Jerry Palm Texas Quotations

The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.

USC is in the middle of a lull in the schedule. Texas is about to hit a lull.

Texas played an opponent that is now 4-2. So that's going to help what has been a pretty weak strength of schedule so far.

Texas is a clear No. 2 this week -- and the foreseeable future, too -- as long as they maintain their big holds in the polls. They got to keep winning with style.

Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech is not only behind Texas but Georgia as well when the first release comes out.

The thing is, Texas is playing a decent opponent this week (No. 24 Colorado), and that will probably help Texas, at least this week. It would not surprise me if Texas fluctuates over the next few weeks.

If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.