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Great idea

Posted on November 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Great idea

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Banner, flown over Stillwater, OK, during ESPN Game Day, reads: "Texas 45 OU 35 – Settled On A Neutral Field." Doubt it will help, though. We’ll find out this afternoon with the new BCS rankings.

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BCS mess

Posted on November 29, 2008 | Comments Off on BCS mess

Or BCS mix. Anyhow. Nice to see Baylor thrashing Texas Tech 28-14 28-21 at the end of the third quarter in Lubbock. Baylor winning would give the Longhorns a shot at the Big Twelve championship. Then, if Oklahoma loses to Oklahoma State tonight, Texas would still have a shot at the BCS championship, as well. Not likely, I suppose. But then Baylor isn’t supposed to be beating Tech. So far. Confusing, to say the least.

UPDATE:  Oh, well, nice try Baylor. No more doormat for the Big Twelve. Now it’s up to OK State. 😉

HOWEVER:  I notice the ESPN guys saying that it might be better if the Sooners win. For then there’d be a three-way tie in the Big Twelve South, with the highest ranked South team in the BCS playing for the championship. Meaning it would be between Oklahoma and Texas. But… Loved the plane towing the banner over Stillwater today: "Texas 45 OU 35. Settled On A Neutral Field." BCS, take note.

FINAL: Sooners win 61-41, creating a three-way tie for the Big Twelve South winner to be decided by BCS ranking. My guess is that aerial advertising aside, it will be Oklahoma ahead of Texas followed by Tech and thus Oklahoma in the BCS championship as well. Leaving the Fiesta Bowl for the Longhorns.

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Texas vs. Ags

Posted on November 27, 2008 | Comments Off on Texas vs. Ags

Good game, with Texas up 21-3 at the half. Colt has taken some hard hits but he keeps coming back for another touchdown. The main question is whether Mack will run up the score. Possibly, for revenge for the last two years of losses to A&M. Or not. We’ll see.

UPDATE:  Well, I guess you could call 49-9 running it up. But the second string accounted for the last touchdown. I’m still not sure why the Ags wore the 4th ID’s patch on their uniforms, just that they did. Colt, the Tuscola Kid, had a great night. He’s done all he can do for the Heisman, and the team for the BCS. The rest is up to the voters, the computers and Oklahoma State on Saturday night. 😉

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Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band

Posted on November 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band

While Mom makes up Turkey Day goodies a day in advance, and Mr. B. is on a play date in the country with a class friend, I am figuring where best to park tomorrow for us to attend the biennial Texas A&M parade up Congress Avenue to the Capitol of the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band and the Corps of Cadets, particularly the seniors in their senior boots and drawn sabers. Last time we took Mr. B. we missed all but the tag end for failing to find a parking spot close enough to the route. But that was at eight a.m. This one, mercifully, isn’t until one p.m. so we should be able to get to it with no problem. The parades are fun to watch, along with all the white-haired Aggie alumni who live here, even if we do root for the Longhorns to win the game.

THURSDAY’s UPDATE: Mr. B. enjoyed the band and the Parsons Mounted Cavalry the best. The cav brings up the rear, with the poop scoopers behind them. Great parade as always. You could smell the dry cleaning on those cadet uniforms!  

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“Style” or humiliation?

Posted on November 23, 2008 | Comments Off on “Style” or humiliation?

Oklahoma vaulted past Texas in the USA Today coaches poll today for what USA Today called "style points" in Oklahoma’s rout of Texas Tech last night. In that game, the word makes some sense, I suppose. In Florida’s humiliation of a lesser opponent, i.e. the Citadel, earlier in the day, it doesn’t. Where is there any "style" in crushing an outclassed opponent? 

Even Tech didn’t deserve to be humiliated when it was plain they were outclassed. Style, to my mind, is Mack Brown’s refusal last week to run the score up on Kansas after the Longhorns had them by three touchdowns. Instead, Mack sent in the second string. Now that’s style.

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Suicide in Norman

Posted on November 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Suicide in Norman

A majority of the daily’s sportswriters expected Oklahoma to win tonight’s game, but none of them predicted that Texas Tech would commit suicide. With the Sooners on top 42 to 7 at the half, it certainly looks like the Red Raiders have no way back to a win. Particularly not with a crumbling defense and a struggling offense. At this rate, the Okies will not only crush Tech but vault over Texas in the BCS rankings and run away with the Big Twelve. So Tech has got to come back and even it up.

UPDATE: They couldn’t. Sooners won it 65 to 21. Now we wait to see what the BCS computers decide. 

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Tech vs OK

Posted on November 21, 2008 | Comments Off on Tech vs OK

The barbar said the other day that, try as he might, he couldn’t bring himself to root for the Sooners under any circumstances, not even in their game tomorrow night against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech.

An Okie win, the conventional wisdom has it, is the only chance the Longhorns have left to make it into the national championship game–possibly against Florida after the Gators whoop Alabama. But, it seems to me, there’s just as big a chance that a victorious Oklahoma would then vault over Texas in the BCS poll, leaving the Longhorns about where they are now, at No. 3, or even a bit lower. So I don’t know what to do, other than to watch the game and hope for the best by Sunday evening when the poll comes out. My inclination, like the barbar’s, would be to cheer for any Texas team against Oklahoma, but maybe not. We’ll see.

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