Texas – Arkansas, 1969 Revisited

A tough week to be a Texas Longhorn. It wasn’t just the fact Steve Sarkisian had to pull quarterback Hudson Card, it was even more disturbing how Arkansas ran the football for 330 yards against the Horns.

Don’t hold me to it, but I would guess OU sees a lot of the more mobile Casey Thompson in the Red River Rivalry.

Only two Big 12 teams remain in this week’s AP Poll…OU at No.3 and Iowa State at No. 14.

Oregon moves all the way up to No. 4 and there are seven SEC teams currently in the Top 25.

OU hosts Nebraska this Saturday in a replay of the ’71 Game of the Century. The Sooners open as a 22 point home favorite.

My Top 8 after Week 2 would go 1 Alabama, 2 Georgia, 3 OU, 4 Oregon, 5 Iowa, 6 Cincy, 7 Clemson, and 8 UCLA.

In looking at the BIg 12 objectively right now there is a real possibility OU will not face a Top 10 team this season….another reason they need to move to the SEC as soon as possible. This will not play big with the committee.

OU very well may need to go 13-0 to make the College Football Playoff. They can’t have a bad loss to a team like Kansas State or at this point even to an Iowa State team which benched QB Brock Purdy on Saturday in their loss to Iowa.

Ask yourself this…if OU wasn’t in the Big 12 this season would the committee advance an undefeated Cincy team to the four team College Football Playoff?

I would say probably no.

It will be interesting to see if Lincoln Riley can keep his team playing with an urgency edge the rest of this college football season.

So how did the Tulane Green Wave do this week? They won 69-20 over Morgan State. Wouldn’t it be something if it turns out Tulane was the best team on this year’s OU schedule? We know one thing…their coach isn’t afraid of running his quarterback like one Big 12 coach we know of in Payne County, Oklahoma.

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