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Part of me wants to see OU go down to shut up the incessant talk of them being one of the many teams not playing for the NC that talking head x thinks is the "real" best team in America/team that no one wants to play.
The hilarious part of that mantra is how they were destroyed just a few years ago, and really ruined the NC game two years in a row. But that's not as easy or fun of a stereotype, so suddenly those games are no longer held against them by the kneejerk media. Must be the convincing win against Boise State
The hilarious part of that mantra is how they were destroyed just a few years ago, and really ruined the NC game two years in a row. But that's not as easy or fun of a stereotype, so suddenly those games are no longer held against them by the kneejerk media. Must be the convincing win against Boise State
I had this conversation with a few SEC fans at the game.
If anyone besides OU got killed in B2B NC's games(one of wich followed a drubbing in their CCG) AND lost to Boise in a 4 year stretch they would get crucified by the media. Their conference spits the bit regularly in Bowl games (unless Vince Young is playing) but no one ever questions the strength of the B12.
OU and Stoops are as teflon as FSU in their heyday.
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I had this conversation with a few SEC fans at the game.
If anyone besides OU got killed in B2B NC's games(one of wich followed a drubbing in their CCG) AND lost to Boise in a 4 year stretch they would get crucified by the media. Their conference spits the bit regularly in Bowl games (unless Vince Young is playing) but no one ever questions the strength of the B12.
OU and Stoops are as teflon as FSU in their heyday.
Perception is funny. OU fans are always complaining that the media bashes the B12 conference and hates them.
Perception is funny. OU fans are always complaining that the media bashes the B12 conference and hates them.
I'd like to know how they arrive at that. They start every year in the top 5 and as soon as they drub some hapless B12 team by 60-70 points the greatest of all time talk starts.
Lose to Colorado and TTech? No worries they are still the best two loss team in America, no one wants to play them right now.
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I'd like to know how they arrive at that. They start every year in the top 5 and as soon as they drub some hapless B12 team by 60-70 points the greatest of all time talk starts.
Lose to Colorado and TTech? No worries they are still the best two loss team in America, no one wants to play them right now.
The same way every fanbase does: by scouring everything written or said about college football, extracting anything that can be characterized as a slight against alma mater, and inventing a single-minded media biased against them.
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The same way every fanbase does: by scouring everything written or said about college football, extracting anything that can be characterized as a slight against alma mater, and inventing a single-minded media biased against them.
