Last night the college football world was treated to one, as OU finished off a cocky Missouri team 38-17. Missouri showed a lot of fight, and they have some talented players, but they got kicked by OU's wonderful play on both lines, dominating performances by Sam Bradford and Curtis Lofton (when do these guys not excel? When they're hurt??), and wonderful game plans from the coaching staff. Missouri managed to hang with OU for a half, then OU kicked in the afterburners to leave the Tigers in the rear-view mirror for good, outscoring Mizzou 24-3 in the second half. In fact, Missouri had only 8 yards of total offense in the fourth quarter and only one touchdown for the entire game. Only one team has managed to hold Missouri to less than 30 points, and that team is OU. (They would've held them below that total in both games, except for that garbage touchdown with 12 seconds left in the game.)
I would say I was happy to see this, after listening to Missouri's trash-talk all week about how they let the first game with OU "slip away" and how they gave OU no credit whatsoever for winning the first game. I'm also happy because it lets OU and Bob Stoops reach another milestone, namely to be the first big 12 team to repeat as conference champs. Yes, you heard right; no team (Nebraska, Texas, Kansas State, NO ONE) has won the Big 12 Championship twice in a row since the league was founded 12 years ago. I'm happy because it gets OU back into the BCS and keeps momentum going for next year, when we should make another strong run for the national championship.
I will say that the Missouri fans have been classy so far, at least that I've seen, and that's also refreshing. Good for them. It's good to see Missouri finally get over that hump a little bit after all the late-season collapses of the past few years.
And so, on to the BCS! This year, we'll make it big and we'll make a big statement for everyone to see. Hopefully it's not another lose-lose situation like last year was.
Thanks for reading along.
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