Re: Who Will Be the Sacrificial Lamb This Year?
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:11 pm
Boise State vs. Texas A&M
This is our year.
This is our year.
Really? I had not looked at the schedule.King Crimson wrote:ATM would have to win in Norman....it's been a long time. John Blake and 3-5 win Sooner teams long time ago. Ryan Tannehill is the name you are looking for Sam.
oh please. you want "credit" for sticking your neck out....and get bent/insinuate i'm taking the cowards role....when i make a simple observation about the schedule that others may not be aware of. yeah, OK. overreact much? are you sure didn't mean to pick Cal or Iowa?IndyFrisco wrote: I know it is easier to take shots at someone else's predictions than to stick your neck out and make your own, but you should try it.
IndyFrisco wrote:Really? I had not looked at the schedule.King Crimson wrote:ATM would have to win in Norman....it's been a long time. John Blake and 3-5 win Sooner teams long time ago. Ryan Tannehill is the name you are looking for Sam.
He asked to call your shot. I did. I haven't picked A&M to win even the South since probably 1999 so I hope you're not calling that a homer pick. I think the South is a toss-up between A&M and OU. With our returning class, yeah, I think we can beat a team we beat last year at home 33-19 on their turf. I think we can lose there as well. The fact we have not won in Norman in 14 years has fuck all to do with 2011. I'm going with the W. I know it is easier to take shots at someone else's predictions than to stick your neck out and make your own, but you should try it. As Sam said, it's always fun to go back to these threads after the fact and see who GUESSED right and who GUESSED wrong.
Sig bet on the game? I'll call it now . . . hell I'll even spot you 6 points.IndyFrisco wrote:And all those historical games mean how much in 2011? Jack shit. Maybe that's why A&M beat OU last year by 2 TDs. OUFan is so fucking myopic.
The only team that can beat OU is OU.
Wait, yer like 72 and didn't realize how much people hated Texas?...especially Big 12 folks? Good lord, Sam, just how deep has your head been buried in the anus of the SEC?Sudden Sam wrote:Never knew how much hatred for Texas there was by the rest of the league.
IndyFrisco wrote:Aside from our trip to Norman, our schedule is rather favorable. Again, every team has at least one game on their schedule (sup @FSU?) that is either a loss or a toss-up.
Here's our away schedule:
@ tceh
@ OU
@ KSU
@ ISU
Home:
SMU
Idaho
t.u.
Okie St.
Misery
Kansas
Baylor
Neutral:
Arkansas (in Dallas with new QB)
Yeah, I think we will be favored in every game sans the OU game assuming we both enter the game undefeated. We could even be favored in the OU game on the road dependeing on how both teams are playing. In any case, we have the best running game in the Big XII this year. I'd take Tannehill 10 times out of 10 over Jones. Your defense is better than ours, but I don't think significantly enough to shut us down. Saying A&M can go undefeated is not a blind ass homer pick. I've never predicted they would go undefeated. This year, I think we can. And to be honest, I can truly see a 0-1 loss SEC team playing BSU in the BCS championship even if A&M goes undefeated simply due to preseason starting positions in the polls.
Buffalo over Middle Tennessee. Bank on it.Sudden Sam wrote:Need more picks for the title game. Come on, you pussies.
Hey, cute take and all, but I don't do the back and forth thing where we argue about what WILL happen up until it happens. I've laid my take down and so has GoonerFan. We'll see how it plays out. Until then, good luck. I hope A&M and OU meet each other undefeated.SunCoastSooner wrote:IndyFrisco wrote:Aside from our trip to Norman, our schedule is rather favorable. Again, every team has at least one game on their schedule (sup @FSU?) that is either a loss or a toss-up.
Here's our away schedule:
@ tceh
@ OU
@ KSU
@ ISU
Home:
SMU
Idaho
t.u.
Okie St.
Misery
Kansas
Baylor
Neutral:
Arkansas (in Dallas with new QB)
Yeah, I think we will be favored in every game sans the OU game assuming we both enter the game undefeated. We could even be favored in the OU game on the road dependeing on how both teams are playing. In any case, we have the best running game in the Big XII this year. I'd take Tannehill 10 times out of 10 over Jones. Your defense is better than ours, but I don't think significantly enough to shut us down. Saying A&M can go undefeated is not a blind ass homer pick. I've never predicted they would go undefeated. This year, I think we can. And to be honest, I can truly see a 0-1 loss SEC team playing BSU in the BCS championship even if A&M goes undefeated simply due to preseason starting positions in the polls.
You have the best running game in the conference? Geez, wish you had informed, Athlon, Street and Smith's, Phil Steele, and ESPN of this development because they all have Oklahoma as having the best runningback unit in the conference; and only one of them has Oklahoma outside of the top 3 in the country. Oklahoma easily has the best FB in the conference with Millard and it isn't even close. Finch, Brown (who ESPN compared to Adrian Peterson during the spring), Clay, and Calhoun. Oklahoma has four different TBs who would be the likely full time starter at at least seven of the other programs in the conference; not one or two but four.
You'd take Tannehill over Jones? You'd take a guy who didn't even start last season at QB last year over a kid who is one of the top three choices as a Heisman finalist and projected as a top 10 pick in the NFL Draft? I haven't seen Tannehill rated above Weeden and Griffen from any publication. At best, personally, I would consider Tannehill the fourth best quarterback in the conference and far below Landry Jones.
Our Wide Receiver corp is most certainly better and deeper than aTm's. The OLine easily leaps and bounds ahead of aTm's as well.
Defensively we have the best LB in the conference with Travis Lewis and outside of the Dline I do believe we are significantly better; having 8 guys returning for defense that was already obviously better over the course of the season last year than aggy might have something to do with that notion. Far be it from me to have the audacity to insinuate that one team who gave up fewer yards, had more sack, more interceptions, and a far better turnover margin than the other with the same number of returning starters is probably better than the other.
Oh and in the rank the teams in your conference thread...SunCoastSooner wrote:Like I said, I'm more scared of at least four other games on our schedule than I am Aggy, including Texas. Missouri has at least proven it doesn't wilt like a tulip in during a heat wave every time it crosses north of the Red River. Okie Lite and Florida State scare me infinitely more than aTm does.
Soooo, you think A&M is the second best team in the conference yet you are more worried about #3, #4 and #7? Make up your fucking mind.SunCoastSooner wrote:1. Oklahoma
2. Texas A&M
3. Missouri
4. Oklahoma State
5. Kansas State
6. Baylor
7. Texas
8. Texas Tech
9. Iowa State
10. Kansas
One thing I can agree with KC on is there are no "shoulds" about playing in the NC game. That's why those in here who are guessing are doing just that...guessing.King Crimson wrote:Harv doing some reverse sandbagging.... :DHarvdog wrote:1. Oklahoma - They are loaded this year. They should play for the MNC.
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this is the kind of team you'd expect to have a chance, but there are no "should's" about playing for the Big Prize imo.
Oklahoma State and Texas are rivalry games. We also play in Stillwater, again, not Norman against the Pokes. Even when Texas is bad they get up for the Oklahoma game and fight. I believe Oklahoma State is slightly better than aTm but I gave the Farmers the nod over the Vets because their heads up is in college station. Missouri doesn't normally wilt in Norman like aTm has for time immemorial; if we were playing them in Dallas or KC in December they would concern me.IndyFrisco wrote:Oh and in the rank the teams in your conference thread...SunCoastSooner wrote:Like I said, I'm more scared of at least four other games on our schedule than I am Aggy, including Texas. Missouri has at least proven it doesn't wilt like a tulip in during a heat wave every time it crosses north of the Red River. Okie Lite and Florida State scare me infinitely more than aTm does.
Soooo, you think A&M is the second best team in the conference yet you are more worried about #3, #4 and #7? Make up your fucking mind.SunCoastSooner wrote:1. Oklahoma
2. Texas A&M
3. Missouri
4. Oklahoma State
5. Kansas State
6. Baylor
7. Texas
8. Texas Tech
9. Iowa State
10. Kansas
And as for KC...we see a pattern here. Harv ranks the teams in the conference. Rather than KC doing his own ranking, he takes a shot at Harv's picks:
One thing I can agree with KC on is there are no "shoulds" about playing in the NC game. That's why those in here who are guessing are doing just that...guessing.King Crimson wrote:Harv doing some reverse sandbagging.... :DHarvdog wrote:1. Oklahoma - They are loaded this year. They should play for the MNC.
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this is the kind of team you'd expect to have a chance, but there are no "should's" about playing for the Big Prize imo.
We put ours up. Stop your whining. This topic has eliceted the most lively non-troll discussion on the board in weeks. STFU and enjoy it.Sudden Sam wrote:Wish everyone would throwe their picks for the championship game in here.
Grow some balls.
Cheers, motherfucker. It's good to be talkin' actual football and not about who's cheating again.SunCoastSooner wrote:STFU and enjoy it.
Texas didn't try and start dictating anything until last summer. Nebraska was the issue for the previous two decades; I posted about that in a couple other threads over the years and one pretty recently:Sudden Sam wrote:Ha! Just never looked into it a lot. Knew they weren't liked, but i didn't realize how much the 'Horns dictated everything. I had always looked at OU and UT as equals.MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Wait, yer like 72 and didn't realize how much people hated Texas?...especially Big 12 folks? Good lord, Sam, just how deep has your head been buried in the anus of the SEC?Sudden Sam wrote:Never knew how much hatred for Texas there was by the rest of the league.
actually suncoast, THE MOST FAMOUS example of 3rd and 4th stringers in a game has to be the 96 fiesta bowl.SunCoastSooner wrote:Oklahoma vs. Stanford is my call.
IndyFrisco wrote:Really? I had not looked at the schedule.King Crimson wrote:ATM would have to win in Norman....it's been a long time. John Blake and 3-5 win Sooner teams long time ago. Ryan Tannehill is the name you are looking for Sam.
He asked to call your shot. I did. I haven't picked A&M to win even the South since probably 1999 so I hope you're not calling that a homer pick. I think the South is a toss-up between A&M and OU. With our returning class, yeah, I think we can beat a team we beat last year at home 33-19 on their turf. I think we can lose there as well. The fact we have not won in Norman in 14 years has fuck all to do with 2011. I'm going with the W. I know it is easier to take shots at someone else's predictions than to stick your neck out and make your own, but you should try it. As Sam said, it's always fun to go back to these threads after the fact and see who GUESSED right and who GUESSED wrong.
The last time the Texas Farmer Institute won in this series this is what happened on the return trip.
(P.S. Brad this is what it looks like to have third and fourth stringers in the third quarter and taking knees in the fourth so you don't run up the score)
aTm is 2-12 all time in Norman, the last time they won was before Bob Stoops was head coach, before that WWII wasn't concluded yet. In 1999 aTm came in ranked and OU unranked and they got beat by 44 points. In 1993 they were the #4 team in the country and expected to have a chance at a national title and Oklahoma was barely receiving votes to be in the poll, Oklahoma won by 30.
Oklahoma played what was probably it's worst game of the season last year in College station. Hiking a ball into the end zone is not dominance by aTm, tripping on your own feet in the middle of the field at the 45 yard line is not some wizardry of athletic ability by aTm to break a long pass play for a TD. Dropping the ball right through your hands on the snap is not some magical play call from aTm to recover a fumble inside the opposing team's 30.
I'm more concerned with about 1/3 of schedule than I am with Texas Farmer Institute being played in Norman; Florida State, Missouri, Oklahoma State, and Texas in a rivalry match up are all more worrisome to me than Aggy. Aggy has only stayed within single digits of OU twice in Norman since 1950 . . .
The same 1995 Huskers who barely beat 3-8 Washington State? And they didn't hang 70 on Florida, try lying some more . . .bradhusker wrote:actually suncoast, THE MOST FAMOUS example of 3rd and 4th stringers in a game has to be the 96 fiesta bowl.
you remember dont you? Dr. Tom? instead of putting up 70 on spurrier, brings in a 4th string 150 pound freshman quarterback to take a knee on the inch yard line?
Im not sure you followed the huskers in 95, cause if you did, you'd realize that their games were blowouts by the 2nd quarter, so Dr. Tom routinely put in all the scrubs. NOW, you'll probably call me a liar, and I am used to it by now, HOWEVER, I personally witnessed that entire season, and its a proven fact that what I am saying is 100 percent accurate,
any problem with that?
ACTUALLY suncoast, I just caught you in a lie!!!!!!SunCoastSooner wrote:The same 1995 Huskers who barely beat 3-8 Washington State? And they didn't hang 70 on Florida, try lying some more . . .bradhusker wrote:actually suncoast, THE MOST FAMOUS example of 3rd and 4th stringers in a game has to be the 96 fiesta bowl.
you remember dont you? Dr. Tom? instead of putting up 70 on spurrier, brings in a 4th string 150 pound freshman quarterback to take a knee on the inch yard line?
Im not sure you followed the huskers in 95, cause if you did, you'd realize that their games were blowouts by the 2nd quarter, so Dr. Tom routinely put in all the scrubs. NOW, you'll probably call me a liar, and I am used to it by now, HOWEVER, I personally witnessed that entire season, and its a proven fact that what I am saying is 100 percent accurate,
any problem with that?
LET ME EMBARRASS YOU FURTHER!!!bradhusker wrote:ACTUALLY suncoast, I just caught you in a lie!!!!!!SunCoastSooner wrote:The same 1995 Huskers who barely beat 3-8 Washington State? And they didn't hang 70 on Florida, try lying some more . . .bradhusker wrote:actually suncoast, THE MOST FAMOUS example of 3rd and 4th stringers in a game has to be the 96 fiesta bowl.
you remember dont you? Dr. Tom? instead of putting up 70 on spurrier, brings in a 4th string 150 pound freshman quarterback to take a knee on the inch yard line?
Im not sure you followed the huskers in 95, cause if you did, you'd realize that their games were blowouts by the 2nd quarter, so Dr. Tom routinely put in all the scrubs. NOW, you'll probably call me a liar, and I am used to it by now, HOWEVER, I personally witnessed that entire season, and its a proven fact that what I am saying is 100 percent accurate,
any problem with that?
I made a factual statement about the games being blowouts in the second quarter, nebraska 28 wsu 7 in the 2nd QTR, THEN, Dr. Tom brings in the 3rd and 4th string, and, wsu fights their way back into the game, AGAINST THE SCRUBS!!!
THATS A FACT!! if you try to say anything different, YOU ARE LYING!!!!!
go on, try to contradict what I just said? I dare you!!
SECOND, the fiesta bowl, January 1996, Osborne plays 2nd 3rd and 4th stringers, ANOTHER FACT!! again, go ahead and try to contradict that!! I DARE YOU!!
so, its obvious to everyone, that yes, had Osborne just went with his first team, mostly, YES, he could have hung 80 or 90 on florida. BUT, Dr. Tom didnt just play his best team all night, IN FACT, he brought in 3rd and 4th string, AND, THAT IS A FACT!!! again, go ahead and try to contradict what I just said, I DARE YOU!!!
I am beginning to realize that you LIE A LOT!!
FACTUAL STATEMENT 1, nebraska was in a blowout in the 2nd QTR, up 28 7 on wsu, so, the scrubs are quietly rotated in,
FACTUAL STATEMENT 2, nebraska was blowing out 12-0 florida in the 2nd QTR, so Osborne quietly rotates in the scrubs all night long.
go ahead? try to contradict what I just said. and I will humiliate you just like boise st. did.
go ahead, make my day punk.
bradhusker wrote:HEY suncoast? that doesnt answer my question of how your national champion sooners got their asses handed to them by the dismal 2-9 cowboys.
BOTTOM LINE? THIS YEAR? RIGHT NOW? MY TEAM IS GONNA BE BETTER THAN YOUR TEAAM.
so, take your marbles and go home.
I already told you it was on like a mofo.....Sudden Sam wrote: Only problem with your matchup is: (someone wake Felix up) will BSU make the title game after losing their opener? :wink:
I wonder if the Big East will tell USF not to wear their all green uni's at home? Or the Big 10 to MSU if they wanted to wear all green?Sudden Sam wrote:Hell, that makes sense. The Broncos are damn near invisible on that eyestrain-inducing Smurf field when they wear blue.Felix wrote: did you see where the Mountain West forced Boise State to give up their blue uniforms when playing at home?
you know, in all the years I've been following Boise State, I've never once heard an opposing coach say "we got our asses handed to us because Boise State blended with the field"Sudden Sam wrote:Hell, that makes sense. The Broncos are damn near invisible on that eyestrain-inducing Smurf field when they wear blue.Felix wrote: did you see where the Mountain West forced Boise State to give up their blue uniforms when playing at home?
exactlyKillian wrote:
I wonder if the Big East will tell USF not to wear their all green uni's at home? Or the Big 10 to MSU if they wanted to wear all green?
yeah, that's it....never mind the fact that they have at least 6 other games where Boise State is not wearing their home uniforms to review game films....I'm sure that Boise State dreamed up some schemes that ran exclusively when they were in their blue home unis....Sudden Sam wrote:The other coaches' complaint was actually that, in reviewing game film, it was difficult to see shit.
That may have been the Broncos' idea all along!
Hell, they'll probably start beating fools by even greater margins since this should rightly piss them off.Felix wrote:you know, in all the years I've been following Boise State, I've never once heard an opposing coach say "we got our asses handed to us because Boise State blended with the field"
new QB more a runner and less a pocket passer. we don't know if he can get the ball downfield. entire running back committee returns and all but the all-big 12 center return to the o-line. the real Mackey award winner from last year Michael Egnew returns.IndyFrisco wrote: Had Gabbert come back, I'd pick Misery as a toss-up game. Right now, they are an unknown.
hey suncoast? YOU dont know how to troll properly!! you said, and I quote, Ahman green was still in the game in the 4th QTR? HEY MORON? green wasnt a starter in 95, you IDIOT! he was a skinny freshman,Moby Dick wrote:bradhusker wrote:HEY suncoast? that doesnt answer my question of how your national champion sooners got their asses handed to them by the dismal 2-9 cowboys.
BOTTOM LINE? THIS YEAR? RIGHT NOW? MY TEAM IS GONNA BE BETTER THAN YOUR TEAAM.
so, take your marbles and go home.
bradhusker wrote:hey suncoast? YOU dont know how to troll properly!! you said, and I quote, Ahman green was still in the game in the 4th QTR? HEY MORON? green wasnt a starter in 95, you IDIOT! he was a skinny freshman,Moby Dick wrote:bradhusker wrote:HEY suncoast? that doesnt answer my question of how your national champion sooners got their asses handed to them by the dismal 2-9 cowboys.
BOTTOM LINE? THIS YEAR? RIGHT NOW? MY TEAM IS GONNA BE BETTER THAN YOUR TEAAM.
so, take your marbles and go home.
How's that feel to be handed your ass?
You do realize that running the power I formation requires two tailbacks right?bradhusker wrote:WHO IS THIS TRILL? hey moron? the reason YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN? Lawerence phillips was kicked off the team for several weeks!! AND, as a result, Green was thrust into a starting role. Nebraska was 5 deep at I back in 95, so, when Phillips was suspended, green naturally moved up to the starter, BUT, I was correct, green was NOT a starter until phillips got suspended.
SO, I exposed your lying ways YET again.
AND, you lied about the 96 fiesta bowl against 12-0 florida as well.
Tom Osborne did indeed bring in the scrubs!!! 2nd 3rd and 4th teams were rotated in during the 2nd 3rd and 4th quarters.
YOU LIED YET AGAIN!!!!
in fact, throughout the entire season, Osborne routinely played the 3rd and 4th teams. SO, my advice to you?
STOP LYING AND TROLLING!!!