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What Game Were They Watching?
Published: 11/26/2012 3:49 PM
Last Modified: 11/26/2012 3:49 PM

The media, and other fans, sees its own game.

OU media cheerleaders and fans saw its team send out a defense that bends but doesn't come apart at the seams.

OSU media cheerleaders and fans saw the refs blow a punt return block in the back, among other things.

Here's what we saw.

Two good quarterbacks and two rotten defenses.

The OU defense in particular is almost bad beyond recognition. One writer gave the OU defense a grade of "B." That must have been during the pre-game warm-up.

Here's exactly what the OU defense looks like: The Arizona defense last year before Mike Stopps was fired.

The Sooner sideline looks like a hysterical mishmash on defense -- you eight get in there, you three out, no, you six in, you two out, wait, somebody call another time out!

Josh Heupel is average as an offensive coordinator. Mike Stoops has been terrible as a defensive coordinator. Landry Jones has been good against the average defenses, below average against teams of a higher quality. To think that he had a great game against Oklahoma State is a stretch because OSU's defense was even more horrific than OU's.

To hear OU people talk, you would have thought that nutty play right before the half went exactly as designed.

What happened was an OSU defender was in a perfect position to intercept a poorly thrown pass. The OSU guy was looking at the open field and deflected the ball into the arms of the OU receiver for a touchdown: 14-point swing.

But that's OSU against OU for you. Though the fans and media cheerleaders see what they want to see, here is the truth: Strange things happen to OSU versus OU. Passes and kicks bouncing off helmets and hands, directly to a member of the opposition.

If the game is close, book it: As an eerie nervousness settles over the OSU section, a freaky bounce will go OU's way.

OSU doesn't know how to win a close one against OU.

And both defenses are playing really lousy.

The rest is fiction.



Reader Comments 7 Total
But What Do I Know? (3 months ago)
I wondered about that block in the back non-call on the punt return. It was in the open filed and so surely at least one official saw it. So why would it not have been called?
                    
colhi64 (3 months ago)
The ref actually threw a flag on that block in the back, then picked it up.
                    
hootie (3 months ago)
The first block in the back (on Sharp) was questionable and was waived. There was another right before the returner got into the end zone. It was an obvious call that the refs missed....
Captain Terrific (3 months ago)
I think K-State has the best defense in the conf and Baylor scored over 50 points on them. All the conf teams have to score high to win with all the lousy defenses. Texas and TCU did have a low scoring game which is rare in this conf. This conf cannot compete with the SEC IMO.
Blue Max (3 months ago)
Pick, you've sized it up exactly.
241362 (3 months ago)
Without the bad pass turning out lucky right before the half, OSU probably wins easily because OU can't stop anybody. Now we know why Mike Stoops got fired.
Chester Copperpot (3 months ago)
Mike Stoops would rather yell at the players than correct his defense's mistakes.
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