Watching last night's game, when even Kirk Herbstreit noticed the blatant OU holding, I recalled a post I had made here some time ago.  Stoops has his offensive line well coached to play in the Big 12.  If the officials are not going to call holding, then teach your line to hold.  This strategy has worked well for him, with more conference championships than I care to remember.  However, when you reach a BCS game, you are not going to find Big 12 officials.  I think this may be one reason Bob has laid so many eggs in bowl games recently.  (Love that picture.)  Your O-line cannot be conditioned to hold all year long and then suddenly switch to clean blocking.

What could we expect if OU passes Texas in the BCS, and goes to play Florida, for example?  Well, let's look back to Dallas in October, when the Sooners faced another fast, talented team.  45-35, and I think it would have been about 52-21 if that game had been called by real officials.  Given the speed and skill of Florida, I expect that score would be close to the outcome in Miami.  As it would be closer to a Florida home game, and given a natural tendency of teams to give up when they are being whipped, i would not be surprised to see something like 63-14.  Then  everyone will say how much better Florida and the SEC are than the Big 12.

It's time for the Big 12 to start enforcing the rules of the game.

Pete Fiutak of College Football News is actively promoting his ideal 8 team playoff scenario.  He wants the 6 BCS conference champs, plus the top ranked non-BCS conference champ, plus the highest ranked at-large team.  My response: NO NO NO NO NO!

This year, putting a team from either the Big East or the ACC, much less one from each, would be a complete travesty.  They have less business in a playoff than the top high school team from Texas.  I tried, I really did, to watch some of the Miami -Virginia Tech game tonight.  Folks, this is not football.  Does anyone really believe that either of these teams would be ahead of Iowa State in the Big 12 North?  Well, maybe I exaggerate, but you get the idea. 

If we are going to get serious about a playoff, it has to be the best 8 teams, period.  This year, that does not include any teams from the Big East or ACC.  Some year, it might not include any teams from another of the BCS conferences.  Let the best teams in, regardless of conference affiliation. 

Of course, this is intended to benefit our grandchildren, who may be alive when a college football playoff is finally implemented.  I don't expect to live that long.

I watched some of the Titans - Bears game today.  Just before the 2 minute warning, Bo caught a pass and made the first down,  He then slid to avoid any chance of being knocked out of bounds, thus keeping the clock running down to 2 minutes.  As the Bears were out of timeouts, this guaranteed that Tennessee would keep the ball until time ran out.  Smart, heads-up play.  He put the team first, rather than trying to pad his stats.  Just what we expect of a Longhorn.  Of course, the talking heads completely missed this aspect of the play.  I'll bet Jeff Fisher didn't miss it, though.

from College Football News.  http://cfn.scout.com/2/806228.html

Matt Zemek makes the case that there is more pressure on Tech than on the Horns.  I agree. No matter how much you talk about ignoring the press, "it's just another game" etc, the players have to be thinking about how big this is.

Even if the pressure is the same on both teams, I think we have an advantage here.  Our coaching staff and players are used to these big games.  Performing well under intense pressure is like any other type of performance - it is easier when you have done it before.

Just found this from Chip  Brown on orangebloods from Yahoo Sports.  http://texas.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?ReturnTo=&sid=&script=content.asp&cid=858526&fid=&tid=&mid=&rid=

Once I posted this and tried the link, it didn't bring up the entire article.   Instead - link to http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/teams/tth and see the article headed "Let's go inside the football mind of Will Muschamp" 

May be old news to some of you, as it seems to be from Friday.  I really like the fact that Muschamp doesn't wait for halftime to make his adjustments, but has the entire defensive coaching staff involved in making adjustments after every series.  Hell, sometimes in the past we didn't make adjustments until after the end of the 4th quarter of the OU game!  The best part for me, though was at the end, as Chip described the Boom MF approach to the upcoming game.

"When WLM opened his meeting with the defense last Sunday, he asked 14 times - I'm not kidding - 14 times: "Who are we playing this week?"

Fourteen times his players responded, "Colorado." Each time WLM got louder. Each time the players got louder. Something tells me the Longhorns will not be thinking about Oklahoma when they walk onto Folsom Field."