Week 6 Prediction Thread: OU vs Texas...OU Mucher Than Suckage

HornHuskerDad said:
OUBubba, I think it will be competitive. The Sooners are much better than last year - when Riley went west, he took a bunch of talent with him, leaving BV with a minimum cupboard from which to field a team. BV did well in the portal, and the talent level is significantly better.
IMO, the Sooners, although much improved, are still behind the Longhorns in talent level. The ou defense will have trouble stopping the Texas offense. I expect the game to be very competitive, with Texas putting on the fourth-quarter surge to pull away.
Good to have you back on our board!
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I think what plagued OU for the last decade was a defense that went from shoddy to sporadic. They could play good at times but never consistently. The last days of Riley shows what's happening at SC now - he's wasting one of the best quarterbacks on our generation by having no defense to stand behind him. Yes, he took a few players to SC with him. He didn't take any defensive players. BV got the players that were already recruited and ones that he could scrounge up. We didn't get any noteworthy transfers last year on defense. We were young and not highly ranked from a recruiting standpoint.

Fast forward to this year and these kids have been under Schmidt for about 20 months. BV's system is apparently intricate and it takes a little while to learn it instinctively. Combine that with some big time transfers. Bothroyd, Trace Ford, Jaron Terry, Dasan McCollough, Reggie Pearson are all guys who are significant contributors who were contributing at other schools last season. So, the DL is advanced compared to last year and they play about 8-10 on any one game day. That makes the LB's and the DB's more effective. There will be busts but there will be solid open field tackling that will harken back to the early 2000's.

Offense can't run too well but they can spread it around and the WR's are having a very good year - thanks for the transfer. Lebby and Gabriel are getting into a rythem. It's nice to know that, as good as Gabriel is playing, he's probably the second most talented QB in the room.

My views on UT from my limited viewing. Ewers looks good but still a little sporadic - much more consistent than last year. That Fr RB is no Bijan but he's salty. I hope your future NFL TE makes it back in time to be real healthy for pro day. :) (he's so good). At this point your OL and DL are making me look like the guy who predicted that Clint Black would be bigger than Garth and that Brandon Daniels and John Blake were going to bring back the wishbone and show the world it's glory.

I'm hopeful.
 
Sat., temps will be high 70's. which should be ideal for the players.

This game raises the level of play & focus for 'errrrbody in either program.

FWIW, I've got real confidence going into this game.

Reminds me of the lead up to Bama. Our strength, experience, skill & depth on D will be the difference. OL will play well and get it done again.

We gotta score a bunch, but overall, I think UT DL play will greatly influence the eventual outcome of the game.
 
mchammer said:
Why do some folks think OU will fare better than Bama? I don’t see it.
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I think ou will fare about the same as Bama--we win by 7-10 points. I think this because ou has a better, more balanced offense than Bama showed against us. Also, ou will be more familiar with the Horns tendencies, and will likely defend the Horns better for 3 quarters. I look for ou to score more points than Bama. But our talent and D will prevail in the end, imo.
 
caryhorn said:
I think ou will fare about the same as Bama--we win by 7-10 points. I think this because ou has a better, more balanced offense than Bama showed against us. Also, ou will be more familiar with the Horns tendencies, and will likely defend the Horns better for 3 quarters. I look for ou to score more points than Bama. But our talent and D will prevail in the end, imo.
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Bama coaching staff is better than OU. Also, you don’t think Texas is more prepared for OU than Bama?
 
Dukesteer has a big head. Really. It didn’t fit…

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mchammer said:
Bama coaching staff is better than OU. Also, you don’t think Texas is more prepared for OU than Bama?
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I agree that the Bama staff is better than ou's. I don't know if the Horns are more prepared for ou than for Bama. I think the Horns prepared a great deal for Bama in the weeks leading up to that game. ( I think much less time was spent on prep for Rice.) But the Horns and the staff had time for strategizing and planning and watching film on Bama that simply isn't available for a mid-season game like ou. We would need a by week before ou to even get close to the time that was available for the Bama game.
Someone could rightfully say that time is equal for both teams in this regard. But ou has played Sark led Texas twice now and seen every game Sark has coached while at Texas. The dang gooners likely have a small army of folks looking at film analyzing every play and every formation and trend and god knows what.
Venables knows that to a large extent his tenure at ou is tied closely to his won/loss record against Texas. Couple all that with the embarrassment ou suffered in the 49-0 beat down last year and they will be frothing at the mouth coming down the tunnel before kickoff.
We need to withstand the first quarter kami-Kazi attack that will be thrown at the Horns and come up with some surprises of our own--IN SARK I TRUST.
 
Greetings from Taipei. We get back in Houston 10 hours before the game with lots of jet lag.
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caryhorn said:
I agree that the Bama staff is better than ou's. I don't know if the Horns are more prepared for ou than for Bama. I think the Horns prepared a great deal for Bama in the weeks leading up to that game. ( I think much less time was spent on prep for Rice.) But the Horns and the staff had time for strategizing and planning and watching film on Bama that simply isn't available for a mid-season game like ou. We would need a by week before ou to even get close to the time that was available for the Bama game.
Someone could rightfully say that time is equal for both teams in this regard. But ou has played Sark led Texas twice now and seen every game Sark has coached while at Texas. The dang gooners likely have a small army of folks looking at film analyzing every play and every formation and trend and god knows what.
Venables knows that to a large extent his tenure at ou is tied closely to his won/loss record against Texas. Couple all that with the embarrassment ou suffered in the 49-0 beat down last year and they will be frothing at the mouth coming down the tunnel before kickoff.
We need to withstand the first quarter kami-Kazi attack that will be thrown at the Horns and come up with some surprises of our own--IN SARK I TRUST.
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2 years ago I was at the first game Sark coached in the cotton bowl. My nephew, in a drunken purchase, bought tickets front row, in the end zone of ou. Thats right. In any event I went with him and first play from scrimmage was the 80 yd td to X and so went the first half. Never enjoyed a 1/2 more. We had a very shaky d in pk's first year and when we lost the DE in the 2nd qtr, our d got considerably weaker. I had to sit thru the excruciating 2nd half comeback in the middle of drunken trailer park trash. Sark will be prepared. We dont have bull dog coach like Muschamp was but we have a very mature defense and leadership group. I expect Texas to be formidable and hand the land of thieves their greyhound bus ticket back to choklahoma!!
 
longhornlegend said:
2 years ago I was at the first game Sark coached in the cotton bowl. My nephew, in a drunken purchase, bought tickets front row, in the end zone of ou. Thats right. In any event I went with him and first play from scrimmage was the 80 yd td to X and so went the first half. Never enjoyed a 1/2 more. We had a very shaky d in pk's first year and when we lost the DE in the 2nd qtr, our d got considerably weaker. I had to sit thru the excruciating 2nd half comeback in the middle of drunken trailer park trash. Sark will be prepared. We dont have bull dog coach like Muschamp was but we have a very mature defense and leadership group. I expect Texas to be formidable and hand the land of thieves their greyhound bus ticket back to choklahoma!!
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My mom says if you get tickets in the bad half you just meander to the good half and look for anxious people from the other side that are usually eager to trade you tickets. Her most memorable seats were in the little section in the UT end zone that makes up for the part of the end zone that OU loses because the tunnel is there.
 
I was tempted to go with my usual pick, but I actually believe in the blowout this week and want to give myself a chance to make the leader board for once.
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