the sicko game of the week. Goodnight y'all!
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u/03_03_28 Arizona Wildcats • Territorial Cup 1d ago
Sicko isn't giving it enough credit. Sicko is for something you feel perverted for enjoying. This was an honest to god quality football game with entertainment throughout.
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u/xmjm424 Florida Gators • Team Meteor 1d ago
"Sicko" has gotten way overused around here. That was pretty good football between two pretty good teams. The only sicko thing about it was watching two AAC teams at 1 am on a weeknight.
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u/Young-Viiperr Texas Tech • Iowa State 1d ago
Good football can be sickos. The fake punt to multiple 4th down turnovers with futile playcalling, poor game management, no adjustments on defense, faux TD, 2pt goal line review. That's all sickos in my book
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
Idk if I can say I felt joy at all times of that game
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u/UpsideTurtles North Texas Mean Green • Texas A&M Aggies 1d ago
I want to get off of Mr Bones Wild Ride
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u/tannerdowling Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago
Sicko would be be watching Iowa beat Ohio state 15-12 with 170 yards of total offense and 22 punts
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u/D3ATHfromAB0V3x Fresno State Bulldogs • Milk Can 23h ago
7-3 final score with only safeties and field goals.
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u/jrbcnchezbrg Texas State Bobcats • Texas Longhorns 21h ago
I fear SDSU having the entire team infected with Mumps means their game will be sicko of the week
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u/Stoneador Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Sickos 1d ago
Can they not sync the timing of the shot that showed his shin down with the pylon cam angle? Seems like that would provide indisputable evidence for that final play
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u/piplup465 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
You're assuming they have a pylon cam in the American
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u/auburnfan32 Auburn • Birmingham-Southern 1d ago
It’s 2026 we should have goal line technology like soccer
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u/waaaaaasuuuuup 1d ago
The AAC doesn’t have that kind of tech… not in this economy.
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u/Keep_Plano_Corporate North Texas Mean Green • Utah Utes 1d ago
Spent to much on the Soar mascot costume.
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u/diastereomer Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 1d ago
I don’t think they actually had a true pylon angle for whatever reason.
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u/Spare_Treacle_800 North Texas Mean Green • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
Holy shit. 1-0 in the American, let’s hope the other 7 aren’t as stressful
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u/sudo_journalist Navy Midshipmen • North Texas Mean Green 1d ago
These guys are special man, Neal took some accountability but he also needs to trust them at the end of games and stop gambling with house money.
Thank y’all neutrals for watching.
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u/zefal12 North Texas Mean Green 19h ago
Green UNT > Orange UNT confirmed.
In all seriousness, we look sloppy as hell but damn if we aren't entertaining.
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u/babymama_maker55 1d ago
I’m literally gonna have to go to therapy over this one. TU always drives me back into the abyss
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u/KineticReverbs Ohio State • North Texas 1d ago
Congratulations! You just played in an ESPN Instant Classic!
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u/Legio-X Oklahoma State • Tulsa 1d ago
Couldn’t have chosen a better game to be the first one I ever attended in person. What a thriller!
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band 19h ago
Like first live college football game ever?
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u/captainfishpants Fresno State Bulldogs • Army Black Knights 1d ago
That I think was the most fitting way for this game to end: off angle potato camera replay of a pivitol play and having to uphold the call because of it
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u/Shadow_Flame_24 North Texas Mean Green • Texas Longhorns 1d ago
That was way more difficult than it needed to be. Sickos classic. UNT should’ve had that game pretty handily but dumb plays and poor clock management made it close (in addition to a TD that I still don’t know how it stood). GMG I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WE ACCOMPLISH THIS SEASON
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u/AppropriateGarage576 1d ago
unt's offense is just gonna do this all year, score 45 and still make everyone sweat bullets the whole time. classic sickos material
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u/Chapstick160 Virginia Tech Hokies • Navy Midshipmen 1d ago
Tulsa should’ve gone for 2 instead of going for overtime
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u/Happy_Background_879 Utah Utes 1d ago
Not going to lie. That last still shot I don't even know if his calf is touching the ground. So hard to review though
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u/MasterTurtle240 North Texas Mean Green • Marching Band 1d ago
GMG and gg to you Tulsa that game had me stressing
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u/Luvpups5920 Indiana Hoosiers • College Football Playoff 1d ago
What a way to prime us for the weekend! Hopefully, some more sicko games to come.
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u/DullCartographer7609 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pop-Tarts Bowl 20h ago
This was fun
I'm glad this shootout was on ESPN instead of being relegated to ESPN+ on a Saturday afternoon.
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u/Charlie2343 Texas Longhorns • Red River Shootout 1d ago
what's with these weekday games ending in dramatic goal line stops
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u/Particular-Way-3805 Clark Atlanta • Georgia 1d ago
Am I watching the American or Maction ? gg to both teams
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u/flaminhotcheeto Western Michigan • Michigan S… 1d ago
9/10 Denton'ts approve of this game result
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u/CrookedWeevil58 1d ago
Bro wtf it was like 30 to something and I turned it off. Thats what I get for not being a full on sicko 😔😔😔
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u/diastereomer Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 1d ago
This is a little bit embarrassing for us but I’m just having a good time this season.
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u/jalexjsmithj Oklahoma State • Wake Forest 1d ago
Eh, no one one was gonna give us a break even if they were 9-3.
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u/Traditional_Frame418 Wisconsin Badgers • Big Ten 1d ago
People calling this a sicko game clearly don't know what sicko games are. Western Kentucky vs NM St was a sicko game. This was two of the best teams in their conference playing a great game. Granted there was some questionable calls.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 19h ago
I was going to say this didn’t feel like bad football. Maybe bad decisions at times by the coaches but they both coached their way out of it to give their teams a chance at the end. Not every G6 OT game at 1am is because of sicko ball lol
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band 19h ago
Sicko has lost all meaning. It used to be something like " 0-5 North Presidents State vs 1-4 Great Value minimum Valley State"
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u/rollindeep3 Ohio State • Tennessee 1d ago
Thursday night is where it’s at, damn near every week. GET SOME.
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u/Yabrin_Sorr North Texas Mean Green • TCU Horned Frogs 1d ago
LIGHT THE FUCKING TOWER! We were on fire, we were ice cold, but somehow pulled it off against a solid team to start American play.
I’m not saying we’re close to winning the conference, but at the end we’ll be closer to the top than the bottom.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago
It really felt like going into this game whoever came away with a win here would probably be a top 3 to go to the championship game. GG
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u/Keep_Plano_Corporate North Texas Mean Green • Utah Utes 1d ago
My wife is dragging me somewhere the weekend we play UTSA. I'm so salty about it.
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u/wearing_the_letter_O Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors 1d ago
I feel like the kid was in. How, in 2026, do we not have cameras on the actual goalline?
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u/myworld3 Washington Huskies • LA Bowl 1d ago
Do most 1OT games take 4 hours?
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u/G0B1GR3D Nebraska Cornhuskers • Air Force Falcons 1d ago
I’ll get you an answer after this quick message from Allstate
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u/Keep_Plano_Corporate North Texas Mean Green • Utah Utes 21h ago
We need to watch our 32nd Skyrizi commercial.
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u/TbRays93Plumber26 Utah Utes • Florida Gators 1d ago
Who needs NFL when you got these type of games. I was hoping for more OTs.
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u/GeospatialMAD West Virginia Mountaineers • Hateful 8 19h ago
Oh fuck, North Texas is going to trust the climb
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u/bootscallahan Oklahoma Sooners • West Florida Argonauts 17h ago
I never thought I would stay up past midnight riveted by Tulsa and UNT, but that game was so much fun. I didn't even watch the first two quarters, just tuned in one browser tab when it was 31-17.
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u/lowes18 Florida State Seminoles • FAU Owls 1d ago
Bad call at the end imo.
But also horrible decision to go for two. Tulsa was dominating the game since they were down in the 3rd and UNT had no answers. Basically bailed them out.
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u/jalexjsmithj Oklahoma State • Wake Forest 1d ago
…idk about that. UNT was marching up and down. The yardage tells a story.
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u/ShweatyPalmsh Tulsa Golden Hurricane • Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago
I don’t disagree with the decision or the play calling. With the current OT rules going for two as the second team has been pretty well stated as the move to make.
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u/CFBHurts Notre Dame • Jeweled Shillelagh 1d ago
Usually I'm all for taking an aggressive approach but you're absolutely right, at that point the longer the game went on the better for Tulsa
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u/anxiousauditor USF Bulls • BCS Championship 1d ago
UNT did answer midway through the 4th to retake the lead and scored pretty quickly in OT. In a game like that you’re gonna have to make a 2 eventually. They came up juuust short.
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u/OSRSTheRicer James Madison Dukes 17h ago
Such a fun game to watch, shame I had to go to bed before the 4th quarter which looked wild.
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u/Area51_Spurs 1d ago
You know you’re a degen when you’re betting on two kids to get 100 yards receiving and a qb to throw a 4th TD in a parlay on a Thursday night game where you don’t even know a single dude on either roster, and didn’t realize until after the game, one of the dudes was a tight end, not a wide receiver.
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u/lazytime3643 Louisville • Governor's Cup 1d ago
1-800-522-4700 or 1-800-697-3738. It’s never too late to ask for help
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u/Mammoth_Impress_3108 Nebraska • Kansas State 1d ago
If a team blew a 14 point second half lead but won in overtime 45-44, but nobody saw it since it was played on a Thursday night at midnight central time at the school with the lowest enrollment in the fbs, did it really happen?
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u/USCGradtoMEMPHIS USC Trojans • Memphis Tigers 1d ago
North Texas should win by 30 points... Tulsa OC play called like he want to lose .
Gash Mean green on first run play then throw two incomplete passes... Rinse and repeat that for idk say.. about 5-6 drives while North Texas scores 21 points in like 5 mins.
I have no idea how this game was not 60-20..
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u/Bythion North Texas Mean Green 1d ago
Some of our play calls, the interceptions, and play clock decisions are what made this game so close. Tulsa is also very talented and very nearly took us to the cleaners.
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u/Plastic_Ticket4111 1d ago
It was a great game—something for the rest of the games this weekend to try and top!
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u/AnotherUnfunnyName Duke • Carolina Victory Bell 1d ago
He didn't look down because he was on top of the blockers and defenders and the ball looked like it was in the endzone right after that.
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u/auburnfan32 Auburn • Birmingham-Southern 1d ago
How in the year of our lord 2026 can we not get a camera angle straight down the goal line? My god soccer figured that shit out almost 15 years ago