2008 Texas=2000 OU?

B

bdog33

100+ Posts
(Note: I'm not saying Texas will have the same season as the 2000 OU team.)

Anyone else see the similarities that the 2008 Longhorns have compared to the 2000 Sooners?

-Texas plays a stretch of top 10 teams in #1 OU, #3 Mizzou (OU played 3 straight top 11 teams in #11 Texas, #2 Kansas St., #1 Neb)

-Both teams didn't start the season in the top 5 but climbed up the rankings

-Improving defense after each game

Thoughts?
 
Too early to be making this type of comparison, but I will concede that there are definitely some similarities between the two teams so far. Specifically, our October schedule and flying under the media radar.
 
I have always thought that the 2000 OU team flew under the radar that year. They beat the **** out of us and I remember just thinking they got the momentum and we just couldn't get it back.
 
a 50 point destruction from your arch rival will kinda take the wind out of anyones sails, and probably keep the wind in the victor's


frankly, I am stunned we recovered after the OU game that year and actually put up an respectable year.

That season could have very easily gone the way of 1997 after that loss
 
I remember being at the 2000 Texas/OSU game and saying to a friend that OU ran a gimmicky offense that year and couldn't do ****.

We know the rest of the story.
 
Holy Cow....Did a longhorn fan just start a thread with Texas=OU. I think it just started snowing outside my trailer...hell must be freezing over.
smile.gif
 
The strengths and weaknesses of the two teams are almost completely different. We have good insight to the 2000 Sooners Championship Team, not so much on the early season 2008 Longhorns.

Josh Heupel did not have anywhere near the talent that Colt McCoy has. Josh Heupel was good because he was smart and read Defenses well. He played to the strengths of his team mates and got very lucky and number of times (like most Championship Teams).

The 2000 Sooner Defense was lights out better than the 2008 Longhorn version. It had to be because for the most part the 2000 Sooner Offense couldn't put points on the board in the numbers the Longhorns probably will this year. The 2000 Defense itself accounted for a lot of points scored that year.

The 2000 Sooners also had the mojo to win them all
yippee.gif
Time will tell who has it in 2008.
 
one other big difference is that Texas started out ranked 10/11 for 08 and for the 5th week at number 5 and OU started in 2000 ranked at 21 and by the 5th week believe was 12.(so closer to the top of the polls) then the 3 game run that put us at number 1. I was at that game too. sat on the Texas side, bought a ticket from a student who didnt want to get wet. i never saw so many texas fans so pissed off, most were gone by the 3rd quarter, man that was a great game.

Point being is your not that far under the radar like we were before the 2000 game with Texas. win at dallas you could jump to number 1 and if not, there is no way Texas would not be with a win against Mizzou.
 
If there is any team that reminds me of the 2000 Sooners this year it is Alabama. Second year head coach, expected to be decent but still a year away from really contending, play hell-for-leather on defense every game, etc. Taking a lot of people by surprise. Just like OU in 2000, they will need a lot of luck to make it undefeated.
 
OU destroyed everyone up 'til the A&M Game in College Station. Torrance Marshal's interception saved a game that was rapidly slipping away.

By that point Josh Heupel was getting pretty beat up. Remember how big his elbow was? He couldn't throw deep anymore and for the most part the rest of our games were pretty close for the rest of the season.

In the National Championship Game it seemed like every bounce went OU's way with the exception of the high snap that resulted in Florida State's only points.

Very few, if any, National Championships in College Football are won without a fair amount of luck. OU calls it Sooner Magic.
 
It's way too early to compare this team with anyone else's. Really, the only thing that can be said is the Horns have taken care of business against teams they should beat, and have looked better in increments each game. The jury's still out on how the team is gonna handle the meat of the schedule, but things don't look to shabby right now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Recent Threads

Back
Top