OU vs. TCU

Welp I guess we are who we thought we were. The Sooners are coming off a working at the hands of the Buckeyes. tOSU is the better team. You could easily see the talent disparity. There seems to be a lot of prattle here in Sooner Nation about whether the issue is the players or coaches. If you say it's coaching then whoever you are talking to inevitably recites Bob's line about coaches not being on the field. I've used the same defense many times myself.

Something is way off though. At this point nobody would second guess Bob if he decided, right now, to send Brother Mike off packing. Mike Part II has been a disaster. And yes, Sooner fans got what they begged for. But Bob can't just fire his brother in the middle of the season. It would be untoward. And Bob can't get fired (But I saw a sign asking for it hanging from a balcony after the game). So hang on for the least exciting season of Sooner football in memory. Sorry.

Also, there are elite teams in college football. By anyone's standards, especially their own, OU is supposed to be an elite team. So nobody is off base with inflated expectations. If you want to be elite then look around at other elite teams. You know what elite teams do? They re-load. Someone leaves, someone enters, as an average across the board the overall quality of play remains the same. Elite teams don't rebuild.

The Sooners are in rebuild mode and, sadly, all it took was losing Sterling Sheperd, Zack Sanchez and Eric Striker. Three skill players with nobody filling their voids. There should be elite skill players tripping over each other on the sidelines. You hear coaches gushing about them in practice and the offseason all the time. You hear recruiting services and their minions talking about them as the next (insert all-time great name here). Why aren't they developed and ready to go when they get their chance? Are they actually elite? That's not, "on the field". That's a recruiting problem. It's a coaching problem. In college football the two are the same.

Anyway, if you care to buy into the propoganda the athletic department is spewing out, the Sooners still have a Big 12 title to play for. The race for Big 12 title number ten starts now. So let's move on, shall we?

OFFENSE

Joe Mixon

DEFENSE

Fuck off.

THE SCORE

I'm not real sure why we are favored other than it's related to the Oklahoma mythology mentioned above. We've proven we're not a top tier team. Our defense has stopped no one. If we win I think it's a shootout. I'll say 42-35.

Don't be surprised if we lose, look bad and Mike is no longer calling plays next week though.