Eyebrow… So Much For The Easy Part…
OU Okie Dokie. The easy part, relatively speaking, is now over.
Nebraska, already bleeding Husker red all over the field and in the seats after an absolutely horrific season start in its first three games of the season, must be crying to the college football Gods, beseeching them for some kind of pigskin salvation.
It is truly tragic how far one of college football’s greatest ever has fallen this low. And the Cornhusker faithful thought Bo Pelini was bad. They have now discovered how bad historically bad really is.
Big Red Of The North – we Sooners can and do sympathetically, with squinted eyes and vomit rising in our throats, want to tell you WE FEEL YOUR PAIN.
Actually, we aren’t all that sympathetic really.
Kicking your football guts out on Astroturf (or whatever it’s called these days) can never happen enough, as far as every true Sooner fan knows. We probably won’t be seeing you again anytime soon.
Now, our Crimson & Cream gridiron warriors face the remainder of the Big 12 Saturday after Saturday until Christmas decorations start appearing on our streets.
Make no mistake. The rest of the season is a gauntlet of Orcs, Elves and Dragon Slayers. It’s bad guys everywhere we look.
Let’s take a look.
…The rest of the season is a gauntlet of Orcs, Elves and Dragon Slayers. It’s bad guys everywhere we look.
Kansas: Don’t look now, but the Jayhawks are 3-0. Ok. It’s Tennessee Tech and West Virginia – which, definitely after their start, should think about dropping college football all together. Prediction: OU wins big, despite KU’s early season success.
OSU: The Cowboys were dynamic out of the gate, picking up where the ended last season making Notre Dame cry like a bunch of drunk nuns. Arkansas-Pine Bluff – a 56-point win, Arizona State (Coach Herm Edwards bites the dust thanks to the Pokes) in 17-point win. Yeah, they got the big head against Central Michigan and choked out squeaker.
My prediction is that won’t be happening much more this year until the meet Baylor and us. I refuse to predict this. That’s how tough and close it might be. Brent and his defense staff will earn the paycheck in November if they are to beat a top-10-ranked OSU.
Texas: (I spit on the floor!) Their prime-time QB, Quinn Ewers, is questionable for the next few weeks – if not the season. There’s talk he’ll be back for Dallas. Is it wrong for me to pray that’s a lie and isn’t going to happen? That kid has the juice and with Texas’ big-deal running back, is stellar.
Defense ain’t bad either. There’s no shame giving up a bundle of points against Alabama and barely losing after you lose your starting quarterback to a bunch of NFL first-rounders.
Baylor: OK. They got beat by a team whose members and church leaders used to think marrying more than one woman was a good idea. (What moron had that idea? One she-dragon for each of us men, is ample.).
The Bears are going to face really tough sledding against OU, Texas, OSU and probably ISU. If they are still in the top 15 or 20 by the end of that gauntlet, they’ll get a New Year’s day gig, if not a place in the national championship.
Iowa State: The Cyclones had their fill holding on against arch, in-state rival Iowa. However, I have to question this year if Hayden Fry’s squad is anywhere near his best. Matt Campbell (Nebraska’s next head coach) and his troops are going to have to log some big wins in conference to go big-time bowling and if Matty wants to move to Lincoln.
Don’t be surprised if both happen.
Texas Christian University: Gary what’s-his-name was fired like a USA missile headed to a Russian troop and supply convoy. It ain’t Christian to slap around and make fun of a new coach in his first year of rebuilding and rejuvenating what has often been a good contender in the Big 12 and bowl games. Sonny Dykes has his hands full, but I wouldn’t bet that they are conference champs come season’s end. Dykes is a really good coach.
Still, miracles only happen in the Bible and some where below the Big 5 is likely.
Texas Tech: They stumbled to North Carolina State by 13, and the downed what may be a dog of a Houston team that got beat by KANSAS! First-year coach Joe McGuire is going to need the luck of the Irish to keep his inaugural season as a head coach at a major conference football team. Above Big 12 sewer depths.
The Raid Raiders are not going to fair well, is my guest. They may be good by the time Texas and Oklahoma depart.
West Virginia: Is there such a thing as a legal mercy killing for a football team, it’s coaches and it’s coal-digging population. I think not. Push over for the entire league, I predict, which is sad because their fans are nice people to hang with on Campus Corner while throwing down some brewskies and burgers. Poor WVU. Your days of glory are long-gone for a few years.
OU’s year is off to an amazing, stellar start. Great coaching staff. Stellar players that are showing up on every day in practice and games. Our QB is now, or soon will be, in the Heisman hunt. We’ve got a sparkling running game and O-Line.
And, my I say, we now have an over-abundance of some of the finest college coaches in America.
And with that, I say to USC Head Coach Lincoln-The-Coward and his No-Defense buddy, Alex “The” Grinch – enjoy the next earthquake!
— Mad Dog
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