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oSuJeff97

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  1. Maybe they are and maybe they aren’t. Kansas State has blown every team out - both at home and away - since we played them. I think they are pretty fucking good. And save me the “they got to play against Howard” nonsense. Howard is fucking good - we just confused him and shut down their running game (which we have done against everyone). OU has played 3 true road games this year and looked shitty in all three - a dogfight with SMU (who is OK but still G5), a dogfight with Cincy (who sucks) and then a loss at KU. Yes, I’m fully aware and expecting that they will play awesome against us on Saturday, but I’m just saying *at this point* one can make a valid argument that essentially dominating K-State isn’t a pretty impressive win. (Yes I know the score doesn’t show that but that game was never in doubt. We were up 3 scores with like 2 minutes left in the 3rd quarter and then Gundy went into turtle mode)
  2. My wife (no pics) went to KU, so we were one happy household yesterday, lol.
  3. I don’t even know that’s it’s being aggressive so much as it is having two freshmen safeties. They’ve been getting confused/torched on the reg and I don’t expect that to change on Saturday. The upside/good news is that the DL is legit and Nick Martin is giving big-time Malcolm Rodriguez vibes so we’ve mostly been able to contain running games. I’m just accepting the fact that OU will get 2-3 long TD passes on Saturday. I’m hoping we do enough good other stuff to offset them. Last year was ass because our whole team was injured but that 2021 game was pretty fucking awesome. If you don’t recall it’s when we sacked Caleb Williams on the last play of the game to win and then Lincoln Riley left town the next day. In my bunk, I will be.
  4. Literally the last time this happened (2021) we won. But as a long-suffering fan, I get the skepticism. On the one hand, OU hasn’t played well on the road in two years. This year they have played 3 true road games - they struggled with SMU and Cincinnati and just lost to Kansas. But on the other hand, I’m sure the game they will finally put it together will be in Stillwater, lol. I honestly have no idea what to think about this game. I expect our secondary will be burned deep several times, but every time I think I’ve seen the most spectacular Ollie Gordon thing he does something more spectacular on the next play so… I don’t know.
  5. Man Game of Thrones was so great to experience in real time. It also ignited the great Shaggy/Surly faction war: Bookfags vs. Illiterati (Illiteratti 4eva!!)
  6. Sailor hat talk not going away...
  7. Good luck. We're all counting on you. May all of your soakings include the Provo Push.
  8. Their pace-adjusted stats are shit too. They are in the 80s in defensive points per possession and defensive points per play.
  9. Nah I was thinking of Tulsa, just not remembering right (again...Bourbon). I think the deal was that everyone around here made a big deal about it at the time because they were briefly in the same conference, but I guess they never played? Or maybe Tulsa joined C-USA right after Army left? I can't keep track.. feels like Tulsa was jumping conferences every couple of years there for a while.... WAC, C-USA, Big East, AAC, etc.
  10. Yeah... only thing I can think of is that his main problem in college seems to be that he won't fire his shit-tastic defensive coordinator. They are currently 3rd in the country in scoring offense and 105th (!!!) in scoring defense. I mean, if they were "only" like 60th or so in scoring defense they would likely be undefeated and ranked in the top 5. If they had a top 10-15 defense (which USC absolutely should be able to do) they would be blowing everyone out and be a national title contender. If I'm an owner of an NFL team and are willing to hire him, my terms would be "We are hiring you for your offensive acumen. We are not hiring your buddy who is a shitty DC. You will hire a real DC."
  11. Sadly, dudes get rewarded, not punished, for being the equivalent of living breathing click bait.
  12. Am I nuts or didn’t Army used to be in AAC? Or was it Conference USA? I remember them playing Tulsa regularly for a while…
  13. So here's a reasonable scenario I just came up with - and I think this would send Iowa State to the title game? In this case - OSU wins Bedlam and it's OU's only loss so they are in. Assume (because this is OSU we're talking about) we drop 1 of @ UCF, @ Houston or vs. BYU... probably 1 of the 2 road games. And then this also happens: Texas' only remaining loss is at Iowa State K-State only remaining loss is at Texas Iowa State's only remaining loss is at K-State So that would leave OSU, Texas, K-State and Iowa State all with 2 losses If you do a "round robin" among those four teams, everyone is 1-1 except Iowa State, who is 2-1, being the only one of the group to play all 3 other teams. EDIT - the only thing I'm not sure about - does "record against highest placed opponent" do anything? Because in this scenario, OSU would be the only team in the group to have beaten OU. I'll say that looking at the schedules, Kansas will be a big factor in who gets in, as they play OU, K-State and Iowa State. Also, outside of Bedlam, OSU definitely has the easiest remaining schedule; although UCF is going to be much tougher to deal with now that Plumlee is back.
  14. No. It was fucking ridiculous. His kid sucks but Rangel was a legit potential starter. He’s a RS sophomore and was a decent recruit from Frisco. I would have been fine with giving him the full-time gig this year for development purposes since Bowman is gone after this year, but Bowman was the clear and obvious choice from day 1 to give us the best chance this year. So yeah the rotation thing was dumb as shit.
  15. Yeah with the unbalanced schedule and no divisions I have NO IDEA what will happen if there are multiple 1-loss teams at the top of the standings... there's also a decent possibility of a 1-loss team at the top and then like 3 or 4 two-loss teams tied for the #2 spot. (I could see like a 1-loss OU at the the top and then, say, OSU, Texas, K-State and Iowa State all with two losses... not sure if that's even possible with schedules but it feels like it could happen?) Who knows how that will get sorted out but I'm sure it'll be a shit show, lol.
  16. Yes with all of the "Gundy shits the bed against OU all the time" talk forgets is that they have just flat been better than us for the vast, vast majority of the time. In Gundy's 15+ years as OSU's coach, there really only was one Bedlam game that he lost that we had absolutely, positively no business losing - the 2013 game. But then he also won one that we had absolutely positively no business winning (2014). Outside of that, you have 2011 when we were a prohibitive favorite and absolutely curb-stomped them. Every other game in the series during his tenure, OU was either the prohibitive favorite or the game could be classified as a "toss-up" at best. On the whole you could say that he maybe should have won maybe 1 or 2 more of the "toss-up" games (I'd consider the 2021 win to be more or less a "toss up"); but it's not like he's constantly losing to them as a favorite. They have just regularly beaten EVERYONE. WE didn't "drop them from the schedule." THEY left for the SEC, effectively ending the series for the foreseeable future. As for scheduling them in the non-conference, we already have several non-conference series against P5 scheduled way into the future at this point, including series with Arkansas, Alabama, Oregon and Nebraska. Those series take us into the mid/late 2030s. I don't think anyone would say it's a great idea to throw OU in as a non-conference game with those games already scheduled. That said, I think we will eventually start playing them as a non-conference game; it will just take a while to get it scheduled. We also had a home-and-home scheduled with Colorado in the late 2030 that will obviously need to be filled now. I think there's a decent chance that Bedlam will take their place; and if not then probably in the 2040s.
  17. Prediction: there will be a “Fuck SEC refs” thread on this site before the end of next season.
  18. Sonny Dykes and Kendall Briles can eat an enormous bag of dicks. I hope EMAW wins 75-3.
  19. Looking forward to Utah in the new Big 12, even though their fans seems like a bunch of bitch-made pussies on social media.
  20. Ah cool thanks. If it's really cheaper in the long-term, I wonder why (seemingly) the vast majority of colleges use the artificial stuff? And every 5-10 years seems way more regular than just my anecdotal recall of how often OSU has replaced theirs. I feel like we just replaced a few years ago and the time before that was a LONG time ago... like before Gundy took over so at least 12-15 years, but I definitely may be wrong about that. And man - it just seems like "lightly" used grass fields would be hella expensive to maintain year after year with water (especially in this part of the country), fertilizer, weed control, seeding/re-seeding/over-seeding, etc.; plus the fact that you need to employ a full-time grounds crew.. (or maybe they farm it out?). I do wish we had grass just because I think it looks better and "feels" more like the football I grew up with.
  21. Throw in those lumberjack competitions too. Those were the shit.
  22. Well again, I know there's a contingent here that thinks nobody will watch the Big 12, ever, but FOX and ESPN are writing the checks and they disagree. I'll just leave it at that.
  23. "Every" time? You're telling me that either OU or Texas is going to play in the 2:30 slot every single week? Not noon or 7 p.m. ever? There have been plenty of times that a Big 12 game has been going on when, say, Texas A&M or Arkansas were playing... or just another "big" SEC or B1G game that draws significant national interest. Again, the networks are the one writing the checks and I'm pretty sure they have the data and know what they are doing.
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