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EyesOfTX commented on the blog post The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Texas 41, Wyoming 10 5 minutes ago
jimbob: you know, I wasn’t sure who originally sang that song. Thanks for the correction. I have seen Carole King perform it in concert, but had this nagging thought it was a Carly Simon song.
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Trey Crocker commented on the blog post College Gameday will be in Austin this weekend 9 minutes ago
Corso “heart” penis, greatest sign I’ve seen so far.
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HenryJames wrote a new blog post: College Gameday will be in Austin this weekend 12 minutes ago
Third time they’ve covered the Tech game in five years.
They were planning on doing Tennessee-Florida, but Tennessee lost to UCLA. So f ‘em.
It’s great that ESPN is coming, but let’s not forget what is most important. Signs. Signs that will appear on tv.
Such as
and
Good stuff.
Whomever can get a sign on tv mentioning BarkingCarnival will
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dedfischer wrote a new blog post: TR Top 25 – Week 2 17 minutes ago
RankTeamDelta 1 Florida 2 Texas 3 Alabama 4 Southern Cal 5 Penn State 1 6 Mississippi 1 7
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James commented on the blog post The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Texas 41, Wyoming 10 19 minutes ago
Carly Simon sang “These Are the Good Old Days”, not Carole King. And I stared at enough Carly Simon album covers in my younger days to know the difference.
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Ag_in_TX wrote a new blog post: How shallow must your life be to have this kind of reaction? 21 minutes ago
Or, a better title – why you should never invite a Bama fan to your house to watch the big game.
Sure, as an SEC fan, your whole life is based on the performance of your respective football team. God knows you have no personal achievements or successes of your own to revel in.
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Trey Crocker commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 50 minutes ago
Pryor also avoids contact and doesn’t fight for extra yards, traits we never saw from VY in big games.
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post Post-Mortem: Texas Longhorns @ Wyoming Cowboys 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
kafka:
He ran the play exactly as its drawn up and practiced 100s of times by all of our receivers. You’re seeing some magnificent cat and mouse set up by Chiles, apparently. He made one easy cut that he’s practiced often and then ran unmolested in a straight line, getting up to his
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
srr50:
I think you need another look at VY’s body language during the 2004 Tech and Missouri games.
I’m not saying Pryor is VY in terms of talent, leadership, or clutchitude, but his best attributes are not being featured in the offense.
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srr50 commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Scip: Vince needed to be turned loose, but above all else, he loved playing the game. I didn’t see that in Pryor.
As I said in the first post, Tressell needs to adjust to Pryor’s talents, but I don’t see that happening, and I don’t see Pryor getting out of his funk against quality
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woodybombay commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Ole Miss belongs in that bag, too.
“… worry about the Big 12 conference’s eroding strength of schedule.”
Amen to that. I’m surprised that I’m surprised it’s a worry.
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Thanks, man. A couple of thoughts:
Jordan Hamilton was very impressive. Didn’t look as big as he’s listed and didn’t look as big as Damion James (get more reps with Todd Wright).
I’ve heard exactly opposite of this. That Jordan was a legit 6-7 230.
Not that I care as he’s playing SF.
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Thanks, man. A couple of thoughts:
Jordan Hamilton was very impressive. Didn’t look as big as he’s listed and didn’t look as big as Damion James (get more reps with Todd Wright).
I’ve heard exactly opposite of this. That Jordan was a legit 6-7 230.
Not that I care as he’s playing SF.
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Thanks, man. A couple of thoughts:
Jordan Hamilton was very impressive. Didn’t look as big as he’s listed and didn’t look as big as Damion James (get more reps with Todd Wright).
I’ve heard exactly opposite of this. That Jordan was a legit 6-7 230.
Not that I care as he’s playing SF.
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Kafka commented on the blog post The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Texas 41, Wyoming 10 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
One WR who seems to be an outstanding blocker is Malcolm (he is a warrior). I also noticed some half ass routes where the receivers did not even bother running the route. Embarrassing WR blocking is not that unusual in college football. The WR starters played a lot of minutes in that
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Scipio Tex commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
Obviously ranking anyone with two weeks data is folly. We shouldn’t rank anyone until October. But it’s fun to discuss.
Prime:
I appreciate the comment. I’m not ranking programs though. I’m ranking a single season football team with two weeks data. I think Alabama is a little more complete right
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Vasherized commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
Sailor just earned a one month extension on his temp contract.
Great stuff. The potential of the team is stratospheric.
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Hiphopopotamus wrote a new blog post: Big XII Rankings: Week 3 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Last week we looked like this.
1. Texas (2-0): Won @ Wyoming 41-10. So they slept-walked through a half. They still went on the road and routed a semi-respectable opponent. Given what the rest of the league has done to this point, Texas’ biggest worry has to be their strength of
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James commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
I think it is obvious that Tressell has Pryor thinking way too much. He is hesitant running the ball and hesitant in his decision making. You see flashes of his talent, but he just seems uncomfortable out there. Incorporate some simple zone read (ala Texas with VY) and turn the kid loose.
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Phenomenal Smith commented on the blog post Post-Mortem: UTEP 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
UTEP isn’t good, but what KU did was still very impressive. Game was never in doubt – on the road – complete domination – finding new ways to roll. As you said, we’ll know more September 26th, but they look every bit as good as suspected.
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Kafka commented on the blog post Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
Super interesting, Ripley.
A lot of stuff has been said about Dex’s improved conditioning but a max of 25 min/game sounds like he still has a ways to go (is that the case?)..
Hamilton is plenty big enough to play small forward.
Great news that J’Covan will be the point guard. It would have been easy for
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dedfischer wrote a new blog post: Rice Post-Mortem: The Bell Tolls for Thee 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
Still no film available to date, so I’m winging it at this point in the season based on radio broadcasts, box scores, etc. Let’s whip through this right quick as we’ve got a busy week.
Overall
Much better performance by the offense. My biggest concern is the health of Detron Lewis as we won’t have a big-play
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DrJHorn wrote a new blog post: Making a Silk Verse from a Sow’s Ear: An Arkansas Athletics Site Blog 3 hours, 5 minutes ago
After reading Fake Ken Tremendous’ brilliant dissections of recent blogs by Bill Little and Bill Byrne here on BC, I was inspired to test Fake Ken’s theory that all athletic department officials named Bill basically suck at blogging.
Coincidentally, Arkansas has a blogger named Bill in its athletic department. So let’s review the Sept. 4 blog from
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Hiphopopotamus commented on the blog post BlogPoll Draft: Week 3 3 hours, 56 minutes ago
I really had no intention of moving us up, but when you look at what everyone else around the country has done to this point, it pretty much happened by default.
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Gene Claude commented on the blog post Basketball: Phil Pressey is a Tiger 3 hours, 58 minutes ago
Powermizzou has also reported that the Tigers will get a visit from Rickey Scott, a top 100 shooting guard. Mike Anderson has quietly taken his recruiting up a notch or two after last season’s surprise final 8 run. Good to see. It will be fun to see how the departure of Lyons,
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Black Scholes commented on the blog post The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Texas 41, Wyoming 10 8 hours, 11 minutes ago
Focused on the WRs when I rewatched parts of the game, and I saw some tendencies that I thought had left town with Drake. Incomplete or routes not run at all on occasion, blocks not held or barely attempted – shitty or lazy habits that I lay on Kennedy. Nip that now.
Someone said
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Sailor Ripley wrote a new blog post: Texas Longhorns Basketball – Notes from inside Denton Cooley Pavilion 9 hours, 28 minutes ago
Trips and Hank Dudek have been doing a great job discussing hoops and we’re all very excited about this season’s squad and their continued excellent analysis and coverage.
In an effort to augment some of what they’ve talked about, I wanted to pass along some paraphrased comments we’ve received from a few sources we’re very lucky
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Kafka commented on the blog post Post-Mortem: Texas Longhorns @ Wyoming Cowboys 10 hours, 55 minutes ago
“WR:A solid performance by this group overall. Chiles had the only egregious drop.”
I don’t know whether Chiles had the only egregious drop but (at least) Ship, Kirk, and Buckner all dropped passes in addition to Chiles’ drop. Both Mack and Colt made a point about dropped passes during/after the game.
“John Chiles still lacks moves
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JP commented on the blog post blogpoll – Draft – Week 2 11 hours, 24 minutes ago
“23. Oklahoma State – This is what you get for having a coach who dresses like a Scottsdale golf pro.”
I hope T. Boone didn’t even spit on the glans last night..
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Nate Heupel wrote a new blog post: F*ck the Silver Lining 11 hours, 27 minutes ago
Regardless of what Bob Stoops says, there are no positives to be taken from crushing a D1AA opponent that isn’t even good in D1AA. If you’re a legitimate top 25 team, 64-0 should be exactly what happens. Let’s look at the negatives, shall we?
1) We can’t score on 4 plays from the 2 yard line
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srr50 said:
September 17th, 2008 at 9:41 am
The Big 12 sports a 28-4 non-conference record (87.5%) while the SEC sports a 23-3 (88%) non-conference record
Let’s knock out the 1-AA opponents. The records are still impressive, Big 12 is 20-4 and the SEC is 16-3.
But is also means that 25% of the Big 12 and 27% of the SEC schedules so far have been D 1-AA and that’s pathetic. Especially when compared to the number of games they play against other BCS schools.
HenryJames said:
September 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I hope Tony Barnhart kicks your ass.
steven said:
September 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Aside from Missouri being better than they usually are and Kansas not totally sucking, how has the B12 changed from the past in any significant degree. I suppose you could say that because all the other conferences seem to be sucking ass right now, that sort of makes the B12 better in a relative sense, but aside from those other considerations, I do not see how the B12 is, in actuality, any better than it usually is. Now it may seem to be better cause other conferences suck more, but than really is not being better, at least not in the strict sense of the term.
Black Scholes said:
September 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Tight End: Neither recruited one.
Advantage: aggy
BRAGGonUT said:
September 17th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I almost made that reference, Black Scholes.
Nice find, HJ. I wish I had seen that.
Gene Claude said:
September 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Steven:
Baylor is better than it has been.
Iowa State is better than it has been the last two years.
Kansas State is better than it was last year.
Texas Tech is better than it has been in many years.
Oklahoma and Missouri are legit national title contenders, and Texas may end up in the discussion.
There are no bad teams in the Big 12 this year. There is a good chance the conference has 9 or 10 bowl eligible teams. There are 4 teams that will have good cases for top 10 status all year, and 8 that do or could have legit top 25 aspirations all year(OK, UT, TT, MU, KU, OSU, KSU, NU).
There are only 2 teams that are worse this year than last…A&M and KU, and KU is still very good.
And, most importantly, we automatically expel teams that play 3 - 2 thrillers.
I don’t necessarily care which conference is better, and the SEC wins hands down long term, but this year, it is a fair debate.
Phenomenal Smith said:
September 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The Big 12 also has superior college QBs. Some might say vastly superior. One tidbit that goes a long way in my opinion is that of the top seven active career leaders in pass efficiency, six are in the Big 12. That’s right. 6 of the top 7. The list goes:
Bradford, Colt, Rudy Carpenter, Graham Harrell, Zac Robinson, Todd Reesing, and Chase Daniel.
http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2008/Internet/career/careerPassB15.html
There is not an SEC QB in the top 20. 2008 is the year of the Big 12. Enjoy.
Scipio Tex said:
September 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
That’s where I see the big difference as well. I also see it as a one or two year phenomenon before the SEC reasserts itself.
QB play. The modern college game is in the hands of your QB in a way it has never been in football history.
One thing I think most would agree on - there’s a hell of a lot space between the SEC/Big 12 and the rest of college football right now.
BRAGGonUT said:
September 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Oh, don’t take my post as anything other than a discussion of this year. The SEC’s built-in advantages over every other conference actually extended their lead with the SEC TV deal with ESPN. Water finds it level and the SEC being the premier football league will find its level.
Until the Big 12 cuts a legitimate bigtime TV deal, it will play second fiddle and its onlt hope is to outperform expectations on any year. Like this one.
Bartoncreek said:
September 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
The QB play in the Big 12 is sick this year.
Daniel
Bradford
Reesing
Colt
Harrell
Robinson
Ganz
Freeman
Griffin
Hawkins
That’s 10 above average to great college QBs. Hell, Freeman will probably be drafted fairly high and he wouldn’t break anyone’s top 6 in the Big 12. I think it is safe to say that those 10 would start at every SEC school save Georgia and Florida. We pawned off a 2nd teamer to Ole Miss and he is now probably the 3rd best QB in the SEC.
BRAGGonUT said:
September 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Clearly I jinxed Kansas State and the conference.
Gene Claude said:
September 18th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Kansas State jinxed itself by signing Prince to an extension. And by “jinxed” I mean “fucked.”
coach Callahan said:
September 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Kstate has now finished their decent back to the bottom of division 1 football. Maybe athletic directors should sign coaches to extensions after successful years only.
Facebook User said:
September 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Gene Claude said:
September 18th, 2008 at 7:56 am
But Nebraska has not yet finished their ascent into literacy.
coach Callahan said:
September 18th, 2008 at 9:31 am
and we never plan to.
Robert said:
September 18th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
The Big 12 is stacked on offense this year. SEC is better on overall defensive talent. But both leagues lap the rest of college football. Is it really possible that the Mountain West is the third best conference?
Habbit said:
September 27th, 2008 at 6:05 am
This is getting old. Please stop hyping up your non-SEC teams, Big 10, Big 12, WAC, whatever because each year the SEC blows out and embarrasses your teams in bowl games.
You are right: Missouri and Chase Daniels have been looking really good so far… Then again, Hawaii and Colt Brennan were supposed to lose a very close game to Georgia. … … … Buahahaha!
Ojnab Bob said:
September 27th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Habbit, before the Fall of the Husker Empire in 2002, I recall routinely manhandling the SEC champions in our bowl game 7 times in a row from 1980-2000… ancient history at this point to everyone else, I imagine, but you’ll forgive me for not prostrating myself at the altar of the holy SEC.
2026/01/02 Nebraska 31 - Tennessee 21 W Fiesta Bowl
2026/01/02 Nebraska 42 - Tennessee 17 W Orange Bowl
2026/01/02 Nebraska 62 - Florida 24 W Fiesta Bowl
2026/01/01 Nebraska 30 - LSU 15 W Sugar Bowl
2026/01/01 Nebraska 28 - LSU 10 W Sugar Bowl
2026/01/01 Nebraska 21 - LSU 20 W Orange Bowl
2025/12/27 Nebraska 31 - Mississippi St 17 W Sun Bowl
Habbit said:
September 27th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Ojnab Bob, I don’t forgive you, because you’re purposely giving us statistics during Golden Years of your favorite school to the down years of the SEC counterparts. Are you honestly copy/pasting scores from 1980?
12/27/2002 Mississippi 27 - Nebraska 23 Independence Bowl
01/01/2026 Auburn 17 - Nebraska 14
Cotton Bowl
Not exactly blowouts, but the first team they lost to was Ole Miss who, until recently, playing was considered the same thing as having a bye-week. SEC 2, Nebraska 0 in the 21st century. I’m sure the trend will continue.
All that and my first post never even mentioned a specific non-SEC schools’ mild success against the Southeastern Conference; I called out every other conference out as a whole!
The fact of the matter is, in our current time period (have to mention that so you don’t reminisce about the Glory Days), the top-tier SEC (Florida, LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and now Alabama) and middle-of-the-pack SEC teams (Vanderbilt, Tennessee, and South Carolina) will consistently destroy any top-tier teams in any other conference and the scraps of the SEC (Ole Miss, Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Kentucky) could become top-tier competitors in any other conference if they were to switch.
Of the twelve teams in the Big 12, two (Oklahoma and Texas) have a remotely possible competing chance with the top and middle SEC teams, but we’ve seen in the RECENT past that they are likely to turn out to be pathetic choke artists. Missouri is still on the fence, as it’s very possible they will become garbage again after Chase Daniel graduates.
Your conference, as of now, has four teams in the top 10, but only one of those teams (Missouri) has played anyone other than a high school girls soccer team, although Oklahoma does play #24 TCU (hahaha) tonight. Georgia whipped PAC-10 opponents, ASU, and has the toughest schedule in the nation, as they play FIVE currently ranked teams, who ALL happen to be SEC teams. Florida slaughtered last year’s Sugar Bowl contenders Hawaii (who were also slaughtered by an SEC team in that game) and they destroyed two other teams with a legacy of winning: Miami and Tennessee. LSU has already played a ranked team; Auburn, former #10, who lost to the National Champions. Alabama wasted a ranked Clemson team who was supposed to dominate college football this year and they play the #3 ranked, but most talented football team in college football, tonight.
It’s sad the question of the best conference is being asked… this question would be considered a joke if any other conference had won the last two national titles and had half of the top 10 teams in their conference! At least let the Big 12 get to .500 in BCS National Championship Games (they’re 2-3) before you start pulling out your dick!
And for my last point, Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said it best, “You remember a couple of years ago people were saying the SEC is down? I laughed at that. I mean, to think, I don’t know what being down in the SEC means. You don’t send 20 players to the NFL? You send 10?”
If you’re the best conference in college football, you don’t send only four players in the first round of draft to the NFL, you send eleven players. Guess who sent who?
No need to run to the alter too quickly.
Ojnab Bob said:
September 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Habiit, I don’t think there is any debate that the SEC has been the best conference in college football this decade, and I actually agree with many of your points. I also agree that the SEC probably is the best again this season, although 1) the season is still young, and 2) the gap has narrowed.
I think my objection is to some of your more incendiary suggestions: “Of the twelve teams in the Big 12, two (Oklahoma and Texas) have a remotely possible competing chance with the top and middle SEC teams.” Do you seriously believe that mighty Vanderbilt, Tennessee or even Auburn really would dominate this year’s Oklahama squad? That statement is just hard to support with any rational evidence.
You also seem to be placing an inordinate amount of weight on a victory over a Hawaii team organized as if it was a touch-football team; I might de-emphasize that in the future.
My last point would be to encourage you to moderate your message a bit. All this overwrought SEC chest-beating has a way of alienating otherwise objective fans…
Habbit said:
September 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Ojnab Bob, I do, and I’m surprised you would pick Oklahoma to represent your post as they are decidedly biggest choke artists of this decade.
Vanderbilt has always had good teams and talented players and their schedule is just as tough as Oklahoma and Texas’… yet they are only decent team in the SEC, whereas the Sooners and Longhorns are at the very top.
As far as Tennessee goes, they have potential and talent out of this world… I have no idea why they have been so awful this year. I’m sure you could agree with that, as well.
Auburn would humiliate Oklahoma. The former National oh-my-God-they-are-freaking-monsters Champions were only able to score 26 points on the Tiger’s defense, while they scored 41 in their two previous games, and Oklahoma looks like a practice squad compared to LSU.
Do you seriously believe that mighty Oklahoma really would dominate this year’s Auburn squad? None of your statements have been supported with any rational evidence.
You also seem to have read two or three sentences from my previous post; you should de-emphasize that in the future. I mentioned Hawaii twice: once in my first post and once in my second, was there any reason for you to bring them up again?
I would appreciate it if you responded to my statements, rather than complain about the way I reply to your grossly inaccurate statements. You pleasantly ignore the fact that I have agreed that Missouri is a good football team and I also have no problem with any school from the Big 12; I actually enjoy watching Texas and Oklahoma play. I was born in Colorado, and one of my best friends plays for Nebraska. It’s the ‘overwrought chest-beating’ of Big 12 fans whose conference has had ONE good season as a WHOLE conference.
Habbit said:
September 27th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
…that is pretty irritating.
Ojnab Bob said:
September 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Habbit, I don’t recall posting any pro-Big 12 taunts on a SEC football discussion site. While how we got here is strange, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on the relative merits of Oklahoma-Auburn, Bob Stoops’ egglaying in BCS games notwithstanding. I do believe OU would win by 14-17 on a neutral field over Auburn and would beat Vanderbilt by 28-31. Texas certainly handled the Hogs at least as easily as Alabama.
It’s hard to say how good Missouri is right now… they may be good, great or 1988 Oklahoma State redux (great o, terrible D).
Perhaps this debate is best tabled for resumption in December, when the season has played itself out and we’ll have more facts relevant to this season to discuss. I don’t see us getting anywhere here until then.
Ojnab Bob said:
September 27th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
And I do agree with you re Tennessee - they should beat UCLA 98 times out of 100. Their season so far is puzzling, although they apparently played more to their potential today.
Habbit said:
September 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Ojnab Bob, the entire first paragraph of this blog pretty much invites SEC fans to show up and educate Mr. BRAGGonUT on the realities of college football.
It would be best if we waited until December, but then there would be no mystery and hostility because all of the answers would be revealed! =)
I do believe that as the season progresses and injuries begin to mount we will definitely notice the lack of team depth in every conference aside from the SEC.
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