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Beat OSU! (My oh my, Pete, how you’ve changed)

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Dear Soonerguys,

I am personally grateful for the change in the football game schedule this year.  The stress of anticipating the big in-state rivalry at the end of the season has always made my head ache and my stomach churn.

This way, we get the big game out of the way early. Plus we have the added advantage of coming off a big win and they’re still whining about their late game loss last week.

To their credit, I’ve noticed our rivals have finally revised their mascot drastically.

Sorry to bring up mascots again, but it seems important this time of the year.  After all, Halloween is just around the corner according to Wal-Mart.  “Pistol Pete” has always been the ugliest mascot in the history of mascots (followed closely by the Wichita State “Shocker” and the guys that paint themselves blue at Dallas Cowboy games).

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No more gimmies after ULM, time for OU to work out its problems

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Another highly ranked Sooner team stumbles early. Where have I seen that before?

This has  been an unsettling pattern the last 6 or 7 years.  Ranked highly in the pre-season and inevitably lose to one or several teams who where double digit underdogs.

I wish we could start every year unranked.  That’s when we have really good seasons for some reason.  Like we have something to prove.

The issues going into this season that I worried about most reared their ugly heads in the loss to Houston.  

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Questions loom over Sooners’ chances for championship, Cougars scare me

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Man. I thought we had that last year. Twice.

I let myself believe that it was going to happen. That we were going to finally win Bob’s second National Championship after reaching the College Football Playoff. All the way up through halftime of the Orange Bowl.

I thought we had it. And it just slowly slipped away.

And then three months later, the Sooner basketball team reaches the Final Four. And we were playing a team we torched earlier in the year. Surely this was it. The first National Title for the Men’s basketball team. And then, well you know what happened.

Don’t get me wrong. Oklahoma athletics are second to none as a program. This past spring the softball team, men’s gymnastics and women’s gymnastics all won National Titles. And all those teams have multiple National Titles in the past three years.

Heck even men’s tennis won an indoor title a few years back.

All is right with OU athletics. But in a way that makes it a little more painful that the football team just can’t quite get it done.

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