Saturday was another close one, still another victory. I hope we're building up some of that "know how to win close ones" stuff that people talk about. It feels more like we've been surviving though. I'm getting pretty tired of everyone ramming it up our asses in the fourth quarter. Even FSU got a TD against us in the fourth, albeit a garbage time score on the last play of the game. If we can't put away Cincy, Air Force, or Utah State for chrissakes, then conference opponents are going to win at least one that way if we don't get it fixed. Not to mention teams will never feel out of the game, which makes it that much harder on us if we're truly getting someones best shot for four entire quarters. Anyway, I did a little research and crunched the numbers, and what I came up with is that Mitch is absolutely correct: 4-0 is better than 3-1. Which is why I asked the question that I did to open this column.
The Sooner fan in me has an ingrained love for watching Texas lose. I'd love it if they lost every game of the season. But let's be honest, that would take a lot of the fun out of beating them (remember when we used to do that? Check your almanacs) and it would remove a marquee win from our schedule. Although, it seems that playing piece of shit teams week in/week out, winning a bullshit conference with no real contenders several years in a row, and getting up for the 1 or 2 decent teams you play each season (much easier to do than if you play them every Saturday) and winning those games earns you serious national title consideration (see: Boise State et al). Whoa, back on track here. If we manage to beat Texas this weekend then we've beaten a top 25 team and that's about it. In fact depending on how we win they may fall out all together. Then you start hearing talk of how we we scraped by the teams we should have rolled over and didn't play anyone in conference. If it comes down to a three team race of unbeatens (unlikely, I admit), that is a real turd in our collective punch bowl. Outside of all of that nonsense, do we now play a Texas team already thirsty for our blood but with the added incentive of "something to prove"? If we lose to Texas this year, it won't be like others where we lost to a top 5 team, and if we win out and they stumble we'll be right back in it. Our hole may already be dug (take that sentence and run with it).
In hindsight I guess I should have titled this, "Texas Losing: Bad for Sooner Nation". Hey, go fuck yourself I'm not a journalist.
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