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Remember the Titans? We're Forgetting the Raiders.
Published: 10/25/2008 5:47 PM
Last Modified: 10/25/2008 5:47 PM

A few thoughts on a college football Saturday:
1, My opinion, Oklahoma State gained more respect from losing the way it did to Texas this year than in any of the years in which the Cowboys suffered come-from-ahead defeats. When you blow a big lead, it feels like failure. When you stick around until the end and have a chance to win, it feels like contention.
2, All this talk about Texas and OU and OSU and who would win a tiebreaker if all three finished with just one Big 12 loss is plum silly. Here's why: Because it omits Texas Tech from the equation. Tech is really good, as evidenced by a blowout victory over Kansas in Lawrence. No way does Tech go 0-3 against Texas, OU and OSU. I can't tell you which team (or teams) they will beat, but the Red Raiders won't go 0-3.
3, Teams that run up the score usually rely on the alibi of "we've got to work on our offense, so that's why we kept trying to score." Malarkey. Considering the state of defenses in college football nowadays, teams who are up big should punt on first down and work on what they really need to work on, and that's defense. I'm exaggerating, of course, but you get my drift.





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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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