At the Lake

Here! Oh wait, thought you said 0-3. I’ll see myself out…

The 1999 story of Mike Leach leaving a ‘lost’ playbook for Texas to find would fit in well here.

For those not familiar, this was Bob Stoops’ first year at OU, and Mike Leach was his offensive coordinator. Mike Leach had revitalized OU’s offense with a clever twist on the air raid. Knowing that Texas would be looking for any info to help slow OU down, Mike created a fake playbook and ‘lost’ it where Texas coaches would find it. Of course, all the plays were wrong, and if Texas lined their defense up to stop the fake play it would put them totally out of position for the actual play. And that’s exactly what happened, OU jumped out to a 17-0 lead before Texas discovered it was a ruse.

Texas ultimately went on to win the game, but it’s a cool little piece of the history.

ESPN story

OU 21
Texas 19

Texas scores on the last drive but fails a 2 point conversion.

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yes I saw week one …. Wasn’t started at all …. Wk 3 was started 15 minutes after the game started …. Show some respect

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You can make one before kickoff. Just be prepared to update it all game. I learned that lesson the hard way last week.

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If you had a do-over, would you try and keep Gabriel and let Arnold walk? Assuming that was the situation.

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I have nothing but gut intuition, but I doubt Gabriel leaving was a decision of the coaching staff. My guess is Gabriel knows he isn’t a NFL QB, so he checked his options on where he could make a decent chunk of money in his last year of eligibility. I certainly don’t fault him for that. OU wouldn’t have been willing to match it with 5-star Arnold in the wings, so they let him go. In hindsight, there’s no question Gabriel is the better QB right now. I’m not sure how successful he would behind this Oline though, and that might have factored in as well.

That’s a long way of saying, ‘no, I don’t think our coaches regret their decision,’ and ‘I’m not it would have mattered right now anyways.’ Arnold has a long way to go just to get to Gabriel’s level, and he needs the entire offense to step up with him. QB, RB, WR, and Oline have all been underwhelming so far.

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You really believe this level of wit exists in that man’s mind? Only 2% of you people can even grasp the depth of my musings and only 2% of 2% can comprehend what they grasped.

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60% of the time, it works every time.

I’ve noticed a lot more dancing and celebrating after scores and big plays all across football. No opinion on it, don’t care if they do or don’t, but there’s clearly a lot more of it going on compared to a few years ago.

I’ll agree with you on Mizzou, as a fanbase on the Rant they act like they are on some higher level than OU simply due to their SEC affiliation. It’s like Okie State talking massive trash, it’s weird and unfounded.

A&M is much more preoccupied with hating Texas, and I can get with that. Also, other fan bases are pretty quick to dump on A&M so I get their defensiveness.

Mizzou has accomplished jack squat but act like they are the second coming of Alabama. They’re like mouthy entitled millennials…. so desperate for attention and validation.

Looks like a Big 12 game with these defenses.

Probably LSU, because we have no idea what USC will bring to the table. That QB was lights out in their bowl game, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he will be great this year (re: Trevor Knight vs Alabama 2014).

I think ND is overrated, and Georgia should handle Clemson. If I were betting a parlay I’d take the SEC teams to go 3-0.