Honestly, while we hoped for a good old-fashioned ***-whooping to be put on Missouri Saturday night, we weren’t really surprised by the way the game went. Certainly, the better team won, but the Tigers aren’t bad, especially when their coach isn’t icing their own kicker. Saturday night, as it turned out, icing the guy couldn’t have hurt, since he was o-fer anyway.
The Sooner defense looked disinterested for the first few series, and the offense didn’t look much better. However, slowly but surely, superior talent and patience won out. Being down 14-3 in the first quarter wasn’t a common experience, especially at home, but it was really more of an annoyance than a cause for concern.
Actually, it’s probably a good thing, giving the team some mistakes to focus on correcting before meeting an outmatched Ball State Saturday night as a prelude to heading to Dallas a week hence. We need to remind those foretelling gloom and doom that Sooner teams, particularly the defenses, tend to be works in progress before really showing their stuff in the Cotton Bowl. We think back, particularly, to the 2000 team which, in the warmup to the game in Big D that year, trailed Kansas 16-10 in the second quarter before rebounding for a 34-16 win on the way to Red October. We are not saying this team will have the same results as that team, but it certainly has the potential to be a special team like that one was.
Moderately humorous (not really) news item from Monday – LSU fans complain of West Virginia fans’ behavior after game. Well, OK, the WVU people beat the crap out of them. Now, we are not condoning what was apparently a nasty assault in any way, but karma’s a bitch, as they say. It seems that perhaps the LSU and WVU fanbases deserve each other.
We can only hope that Alabama, Florida, Auburn, and whoever else is able in the SEC takes the Hat down a notch so we don’t have to face the horror of another OU-LSU national championship matchup in New Orleans. Seriously – every Sooner fan should muster every ounce of karma and negative energy at their disposal to help ensure that the Hat does not set foot in the Superdome in January, 2012.
That said, we have no problem with Geaux Tigers taking over the top spot in the AP poll. Here’s a tip – the AP poll isn’t figured into the BCS standings, so we couldn’t care less about it anyway. The Sooners still hold their destiny firmly in their own hands. Win and we’re in, as they say, and what happens elsewhere won’t matter.
Our little brothers from the north struck a blow for the Big 12-2-1 (conference of the undead) with a 30-29 win over Collie Aggy, punctuated by a gut-busting gaffe when Justin Blackmon, in an attempt to hot-dog into the end zone with a sure touchdown, played butterfingers instead and flubbed the pigskin through the end zone, giving it back to A&M. We laughed out loud. No, really, we did. Also, we would have thought that Nike and T. Boone would have had enough scratch to finish off the paint jobs on those new helmets instead of just leaving them primer colored. On the bright side, Aggy managed to get their game kicked off sometime before 1:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday morning, so that’s an improvement over last week in and of itself.
Justin Blackmon is covered in primer and DERP.
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Beautiful was the news Sunday that your intrepid reporter has officially made his final trip to the armpit that is Bryan/College Station, Texas. Two hours from everywhere, and you have to pass through Navasota to boot. No thanks. We’ll be content to say truthfully that we were at every OU-A&M game played between 1952 and 2011, and leave it at that. Odds of Collie Aggy seeing the light of a Sooner non-conference schedule from now until the sun is a lump of coal? Eleventy billion to 1. Squared. Odds of Colorado being on the schedule? Tweleventy billion to 1. Cubed. Odds of Corn? 1-2.
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