Hook'em Horns!

Justice: UT claims another win for the ages | Richard Justice: Columnist | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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"Even though I'm no more than a monster - don't I, too, have the right to live?" -- Oldboy (2003)

I heard the last 30 seconds were awesome! Missed it getting kids to bed.

Now, if OU wins on Thursday, we are going to see Oklahoma voted #1 and UT voted #2. That's going to be a mighty funny outcome to the season. Let's look at the facts.

*Texas and Oklahoma each finish with a 12-1 record.
*The two team played head-to-head. Texas spotted OU a 21-10 lead and ended up beating them by 10, with a 45-35 record. They outscored OU 35-14 in the last 2 and 1/2 quarters. Texas dominated the 4th quarter with two 70+ yard drives.
*Texas's one loss was on the last play of the game on the road. But for one play, UT would be unbeaten. OU would have to have had an entire series of plays happen differently for them to be unbeaten.
*OU's loss was on a neutral field, as the Texas-OU game always is.

But OU will be voted National Champion with a win on Thursday, because they lost earlier in the season and because they blew out teams by a big margin. It just makes no sense to me.

It would be like in the NFL playoffs last year, if after the Giants beat the Cowboys, we had voters decide to vote the Cowboys into the NFC Championship Game, because they looked more impressive than the Giants in the games the two teams didn't play head-to-head. (I could have lived with that.) But it's just nonsense, in my mind.

Any thoughts from any Sooners or Red Raiders fans out there?

I have a thought.

I'm SICK and TIRED of people saying "But for one play the Longhorns would be undefeated".

YEAH, that's right, and but for one bullet, Kennedy wouldn't have died.

THE FACT IS, Tech dominated UT in the first half of that game. I could just as easily say "But for one miserable game in Norman, Tech would be undefeated" and should therefore have had some kind of presence in the Nat'l Championship talk.

A better question -- why the heck wasn't Tech granted a BCS game? They had one loss in the toughest conference of the year (to the eventual Nat'l Champion that is if OU doesn't blow it tomorrow) and got dissed by the BCS in favor of Virginia Tech and CINCINATTI in the Orange Bowl?

I'm fuming.

Harrell was easily the 1st or 2nd best QB in the nation (again) this year, and wasn't even invited to the Heisman ceremony.

Now I'm pissed.

The Big 12 needs more respect than it gets.

*Stumbles off to kick a longhorn. . .