Sooners could become Dallas regulars
I was looking at the 2009 OU football schedule, which was released Thursday, and a thought struck me.
Let’s say the Sooners win the Big 12 South, which is no stretch since they’ve done so seven times in the last nine years. Then let’s say OU loses the Big 12 title game, which actually might be a stretch, since OU is 6-1 in Big 12 title games and the North Division largely stinks.
But stick with me. If OU wins the South and loses the Big 12 title game, there’s a decent chance the Sooners could return to the Cotton Bowl, a classic in which they’ve played only once, on New Year’s Day 2002 against Arkansas.
Under that scenario, OU will play 14 games next season. Six at Owen Field. And four in Greater Dallas. Two in the Cotton Bowl, two in Arlington’s Jerry World.
I don’t know what that means, but it certainly strikes me as odd. The Dallas/Arlington combination would make the Sooners like the old Alabama, which used to split its schedule between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, and the only old Arkansas, which once split its schedule between Little Rock and Fayetteville.
Arkansas still plays a game or two in Little Rock, but Bama left Birmingham behind. OU is going the other way. It scheduled two games this season for the Metroplex and hopes to get to a third, then hopes to avoid a fourth.
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Berry. The Cotton Bowl is at Jerry world this year. After Texas beats OU again maybe OU will put 60 on a few bad big 12 defenses and then Big Game Bob can back in to the “title” game against another team UT beat. You gotta love High Road Bob.
Frank: Most Sooner fans will take “High Road Bob” over “Whine-bag Mack” any day of the week.
Thanks for the thoughts, though.
Seems to me that if Texas Longhorns had taken care of business in Lubbock, we Sooners wouldn’t have to continuely listen to the Longhorn whining, day in and day out. It is called Taking Care of Business, which we could all learn a thing or two about or from recent games that we have lost.
Texas whines that OU shouldn’t have played in the Big Show; but then neither should have Texas beeen there. SSSSSh with the whining shorthorns. In reality, maybe Utah should have been there, afterall, they did get shortchanged by the football writers or voters of America. Seems to me, also, that Tech should have played Ohio State, afterall they beat the Whiners.
“Taking care of business.” I suppose you mean leaving bradford in with a 5 td lead and throwing bombs with less than 5 minutes when the losing team has pulled it starters. Simply despicable. You sure don’t mean vs Texas where OU was taken care of. Stoops is 1-8 in his last 9 BCS/RRS games. I hope OU gives him another raise. Thanks.
Better to have played and lost national championship games than not to be good enough to have played in them, Frank.
TEXAS 2005 National Champions. Good point Randy. ” Not good enough to have played in them”…LOL………LOL!!!! 45 to 35
Hey Frank…39-33 39-33 39-33 39-33. As much as you want it to, it will not go away. And, one more thing: 39-33.
I say the more games in Dallas, the better. It’s got to help in the most important recruiting state for OU, which I’m sure factored heavily into the decision by OU to schedule the BYU game.
Nothing more hilarious than Sooners living through the sand aggies. How OU do last time they PLAYED A ROAD GAME vs Tech? Thanks Terry and please keep those delicious BCS meltdowns coming!!!! LMAO
Frank, Isn’t 2005 the ONLY time Tx even had a chance to win a national championship since about 1969 ??? During that time, Oklahoma WON national championships in 1974, 1975, 1985, and 2000. OU has seven national championships – Come back when it takes more than one hand to count UT’s. Those are the numbers that don’t lie.
The run down of OU’s so called “national titles’(below). Not much to brag about. As for class don’t you guys have a building named after Barry Switzer, who was run out of Norman as a TOTAL DISGRACE. You can’t spell sell OUt without OU. The only numbers that don’t lie are these.
Texas 58
BCS Punching Bags 40
45 to 35
3 of 4
1950 crushed by Kentucky in Bowl game
1955 on probation
1956 on probation
1974 on probation
1975 blackedout from TV/pimpslapped by Kansas in Norman
1985 wooped by Miami in Norman
2000 John Blake’s boys brings home the bacon
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9160/index.htm
Why do fans of OTHER teams from OUT OF STATE come to the Oklahoman to talk their smack? Huh Frank? This is odd and funny.
Hey Frank, look at it this way – at least your Shorthorns don’t have to worry about stopping Michael Crabtree next year! The simple fact is, the Shorthorns didn’t deserve to go to either the Big 12 or National Championship Games because they choked and allowed TT to drive the length of the field in 88 seconds.
OU choked once again vs SEC. Who cares about the Big 2 and OU? UF, LSU (and Boise State and WVU for that matter) have OU’s number. SEC, SEC, SEC!
Frank – you guys keep being satisified with your one national championship game every two generations (forty years)….There is no amount of spin you can put on that truth to make it sound better.
You keep focusing on 45-35 and making up Bob Stoops slurs – OU will keep focusing on winning B12 championships (six in nine years)and playing in the national championship game every 2-3 years.
Sounds like the way things have been going for a decade now. Or said another way, for as long as Mac (can’t win without Vince Young) Brown has been in Austin.
Keep working that plan!
the plan where we beat OU consistently, finish higher in the final AP poll and actually win our bowl game. Let’s see now thats 3 BCS wins in a row for Mack and 5 BCS losses in a row for Stoopid. I did enjoy the CanBeat Texas.com Bowl this year though. That would be missOU 67, TEXAS 101…LOL!!! As for National Titles yes John Blakes team won it in 2000 but the only thing between that and the Korean War(leather helmets..LOL!) is associated with a guy named Barry Switzer who’s left OU a disgrace(probation ..what’s new?)and who’s career there is tarnished. It’s all yours buddy…enjoy!
1950 crushed by Kentucky in Bowl game
1955 on probation
1956 on probation
1974 on probation
1975 blackedout from TV/pimpslapped by Kansas in Norman
1985 wooped by Miami in Norman
2000 John Blake’s boys brings home the bacon
Frank….
“We” ???? You’re a scholarship Shorthorn, are you?
I’ll give you this – you are great at picking your spots:
Remembing the OU game, forgetting the Texas Tech meltdown;
Counting the AP poll, ignoring the BCS polls;
Winning meaningless bowl games (against patsies from the Big 10, no less); ignoring that UT apparently cannot qualify for a bowl game that matters more often than once every 40 years.
Choosing not to count selected National Championships because of a dislike for Switzer while focusing on….what is it you are focusing on again? Try to beat Texas Tech this year!
Texas cannot even win the B12 South division, let alone the B12 Championship – that must be why you are having trouble comprehending the National Championship discussion. Lack of experience….
Dislike for Switzer? LOL!. All the papers and the okie governor called for his ouster before the OU brass pulled the plug. We all know his tenure is tainted. Its just a fact. That’s 3 BCS wins the last 5 years for UT and 3 of 4 over OU. Do you guys live your entire life with your head up your a$$?? LOL!
You just keep that myopic viewpoint – it has served you well. You probably think that John McCain should be president – because he carried Texas.
You dont get out much do you? LOL!
“No matter how many late-game, pile-it-on points Bloodthirsty Bob’s Sooners scored in recent weeks (a total of 38 in the last half of the last quarter of the past two games, against OklahomaState and Missouri), they can’t erase Texas 45, Oklahoma 35.” – Pat Forde
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9160/index.htm
So you don’t know how to look words up in the dictonary… that’s what I thought.
As you seem fixated on specific game scores, I suppose I need to remind you of 65-13 (2003) and 63-14 (2000)- both during the Stoops era.
Here are the indisputable facts, since the formation of the B12. You can look them up:
Head-to-head: Oklahoma 7, Texas 6 (Total score: 359-319, OU)
B12 South Championships: Texas 4, Oklahoma 7 (including 6 of the last 7)
B12 Championships: Oklahoma 5, Texas 2
National Championship appearances: Oklahoma 4, Texas 1
Final AP Poll top-10s: Oklahoma 7, Texas 6
Final BCS Standings top-10s: Oklahoma 6, Texas 5
Heisman Trophy winners: Oklahoma 2, Texas 1
Amer. Football Coaches Coach of the Year: Stoops 1, Brown 0
Any objective observer would conclude that Oklahoma owns Texas in football. You’re just going to have to accept it and move on…..
Why does frank want ou to give bob a raise? So he can put up 60+ for a third time on crack head brown?
BWAAAAAhahahahaha! VY could of scored 80 on OU in 2005. Mack Brown has more class than Stoops however. That’s 3 of 4 over OU by the way, 3-0 in BCS bowls and stoopid has lost how many in a row now? Plus he has OU on probation. Poooor soooners, have to use big words to compensate for their pitiful academic reputation.
58 to 40
3 to 1
45 to 35
UT finished higher ranked also
dismissed!!
Ever notice how my position is supported by facts and yours by conjecture (”VY could of” – but didn’t), opinion (”Mack Brown has more class”), or carefully selected slices of history (”45-35″)?
Continuing to write the same things over and over and over doesn’t make them any more convincing. You need a larger perspective….and vocabulary.
Berry, I think you’ve made a slight mistake. Unless my memory has failed me, I think the most recent Cotton Bowl Classic bowl game was the FINAL Cotton bowl Classic to be PLAYED at the stadium in Fair Park. The next Cotton Bowl Classic will be played at Jerry’s World. The telecast of the Ole Miss/TTech game said innumerable times “This is the final game played at this historic venue…….”, conviently forgetting the Red River War, but what the hey.