If you consider games “blowouts” when they’re close throughout the entirety of the game, then you simply need to watch more sports. That’s why people criticize voters for merely looking at final scores. In some games, Team A goes up on Team B by three or four scores and holds their opponent down the entire game comfortably. When their backups are in, Team B scores two meaningless touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Just because the final margin is fourteen doesn’t do justice to the real “blowout” of the game. Another scenario is if Team A and B are close the whole game and then Team A pulls away with late scores. That’s no blowout, regardless of what the final score says. That’s a hard fought game.

And why just look at points scored? Why not points allowed? Why use either in the first place when, as I explain above, final scores can be misleading?

Again, it is obvious you did not watch the 2005 Big 12 title game. I think for most reasonable fans, playing three quarters of tough football is acceptable. Nonetheless, we obviously laid up with ALMOST A HALF TO GO. We were just a lot better than Colorado and they kept doing stupid things, so the score got out of hand. We could have easily scored 100 without breaking a sweat.

If you don’t think we could have made the score 63-14 or 63-21, then go ask Mizzou fans. They watched the game, and they know they got whacked from the beginning and didn’t have a shot to win the game. In fact, Texas jumped on Missouri a whole lot earlier than OU did; Missouri actually blew some chances to make the game interesting in the beginning, chances they didn’t have against Texas. We put our backup QB in rather early, we had our backups on defense in, and yes, we therefore “coasted.” That game was way over and we took our foot off the gas. Again, the problems seem to stem from the fact that you haven’t watched the games, or at least watched them closely.

I do not deny that there were some dropped passes by the TX receivers, but you are not acting as a gracious loser. I graciously accept the fact that despite OU playing poorly in the RRR, you deserved to win.

OU didn’t play poorly. Bradford threw five touchdown passes and the defense tallied some sacks. Don’t even try that; even knowledgeable Tech fans know that Texas played awful that game. I’m not making excuses; all I’m saying is that when you are comparing the different teams’ losses, it seems ours is most “understandable,” given the stretch we faced, the injuries we had, and the venue we played in. But that’s a dead issue anyway.

And finally, I didn’t watch THIS game, but you can’t argue with the fact that you intentionally drove up the score in the T A&M game with a score of 49 to 9. The fact that this is the biggest point lead you have ever had over A&M in the history of your rivalry is NO coincidence.

Again, watch the game. We pulled Colt with almost a quarter remaining, and he clearly wanted to go back in. We could have EASILY scored 60 if we wanted. The reason we kept scoring was because A&M wouldn’t stop the run. We had our SHORT YARDAGE SPECIALIST Cody Johnson run for huge gains and go for over 100 yards on like 8 carries in the second half. We weren’t throwing downfield, we didn’t have our starters in, and we didn’t shoot for 60 even though we would have gotten there easily. Contrast that to what OU did against Missouri, with Bradford still throwing and Brown still running.

Again, watch the games. If you want to argue that Stoops SHOULD run up the score, then that’s another discussion for another time. Just don’t try to say Mack does the same thing, because it’s obviously to anyone that he doesn’t. 35-7 against Kansas also could have been a lot worse, and columnists actually noticed that and complimented Mack for not thrashing the Jayhawks even more.

Playing three quarters is generally acceptable, yet we didn’t even do THAT.

We didn’t block a punt when up 60. It was 49-3 EARLY in the third quarter. That made it 56-3. The next drive, they fumbled to us and then on offense we ran it in for a TD. 63-3, ten minutes left in the third quarter.

Then, they fumbled to us AGAIN, and then we ran it in to make it 70-3.

We didn’t score again. On one possession, we had the ball deep in Colorado territory. On third and five, we ran simple dive play with a backup (you know who Marcus Myers is? We don’t either). On fourth and three, we didn’t even kick a FG; we ran another simple run play with Myers and Colorado tackled him for a loss, ending the drive. We didn’t pass a single time that drive. That drive started at the end of the third (we had another possession that we punted on in the third) and into the fourth quarter, eating up over five minutes.

The next possession, we got the ball with nine minutes left in the fourth. We proceeded to run every play. We ate up six minutes and punted the ball.

By the way, Vince Young was long gone from the game.

On our next possession, we ran out the clock. Game.

I’m sorry to bore you with details like this, but you clearly didn’t watch the game or don’t remember it very well. We had our backups in, we didn’t throw the ball, and we scored that many points in the third quarter because Colorado kept giving us gifts in their territory.

Against Missouri, Brown was still running for OU, and Bradford was still throwing. To begin the fourth on a third and long, instead of running and settling for a field goal, Stoops passed it with Bradford to Mizzou’s goalline.

Again, I’m NOT saying that Stoops SHOULDN’T be doing that right now. That’s another debate. All I’m pointing out is that Mack DOES NOT do the same things. That should be obvious to anyone.