Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
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re: Here’s a counterpoint to all the failures OU had Friday night
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/23/25 at 8:12 pm to Frac the world
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TLDR what ifs lead to Bama winning in November and the what ifs Friday don’t even happen
But the what ifs didn't happen in November... which allowed the what ifs on Friday to happen.
Regardless, each time had a chance to win the game they lost. And each team could have easily lost the game they won.
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It was always interesting when OU was in the Big XII....
Home games were usually kind of flat....
Burt road games were fire. All the other teams in the conference despised OU (and Texas)... and their crowds were always jacked.
In the SEC... the environments at home are way better...
On the road, the crowds are bigger... but nobody hates us besides Missouri maybe. Arkansas kind of does... so Fayetteville might be good. A&M doesn't like OU... but it is sort of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of thing.
I hope OU does well enough in the SEC that teams get to where they hate us like the Big XII teams did.
Home games were usually kind of flat....
Burt road games were fire. All the other teams in the conference despised OU (and Texas)... and their crowds were always jacked.
In the SEC... the environments at home are way better...
On the road, the crowds are bigger... but nobody hates us besides Missouri maybe. Arkansas kind of does... so Fayetteville might be good. A&M doesn't like OU... but it is sort of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of thing.
I hope OU does well enough in the SEC that teams get to where they hate us like the Big XII teams did.
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Oh damn you right.
They are.... It's a fact.
re: Aggie haters only. How did you feel watching their 11-0 run?
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/23/25 at 7:19 am to off_season
Now why would anybody actually "hate" the Aggies?
It would be like hating the Three Stooges.
It would be like hating the Three Stooges.
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you mean when Mateer made a very good throw on the run and if his WR made a routine catch it was a TD?
Others have pointed out that it was a 240 lb running back. Not a wide receiver.
Mateer took a calculated risk because even great receivers drop balls.
Running the ball would have extended the drive. There was no risk. It would have been a first down and much more.
I say this realizing full well that if the guy had caught the pass... nobody would be saying that he should have run. But they might still admit that it was the bigger risk.
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The Rams moving to LA was for pure greed.
The Rams just went home. They should have never left LA in the first place.
Still hate it that the football Cards left. Cardinal teams belong in StL.
And when they did move to Phoenix they should have become the Roadrunners.
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That’s basically the Bama narrative the first game. I haven’t seen a single person say “we killed ourselves” from Oklahoma.
Yes, it does kind of suck that Bama can say they "beat themselves" in their loss but OU can't say that in this loss.
Ultimately, I think OU should still be proud that they went in and became the first visiting team to win at Bryant Denny since 2019. That is really actually amazing considering the limitations the team has.
And they should be proud that they moved the ball pretty well against Bama in this game to show that the offense wasn't as bad as they looked in the first game.
OTOH... Bama should be proud that they got out of their funk of the last few games and the first quarter of this game to go on and control the game and win on the road.
But I still don't know why they couldn't have just switched opponents with A&M so we wouldn't have had a rematch in the first round.
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Not having to go Waco, Lubbock, Manhattan, Lawrence, etc is a bonus.
As an OU fan who goes back to the old Big 8...
The Big 8 locales were all nice campuses (except for maybe Nebraska) and were all located in quaint, charming little college towns except for Nebraska (which was small city). It wasn't bad. We had Texas and three other non con games. There was maybe four or five games a year that were tough and six breathers so to speak.
Then we got put in the Big XII south where we rotated through the Big 8 a lot less and had to go to Lubbock, Waco, College Station and Ft Worth all the time. None of which were really quaint little college towns. Lubbock was just a grimy version of Lincoln with a similar level of campus environment. Waco was just a dead city and the stadium wasn't on campus until later years. Ft. Worth was always just a meh experience and you all know about College Station.
The SEC schedule we have played in the two years have not included really any breathers. A way more varied environment of destinations both campus wise and city wise. it kind of sucks that you can't really road trip but about three or four of them in a one day drive...
And the environments are more big time and grand...
But I'm still telling you that when you go into a small stadium full of Kansas or Iowa farmers who hate your guts...and have for generations... it is still crazy.
That is something we don't have with the original SEC teams and may never have because their fans are already hired wired to hate their rivals and I don't think OU will ever be dominant enough to raise that level of hate.
re: Johnny Reb dagger in the heart
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/22/25 at 10:12 am to Russianblue
Lane acts like this is his big chance and that he has never been at a program capable of winning the national championship before.
re: Thanks Oklahoma
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/22/25 at 10:09 am to AshleySchaeffer
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Absolute dogshit of a game. Be ashamed and ban yourselves.
Dude... Oklahoma outgained Bama... What more do you want?
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When you choke against trash you give trash the opportunity to do trashy things.
To be fair... He did get insulted by a big, fat white kid.
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I think this is honestly his most pathetic frick up to date.
Not quite a Stanley Wilson missing the Super Bowl type of frick up... but in the ball park.
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New poster and OU fan here. Good luck to our SEC brethren. Congratulations Bama on a great game.
Hope to have Georgia, Ole' Miss, or Bama win it all. Also, I want to apologize for some of the ridiculous BS posts that a few OU fans have posted post loss. I'm pretty sure a few may be rivals masquerading as OU fans. Most of us try to win and lose with class. Good luck y'all, and go represent.
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re: State of Texas football
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/21/25 at 12:01 pm to Doak Walker
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Population of Georgia, 11M
Population of Texas, 31M
Both states have great high school football but there's just more of it in Texas.
One thing to consider here.... Texas is 40% hispanic... A cultural/ethnic group that really doesn't produce a lot of players. Georgia is only 10% hispanic.
Probably 75-80% of D1 players are black players these days., And while Texas has the most black residents of any state at 4.1 million... States like Georgia and Florida aren't that far behind them with 3.7-8 million.
So in reality... Texas population isn't near as big an advantage as the raw population data might suggest.
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The best way forward imo is a g5 separate playoff subsidized by the p4. I think it’ll actually make money and people will watch it because it’ll be equal level competition and actually give those teams a trophy to compete for.
the problem with this is finding a window to schedule the games for TV.
They sure couldn't schedule them against the P4 playoff and the NFL.
I guess they would have to be at night during the week for the early rounds. Then you could use the lower level bowls for the next round. The bowls would probably like that.
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People complain about the targeting rule then complain when targeting isn't called. Be consistent. The targeting rule shouldn't exist.
Even if it was targeting... I feel obligated to mention that Miami got called for the other penalty "roughing the passer"... that is ruining CFB that helped A&M get down the field on that drive.
As far as the play in the end zone... what is frustrating is the guy went in completely straight up. Didn't lead with his head or anything. What the hell else is he supposed to do on a play like that?
re: Sooner fans this morning
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/20/25 at 11:51 am to I am the Dude
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Flipped the script on turnovers and special teams from the first game.
Do we get credit for having the most yards?
It was a fluke!!! LOL.
But it is strange how the two games mirrored each other.
Both teams got a pick six in their wins...
Both teams decidedly out gained the other team in their victory.
Both teams missed field goals in their losses and made field goals in their wins.
Both teams had short fields for a couple of their scores in the games they won and didn't in the games they lost.
re: Stadium Sizes of the 12 Playoff teams
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/19/25 at 10:06 am to Wishbone85
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What are you talking about? OKC is the 20th largest city in the US.
the media market size is determined a little differently.
However.. In some "media market rankings"... OKC is ranked ahead of places like Austin but behind places like Albuquerque. (In Neilson, Austin is much higher)
Much of it has to do with other media markets and how close they are to each other.
OKC's market is overlapped by Tulsa, Wichita, DFW, Ft. Smith, AR even Amarillo in the Oklahoma panhandle, Shreveport in far SE Oklahoma and Wichita Falls, Tx in far southwest Oklahoma. .
OKC and Tulsa together are bigger than Baton Rouge and New Orleans together.
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How many times did y'all play Bama while Saban was the HC?
Just so you don't have to ask this again...
Texas played Alabama three times when Saban was coach. They were 1-2.
If Saban was your GOAT... that is your answer.
If Bryant was your implied GOAT... Texas was 3-0-1 against him.
re: Where is all the OU/Bama mud slinging?
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/17/25 at 3:04 pm to Wishbone85
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Oklahoma and Alabama is a mutual respect series a lot like Oklahoma and Nebraska used to be. 2 blue bloods with similar States going at it.
Oklahoma may be the only state in the country that is "similar" to both Nebraska and Alabama. :lol:
re: Missouri- was Woody Widenhofer considered the worst coach in school history? I see
Posted by Gunga Din on 12/17/25 at 11:09 am to deputyfife
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I'm not necessarily in disagreement, but Widenhofer inherited Onofrio's teams, which had the talent to upset anyone. Stull inherited Woody's talent.
Just to be accurate Widenhofer inherited Warren Powers' teams...
But your point still stands. Warren Powers' Missouri was a tough out at least until the last year or so.
He beat OU twice in seven tries and had that epic win over Nebraska in 1978 in Lincoln.
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