OU 2012 FB Schedule

Both Bye weeks before RRS sets up a brutal 9 straight weeks of play, all of it conference play!

Oh. Aggies, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.

by pleaseplaykindle on Feb 15, 2012 12:08 PM CST reply actions

So Notre Dame finally agreed to join the Big XII?

by Texas Wahoo on Feb 15, 2012 12:21 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs

Whoops

Oh. Aggies, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.

by pleaseplaykindle on Feb 15, 2012 1:16 PM CST up reply actions

That stretch looks rough. I’ll take our setup before that mess. They’d be doing well to come out of that 7-2…. At WVU, home vs OSU, then at TCU to wrap up the season is particularly bad.

by Tackchevy on Feb 15, 2012 12:34 PM CST up reply actions

Weak Sauce

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by kcmorse on Feb 15, 2012 1:05 PM CST reply actions

Weak Sauce? What weak sauce do you refer to? At TCU and WV plus Notre Dame. Tackchevy is right. That stretch looks rough and I would take the Texas setup for sure. Why on earth would Castiglione agree to those bye weeks where they are on that schedule?

by PhilOU BeddOU on Feb 15, 2012 1:39 PM CST reply actions

Any 1-AA is "weak sauce". Good luck against Florida A&M!

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by Hopkins Horn on Feb 15, 2012 2:09 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

This.

76-37-5.....Now, GET OUT.

by Mulliganville on Feb 15, 2012 6:50 PM CST up reply actions

True, although Texas plays FCS sometimes

Granted, not for a years now, maybe 2006 vs. SHSU?

Obviously it’s weak sauce to play FCS schools, but many of them are actually better than some FBS programs. Florida A&M was 7-4 in FCS last year, ranking #194 in the Sagarin ratings; New Mexico, whom Texas plays this year, was 175. Sure, that’s a 20-slot difference, but that’s negligible when one considers that both games should be blowouts.

Any team that isn’t at least a playoff-caliber FCS program, conference contender among mid-major conferences, or in any BCS AQ conference is roughly the same level of challenge: none.

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by burntorangehorn on Feb 15, 2012 6:50 PM CST up reply actions

BTW, made it back to God's country.

76-37-5.....Now, GET OUT.

by Mulliganville on Feb 15, 2012 6:56 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

Welcome back!

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by Hopkins Horn on Feb 15, 2012 7:01 PM CST up reply actions

I agree with that. There was scrambling at the end to fill the slots lost to realignment. Other than that powder puff the rest is pretty formidable.

by PhilOU BeddOU on Feb 15, 2012 2:22 PM CST reply actions

Phil

I’d trade you straight up and in a heartbeat for your schedule. Show me where this schedule is tough. You get 7 home games, nicely spread out against Div II type talent to start with maybe one 2 game stretch in back-to-back weeks to finish the year (and no I’m not counting TCU).

You catch us at the Cotton Bowl sandwiched between Big 12 door mats. You get the Domers at home between Big 12 bottom feeders (although I am praying with all my might for you to lay an egg in the ISU trap game at Ames). Then you get Baylor at home for the dog pile make up game. If WVU is in the mix at the end you travel to Morgantown which looks like it might be for all the marbles. That’s your schedule right there, powder puff. And it isn’t formidable.

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by TXStampede on Feb 16, 2012 8:06 AM CST up reply actions

Like I say every year...

Any team is an injury away from misery.

by VegasLonghorn on Feb 15, 2012 2:58 PM CST reply actions

Misery ... or Missouri?

There’s really not that much of a difference.

by robthecob on Feb 22, 2012 1:17 PM CST up reply actions

Last 4

The difficulty of the final 4 games depends a great deal on how OSU recovers from the loss of Weeden and Blackmon, and also what the upshot of the drug scandal is for TCU.

They’ll get Baylor at home before WVU, which is as favorable a draw as you could wish, and I don’t think either TCU or OSU will be played in particularly hostile environments.

I don’t see this schedule as being particularly murderous. With round robin scheduling everyone gets some rough stretches. Unless OSU has another Blackmon waiting to emerge on their roster, which is far less of a sure thing than many commentators seem to think.

by Nickel Rover on Feb 16, 2012 11:47 AM CST reply actions

I’ve looked at what a couple of you have said and I tend to agree in retrospect. I guess my point was that I’d rather have the Texas schedule than 9 games in a row as well as playing at WV and TCU. I see OSU this year in Norman going far differently. I think Texas takes OSU and KState this year as well. How do you guys see Texas at Ole Miss going?

by PhilOU BeddOU on Feb 16, 2012 12:43 PM CST up reply actions

Win

For Texas. Diaz eats SEC-style offenses for breakfast, it’s the AirRaid that’s tricky.

by Nickel Rover on Feb 16, 2012 2:26 PM CST up reply actions

Freeze is basically his own playcaller

He tends to favor a pretty balanced attack, from what I can tell, and scores a lot of points, but we’re talking about a head coach with four total years at the FBS, two of them as a TE coach and recruiting coordinator, one of them as OC for a Sun Belt team, and then one as the HC of that same team. He has two OC’s, and one (Dan Werner) hasn’t coached college football since he and Freeze were both let walk in 2007 (Orgeron’s staff), and the other of whom coached a sack-prone Duke offensive line and flailed as Duke’s running game coordinator. I think Ole Miss is the closest thing to a sure win of any BCS AQ team on the Texas schedule.

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by burntorangehorn on Feb 17, 2012 10:49 AM CST up reply actions

Blindside

describes Freeze as being quite taken with his own cleverness and a designer of gadget plays. I’m sure Diaz will bring the heat early and often and see how they cope. Probably not well.

by Nickel Rover on Feb 17, 2012 5:58 PM CST up reply actions

its really refreshing to have a reasonable OU fan over here.

that being said, I think the KState curse is too strong and we lose there, but Ole Miss is a W. they don’t really scare me at all for some reason. my 2 cents anyway

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by TexasGangorDie on Feb 16, 2012 12:51 PM CST reply actions