My game-by-game predictions
Temple Owls: Win. OU gets its footing under Jackson Arnold, despite many injuries in pre-season camp. Guaranteed win.
Houston Cougars: Win. OU picks up the pace.
Tulane: Win. Last easy win. Taking a deep breath.
Tennessee: Toss Up, but probable win only because it is at Owen Field. Let’s hope Josh Huepel is seen crying as the Orange bobble-heads wiggle home, but make no mistake, the Hype is real and so is his team.
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Texas: BIG TIME WIN! Swearing at everything Orange, beer cans and tacos flying all around; melted cheese dribbling down the tank-tops of UT and OU women and more cuss words flying at each other on 6th Street. Nothing better in college football than Big-D, cops, sidewalk vomit, music, police sirens and driving back to Oklahoma from a 3-day drunk sitting in a car with hung-over friends. Singing Texas Jump Up And BITE MY AS* all the way home. Game of the year. We will be up like crazy. Jackson Arnold will be hitting his peak. We will have the kinks ironed out. Arch Manning ain’t his daddy or any of his other relatives and Texas is about to find that out. Our defense will be raging. to a raging defense, tough running and Arnold hitting his stride…WE WIN.
The only question is do we slaughter them?
South Carolina? They still play football? SEC Internet site They are predicted to finish 13th in the league this year. They are coming off a two-win season. Beamer is great, but he can’t walk on water unless there’s water to walk on. Win. Big.
Auburn: At their place. LSUReveille.com says Auburn fans come out of the womb rude and un-sportsman-like is to be expected for any fans venturing into to married-to-your cousin-land. We win, but not easily. Second real test. This one is away.
Mississipi State: It has only had one undefeated season since 1940. Oklahoma and Texas are going to give them two big losses next season. Zac Selmon, yes, that Selmon from Norman, whose daddy is an OU legend, hired Jeff Lebby away to M. State, so we should expect them to know OU offensively and defensively. A win. Barely and only because it is Lebby’s first year. For the record…I still desperately miss Mike Leach.
Maine? They can’t play football up there. Luckily, we’ll be playing in Oklahoma or there would be 50 ft. of snow and ice on the ground and I ain’t kidding! My brother and his family live up there! FOOTBALL? They drive dog sleds up there for crying out loud! New England in the NFL yes. College football. NO. They really think LaCrosse is a college game up there!
Missouri. The Tigers are better than they’ve been in decades, and while they are getting of pre-season hype, OU and Texas are better. Period. We win this. Won’t say it won’t be close, but, we should be running on all cylinders by then and Missouri has a number of its biggest tests before facing them in Texas A&M, Auburn, Alabama. Losing could be ingrained for the Tigers by then.
The Last Big 2:
Alabama. I have to predict a loss here, but I really hate doing so. Perhaps with Saban gone, and if they are struggling or have some losses before the pre-Thanksgiving Holiday, war we might get a win. To do so, everything would have to go smooth as silk, and against Alabama, there is only a syntilla of hope that might happen. Upset possible, but unlikely. Loss.
Georgia. Should I just repeat the Alabama paragraph above and substitute Georgia here? Truthfully, this is a loss unless a miracle occurs. Maybe half their team comes down with Covid (God forbid) or, the team gets arrested for drunkness and attacking visiting OU coeds. Loss and this will be worse than Alabama.
Or…
DRINKING THE KOOL-AID….
UNDEFEATED. WIN THE COLLEGE PLAYOFF. Brent gets a zillion dollar raise and our title inspires the OU Women’s Softball team to take home another natty in the spring and the OU Women’s basketball team (whom I love to death) wins the Big 12 season and the NCAA tournament. IT COULD HAPPEN!
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