Leroy Lizard
1/8/2011, 03:45 AM
By state:
Florida 5-1
Oklahoma 3-0
California 2-1
Texas 2-4
Alabama 2-0 (with one still to play)
California could only muster three teams to play in a bowl?
OU's opponents in bowl games: 3-5
As mentioned here many times, all of Oklahoma's three state FBS schools finished with at least 10 victories. I'm not sure, but I don't think a single Texas state school finished with more than 9. Weird, huh?
Despite only sending half as many teams to bowls, Oklahoma state schools outscored Texas state schools 146-142.
Perhaps the most pathetic stat of all:
Texas sent six teams to bowls. Notice the location of the bowl game and the participating school:
UTEP (El Paso, TX) -- Albuquerque, NM
Baylor (Waco, TX) -- Houston, TX
SMU (Dallas, TX) -- Dallas, TX
Texas Tech (Lubbock, TX) -- Dallas, TX
TCU (Fort Worth, TX) -- Pasadena, CA
A&M (College Station, TX) -- Arlington, TX
That's right, all but two played in-state. And one of those out-of-staters traveled a relatively short distance (roughly 200 miles to Albuquerque as the crow flies). Yet all they could muster was a 2-4 record (and one of those victories was by TCU, the only team to travel a significant distance).
Here is the Oklahoma comparison
OU (Norman, OK) -- Glendale, AZ
OSU (Stillwater, OK) -- San Antonio, TX
Tulsa (Tulsa, OK) -- Hawaii
All three won handily.
EDIT: Thanks, yermom.
Florida 5-1
Oklahoma 3-0
California 2-1
Texas 2-4
Alabama 2-0 (with one still to play)
California could only muster three teams to play in a bowl?
OU's opponents in bowl games: 3-5
As mentioned here many times, all of Oklahoma's three state FBS schools finished with at least 10 victories. I'm not sure, but I don't think a single Texas state school finished with more than 9. Weird, huh?
Despite only sending half as many teams to bowls, Oklahoma state schools outscored Texas state schools 146-142.
Perhaps the most pathetic stat of all:
Texas sent six teams to bowls. Notice the location of the bowl game and the participating school:
UTEP (El Paso, TX) -- Albuquerque, NM
Baylor (Waco, TX) -- Houston, TX
SMU (Dallas, TX) -- Dallas, TX
Texas Tech (Lubbock, TX) -- Dallas, TX
TCU (Fort Worth, TX) -- Pasadena, CA
A&M (College Station, TX) -- Arlington, TX
That's right, all but two played in-state. And one of those out-of-staters traveled a relatively short distance (roughly 200 miles to Albuquerque as the crow flies). Yet all they could muster was a 2-4 record (and one of those victories was by TCU, the only team to travel a significant distance).
Here is the Oklahoma comparison
OU (Norman, OK) -- Glendale, AZ
OSU (Stillwater, OK) -- San Antonio, TX
Tulsa (Tulsa, OK) -- Hawaii
All three won handily.
EDIT: Thanks, yermom.