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Stop the Press!
Published: 7/29/2009 12:54 PM
Last Modified: 7/29/2009 12:54 PM

The Big 12 pre-season football media scoop-fest is over.

Here is what we learned.

The Jerry Jones Thunderdome is big.

Sam Bradford has a smile on his face.

The OU-Texas game will be important.

Texas Tech will plug in another thrower.

Bill Snyder will wonder what he could have been thinking.

Texas A&M is a disgrace.

The Colorado coach is full of thin air.

The Big 12 loves the BCS.

Talk about an event you could overdo on one big, fat conference call.

The Picks and its staff didn't stray far from a sports bar all week and here's what we know, compared to the establishment press that says: two million bits, four million bits, six million bits, a billion, all for Stoops, stand up and start thrillin'.

We know of the best first week in the history of college football:

OSU over Georgia.

Illinois over Missouri.

It simply couldn't set up any better for the Cowboys. Georgia has never been great on offense; and however good it was, it lost the players that were the keys.
And oh yeah by the way, people around here are getting a little sick of the SEC, the way that conference has kicked around the Sooners.

The Juice is back at Illinois and will be hard to squeeze.

Two Mind-Spinning Locks the first weekend, who needs PR flack or facts.


Reader Comments 11 Total
MexiMike (4 years ago)
Haha Pick, now you're back on with locking OSU over Georgia?

Are you sure this time? Hope so.

I'd hate to see you at the roulette table in Vegas..."Red, no black! Wait, I mean red! No, definitely black! Ok, red for sure--what do you mean, 'All bets final?!'"
buster (4 years ago)
What was Kansas State thinking?
I read where Tulsa World does drug testing, run picker run!
SBH (4 years ago)
GA over Oklahoma A&M. This is too big a stage for Okie State. Pistols shooting blanks. Should OSU actually pull this off. Do you think Holcomb calls for OSU to win the Big 12 South? I bet it is a high probablity.

Juice over nose-picker Mizzou.
Gene M (4 years ago)
Mr. Picker, why was Nebraska not worthy of a mention? All South Division teams they play will travel to Lincoln, including OU.
The Picker (4 years ago)
Tattoo: Perhaps by now it has dawned on you that trying to be intelligent or funny or contrary just to get attention doesn't work.

Your one-note droning is an embarrassment to the 334,760 sports groupies nicknamed Tattoo.

As you "act" so pained, going somewhere would be a simple cure.

Gene, interesting observation. I'm looking at Nebraska. The non-conference schedule is three sissies and at Virginia Tech, which is highly rated for some reason, but not impossible. The conference schedule is at Missouri, at Baylor, at KU, at Colorado, OU and Tech at home. What do you think, 7-4, 8-3? At all the north contenders is a grind.
The Picker (4 years ago)
No you're a plant.

Something creepy, like ivy.
Brain Trust Wannabe (4 years ago)
I was thinking more like a Venus Fly Trap! Picker how many position changes are you allowed before the season starts? When can we expect your final pick on the Pokes v. Dawgs game? Get your sights set and stick to it (barring any major injuries before the season).
Picker: Any chances of another 3-way tie in the Big 12 South race this season? Maybe Texas, OU & OSU this year?
The Picker (4 years ago)
Nashville, yeah, a three-way tie looks very possible.

Texas beats OU. Again.

OSU beats Texas.

OU beats OSU.

Texas is again doomed, this time justifiably, because of its rotten non-conference schedule.

OU goes to the big game.

The Big 12 let the three-way rules ride, highest ranked team goes.

OU.
MexiMike (4 years ago)
So does OSU get the BCS bid over Texas because of the strength of their non-conference schedule and due to the fact they beat them in the regular season?

Or does Texas get the BCS bid because...well, because they're Texas?
Deep In The Heart (4 years ago)
Picker, I think you are correct, it's entirely possible that there's another 3-way tie, however, I don't think all three teams will only have the one loss.  There will be at least one of those teams that will have an OOC loss, which will hurt them in the BCS rankings.  That will leave a head-to-head tiebreaker, not a BCS rankings tiebreaker, therefore Texas OOC schedule will be a nonfactor.
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