Rivalries scratch a vestigial tribal itch. How many of those "cream puff" Big 12 championships has Texas collected?

This theory forgives a 5-7 season as long as the rival was conquered. Maybe if the Sooners had managed to follow the Joads to the left coast, a conference championship would have meant something (as opposed to their weak Big 12 collection)

Bingo! Loki nailed it!

Bingo! MexiMike nailed it!

I got the feeling were going to win this year versus Texas and go on a 4 or 5 game tear against them. Its about time.

Beating Texas is the difference between a good season & a great season....

Has OU lost to Texas & still won a National Championship ????

If they have, when was it ????

Beating Texas is in your blood if your an OU fan & if your not then how can you even pretend to understand....

Ohio St.-Michigan fans would understand, Florida St.-Miami fans would understand, so would Auburn-Alabama or even USC-UCLA & Florida-Georgia....

Their are rivals & then there are "hated" rivals.... OSU considers OU a hated rival but Okie St. is generally considered a nuisance rival more than a hated one to Sooner football fans....

LOL @ Bob Smith. Nice job

If John Blake didn't beat Texas that year, would he have lasted as long as he did ????

As I remember, that season sucked BUT we did BEAT TEXAS & that was a GREAT WIN that I can still smile about....

I went & watched Tulsa beat Colorado St. that day & when I got home I saw the end of that GREAT GAME & I cheered louder in my living room than I did at Skelly Stadium that day....

(Nose)Picker,

This is the first time I opted to read your drivel in several months (yes, I was that bored), and I see you haven't changed your mindless baiting ways. I guess you have to stir interest somehow in your rag persona these dog days of summer.

As far as criticism of who OU beat in past Championship Games, they have no control over that--they just beat who gets put in front of them.

As for the premise of your original post, as big a rival as ut is, one game does not a season make. I bet Stoops (and every other thoughtful coach in America) would take a Conference Championship over a single win over a rival every year, because the former is indicative of a season of success, while the latter is only indicative of 60 minutes of success. Don't sprain your brain distilling that one.

A better use of your time in the future would involve focusing on keeping newspaper ink off your computer keyboard while trying to win 6 games of online solitaire. Leave the football strategy to guys who have won a national championship and an unprecedented six Big 12 Conference Titles.

Big E

The Big E just put down a big beating on The Picker.

I can't tell which looks worse: The Picker or Steve Denning's mugshot?

John Cooper's tenure at Ohio State set the modern standard on rivalry game futility. Stoops is nowhere near that territory.

Since this is Oklahoma, expect annual carping about under-performance. A sense of entitlement is something to behold.

When the "loyal" Sooner Nation takes up the pitch forks and torches, maybe we can have our own Tuberville right here in Oklahoma. That coaching roulette deal worked out well for Notre Dame.