Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:40 pm EST
Crazy things have been reported before in the skies over the University of Texas campus in Austin, but there's probably never been a visitor by any means more unwelcome than the one that circled over the administration tower around lunch time today:

Who knew Oklahomans had allocated so much money for pointless, lazily-spelled gloating?
UPDATE: The triumphant site 39-33.com is claiming the banner is the work of a Texas Tech fan in Austin, not Oklahomans. Wait, you mean there were three teams in this discussion?
UPDATE. Oh, the intrigue! An Austin TV station is now reporting that Texas fans were behind the banner, for some bizarre reason. This is more convoluted the BCS race itself. The flight cost $2,200 and elicited the following, disappointingly level-headed response from students:
"Some of us got really upset. One of the guys said he was going to go to the airport and try to catch them when they came off the plane, but I told him that probably wasn't a good idea."
Speaking as a professional, I happen to think that was a great idea, if only to see how the American-Statesman fit "Texas fans assault pilot of plane hired by other Texas fan(s) to flaunt Texas' BCS snub for no particular reason" into a single headline. Why must we be deprived of such small pleasures?
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Hat tip: Charlie.
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And Matt- that website is saying that Texas and not Tech is responsible for the banner
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imitation is the purest form of flattery...
HOOK EM HORNS!
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To MJ: I was wondering if you could also post the stats for the Oklahoma v Texas game and even better, the Oklahoma v Tech game too? That would be great. Thx.
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US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS
computers were put to work on other major contests and today the
BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning
with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing
on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses
came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire
body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--
our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS
commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and
Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by
head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a
single, equally-weighted event."
German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we
defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been
criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to
enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with
Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in
Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of
additional forces."
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" France had a single loss against Germany and following a
preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and
the Philippines.
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:eech is the man, UT, ,take a lesson about how a class coach conducts bus.
Hope he goes to ND. Thats where he belongs
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