Oklahoma St vs A&M in Cotton Bowl??

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Capital One Bowl vs Michigan

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Good chance that OU ends up in the Cotton Bowl. I think their passing game is better than OSU's.

My only thought is, I want the Ags in the best, most highly visible bowl possible. Beyond that, my wants are:

--t.u. in the Cotton Bowl. Argue for it or against it all you want, I don't care. I'd love to watch us crush the whorns after they pulled all this shite not to play us.

--Michigan in whatever bowl. Personal reasons which I've enumerated many times on these boards.

Beyond that, BTHO everyone and let the chips fall where they may

was told that the Cap One is leaning heavily towards taking us. Also, there is really zero chance of OSU to Cotton.

Cotton scenarios:
- Texas: if the most likely scenario of KSU and OU being off the board (BCS) when the Cotton selects, tu will be their choice win or lose this weekend as they are a much larger draw than OSU and haven't gone to the Cotton since the 02 season (03 CB)
- Oklahoma: if KSU wins and a non-bcs team gets to top 16 shutting out OU, the Cotton will take the Sooners
- Kansas State: if KSU loses and OU wins and a non-bcs team gets to top 16 shutting out KSU, the Cotton will take the Wildcats

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Give Synder a month to prepare and he'll have our boys ready. Plus even if it turns into a shoot out we have more firepower.

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Okie Light or no Okie Light, they have a great offense and know how to throw the ball. I could care less if Snyder has a month or more to prepare.

Last team with a great passing attack we played?? See La Tech. They wore us out passing the ball. We jumped out to an early lead but the game couldn't end fast enough for us. They had over 600 yards of offense and over 450 passing. Probably 550 yards came after 5 min was gone in the 2nd Q. We gave up yards at an incredible rate through the air. Do you really think an extra month to prepare is going to make a difference in coverage? Did you really give this any thought??

If you think A&M covers receivers well then I don't know what to tell you. This is our MAJOR weakness on defense and we don't cover that well. We cover well enough in the SEC because they don't have nearly the sophisticated passing attack of some of the Big 12 teams. They aren't geared to take advantage of us.

We have a very good run defense. Why in the world would we want to play a team that is happy to throw the ball on 70% of their plays and has proven that they can throw it effectively?

Scared has nothing to do with it. Bowls are a game of matchups. Can we beat OSU? Yes. Would I rather play someone else besides the team we match up with the worst?? Absolutely. A bad matchup is a bad matchup.

Game was called badly both ways.

La Tech is an outlier only because they are the only true passing team we faced all season. OSU has better athletes and a top 10 passing attack.

The best passing team we faced in the SEC was Ole Miss. They threw for ovr 300. Compared to OSU they aren't that great a passing team.

Yes, while La Tech was an outlier in our cumulative schedule, you have to look at how our defense did vs the 2 best passing attacks we faced and then try to see how well we would do against OSU.

You and I happen to disagree. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm not saying the game was called bad. If I remember correctly the refs were quick to call pass interference on the defenders so the DBS couldn't be physical either way. Most SEC refs will let them play.

Ulala and KU held them to the 20s. Tu TCU and ISUZU held them to the 30s. I see no reason why we couldn't keep it in that range.

Oklahoma State will likely lose to Baylor this weekend, rendering the argument moot.