After reading CFN’s assumption of the 2009 season, I finally have figured out that College Football News is a room full of monkeys just clicking away on type-writers guessing at how each season will play out. If for some reason I am wrong and they guess right and Texas somehow let’s this season go to the toilet, I will most certainly apologize. However, this is the same room-o-monkeys who picked the ‘05 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM to go 8-5!!! Really CFN, really? I’ll concede and say that Stillwater and Dallas do scare me a little, but I also know are team is in another gear with the coaching staff that Mack has put in place. Finally Mack has made a commitment to surround himself and his players with phenomenal coaches. They’re is no reason to question our D-Line, ‘Backers, or Secondary. Muschamp is a great coach and we’ll have our D ready. And you can’t question any team with Colt McCoy at the helm. I’m excited for the season. I’m glad we get an early test from Tech to gauge where we are as a team. Let me know what ya think. Hook ’Em Horns and OU Sucks!!

What this tells me is that CFN is another lazy national publication that does no research. This reeks of writers who still think that Stoops owns Brown.

So rebuilding their offensive line when they lost 4 of 5 starters is no big deal for OU, but Texas replacing the two DTs we lost is a big deal. I guess OU is the only school between the two that can plug in quality backups. Poor little old us.

Team That Will Disappoint
“Texas. Considering this is a national title-or-bust year after all the issues of last season, the potential is there for there to be a major letdown if things don’t go perfectly. Oklahoma is better, Oklahoma State has the firepower and maturity to pull off a win over the Longhorns, unlike last year, and going to Missouri could be a beartrap if the Red River Rivalry doesn’t go well. Oh sure, Texas will blow away at least seven teams on the slate, but when anything less than winning a Big 12 title and ending up in Pasadena in early January will be accepted, the pressure will be immense.”

The pressure is always immense. We’re Texas!

Thayer Evans is now at CFN….

I guess when you lose your whole OL and some WR’s that will make you better at OU,some of these writer’s don’t have the passion that a lot of fans have and don’t care too notice when they lose important positions on a team like the OL, were going to eat their LUNCH. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!

I posted this on the Crimson & Cream site and thought I’d get some Burnt Orange opinions:

Tackchevy—I guess that’s why they play the games and the polls/rankings change constantly throughout the season.

This is all from the Oklahoma side and you can throw back numbers, if you’d like. But I’m stating a case that we can cover that 10.5 point differential.

In the ’05 season, Oklahoma was 8-4, lost to Texas 45-12, and had 4 seniors on the line (Joseph, Chaisson, Bush, and Chester – 38 starts that season [max of 48 which equals 80%]). Remember, ’05 is when Vince Young won the Heisman.

Here’s the Games Start/Games Played for the ’05 season for the eventual starters of the ’06 season (Messner – 8/12, Robinson – 0/9, Cooper – 1/7, Simmons – 0/0, and Braxton – 4/10). As you can see, very little experience.

In the ‘06 season, wasn’t McCoy a stud Freshmen? His QB rating in the ’06 season was 161.8 and his QB rating in the ’08 season was 173.8—not much of a difference.

In the ’06 season, Texas still beat Oklahoma, but this time it was 28-10, 15 points better than the previous year.

With the inexperienced O-Line coming in to the ’09 season and seeing how the past has played out, I feel that we can change that and cover the 10+ point differential from last year.

I know we could throw out stats all day to make them say what we want to—but this is what I found…