Friday Is For Football

Non-conference play is behind most teams now so let’s get down to some nitty-gritty.

In the Big XII the Texas A&M Aggies are a 17 point favorite over the Baptists of Baylor. Expect the Baptists to be turning the other cheek most of the afternoon. PREDICTION: Aggies 34, Baptists 17

Iowa State is a 21 point underdog to the Nebraska Cornholers. I’m not sure either one of these teams can play defense, but at least the Cornholers can play some offense. PREDICTION on the northern plains: Cornholers 42, Cyclones 14.

The Texas Longwhorns are a 15 point favorite over the K-State Mildcats. K-State snuck in and bit the bovine last year and if Texas plays like they have the first ten quarters of the season they’ll get beat again. If they play like they have the last six they should make the fans at Daryl Royal stadium happy. PREDICTION: Mildcats 31, Longwhorns 34 and Bevo will need an extra sedative.

Tulsa is a 23 point favorite over UAB. Tulsa has a really good offense to go along with a mediocre defense. But UAB will not be able to hang in there. PREDICTION: Tulsa 42, UAB 17

And in the “Save The Best For Last” category, the OU Sooners are 23 point favorites over the Colorado Buffalo. Colorado has one of the better defenses in the Big XII (which ain’t sayin’ much). OU has won their first four games by an average margin of 49.5 points. That’s the margin of victory fercryinoutloud! The over/under on this game is 56 points (meaning they believe a total of 56 points will be scored between the two teams). Yeah. Right. I’m putting $1000 Monopoly dollars on OU and the 23 and give me the over. PREDICTION: OU 49, Colorado 14.

[And in the “I almost totally forgot” category, OSU plays Rhett Bomar and Sam Houston State. There is no line as Sam Houston State is in a pick-up league of intramural flag-football champions at NAIA schools in Texas. Rhett Bomar will receive a standing ovation because the Oklahoma Aggies are always more concerned about sticking it to OU than they are about winning. OU fans should fill the 15,000 empty seats in Stillwater so that they, too, can give Bomar a standing “O.” After all, had he not pulled his shenanigans Sam Bradford would be signaling in plays from the sidelines for the next two years.

No. The big question in Stillwater this week will not center around the football game, but will be focused on whether or not Mike Gundy will have another post-game melt-down. Gundy has almost 100% support from fans in the state of Oklahoma (including OU fans, by the way) and almost 0% support from everyone outside the state of Oklahoma. An example of what a horrible PR move that was, I saw ESPN cover the story and they didn’t even say what it was he objected to in the newspaper article. They simply showed him spontaneously combusting on live television. Or that’s how it came across.

Meanwhile, while Gundy was flipping out about the press, Mike Leach was using similar language about his own team. Check out this quote: “Defensively,
the entire first half, we got hit in the mouth and acted like someone
took our lunch money, and all we wanted to do is have pouty expressions
on our face until somebody dobbed our little tears off and made us
[expletive] feel better. Then we go out there and try harder once our
mommies told us we were OK. Neither one of those things is acceptable.” YEOUCH!]