True story: in 2007, I rented a pickup truck in Houston for a work project and drove to central Louisiana. Along the way, I got stopped by a Louisiana State Trooper for speeding. He clocked me at 78 mph in a 60-mph speed limit.
I told him, honestly, that I had lost track of how fast I was going; it was a rental truck and I was unfamiliar with it's speed and feel. Surprisingly, he understood and was sympathetic, and even more surprisingly, he let me go with a warning because when he saw my Georgia driver's license, he realized I wasn't from Texas.
"Those Texas drivers come through here driving like bats out of hell," he told me. "I get it, what it's like driving a new rental, but at first I thought you were one of them Texas drivers coming through here disrespecting our speeding laws." He let me go simply because I wasn't from Texas.
Moral: there's no love lost between Louisiana and Texas.
The 2025 Texas Bowl had the No. 21 Houston Cougars (9-3) of the Big 12 against the unranked LSU Tigers (7-5) of the SEC. Pop quiz: who do you think I picked in a game between a Texas team and an SEC team? If you don't know the answer, please log off of this blog right now, or at least go back a few weeks and attempt to catch up (I picked LSU as 3-point underdogs).
It's been a long day, and I don't have the energy to go over the whole LSU coaching drama, except to say they were playing without their former head coach or their new hire, and had an interim dude coaching, and that hasn't worked out well for most teams that tried that so far this season.
It was a long game at the end of a long day, with the momentum and the lead constantly shifting from team to team. LSU scored the last points of the game with a TD in the last minute of play, but when it was all over and done for, Houston, the motherfucking Texas team, won by three. I'd call in that state trooper from 2007 to intervene, but the spread was 3 so the game was another push - no one won the bet and no one lost. It's as if the game never happened. Fuhgeddaboudit, as they say up north.
So, now that the long, long day is finally over and done with, all eight games of it, I'm down 9-16 on the season. I know, I know - I suck at this. I went 2 and 5 on the day today with one push. My precious SEC went 0-2 on the day, and I'm sure I'll see no shortage of memes about that tomorrow on Facebook and Reddit. I'm not a proud man but at least I know where I'll make my stand.
No bowl games tomorrow, thank whatever pagan gods you believe in.
Good night.
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