I adore college football and get as emotional as the next guy when it comes to my favorite team.  Still, I employ a governor of sorts when it comes to voicing my opinion or dismay.  At least, I like to think I do.   A lot of fans don’t.

CFN is one of the most read web publications of its kind.  National appeal, prolific, comprehensive, and as recently noted, the CFN writers are wicked smart.  Maybe not so smartly, CFN subjects itself to the masses by inviting those with Internet-shield to email questions in a feature called Ask CFN.  It’s a nice idea, but can you imagine the hate mail they get?  Fans, often forgotten to be a shortened form of “fanatic,” are just not the rational sort.

Some Texas fans read the prediction of a 9-3 season and went off the deep end.  Seriously.  Now, Barking Carvinal disagreed adamantly with the 9-3 prediction and Scipio Tex was able to voice this disagreement fairly coherently.  Lots of mockery.  Lots of sarcasm.  That’s one way to react. 

Then, you have this:

You people are f***ing idiots. You picked texas to 8-4 last year and now this year you pick us to go 9-3 with three gaem losing streak and losing to Mizzou. Complete f***ing buffoons. I know most don’t like UT but get a f***ing grip. – JoJo

Good ol’ JoJo. 

Y’all ain’t nothin’ but fuckin’ buffoons.

JoJo’s parents shouldn’t give him unsupervised access to the Internets. 

To CFN’s credit, they answered his question.

So how did we come up with this? To start, Texas going 9-3, when it has the talent to do so much more, isn’t exactly going out on a major limb. Last year was an aberration for a Longhorn program that lost three games in 2007, 2006, 2003, and 2000. Traditionally, Texas rebounds well after losing to Oklahoma, but this year, going to Missouri, who we think will reload in a big hurry, is a nasty trip to take after the Red River Rivalry. With that said, it’s all about momentum. If Texas beats OU, forget about everything else and assume Mack Brown and company gets the job done. No matter what happens against OU and Mizzou, that game at Oklahoma State is as tough as they come in what should be a tremendous shootout. So it’s not too crazy to think that Texas could lose to both Oklahoma schools, considering the Sooners and Cowboys are top-five caliber, and the loss at Mizzou is one of those find-an-upset-that-makes-sense-in-August picks.

None of that sounds that crazy.  9-3 isn’t like saying UT is going to suck – a couple bounces go the wrong way and suddenly UT is 9-3.  Shit happens.   I seem to remember a team last year who everyone was picking to challenge for a national title and, well, it didn’t work out that way.  Shit happens, and CFN tries to guess the shit.  It’s nothing personal, JoJo, now get back to your cage.   Next time you disagree with someone’s wild ass guess, ask nicely for a justification, or at least be clever about it.