Wow - thats one way to forget about the '07 Fiesta Bowl.

When is this year's Fiesta Bowl?

What Bob Stupid needs to do is quit recruiting shoplifting thugs from Texas. The OU team has sooooooooo many Texicans on the team, I didn't realize they were Oklahoma University. They surely don't represent Oklahoma very well!!!!!!!! Screw OU!!!!!!!!!

That 260-pound guy with the mohawk deserves a ton of credit for running 55 yards without falling over with laughter, alone as he was.

The reader is right about getting the on-side kick -- the offensive coordinator would have run twice up the middle and then would have gotten sacked passing on third down. With 260-pound guys outrunning your entire defense, you simply don't want to hand over the ball on your 38.

Losses like this are given more time than they're worth because neutral fans spend the entire season hearing from homers on the payroll about just how great OU is again. The hope is games like this might tone down the cheerleading some.

Its absolutely amazing how true this blog is. How embarrassing to be an OU fan today. I feel like I am watching Temo Bowl (Nitendo 1987) with Wilsons play calling. 3 plays to choose from and my opponent is looking at my controller and knows exactly what play I am going to run. At least when playing the game I could slug my buddy and call him a cheat. Watching Wilson is a million times worse....just sit there and take it...knowing that he'll probably get another raise after this game. I blame this on coaching...Stoops obviously set a tone for this game (more like vacation) with lack of preparation throughout the week. Hearing stoops defending his on side kick sharrad almost verred to the side of insanity. Does he really think that he can justify one of the worst calls in history (well if you add up back to back bad calls with the 2 pt conversation..it might take the cake)? Does he think that everyone else is wrong and he is right? You go all year playing more conservative than anyone and then with a flash of brilliance decide to do it at the most inopportune time. What are you BOB STOOPS of 1999? No..your not....you were smart about it then....back up your arragance with wins and noone cares...do it and loose..your a joke. Espn and everyone else that watched the game last night has a pretty good idea of which role the Sooners have been playing for a while now.

from the first series i got nervous. you could tell it wasn't their night they seemed to be disinterested and bored. all the bowl teams that seemed to be winning arrived with a sense of purpose and desire i.e. KU, mizzou, mich etc. the only purpose (in OU's eyes) for this game was to bury the ghost of last years loss and revive the tarnished reputation of "big game bob". by the way i noticed that frank beamer of VT also now has a 4- game losing streak in bowl games but never saw that in the crawl that announced the games on espn.
by mid 2nd quarter i had to mute the tv, too painful. after halftime i had to turn off the tv and listen to the radio broadcast. when ou got within 5 points and tried the onside kick merv defended stoops while bob berry continually referred to it as the turning point of the game, you could feel the tension between them as the old coach defended the call and the announcer/fan intimated what a stupid call it was. by the way bob berry is the worst play by play announcer (as you have pointed out many times) i would be surprised if he is back next year, it's unprofessional to keep making silly mistakes in calling the games. there 's an ugly rumor going around that just before WVU completed that long td pass that the OU players were heard calling across the line of scrimmage to qb white to stop running the ball.

I love how everyone is so hard on the Sooners when they lose. They only lost three times this year, so I guess you didn't have many oppertunites to get your punches in, so you've got to take them now. Stoops is one of the top three coaches in college football. If he left OU, he could take his pick anywhere else. How many programs have been better than us since 2000? Maybe two or three? We're a top 10 team every year.

Onside kick: Recover and you're a hero, fail and you're an idiot.

We got beat by a great team. We'll probably be ranked around 10th in the final poll. We were the 2nd best team in the BigXII this year (Kansas).

We also played without 4 defensive starters and our best two offensive players.

the program is fine, we'll be rated in the top 3 in the preseason polls if all of our players decide to return.

We're a powerhouse program and will remain so.

Congrats to the players for earning another BCS boll and that $3.5mil payday.

Ok, no more whining about injuries/suspensions. Every team has them! This is why the football gods created depth charts. Besides, are you trying to tell me that the OU squad they had out there the entire night is less athletic/talented than the 5-7 Pitt team that WV lost to on their own field? I severely doubt it. Prepare your team correctly, call the right plays and schemes, and it shouldn't matter. The bottom line is OU went into the game with the wrong attitude. They were upset that they weren't in the national championship game and had to instead settle for this chump team that should just bow to them and accept defeat. Honestly, I think if OU were in the BCS championship we would have seen a much different team.

p.s. Eric, the Nintendo game you are refering to is Super Tecmo Bowl and it was/is amazing!

Guys, OU might have had a few starters out, but Kelly at receiver would not have won this game. Chaney just picked up where Kelly left off. And De'Marco was not going to help that terrible offense. The only player that could have helped was Granger, but losing by 20 points means that missing a couple of starters would have maybe meant losing by 13.

They were out-coached and out-played and every year we hear about how GOOD OU is and that is always over-hyped. We hear about how GREAT OSU is going to be and that is always over-hyped!

I am going to be supporting the team that actually is good, TU!

Charles Howerton makes a better point than he might realize.

OU coaches could learn a lot from the KU film.

Best athletes -- quick, nimble guy -- at cornerback, the most important position on the field.

Great play-calling. Second and six, KU throws the stinking ball for a first down, wins the game, no dumb run against a ten-man line.

Would move the KU quarterback above Bradford, after that gutsy performance.

Might list Bradford about fourth in the conference now.

Let's all agree that Worldpicker is the most insightful sports writer in America today, and that he requires anonymity in order to give voice to opinions so radical and brilliant that the cost of safeguarding him from impassioned detractors would be greater than the cost of protecting all former living presidents combined.

The problem is not necessarily with the coachs and coordinators, the prblem is with the lacksadasical attitude of the players. The got Sooner fever and thought all they had to do was roll the red helmets on the field and they would win. That mental attitude did not work at Colorado or at Tech (as soon as the team say Bradford in the fog). In the Big 12 Chanmionship against Missiouri, OU was the underdog in the polls and had something to prove (even if the oddsmakers favored OU).

The mental part of college football is almost as important as the physical. WV lost ot PIttsburg which is a bottom 30 team at best. But WV was ready the other night. The Sooners were not ready to play, they wanted to be in the National Championship, but did not want to do the work to get there.

It also takes abit of luck to keep 18-22 year olds in line for 16 weeks and not have the crucial players make stupid mistakes like Grainger. The coachs and coordinators have to get the players ready to play but it often does not work. Sometimes the team needs players who act as leaders and will not lose--time may run out sometimes, but they cannot be beat.

i wonder where the NIT PICKER is right now?