One reason to pick the Longhorns
Published: 7/23/2009 4:29 PM
Last Modified: 7/23/2009 4:29 PM
A couple reasons to favor Oklahoma over Texas in the coin flip also known as this year's Big 12 South race have already been covered in this space this week:
1. All those returning starters on OU's defense, and
2. Bob Stoops' decade-long stranglehold on the conference
Say, just for grins, you want to go with the Longhorns, however. On what might you base that pick?
If you're Darren Everson of the Wall Street Journal, it's not exactly Mack Brown or Colt McCoy.
"This season, watch for Texas to unseat Oklahoma as Big 12 Conference champion," Everson writes. "Both teams return their star quarterbacks, but McCoy now has a far more seasoned offensive line (91 combined starts) to work with than the Sooners' Sam Bradford, whose line has 29 starts, down from 131 last year."
That is a massive dropoff, 131 down to 29. I just don't know if it's enough of a reason to put the Horns over the top.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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