ArabianKnight

Listening to Cole and Greg in the mornings, and they keep harping on the fact that IU isn't the most talented group, they are just the best at executing their plan. I know I'm reaching here, but I hope that them being off for a month will throw that execution off and they will be missing tackles they don't normally miss, and having bad timing on throws and such.

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and I haven't seen any comedians here yet

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Want me to get my brother in law in here?

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What I pray to see is our defense make turnovers to unsettle Skeletor and force his offense to take bad chances.

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we had multiple opportunities for this to happen last game against them, and we just refused to catch the ball

and don't reject the turnovers that OU tries to give us.

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here is already electricity in the air. This is going to be a very hard game for Alabama to win.

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Won in Athens at night, won in Auburn at night
These teams all have played in front of large loud crowds.

Mateer tried to give the game away last time and Bama defenders dropped 2 easy ints. That's the difference in the game. If Bama Defenders don't reject OUs turnovers, Bama will win.

Can't remember if it was on this board or on X, but I saw that IF we win Friday, we play in the Rose Bowl exactly 100 years to the date of our first ever Rose Bowl appearance. Very cool stat, and I'm sorry I can't remember who to credit with the fact.

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Outside of the Illinois St game Mateer has 9 TDs and 9 INTs on the year.

He didn't play well against Bama, but he didn't turn it over either.

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He tried to turn it over, our defenders just didn't hold on to the ball when he threw it to them.

Man, I hated the interaction between Bethea and Nate the entire game. Bethea was not happy at all when he got taken out quickly in the first half, looked completely disinterested the entire second half sitting on the bench and during timeouts and then was almost defiant when he played in the second half taking a three and making it and almost looking at the bench like why the f have I not been playing.

I have no idea what message was being sent by Nate, or why he didn't get Bethea in the game more, but the Freshmen reacted better than Bethea did with how hard they were coached.

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Also I’ll be there freezing my nuts off, in fricking Norman

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Current forecast is a high of 64 and a low of 50.
I think you'll be ok

The good news is, if there's an offense in the playoffs that's as bad as ours, its the OU offense. I don't see any way they score enough points (without their defense scoring 2 scores) for them to get out of reach. We just have to not give them short fields or NOTs (non offensive touchdowns)