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Look out Sooners – Texas will come out on fire — they have nothing to lose

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Four games in and I am not really sure how good this OU team is.

To be sure, the West Virginia win was a solid victory. The Mountaineers came in with impressive stats on offense and

defense, albeit against inferior opponents. The more concerning issue is the resume of the
other teams the Sooners have beaten this season.

Tulsa got beat by Houston and by a pretty healthy margin. But more disappointing is the Tennessee Volunteers. They just keep finding
new ways to blow big leads. Now the Vols are 2-3 and that Sooner win in Knoxville doesn’t look so great. Or does it? If you look at it from another angle, the Volunteers should have by all
accounts beaten Florida on the Gators home field. The same Florida team that has now knocked off then number 3 Ole Miss and is undefeated and a top ten team.

So again, how good is Oklahoma? You would think good enough to beat a complete mess of a 1-4 texas team this Saturday in the 110th edition of the Red River Rivalry. And that’s what scares me about this game. OU thinking they are good enough to just show up and beat the longhorns without breaking a sweat. Scares the hell out of me.

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It looks good, but Sooner fans need to be wary of these wounded Longhorns

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Let’s not start the celebration just yet.

There is no doubt there is trouble down in Austinville. The natives there are ready to run second-year coach Charlie Strong out of town. Frankly, his Longhorn team has looked pretty pitiful this year, coming into Saturday’s Red River Shoot Out, Rivalry or Showdown (whatever advertisers want to call it this year) with a 1-4 record (0-2 in the conference); and, more significantly, looking more like Gooberville high school team than the mighty Texas.

Meanwhile, Sooners fans will throw out any reservations they have held about their own team this week — because showing signs of weakness is not what you do this week — and, besides, No. 9 Oklahoma has proven with wins on the road against Tennessee and at home against West Virginia, that a win against Texas isn’t a question of whether it will happen, but rather by how much.

Boomer Sooner baby. Oklahoma should roll.

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Sooner defense will have to rise to the occasion against Mountaineers

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I sure do miss defense in college football. Seems like everywhere you look, in any league, offenses are just having their way.

So I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when Tulsa racked up over 600 yards of offense and scored 38 points against the Sooners Saturday before last. Running the Baylor offense, the Hurricane picked apart the Oklahoma secondary.

Didn’t help that true freshman P.J. Mbanasor was thrown to the wolves at corner when Jordan Thomas was suspended for the game due to violation of team rules. But that can’t be an excuse. The secondary was just terrible.

But they aren’t alone. Look around college football. Gone are the 17-10 defensive battles of the past. You had better score 40 plus if you want to win in this the new age of the spread offense that is sweeping the college football landscape. It’s not just the Big 12 anymore. It’s everywhere. Big 10, Pac 12, even the SEC are all now lighting up the scoreboards. And I don’t think it’s going to change anytime soon.

The rules give the offense the advantage and that is the way the powers that be want it. High scoring fast tempo games are great for TV ratings. And television money runs the whole college football world.

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