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Sooners facing better players in game against Buckeyes, Worry Meter at 95%

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Mission accomplished against ULM. 59-17 against an outmanned opponent.

On the face of it, it would seem the Sooners got some stuff worked out. Baker threw to several different receivers, he didn’t force the ball downfield. The running backs found the holes that the O-line opened for them. Riley called a much more balanced game.

The defense pitched a shutout in the first half, and most starters sat the second half. And we cleaned up the stupid penalties.

But in the end, we really don’t know. We can just hope that the problems that surfaced in the season opener against Houston have been fixed, because a similar offense comes to town on Saturday, but with much better players.

Ohio St. has a better Greg Ward Jr., and a better Duke Catalon and a better Steven Dunbar. Ohio St. will also have better depth at every position than Houston had. And unfortunately Ohio St., up and down the roster, will have better players than Oklahoma. It’s just a fact.

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Beat OSU! (My oh my, Pete, how you’ve changed)

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Dear Soonerguys,

I am personally grateful for the change in the football game schedule this year.  The stress of anticipating the big in-state rivalry at the end of the season has always made my head ache and my stomach churn.

This way, we get the big game out of the way early. Plus we have the added advantage of coming off a big win and they’re still whining about their late game loss last week.

To their credit, I’ve noticed our rivals have finally revised their mascot drastically.

Sorry to bring up mascots again, but it seems important this time of the year.  After all, Halloween is just around the corner according to Wal-Mart.  “Pistol Pete” has always been the ugliest mascot in the history of mascots (followed closely by the Wichita State “Shocker” and the guys that paint themselves blue at Dallas Cowboy games).

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No more gimmies after ULM, time for OU to work out its problems

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Another highly ranked Sooner team stumbles early. Where have I seen that before?

This has  been an unsettling pattern the last 6 or 7 years.  Ranked highly in the pre-season and inevitably lose to one or several teams who where double digit underdogs.

I wish we could start every year unranked.  That’s when we have really good seasons for some reason.  Like we have something to prove.

The issues going into this season that I worried about most reared their ugly heads in the loss to Houston.  

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