A tough day for me as I went 0-2 on my two Game Day spread picks. That was the first and last time in my life I will ever take Texas A&M on a game. A&M is the most overhyped program in college football. Jimbo Fischer said this summer he wanted Alabama….Dude, you’ve got Alabama. Good luck with that.
Chris Jackson took Arkansas and OU so he’s now 5-3 vs my 4-4 mark on picking the spread so far this season. I violated my own Cardinal Rule … I picked games which involved Texas A&M and O State. I deserved to go 0-2 for being that stupid.
Win, survive, and advance is what OU did on Saturday night in Norman against a decent West Virginia team. OU never led in this game until the Gabe B game winning goal saved the Sooners’ in this very hard fought 16-13 win over the Mountaineers.
Here’s what I would say to the OU fans who booed Spencer Rattler on Saturday night…’Grow up. You are pathetic fans.’
OU’s offensive line is a work in progress. Creed Humphrey as a rookie is the starting center in Kansas City in front of a guy named Patrick Mahomes. OU has issues with its offensive line. Last time I looked Caleb Williams wasn’t signed on as an offensive tackle, guard or center.
After the game Spencet Rattler told sideline reporter Holly Rowe he doesn’t care about those fans. He said those people aren’t on the field. They don’t matter to him.
Good for Spencer Rattler. When you sign on to play the QB position at OU you better have some very thick skin considering who’s played the position in the past twenty years or so.
Here’s what matters to me….OU won. They’re 4-0. They have some serious work in front of them, but for me the silver lining is that OU is learning to win without scoring 45 points or more in every game.
The defense is getting better, OU’s kicking game might be the best in the country. But as I wrote when this OU season began it will OU’s ability to run the ball which will be their greatest challenge this season.
Right now OU line coach Bill Bedenbaugh has some heavy lifting in front of him in these next several weeks. The good news is that in these last two games versus Nebraska and West Virginia is the Sooners were able to run the ball on their last possessions of the game to win both games. That’s a silver lining. That’s what you want this to look like when the Sooners play the Horns in Dallas.
Sarkisian finally got it right by inserting Casey Thompson as the starter. Texas can run the football. That will be a war in Dallas. In case you didn’t see. Iowa State got beat by Baylor, TCU got beat by SMU, O State beat K State.
Right now OU getting to the College Football Football Playoff or Spencer Rattler being a Heisman contender doesn’t mean shit. It’s about going to K State next week and winning. Keep in mind it has been K State which has beaten the Sooners two years in a row. OU needs to go to Manhattan and win. Get better. Evolve as a team.
Lincoln Riley knows that if you can’t run the football then your play action stuff which gets receivers open deep won’t be there against the better teams. That wouldn’t be good.
From what I’ve seen these first four weeks nothing has changed as to how I would seed the Big 12 minus Iowa State being a massive disappointment… 1 OU, 2 Texas, and 3 O State.
By the way…kudos to both Mike Gundy and Kasey Dunn for at least being more adaptive to what Spencer Sanders can and can’t do as a quarterback.
And that’s what Lincoln Riley and Bill Bedenbaugh are going to have to do moving forward. That being, finding out what this OU O-line can and can’t do and being adaptive to the offensive line which is in Norman and not in Kansas City.