A tough year for Crimson and Cream fans
So, it’s Bedlam week. The days leading up to The Big Red’s game against its second most-hated rivalry – The Oklahoma State Cowboys – A.K.A The Cowpokes, The Cowpukes, and a host of other derogatory names that best be left unwritten and unpublished here.
It will be a game of the ages – if both teams play up to their capabilities.
For our beloved and sometimes infuriating Sooners, however, the 2021 football season has been three months of Bedlam. One game after another.
The Tulane game…I can’t, I just can’t. Kansas? KANSAS! For the love of everything holy! What the heck was that? Time to erase that from my memory. Were’s my vodka and spicy tomato juice?
Texas? Well, it was a miracle at the time, but seeing UT’s performance the rest of the season, perhaps that should have set alarm bells off loud and clear through the entire Sooner Nation. Texas stinks so bad Longhorn fans are already trying to massacre coach Steve Sarkisian in a pubic scene reminiscent of the Alamo slaughter.
Baylor? Well, as the season has shown, they are pretty darn good. Before the bowl season and college football playoffs, it is entirely possible they could slip into the top five, maybe even (it’s a long shot) the top four and the college football playoffs. That would help erase the bad taste in Sooner mouths.
Think Alabama with two losses. Think Ohio State with two possible losses. See OU vs. Texas, OU vs. Kansas, Kansas vs. Texas and about 90 percent of the teams they’ve played this year. Bevo’s gotten butchered this season! There is a God!
Miracles do happen. We’ve all seen it time and time again in life and college football. Who did beat Ohio State and then got blasted Saturday by raging Utah Utes. Can you spell OR E GONE?
Alabama? I’m willing to bet Georgia might make an example of them this year, providing much happiness to college football fans all over the country. A two-loss ‘Bama relegated to a down-the-list bowl game, would be SOOOOOO enjoyable for 95 percent of America!
My point is, anything can happen. Anything might happen.
But I’m not holding my breath. OU has too many holes. Too many weakness, and, frankly, this hasn’t been Lincoln Riley’s best season game planning and play calling. That’s my opinion anyway.
I don’t expect an OU win against OSU Saturday.
Eskimo Joe’s better have a few more trucks full of beer ready to tap into…
The Pokes are just too dang good on both sides of the ball and, to me, they’ve got a chip on their shoulder and an angry, hard-hitting, mean defense that probably would love nothing better than to sack Caleb Williams into a pile of Crimson and Cream pudding on Saturday.
Offensively for the nasty-looking Orange? Well, we all know what’s likely to happen. Aggie QB Spencer Sanders performances this season are likely going to make him one of next year’s Heisman contenders.
And their running attack? Can you repeat after me? Mr. Jaylen Warren. All he’s done is run for 659 yards in the last four games. What is the record for the most yards gained by a running back in a single game against Oklahoma? It’s likely going to fall big-time Saturday.
I’ve got OU Crimson running in my veins. But even as addled as this old man is, I can sometimes see the future.
Perusing this years, records, performances, stats and all the other intangibles, Oklahoma is going to lose this game. Maybe big time. Maybe embarrasingly.
Our best hope?
This is Bedlam. Anything can happen. That’s been the case for a couple of decades now.
All I know for sure is that Eskimo Joe’s better have a few more trucks full of beer ready to tap into either way.
Mad Dog’s Prediction: OSU 42 – OU 24.
(Please, Lord, make me wrong on who wins.)
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