Comments on: Oklahoma football: Why not play Missouri?

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By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:01:49 +0000

The best are the Alabamas, LSUs, even Arkansas….MU and A&M will struggle to get to 500 in the SEC….I just don’t see them wanting to play OU year after year, even when they have a good shot at catching OU when playing at home….if the bowl system changes and becomes pickier about who goes, I would think that at OU home at home is out of the question knowing their records against OU. The facts say, come to Norman and lose, play at home have have a less than 30 percent chance to win…..why start your season with a loss and then have to battle that loss all year long? OU would be their non conference marquee game….for OU we would still have to play an Ohio St., LSU plus MU and A&M. In the old days with a conference championship, you could balance the strength of your opponents. With a round robin system where we play everyone like in the old days, the non conference schedule becomes trickier. TCU and WV represent tougher teams to beat both at home and away than A&M and MU did. So, there is a lot of risk for OU, too.

Back in the day with Switzer, OU would schedule it up…Play them all…but parity has made things a lot different in today’s world of college football…really, when could an ISU have knocked off an OSU team with the talent and power it had this past year AND gone on to play in a bowl game with a winning record. Upsets happen, but the difference today, is that many teams pulling the upset also have winning records today where 30 years ago that was not necessarily so….

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:17:23 +0000

If you want to be the best, play the best. Just ask Boise State. Go for it.

By: keith

keith — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:40:43 +0000

Not going to happen, but I guess it filled up time and space.

By: Don Sherman

Don Sherman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:55:37 +0000

Really a stupid idea. There is nothing in it for MU, and the SEC schedule is tough enough. This sounds like some KU zealot suggested this.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:49:09 +0000

Looks like we are trying to carve a path into the SEC, especially when we have Tennessee in the years ahead and any other SEC teams we may want to schedule as non-conference…. Stoops has winning records against both teams…though playing in Columbia and at Kyle field is NEVER a picnic…kinda of hard to figure why either Mizzou or A&M would want to schedule OU as non-conference especially the way the bowls now work….and for OU, either team could derail a NC….

By: Donald Whitfill

Donald Whitfill — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:16:53 +0000

Same thing is true for Texas A&M, according to Houston Chronicle article.Why not home and home with them?

By: Jed

Jed — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:07:48 +0000

As an OU grad and season ticket holder, I think this is a GREAT idea!