Make up your minds!
A three-play snapshot late in the third quarter would really tell anyone all they needed to know about this game. After a 22-yard pass play gave UT a first down at the Sooner 14, this was the sequence of events: four-yard loss on a fumble when David Ash pulled away from center too soon; a Tony Jefferson sack for a loss of 15 yards; a sack/fumble by The Hammer, recovered by Fozzie Whittaker for a loss of 20 yards. So, it was in this manner that a first and ten at the Sooner 14 became a fourth and 49 at the UT 47. A 46-yard punt ensued, which still wouldn’t have gotten Cow a first down.
The Sooner defense played as well as we have seen them play on a big stage, at least since the last time we destroyed Cow like this. Three defensive TDs and five turnovers is just absurd. The Sooner Sharks feasted on baby quarterback, so tender and juicy are they. We were shocked to learn that three defensive TDs in a game had never happened before in school history. Not sure why we were shocked, other than there’s a lot of history there.
The ****** Dallas motorcycle cop that ran over my Dad's foot outside the tunnel before the game trying to clear a path for the Cow band to march into the stadium. Plowing a couple of motorcycle cops through thousands of people bottlenecked between two buildings is not a good method of crowd control. You can hit your siren all you want - if there's nowhere to go there's nowhere to go. Dude had a Horn sticker on the back of his motorcycle helmet, too.
The Sooner offense was stellar, but could have been even better. The first two drives ended in field goals, which was frustrating, and Landry had a few plays where he and the receivers just weren’t on the same page. There was also a throwback screen play that should have gone for a TD but was blocked just awfully. That said, we are totally nitpicking, as Landry picked apart the young UT secondary for more than 300 yards in the first half alone.
Next-level State Fair technology - the coupon ATM.
We were particularly impressed with Dom Whaley’s cross-country TD jaunt in the third quarter. When he turned the corner, the defensive back coming from the other side of the field had the angle on him. But Whaley turned on the jets and just flat out took away the angle entirely on his way into the end zone. Whaley had not had the chance to display that kind of speed up until then.
All things considered, it was a great day in Dallas, and it portends great things for the rest of the season. As a Sooner Tweeter (Twitterer?) was quoted on College Football Final last night, the only thing more beautiful than a half-crimson, half-orange Cotton Bowl is a half-crimson, half-empty Cotton Bowl Truer words were never spoken. The t-shirt vendors can break out that design from a few years ago showing exactly that for this season’s blowout.
The legendary fried everything booth.
Next up – Kansas. Kansas is bad. Kansas is very bad. We do not normally even care anything about Kansas at all. However, we believe Kansas did the Fat Man wrong, and as Fat Men ourselves, we hold a grudge. So, Kansas is paying the price.
KU suffers the Curse of the Fat Man.
Little brother put 56 on KU last week. In the first half. We’ll leave aside the orange giddiness over their second-largest home crowd ever (58K and change) (we know – stop laughing) and just say that OSU is pretty good at football and KU is not very good at football. They had 66 dropped on them by Georgia Tech, and Spiky Hair Guy called off the dogs and only put 70 on them at New Rustoleum. On a side note regarding Aggy fashion, we kind of liked the flat black helmets with the black jerseys and orange pants. You watch, though – the all-black duds are awaiting the Sooners’ visit to New Rustoleum.
The Sooners are very good at football, and KU remains not very good at football. We do not believe these facts will change sufficiently in the next few days for prospects to improve for the Jayhawkers next week. Indeed, with the 8:15 p.m. kickoff, we do not expect that many Jayhawkers to even bother joining us at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. This will be very good, as between the lack of attendance in the first place, plus the late hour, plus the inevitable early departure of many patrons as the rout develops, we anticipate short lines for the parking shuttle busses back across the giant hill that KU’s campus sits upon.
Speaking of busses, we heard that A&M’s busses were vandalized with paint and animal excrement in Lubbock yesterday. We deplore property damage or malicious mischief in all its forms, of course, and question the intelligence (note: we are not the first to do this) of the Tech faithful in this action, if for no other reason that it is almost certain that the busses in question were hired locally and may even be owned by Tech types. Nevertheless, we recall a couple of years ago when an A&M corps person charged with shoveling up after some of their horses flung a shovelful of poop into the Texas band.
Aggy poop.
We wonder why, given this history, A&M would be either shocked or upset that someone put poop on their busses. They should be used to poop, shouldn’t they? They have more poop, both bat and horse varieties, at Kyle Field than you can shake a stick at. In any event, while, as we said, we deplore the acts of a few deranged Sand Aggy, we must admit that we found the whole episode deliriously funny.
And, speaking of teams that are switching conferences, we note that TCU has been officially invited to join the Big 12-2-1-1?, which will now become the Big 12-2-1-1?+1. TCU is the king of conference realignment, having realigned itself into five conferences (the Big 12 will be number six) since the SWC dissolved 15 years ago. They never even actually joined the Big East, but will apparently still have to pay $5 million to leave. Really, of the teams that left or are looking to leave, the only one we cared about was Nebraska. The rest? Meh. TCU is a much easier road trip than College Station, and we already play them in baseball every year. In fact, we were supposed to open the non-conference season against them in Fort Worth next season. Word is they are going to be slotted into A&M’s conference schedule that was already set, so we probably won’t actually go to Fort Worth until November now. Joe C has some work to do to line up another non-conference game to replace them. If Missouri leaves, he’ll have to drum up two. Such is the life of a big-time AD.
According to the Denver Post, the Big 12-2-1-1?+1 approached Air Force about joining and were rebuffed. The reason? According to the Air Force AD, it made sense in every way except trying to recruit against us and Cow, and even little brother. He didn’t want his kids to get beat up. Having experienced the Academy second-hand with a brother that went there, we must applaud that stance. AF doesn’t (and can’t for the most part) recruit the kind of guys that can regularly compete with the kind of athletes that get rolled out in this conference every week. AF looks headed to the Big East with Navy.
Remember to follow us on Twitter (@OURoadWarrior), as we have taken to tweeting from the stadium on gamedays, a task which should be made even simpler by the impending arrival of our iPhone 4S. Yes, we are geeks. Most of this pics in this particular report were live-tweeted from Dallas on Saturday.
See you in Lawrence on Saturday night. Good seats still available. No, really.
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