This Week In College Football 9/1 - 9/5

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TCU takes the lead.

 

UAB only down seven to Tennessee in the 4th.

 

For the pick 'em contest, East Carolina up 17-14 on Duke late in the 3rd.

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TD TCU, 17-10 with 12 minutes left in the game.

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Interception UAB. They are now in the RedZone but it is fourth down and they will be going for it.

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Rutgers has blown a 20 point lead against Illinois. Looks like overtime.

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Paul Thompson throws a bad pass that TCU intercepts. Still 17-10 with 9 minutes left.

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Nevermind, Tennessee gets a huge gain on 3rd down.

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And TCU tosses a pick just as I was about to make a post about TCU needing to run the ball and kill some clock...

 

But OU fails to capitalize and turns the ball over on downs, with a little over 4 minutes left. If this is what Oklahoma will look like all year, I have a feeling that Texas may finally beat them.

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I don't believe this. They cut away from the game?!

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OU will get the ball with about 2 minutes left, gee I wonder what's going to happen.

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Dama must be having a heart attack.

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Game over

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And Thompson gets sacked on 4th down, TCU will win...

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Wow. Just Wow.

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Bah gawd, we suck

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So how far does OU drop in the polls now......down to 17?

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Horned Frogs!!!

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Coach SO has to wear a TCU shirt on Raw now

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TCU is a solid team but losing at home when favored by 26 points probably knocks them out of the Top 20. They'll end up at about #22.

 

Illinois beats Rutgers in overtime. I always kill myself with the upset picks.

 

East Carolina 24, Duke 21, late 4th

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Dama came down too hard on the players during his library patrols

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It's the NCAA's fault for not giving Jason White a 100th year of eligibility

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Stoops learned something all coaches learn: two quarterbacks rotating in and out does not work.

 

And I doubt OU falls that far, I say down to #18.

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OU will run through the rest of the schedule undefeated, screw over another deserving undefeated team and USC will win 300-0 this time....

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OU will run through the rest of the schedule undefeated, screw over another deserving undefeated team and USC will win 300-0 this time....

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I said it elsewhere in a college football preview I did for money, I don't see Oklahoma finishing with more than 8 wins this year. They just really are not that good offensively and their defense isn't good enough to make up for the mistakes of their offense like previous years.

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God damn fumbles lost that game for OU. Perhaps, TCU is this years Mountain West stand out is TCU?

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I said it elsewhere in a college football preview I did for money, I don't see Oklahoma finishing with more than 8 wins this year. They just really are not that good offensively and their defense isn't good enough to make up for the mistakes of their offense like previous years.

 

I agree. If Texas doesn't finally beat Oklahoma this year, then Mack Brown is truly incompetent.

 

Oh and nice to see Rutgers showing their true colors and choking against Illinois. I don't think Schiano is going to survive this year.

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Wow.....just wow.

Words cannot describe how I feel but I'll give it a shot.

 

--We are not good offensively and average defensively. Not good at all.

 

--Turnovers. Jesus christ guys.

 

--BAD PLAY CALLING!!! Fire Chuck Long!!! I was saying it after the Orange Bowl. His play calling was just vanilla and horrible.

 

--We are not a good team. At least not right now.

 

--I didn't think the loss of the seniors would hurt us as bad as it's turned out to hurt us. I was sitting there going "If we had Jason White and Mark Clayton this game would be over!!!!"

 

--The offensive line needs to learn how to fucking block.

 

--Once again horrible play calling.

 

--I give TCU credit but jesus OU should've won this game going away.

 

--In the past Bob Stoops has ran with a bad offense but but had a monster defense to back it up and win games. But we don't have that monster defense this year.

 

--Now that other teams know the rest of the offense sucks then AD will get nothing b/c they'll be all over him every game until the rest of the offense proves it can score.

 

I've been an Oklahoma fan for a long time. And never under Bob Stoops have all of my hopes been dashed like they were today. We've always lost the big game towards the end of the season or in the NC game. Never an opener. We've lost 1 game(now 2) under Bob Stoops at home! And this happens? I'm speechless and flabbergasted.

 

Since I started writing for the paper and trying to view college football more objectively this doesn't hurt as bad as it would say last year. Last year I would be having a heart attack. Now I"m just upset but ready to see other teams play. The perils of entering the business as a sports writer maybe? Your fandom is swallowed up? Can 2GOLD or anyone else that writes sports comment on this? Because honestly I'm not freaking out or turning red or screaming or anything. I mean it does feel like a bad dream but shit.....I knew they had question marks. But not like this.

 

So I assume now we'll lose to Texas and Texas Tech and maybe Texas A&M. So Cotton Bowl or Holiday Bowl here we come!!!!! Yay....and stuff.

 

Now if they can correct all these problems and become Oklahoma football again then the next 2 years then yeah things will look up and this will be a wakeup call. But if things continue to spiral like they have the past few years then I have no clue what to believe.

 

I know most people would kill to have their programs in the position that OU has been in the past 6 years but honestly.....getting blown out in National Title games and losing to TCU.....that's not Oklahoma football. Not at all. So either Oklahoma is going to use this and become the elite team they have been under Bob Stoops or they're going to just become another good team in the country lost amongst the faces.

 

But this does suck but you know it's our fault. We're not that good this year.

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Oh upset of the year? Or will something bigger happen this season?

Wow this'll also be the first time that OU has dropped out of the Top 10 since 2000.

Bob Stoops is learning some humility I guess. Hopefully he responds well.

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Upset of the year will be if someone knocks off USC

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Well, when you are in full fanboy mode it means you are going to ignore the team's faults or not even bother to learn about them. When you are in sports writer mode, you look for the faults and the positives so you know going in what to expect in a sense. Fandom just screams "BOOMER SOONER" and when faults are mentioned, scream back "PFFT! PETERSON! PETERSON!"

Course, as today demostrated, Peterson isn't going anywhere without an offensive line. OU is in a full out rebuilding year, his recruits from the Clayton and White years on offense were par at best and he only really got a few above average defensive recruits.

 

As I said, I'm not shocked by this at all. I knew Stoops and OU were in trouble when he still wasn't ready to really name a starting QB at the start of the season. That is never a good sign, and when you break out that "both very talented" line it is basically saying "I really have nothing".

 

TCU is not a bad team though, they were a defense away from being well above .500 last year.

 

Look on the bright side, OU didn't lose to Baylor.

 

And no, this is not the upset of the year. You'll see a very big one here in the next few weeks, a VERY big one.

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I don't know about last year, not seeing them that much, but from what I saw today I don't see how you can blame the play calling. The offense flat out sucks and Thompson can't throw the deep ball. If you can't stretch the field vertically, you are going to have a very vanilla, short game offense.