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What an incredible environment for a nighttime college football game. Huge respect to the Tennessee fans and that program, stadium crew and all involved. It's exactly what makes college football better than any other sport in the world.

That's a reasonable take as well. There are always what-ifs to wonder about.

The way both offenses were performing, we can guess that anything different might have helped. But Hawkins could have also had a turnover party of his own. It's happened before.

I agree that the clock management before the half was idiotic. As well as OU was moving the ball then...just so very stupid.

The spread has flipped to OU -1.5.

Don't know how much of that is Mateer's upgrade to probable or just the late money being different. I'd guess the former, but I'm not a bettor except for the rare small stuff between friends. So it's not much of an educated guess.

Curious to see where it lands at game time.

Helmets look great.

It appears you're right about the coaches. Most of the KSU fans were bitter because those coaches were "distracted" and allegedly working for OU when they should have been preparing for the game...which of course sounds like fan excuses as well. But I couldn't find anything about them not being there.

I wasn't just making it up though. That's what I've been told happened for years (by KSU fans...one in particular has been especially bitchy about OU stealing all the coaches and ruining their NC year), and the way Bob talked about it too, I just assumed it was all true. Evidently not. Stoops wasn't nearly as heartless as they made him out to be, which I'm glad to learn.

But I also wasn't trying to asterisk away your win. I truly have (or had) no preference who won that game. I have no affection or dislike for either school. I just thought it was an interesting story...a bullshite story, it seems, but I fell for it.

Yep. It's the non-P2 schools trying to level the playing field.

Or put another way, trying to commie a big chunk of the Big Ten and SEC's TV money for themselves.

That's awesome! I came along a little too late to take part in the best of craziness on Commerce the night before the game. But man, the stories...

Thousands of drunks from two groups who despised each other congregating in one spot...and getting drunker by the minute. What could possibly go wrong?

Overcrowded hospitals from the brawls that broke out and even the occasional death.

Hundreds of people paying their public intox fines and getting out of jail Saturday morning, just in time to get to the fairgrounds for the game.

Really wish I could have been there. :lol:

Thanks for sharing! I love CFB history and have heard or read many of these stories a lot over the years. But there were a few things that were new to me. Very cool!

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Well shite.

Then it's gonna seem downright pornographic when he hears about Washington State.