My Letter To Sports Illustrated

Most experts agree it’s easier to replace a D-line than an O-line. OU’s tremendous O-line last year was a major factor in Bradford’s huge year.

OU is also losing major talent at WR (which can be reloaded from other players) and safety (which can’t)

Texas has one of the best secondaries in college football. This will help shore up the D-line.

Coaching – “Big game” Bob is a thing of the past. One bowl win in 6 years, and that was the Holiday Bowl in 2005, which was the year that all the victories were vacated ( and later reinstated) for using paid players.

Football is just around the corner and the boards are heating up. We’re looking forward to the revenge game and the Big 12 championship “usually” is determined her for both of us

McCoy doesn’t have to be VY. He is 2-1 in the RRS.

Receivers running the wrong routes can make a QB look terrible and turnovers are huge.

Defense wins championships and it all starts with the front 7. Texas may run a 3-4 scheme and you guys will runs a 4-3. With all of the passing attempts and nickle and dime packages, we’ll see how this plays out. With a less experienced offensive line, a confusing and stunting defense might see success.

The speed at which your 2 safeties adapt could be pivotal as well.

Having 2 rb’s rush for 1,000 yards is an advantage if the line does their part. You have to look at total team yards in rushing. Does it matter who gets them or if you get them? First of all, Colt can make plays with his feet and that adds a dimension to the offense that the defense has to prepare for. Bradford is a great QB, but he doesn’t have that ability. Texas had 194 yards rushing in last year’s RRS and OU had 71 or the net was Texas 161 to 48. I don’t understand how you guys feel that you have the advantage in the running game when the stats clearly show otherwise.

This series has always run in cycles for both programs. From 2000 – 2004 OU dominated. I think the contrary is playing out lately.

 Muschamp has returned the swagger back to our defense. In about 2 months we’ll settle it on the field. After the late 80’s and 90’s, it’s great to have the series mean so much to the national college football landscape.

good secondaries don’t help “shore up” a D-line. in fact, it’s more often than not the opposite. if a D-line cannot get pressure, a good QB can tear apart most any secondary, regardless of how talented they are (or think they are). just ask mizzou.

there are always holes in the defense and if a QB has time, he will find them. especially bradford or mccoy. the texas D-line vs the OU O-line is a wash to me. both are replacing folks. even if you throw blitzing LB’s in there, it evens out with talent such as gresham, clapp, brown, eldrige, and murray (some of OU’s best) helping block the blitz. by the time Oct 17 rolls around, the edge might be in OU’s favor, after going through tougher non-conference tests and having 5 games to gel. kindle’s (supposedly) good, but right now it seems like a 1-man operation on the front 7 at texas. OU has veteran options to help with protection. regardless, if texas gets a small nod here, i could understand, but it should be a smaller nod than it’s getting nationally. you would think we have all an all-freshman O-line while texas has veteran seniors or something.

OU D-line vs texas O-line boils down to OU’s depth in my opinion. Both lines will make plays but I think the D-line rotation wears out texas O-line as the game rolls on. Still pretty even for the first half.

I think this is going to be a big year for OSU and both sooners and horns will lose to them

The two teams are going to play each other. So unless another flukey tiebreaker happens next season, which is highly unlikely, the teams could be #1 and #8 and it wouldn’t matter after October 17th.