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Texas game a good salve for our Frog-inflicted wounds

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Mike’s Blog

The OU guy who scheduled TCU the week before the Red River Rivalry was a genius.

After all, if TCU were to upset Oklahoma — which they did on Saturday — there probably was going to be no better a salve for those wounds than beating Texas in the Cotton Bowl the following week.

Sure, you may be thinking that an Oklahoma win this week over Texas is not a foregone conclusion. Well, it never is. Weird things happen in the Red River Rivalry. Sometimes the best team doesn’t win. See last year, for example.

Yet, I am quite sure the Sooners will beat Texas on Saturday. It will be easier to maneuver the concession lines at Fair Park than for Texas — which is 104th nationally in passing and 92nd in rushing — to move the ball gainst Oklahoma.

But, what is perhaps more troubling than thinking of the long lines for corn dogs at Fair Park, is the prospect that Oklahoma’s team is still good enough to get into the college football playoffs this year — and with further Top 10 losses expected that is very much a possibility –but the coaching may not be good enough.

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Hunter’s Top 5 things to do for OU-Texas weekend

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I’ll be heading to Dallas on Friday with all the rest of you Sooner fans. Here is my list of the top things every Soonerguy should do this weekend:

1. The game itself. Be one of the 90,000 fans (only 45,000 of them count, of course) that are making constant noise for 3 hours. It gives you a chance to yell bad things to other people and everyone thinks it is OK.

2. The Texas State Fair. Big Tex is big. The corn dogs are big. The fair is big. The midway rides give Texas fans something to do after their loss before they have to drive home.

3. The Drive to Dallas. There are at least 30,000 of the 45,000 Sooner fans who travel down I-35 on Friday. It’s like a massive D-Day invasion. Very cool.

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OU vs TCU: Knight’s game to step up

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One man goes down, another steps up. And in this case he stepped up in a major way.

Samaje Perine was the hero with a herculian effort against the Mountaineers. When you read the stats for Perine it’s hard not to get excited at what the future may hold for the true freshman from Pflugerville, Texas. 244 yards and 4 touchdowns. And no, that’s not stats from the last time you hooked up Playstation.

Perine and the offensive line just took it too West Virginia and never let up. This OU offense is quickly being defined by its punishing offensive line and running game. And it’s a good thing too. The air attack is still trying to find itself. Knight still has trouble looking past his primary target and can have trouble with his accuracy.

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