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It looks good, but Sooner fans need to be wary of these wounded Longhorns

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Let’s not start the celebration just yet.

There is no doubt there is trouble down in Austinville. The natives there are ready to run second-year coach Charlie Strong out of town. Frankly, his Longhorn team has looked pretty pitiful this year, coming into Saturday’s Red River Shoot Out, Rivalry or Showdown (whatever advertisers want to call it this year) with a 1-4 record (0-2 in the conference); and, more significantly, looking more like Gooberville high school team than the mighty Texas.

Meanwhile, Sooners fans will throw out any reservations they have held about their own team this week — because showing signs of weakness is not what you do this week — and, besides, No. 9 Oklahoma has proven with wins on the road against Tennessee and at home against West Virginia, that a win against Texas isn’t a question of whether it will happen, but rather by how much.

Boomer Sooner baby. Oklahoma should roll.

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Sooners licking wounds, KU game first step to regroup

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That one hurt. And the most frustrating part about it was it didn’t look like the Sooners wanted it enough.

Last week I said they needed to come into this game with more fight and more intensity than they have had all year. They were no where close to that. And I blame the coaches.

Everything we heard from everybody all week was how OU would blow out texas for a third straight year. It wouldn’t be close. texas stinks and the Sooners would wipe the floor with them.

I guess the coaches let the players believe that and believed it themselves. They thought they could show up with the word Sooners on their chest and it would be easy. They thought they were entitled to the win. They thought they could run the offense they wanted to run regardless and they would win.

How else do you explain the complete lack of QB running game? Against a texas squad that has been gashed by the QB run game all year?

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OU-Texas: My apology to Sooners everywhere

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I apologize to all my fellow Sooners.

Last weekend I didn’t follow my OU-Texas traditions.

I didn’t eat Bevo burgers in Marietta. mikesblog

I didn’t play putt-putt on Friday afternoon like I had done every Friday afternoon before the Red River Rivalry in the last decade.

I didn’t have lunch and play paper football at the Humperdinks sports bar.

Heck, I didn’t even travel the same road to Dallas. I got cute and did an end run around that Denton traffic jam by taking I-35 West for a ways before sneaking back into Dallas from the west. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Never again.

I don’t know exactly how my poor choices generated enough bad karma to cause the Sooners to lose 36-20 to those steers from Austin, but I have no doubt in my mind they had something to do with it.

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