This is a huge game for the Sooners today in Cincy. This is huge. This is where OU shows it’s on the path back to national elite relevance or it isn’t. This is a road game you have to go out and play well and win.
I’m going OU 34-23.
Not just for this year, but for the future ability to recruit nationally elite talent in the NIL-Portal era. This is where you show Jackson Arnold and other SEC level talent that OU is still a place to consider.
Lest we forget…OU was 3-6 in Big 12 play last year in the most disappointing football season since John Blake’s final season. OU only beat O State, Kansas, and Iowa State. SEC football only has Vanderbilt as a bye. Just saying….. Kansas currently the direction of Coach Leopold. Th battle for Big 12 Patsy of the Year could well be decided in Ames today and the Sooners can only play those two teams once apiece this season. Just sayin. Phone home, Boone.
I don’t think think this is hyperbole on my part…this game could define the Brent Venables era at Oklahoma. Heck…it could define Joe C.
As Berry Tramel once wrote at the end of the John Blake area…’Just because you work at a Taco Bell…doesn’t mean you should be managing a Taco Bell.’
If you look at the video I posted above… the coaching faces have changed. Only Patti Gasso remains as a current coach at the U of O. Sure….Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops still remain close to the program, but let’s be brutally candid on here…the current faces of the University of Oklahoma are Patti Gasso and Joe C….and in that order.
Not a doubt in my mind on the above paragraph.
As long as Jeff Lebby spreads out his offensive touches and doesn’t revert to SMU form I feel okay about the OU offense. This is where we start to find out if the OU defense is improved or has just played three straight dogs.
That’s it for me today. There are great games all across the country today excluding the one to be played in Ames, Iowa.
I don’t think Team Prime can win at Oregon without Travis Hunter so I think that train hits a bump today. Ohio State-Notre Dame should be a telling game as should Ole Miss at Alabama. And on the Big 12 front….UCF at Kansas State and BYU at Kansas. Plus…the Florida State at Clemson game.
Enjoy the first official week-end of autumn college football.
I’m locked and loaded.
MJ