Texas fans hire plane to fly over Stillwater
by nyclonghorngal on Nov 28, 2008 5:53 PM CST
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STILLWATER, Okla. - The BCS campaign between Oklahoma and Texas is heading for the sky.
University of Texas students and fans have raised around $7,000, part of which has paid for a pilot to fly over Stillwater before Saturday's Bedlam game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
The plane will carry a banner during the ESPN GameDay pre-game show with the inscription "45-35," the score of Texas' victory over Oklahoma on Oct. 11.
Texas is second in the BCS rankings, followed closely by OU at No. 3.
Later Saturday, OU will make its case on the field in a showdown against No. 11 Oklahoma State.
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I noticed that they have an identical Facebook page, as well. That student who was interviewed last night challenged Tech to be as political and industrious as we’re being, and it looks like they’re taking that challenge to heart.
The worst part is that this will do little to help Tech, but will probably smother our campaign. I believe the Raiders are out of it either way, but if the ESPN narrative throughout the day tomorrow is that Texas and Tech are both competing for media attention, then the story moves from getting the nation to take a long, hard look at our horns, toward “hey, look at this new marketing phenomenon sweeping college football.”
Damn those people. They have nothing to gain from this, but I suppose you can’t blame them for trying.
by BrooklynHorn on Nov 28, 2008 9:34 PM CST up reply actions
Apparently halfway between Norman and Austin isn't neutral
but Norman is?
i don't understand why they think we've "forgotten" the loss
we wouldn’t be having to campaign for anything in the first place if we hadn’t lost to tech that day.
but the fact of the matter is, losing by like 40 versus losing by 6 IS very different. sure, both tech and texas each have one loss, but the losses are NOT comparable at all.
If we had in fact continued to play the second half of the tech game like we did the first and we lost in a similar fashion to how they lost to ou, then i would think that regardless of a 3 way tie, ou would deserve to go to the big game because out of each of our one losses, they would have the “best” one. but obviously, this isn’t the case.
again, this is not me trying to forget the loss to tech or anything like that. here, i’ll say it again, we lost to tech. tech beat us. 39-33. there ya go.
i just don’t understand their arguement.
by hooked on texas on Nov 28, 2008 9:51 PM CST reply actions
You don't understand their argument
because they pretty much don’t have one to begin with. They forfeited it when they lost to OU decisively. We’re going by how each of the three teams won and lost and where they lost but they’re trying to forget the details and counting each win and loss equally when the latter just isn’t the way it works in college ball..
UT lost on the road by 6 in the final second
OU lost on a neutral field by 10 about midway through the 4th quarter
Tech lost on the road by 44 and the game was decided by the 2nd quarter
We haven’t forgotten about the loss we just don’t think that losing in the final second of a road game is the same as getting completely pummeled and humiliated in a blowout. At least we came back from a 19 point deficit to make a game out of it Tech never showed up against OU.
I haven't been a big fan of this 45-35 campaign
Because it makes it seem like it’s the ONLY argument we have to be over OU at the end, which just isn’t the case. Our overall resume, the circumstances of our 1 loss, TO GO ALONG with 45-35 should be our argument, but unfortunately we’ve force-fed the 45-35 argument since it’s the easiest to nail into the heads of voters.
And then this spawns an even more ridiculous 39-33 campaign. What a pathetic joke. Right now Tech’s best win away from Lubbock is what… a blowout of a terrible Kansas team? They have to beat Missouri in Arrowhead to get my respect. Their campaign could (and I think will) come to a crashing halt if OU beats OSU, forcing Tech to Arrowhead, where they will faced a pumped up Mizzou team trying to get the BCS bowl bid they were tragically robbed of from last year. That would be justice. And Tech to the Cotton/Holiday bowl would be justice given their fortune of playing two great teams at home at night and scheduling terrible teams non conference.
Tech, your copying attempt fails.
by goingforthecorner on Nov 28, 2008 10:18 PM CST reply actions
The 45-35 isn't the main part of the argument.
Schedule. That’s what helps UT and should put us over the top. We played a very long stretch of top teams in a row. Yes, we lost to Tech but in the last few seconds at the end of all those games. (I know Kansas was ranked for a while, but they were not the team everyone thought they would be.) OU played TCU and Cincinnati in the pre-conference games. Would they have done so well after the Texas game when they had lost Reynolds, English, etc? They did have some issues with TCU, especially their running game.
Here’s their schedule:
Aug. 30 UT-Chattanooga W 57 – 2
Sept. 6 Cincinnati W 52 – 26
Sept. 13 @ Washington W 55 – 19
Sept. 27 Texas Christian W 35 – 10
Oct. 4 @ Baylor 49 – 17
Oct. 11 Texas L 45 – 35
Oct. 18 Kansas W 45- 31
Oct. 25 @ Kansas State W 58 -35
Nov. 1 Nebraska W 62 – 28
Nov. 8 @ Texas A&M W 66 – 28
Other than Kansas (see my comment above) what ranked team did they play besides Texas in the conference season other than Tech?
I should have added...
The human polls should look at the total schedule. Mack Brown mentioned this after the A&M game. I hope everyone was listening.
has it flown?
Been watching game day off and on today, and last I heard they had not seen a plane yet. Any update?
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