As it was pointed out you join today and then this is what you have to post.

The thing that I don’t quite understand is that you make a defense for the Mizzou blatant running up of the score that it is a “conference opponent with a record on the line” and yet Texas’ game against TAMU is left in though it was “a rivalry game with a nat. championshiop bid on the line”

I’m not going to say you’re an OU fan but you sure presented yourself in a manner that would suggest that you are at the very least not a texas fan

I’ve got nothing against blowouts in college football but keeping your starters in the game with minutes left, in a blowout, just to put up 60+ and your coach has a huge smirk on his face…doesn’t sit well with me. Mack will demolish a team for three solid quarters and maybe take out most of them by the middle to the end of the third. Then he puts in the backups and runs it down the opponent’s throat to run down the clock. If the second or third team guys score then they score but they do it on the ground. They’re not throwing up bombs like OU did against Mizzou.

I already addressed this on CCmachine. It wasn’t anything like Missouri vs. OU. Texas had 70 points midway through the third and then stopped, not to mention playing backups nobody had heard of. That’s a wee bit different than Bradford hitting a first down pass at the goalline on a third and long to begin the fourth quarter.

Believe me, in 2005, if we wanted to be jerks about it, we could posted 100 on a few teams (Kansas, at 52-0 at halftime, as well as Colorado in the Big 12 title game come to mind), as well as roll up a lot more on some other schools… including Oklahoma. Forty five points was very, very merciful in that game.

I think the whole “OU runs up the score” complaint is a bit overblown, but don’t kid yourself and think that other teams in the past could not have done so if they similarly wished to balloon their scores (at the expense of solid defense and special teams; perhaps OU likes to give up special teams touchdowns so they can get the ball back quickly and score 60 to impress dumb voters).

"UT flies banners, OU hangs banners"

UT wins on the field, OU wins with ignorant voters and a convoluted system.

that OU backed into a Big XII title game? You’re happy that OU’s success this year was literally given to them by voters who voted Texas down to 6th and even 7th place in the polls in order to help OU jump Texas to get them to KC? I wouldn’t be. I guess that’s how we’re different. I like seeing my team earn their trophies and you like seeing yours steal them.

The story wasn’t the ground that the Horns had to REGAIN after the A&M game. The story was THE FACT OKLAHOMA JUMPED TEXAS before they even played Texas Tech. Some voters thought better of it later and changed their vote, but after OU destroyed Tech, voters jumped them back on top. Even Robert Smith on ESPN noticed how ridiculous the voting trends were.

The fact that Texas regained points against OU was probably due to the fact that people knew that the rules would decide the Big 12 title, and sat down and tried to think a little harder about their decision (and also perhaps looking at OU’s defense and special teams, although few voters probably did that).

If you think Mack’s interview did anything, you need to get over yourself. All he did was come on and comment on the game (said both were “great” teams so he wasn’t surprised it was a close game) and talked about Texas. That was it. What about Stoops giving his retard logic “If you can’t put us ahead of Texas, you can’t put them ahead of Texas Tech?” What if I just sit here and declare that made a huge difference?

I will agree that the BCS voters are human and can be persuaded. That’s not exactly the issue; after all, that’s just common knowledge. The issue is that they can be persuaded by wooden box scores and emotion rather than careful examination of the teams and their games. So I’m not mad at Florida and I’m not even that mad at Oklahoma; I’m mad at how stupid many of the voters are.

Don’t lie to yourself; you know the rules are awful but you’re just thankful that it worked out in your favor this time. I would be thankful too, but I wouldn’t be an idiot and declare the rules were therefore grand. I’m thankful, for instance, that the rules are set up such that Texas at least gets a BCS bowl bid. That doesn’t mean I don’t think the conference limit rule that screwed Texas Tech is a good rule, because it isn’t.

they’re just making the most of their only shit talking window for the year, the month between the Big12 Title game and the MNC game.