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Your A-List, Best Sports Team: Texas State Football
You will break out in an indulgent smile for this Your A-List result: In a city overwhelmingly dominated by Longhorn mania, and particularly orange-tinged fervor for the University of Texas football team that won the national championship two seasons ago, you voted instead for the Texas State University-San Marcos pigskin parade as the Best Sports Team.
The Bobcats went 4-7 in the Southland Conference, and still their fans, or those pretending to be, gave them a whopping 51 percent of the vote. You read it right: San Marcos football trumps all other Central Texas sports teams put together.
UT football? Only 30 percent. Perhaps followers are punishing the players and coaches for a lackluster season. Despite losing only three times (Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas A&M), the Longhorns are expected to compete for the championship ring every year. What they got: a return trip to the Holiday Bowl, granted against a surging opponent, Arizona State.
UT men’s undefeated basketball team, despite its No. 4 ranking in national polls, received only 6 percent of the vote. You can’t win for winning, I guess.
Receiving less than 5 percent were the Round Rock Express, UT baseball, UT women’s basketball, Austin Toros, Austin Ice Bats, UT softball and Austin Wranglers.
The only write-in: The (Expletive) del Fuego, one of Austin’s roller derby teams.
And people are afraid that Austin will forfeit its weirdness.
Photo: Texas State quarterback Bradley George by Ricardo B. Brazziell.
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By Cheif Bobcat
December 23, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this
Oh yes, how could this of happened? There must be some sorta Bobcat football bot on the interwebs. Or, perhaps there are just a ton of fans of Bobcat football that the statesman continuosly ignores.
By Ben
December 21, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this
I bet he hated writing that column....and I bet Will failed his freshman English class
By tif
December 21, 2007 9:06 AM | Link to this
So Sad. Get over it man, Texas State is a A list school with A list Fans.
Get over it.
By Will
December 21, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this
Awww I feel so bad for UT.
But could you say UT more time in a article where the Bobcat Football team was represent more then all other team combined?
What a sad day to have to wright about TEXAS STATE Football.