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Sooners Deliver A Bedlam Beat Down!

Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray, left, dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Oklahoma wide receiver Jaz Reynolds is at center. Oklahoma State safety Markelle Martin is at right.  (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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2 months ago: Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray, left, dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Oklahoma wide receiver Jaz Reynolds is at center. Oklahoma State safety Markelle Martin is at right. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Coming into Saturday's Bedlam football game the Oklahoma State Cowboys were fielding one of their best teams ever while the Sooners had the worst team Oklahoma fans had seen in the last ten years. When the two teams left the field you would have thought that the roles had been reversed after a 27-0 pounding of the 11th ranked Cowboys.

Oklahoma was simply faster, stronger and more aggressive than the Cowboys were on Saturday and it eventually took its toll on Oklahoma State. With many Sooner fans "protesting" Oklahoma's miserable season by not attending (Band Waggoners) several thousand OSU fans took their places by purchasing their tickets only to see their BCS dreams dashed by the complete dismantling of their team. The cocky OSU fan mentality of, "this is the year we finally stick it to them" had faded to the "crap, I can't believe this is happening to us again" mindset by the time the fourth quarter of play had began. Once boisterous, they had nothing to cheer for all day and most of them left early.

Star-divide

Oklahoma's game plan was just this side of genius and the stars aligned for the perfect crimson storm to arise and blow the Cowboys away. On defense they wanted to stuff the run and force Zac Robinson to beat them and that's exactly what they did. Keith Toston entered the game as the Big 12's second leading rusher but was held to just 46 yards. As a team the Cowboys rushed for 62 yards on 29 carries for a very humbling average of 2.1 yards per rush. Unable to move the ball on the ground the Cowboys had to turn to senior quarterback Zac Robinson who failed miserably. Unable to shake the pressure from Oklahoma's defense Robinson produced one of the worst performances by a quarterback in the history of the OSU football program. Before getting yanked in the fourth quarter he completed 9 of 21 passes for 44 yards and a pick.

Oklahoma's defense dominated the line of scrimmage by sacking Robinson twice and recorded 6 tackles for loss. The linebackers aggressively attacked O-State's running backs by heading down hill and meeting them at or near the line of scrimmage. OU's linebackers recorded 19 total tackles. The Sooner secondary blanketed OSU receivers leaving Robinson no targets to throw to resulting in him either trying to force a pass, throw the ball away or tuck and run. None of these options worked exceptionally well as Robinson carried the ball 9 times for -6 yards and the Cowboys didn't move the chains once in the second half and never crossed Oklahoma's 45 yard-line the entire afternoon.

On offense the Sooners wanted to be patient and protect the football. They struggled with both of these in the first quarter but eventually got things rolling and never looked back. DeMarco Murray averaged 5.5 yards per carry and scored twice while Landry Jones completed 54% of his passes for 224 yards. Boosted by exceptional punting (59.3 average) and punt returns (26 yards per return) Oklahoma was patient in playing the field position game until it set them up for scores. At the end of the day the Sooners had run 84 plays and accumulated 367 offensive yards.

This will go down as Oklahoma's signature win of the 2009 season and is a good way to close out what has been a disappointing year. Now with the nation's longest home winning streak at 30 games we wait for a bowl destination and hope that this team can somehow figure out how to produce this type of game away from Norman.    

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congrats

To the entire team, especially the seniors! Obviously it hasn’t been the year that everyone had hoped for, but to close it out w/ a performance like that almost (I stress almost) makes you forget about the five losses.

Oh, and if the Corey Wilson moment didn’t get to you then you’re not human. Absolutely amazing and heart lifting to see him accomplish his goal of walking on the field!!!

by jtesooner on Nov 29, 2009 9:55 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I think

y’all should get a better bowl bid than we do. Sure, we won 9 game, but we beat almost nobody. Georgia was proved to be terribel, Tech cant play away from home, almost lost to CU and they suck, and Mizzou was down this year. And we lost to the best two teams we played. Hell, we lost to the worst OU team in 12 years and it wasnt even competitive. Now I have to wait for a beatdown by a pac-10 team in the holiday bowl. Congrats guys, you earned it.

by AUKingOState on Nov 29, 2009 10:17 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Sadly that's not the way the bids work

Most of the bowl bids are almost automatic based on the Big 12’s ranking. There is a little fudge if there is a similar record the league and bowls can take into consideration poll rankings and over-all record. There really isn’t a hard and fast tie breaking system to allow some deviation in picks. Right now OSU is 6-2/9-3 which is better than 5-3/7-5 and sadly Strength of Schedule really isn’t much of a factor.

Right now:
Texas: BCS NC
Nebraska: Cotton
OSU: Holiday Bowl
Tech: Alamo
OU: Sun
Missouri: Insight
Iowa State: Independence
Texas A&M: Texas

Kansas State I don’t believe is bowl eligible at 4-4/6-6 as they have 2 wins vs D-1aa or Football Championship Division, in Umass And Tennessee Tech, and a team can only count one of those to being bowl eligible.

Now if Nebraska upsets Texas in the Big 12 championship game, every team slides up a spot, with Texas and Nebraska both BCS bowl teams and then the Big 12 wouldn’t fill all their bowl contracts.

by Redhawk on Nov 29, 2009 11:20 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

No crap

That will be fun, watching the Trojans slaughter us by 40. I love the pokes, but that game would be ugly

by AUKingOState on Nov 29, 2009 5:57 PM CST via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

Why would the Cotton take Nebraska after they get slaughtered on national tv?

Not to mention the Championship game is in the exact same venue as the cotton bowl and OSU travels ok.

by SoonerDutch on Nov 29, 2009 10:11 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Well OSU just got slaughtered on regional TV

There is a chance OSU could go to the Cotton Bowl, BUT Nebraska has a larger national following, and thus larger TV audience. They also have the exact same record as OSU so either could be picked at the leagues #2 team which is what the contract with the Cotton Bowl reads.

by Redhawk on Nov 29, 2009 11:40 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I think your overestimating Nebraska's chances

Considering the distance involved OSU would travel almost as well, they have the same record, there is the potential OSU/Miles matchup, and they won’t be slaughtered the day before on national tv like Nebraska.

by SoonerDutch on Nov 30, 2009 8:45 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I think Nebraska and their defense

has a puncher’s chance in beating Texas. I think the score will be close as I don’t think Texas (or anyone besides that Tech debacle) will run over Nebraska’s defense.

Most of the projection sites have OSU to the Cotton, and Nebraska to the Holiday bowl, as that extra loss for Nebraska will look bad, plus they will travel better to California than will OSU.

by Redhawk on Dec 1, 2009 10:05 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I could be wrong. . .

but I think the bowls have their choice of B12 teams after we fill the Fiesta. We might actually bump Tech for the Alamo because we travel better.

by HiDesertSooner on Nov 29, 2009 3:37 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

That is true

The Alamo gets the first pick of the teams after the Holiday and can take who they want.

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by Jubanator14 on Nov 29, 2009 6:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

not entirely

the bowls have a contract with the league to get the number X team. This contract affects the bowls above and below. There is a little room for maneuvering, but not much. For argument’s sake the Cotton Bowl couldn’t pick Iowa St or Oklahoma in my understanding. The Cotton Bowl however, could pick between Nebraska and OSU who both have the same record.

Why wouldn’t a lower bowl want a better team with a better record to fall to them? Competition and the other half of the match up. Who wants to see a bowl game of say, Alabama vs Wyoming? It’s too much of a mismatch. The Bowls set up their contracts to help get a fairly equal match up (in theory).

Also this helps to give all the teams in the league a shot at a fair reward. Oklahoma for example has a good name, good fan following, so why would they ever fall below OSU who doesn’t have as big a name nationally and not as many fans? Let’s say Baylor had a good year (work with me) and OU has a 6-6 year…..if the league didn’t have a contract with the bowls OU would be picked over Baylor, thus spoiling their good season. Baylor as a member of the Big 12 wants to know they have a shot at say the Holiday Bowl, but if the bowls got to pick just by name alone….Baylor would get passed over for Oklahoma every time just by fan base alone.

by Redhawk on Nov 29, 2009 11:51 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Amazing Job Sooners!

That game was one of the best games I have ever seen! Go Sooners!

by BoomerSoonerGirl on Dec 1, 2009 3:45 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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