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Bad blood and all, which OU team will show up against Texas Tech Red Raiders?

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In keeping with the Halloween season the Sooners have come to resemble this classic. How in the world can they look so inept in the Cotton Bowl and so perfect in Manhattan? It’s beyond me.

But everything went OU’s way in dismantling Snyder’s boys in the Little Apple. Offense, defense, players and coaches could do no wrong. It helped a little bit that for some reason the Wildcats came out trying to throw the ball all over the field. First of all, that’s not even remotely their strength. And secondly, did they not watch the tape from OU’s debacle in Dallas? Texas ran all over us. Why would you at least not try that first?

I guess I could understand trying to catch the Sooners off guard, but they know their QB can’t throw the ball. Very strange. And by the middle of the second quarter it was too late to try anything else. Game was over.

Anyway, a great game for the Sooners, which now begs the question, which Oklahoma team shows up to play Texas Tech Saturday afternoon at Owen Field?

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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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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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