Well this has certainly been fun!!!!!

I guess that Big Game Bob is officially back.

Best. Game. Ever.

Holy sh.....

Amazing game.

Best. Game. Ever.

Well, I really really liked it but not quite the best game ever. LOL

Well, I really really liked it but not quite the best game ever. LOL

Maybe as far as expectations vs reality. One of the ESPN pundits predicted 48-10 Bama. Most people I talked to were just hoping to not get blown out.

Maybe as far as expectations vs reality. One of the ESPN pundits predicted 48-10 Bama. Most people I talked to were just hoping to not get blown out.

Again, I loved the game but I also remember and have a copy of the BCS game against Fla. State. That was very special.

Probably the most satisfying win since the 2008 Texas Tech game.

UNBELIEVEABLE!

Oklahoma Defeats Alabama 45-31

I'll awake tomorrow morning and discover that it was all a dream...

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P.S. Zookeeper, thanks for keeping the faith!

http://www.thunderfans.com/vforum/images/smilies/okc.gif "Oklahoma City looks oh-so pretty... ... as I get my kicks on Route 66." --Nat King Cole. http://www.thunderfans.com/vforum/images/smilies/okc.gif

Again, I loved the game but I also remember and have a copy of the BCS game against Fla. State. That was very special.

It sure was. That was the night the Sooners were "officially" back! That was a memorable night. And of course the nice twist, Josh Heupel was upstairs in the booth tonight with some great play-calling clobbering Alabama.

This will be a football >


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< in the University of Oklahoma's recruiting cap!


Much closer game than the scoreboard indicated...




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This will be a football >


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< in the University of Oklahoma's recruiting cap!



Much closer game than the scoreboard indicated...




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Unfortunately that looks like a Texas Tech matador's hat.

ESPN VIDEO RECAP...

NCAA College Football Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings, Rumors - College Football - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/college-football/)

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops made news during the offseason by criticizing the depth of the SEC, a criticism that blossomed into a back-and-forth with Alabama coach Nick Saban. Most believed that the Sugar Bowl would be the place of Stoops' comeuppance, the night where Saban would put Stoops and his conference in their place.--2014 Sugar Bowl results: Oklahoma stuns Alabama, 45-31 - SBNation.com (http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/1/3/5268712/sugar-bowl-2014-alabama-oklahoma-score-results)

ESPN VIDEO RECAP...

NCAA College Football Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings, Rumors - College Football - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/college-football/)

For anyone needing a video recap, ESPNU is currently showing the entire game again. :)

You have to love this tweet from the Oklahoma Red Cross

Red Cross of Oklahoma on Sugar Bowl: 'We understand Alabama's need for relief and privacy during this difficult time' | AL.com (http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/01/red_cross_of_oklahoma_on_sugar.html)


We understand Alabama's need for relief and privacy during this difficult time. Great game. #OUvsBAMA #SugarBowl

-- Red Cross Oklahoma (@redcrossokc) January 3, 2014

And THAT is why they play the games!

College football is simply the greatest.

So hard to predict, so much passion... The older I get, the more I prefer it over the NFL.



And as I always like to remind my friends, bowl games are way more unpredictable than the regular season because you usually have inter-sectional games between teams with few if any common opponents, there is almost a month of preparation (new schemes, players back from injuries or suspended) and usually, one of the teams is facing much more pressure which means the other has little to lose.

You simply never know what is going to happen in bowls, which is why I watch almost ever single one of them.

I'm not a gambler, but I'm curious, did anybody bet big on OU? Any stories out there about someone making a bunch of money off Vegas on OU?

I'm not a gambler, but I'm curious, did anybody bet big on OU? Any stories out there about someone making a bunch of money off Vegas on OU?

I was thinking along the same lines shawnw. Vegas took a hit on this game...

A crippled and battered Sooner football team goes into New Orleans and dismantles the most powerful football program within the last five years; this was hysterical if you're a Bama fan following the most successful coach of the decade. They saw Nick Saban work the Alabama brass for a new $7.2 million annual contract for ten years and peter-out against Auburn & Oklahoma.

This was not meant to take away from the Sooners' outstanding performance.

Talking about football coaching incognizance--Alabama's performance is one of the most devastating sports disasters since the Lake Placid's 1980 Winter Olympics' Miracle on Ice...

This should really boost OU's recruiting efforts...

Well, the way my bowl picks are going, OSU will lose tonight!

Feeling good for Trevor Knight. What a turnaround from the first game to his last.

Great highlight reel from the Sugar Bowl:

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Oklahoma vs. Alabama series

Oklahoma is (3-1-1) against Alabama

2014/01/14 Oklahoma 45 - Alabama 31 W Sugar Bowl, New Orleans
2003/09/06 Oklahoma 20 - Alabama 13 W Tuscaloosa
2002/09/07 Oklahoma 37 - Alabama 27 W Norman
1970/12/31 Oklahoma 24 - Alabama 24 T Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Houston
1963/01/01 Alabama 17 - Oklahoma 0 L Orange Bowl, Miami

This is hilarious:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVn0AxL2lPo

I saw that. The poor thing doesn't know how to take losing.

I heard so much on the radio that Alabama fans were among the classiest...

Yeah, that woman was lucky the OU fans were so nice about everything.

But yes, the Bama fans in general are fantastic and there is a great mutual respect with OU. They were great when they came to Norman several years ago and everyone that traveled to Tuscaloosa had nothing but great things to say about their experience.

As someone else observed, that woman looks more like an LSU fan. :)

Yeah, that woman was lucky the OU fans were so nice about everything.

But yes, the Bama fans in general are fantastic and there is a great mutual respect with OU. They were great when they came to Norman several years ago and everyone that traveled to Tuscaloosa had nothing but great things to say about their experience.

As someone else observed, that woman looks more like an LSU fan. :)

I agree, Pete. There were many tweets from Sooner fans last night from the Sugar Bowl talking about how surprised they were at the graciousness of Alabama fans even with the disappointing loss. I think it's a southern thing.

I agree, Pete. There were many tweets from Sooner fans last night from the Sugar Bowl talking about how surprised they were at the graciousness of Alabama fans even with the disappointing loss. I think it's a southern thing.

I wonder how well the Orange Bowl will go tonight when tOSU loses? :)

A lot of flipping between games tonight. Both should be pretty darn good...hopefully.

B.A. Oklahoma ('73). O-State will come out smokin' and light up Mizzou. That's Coach Gundy's style.

Game time...should be another fun one.

The game was awesome. Had a buddy upgrade us to espn media suite cause half of them didn't make it out of Chicago. Alabama fans were for the most part great. A few smug terds were real chummy before the game but other than that they were solid. Got to see The Boz too so that was worth it alone.

Not looking good for OSU after the first half anyway. The offense just can't get anything consistent going. I expected Mizzou to score points though.

Well my two favorite coaches (not) ended their seasons with two losses. Congrats to Urban and Mr. Saban. :)

OMG for OSU. What a disaster for them. They played a terrible game but still had a chance until that fumble.

I don't often root for OSU, but I was doing so tonight. I hated to see them lose. Ohio State losing helped remove the sting. I'm a Michigan alum.

Both OSU teams lost. So sad. :/

Bowl Records in old conferences...

Big 8 - .800 - 4 wins (OU, Nebraska, KSU, Mizzou) to 1 loss (OSU)
Big XII - .667 - 6 wins (OU, Nebraska, KSU, Mizzou, aTm, Tech) to 3 losses (texas, Baylor, OSU)

I heard so much on the radio that Alabama fans were among the classiest...

You get 70,000+ people in a building from anywhere, you are going to have at least a few crazy people there

You get 70,000+ people in a building from anywhere, you are going to have at least a few crazy people there

That's especially true if they might have consumed a few "hurricanes" first. LOL

B.A. Oklahoma ('73). O-State will come out smokin' and light up Mizzou. That's Coach Gundy's style.

sniff sniff--sarcasm OR don't place bets ;-)

This is hilarious:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVn0AxL2lPo

One of the national news sources reported that the woman claims that she was defending her son who was being taunted by Sooner fans? :wink:

Good that OU fans were able to exercise restraint. She could have put herself in harms way reacting in the manner in which she did or creating a big melee. Notice that she directed her frustrations toward the men. I know some Sooner women who would have took this woman to task.

Glad there wasn't any harm done and cooler head prevailed.

One of the national news sources reported that the woman claims that she was defending her son who was being taunted by Sooner fans? :wink:

Good that OU fans were able to exercise restraint. She could have put herself in harms way reacting in the manner in which she did or creating a big melee. Notice that she directed her frustrations toward the men. I know some Sooner women who would have took this woman to task.

Glad there wasn't any harm done and cooler head prevailed.

And thankfully no beers were spilled

She also claims she wasn't drunk, which -- in the unlikely case that is true -- actually makes her look more like a psycho.


I absolutely hate smack/trash talk from anyone but a woman with children? No matter what was being said, it's a football game and it's pretty easy to ignore opposing fans, no matter how annoying. And something makes me think she was a main instigator if not the primary one.

Then she starts flipping off people with her young children by her side, no doubt swearing her head off too... There is about a hundred reasons this woman is an idiot and I have great sympathy for her kids.

I've never understood the trash talk mentality either, just seems stupid to me.

I've never understood the trash talk mentality either, just seems stupid to me.

It's certainly a generational thing, as you and I are from the same era where you just didn't do that.

I have tons of younger, perfectly nice friends but most switch into trash talk at the drop of a hat. It used to shock me because I always thought that sort of thing was the exclusive domain of trashy, idiot people but it seems most younger people were brought up thinking "it's all part of it".

I also never, ever gloat or boast... Something else that seems to have changed drastically over the last twenty years or so.



The only time I ever almost got into with an opposing fan was in Eugene, Oregon of all places. It was the year OU got the now famous screw job but the incident happened before the game.

The Duck fans were absolutely great the entire time, before during and after the game. Was invited into many tailgates, people bought me beers, etc.

But as I was filing into the stadium there was a big crush of people and a lot of the Oregon students. Right behind me, I heard this guy say "What an ugly color of shirt." I ignored him. Then he said two or three other things and I whirled around to look him straight in the eye, and he immediately scampered off.

It was really stupid on my part because he could have just as easily stood his ground and then I would have been in the middle of completely idiotic confrontation. But it was just shocking to me that someone would be such an idiot to someone completely minding their own business.

It's certainly a generational thing, as you and I are from the same era where you just didn't do that.

I have tons of younger, perfectly nice friends but most switch into trash talk at the drop of a hat. It used to shock me because I always thought that sort of thing was the exclusive domain of trashy, idiot people but it seems most younger people were brought up thinking "it's all part of it".



Bingo.

It's certainly a generational thing, as you and I are from the same era where you just didn't do that.

I have tons of younger, perfectly nice friends but most switch into trash talk at the drop of a hat. It used to shock me because I always thought that sort of thing was the exclusive domain of trashy, idiot people but it seems most younger people were brought up thinking "it's all part of it".

I also never, ever gloat or boast... Something else that seems to have changed drastically over the last twenty years or so.



The only time I ever almost got into with an opposing fan was in Eugene, Oregon of all places. It was the year OU got the now famous screw job but the incident happened before the game.

The Duck fans were absolutely great the entire time, before during and after the game. Was invited into many tailgates, people bought me beers, etc.

But as I was filing into the stadium there was a big crush of people and a lot of the Oregon students. Right behind me, I heard this guy say "What an ugly color of shirt." I ignored him. Then he said two or three other things and I whirled around to look him straight in the eye, and he immediately scampered off.

It was really stupid on my part because he could have just as easily stood his ground and then I would have been in the middle of completely idiotic confrontation. But it was just shocking to me that someone would be such an idiot to someone completely minding their own business.
I think region plays into it, sometimes it seems like the players from the west coast tend to yap incessantly like that one wide receiver from Washington State when OU played them in the Rose Bowl. He just kept on and on Lehman and then on one play Lehman cleaned his clock as soon as he caught the ball, I think he was out the rest of the game. Miami did it in the 80's but not until they started winning all the time, some of the California kids seem to do it all the time no matter what side of the score they are on. The crowds have fed off that, the Charger/Raider fans seem to be the worst about it around here.

We had some bama fans in front of us. When ou would do something good we would just cheer and they would turn around in disgust. When bama did something good they would turn around and cheer in a mocking fashion. Nothing was said just gave them lots of thumbs up. They did shake our hands at the end which was even weirder...

I also never, ever gloat or boast... Something else that seems to have changed drastically over the last twenty years or so.

A big exception to that is the OU - Texas game, Pete. I've been going since 1965 and it's always been about gloating or boasting by both sides. I've enjoyed my share of "poor Texas" chants at the end of the game. LOL

For anyone who didn't get enough, ESPNU is showing the Sugar Bowl game again right now. ;)

Well...last game of the season. Go FSU!

Just FYI.... ESPN has opened up the game for free online streaming (in case you're not at home, don't have cable, etc.) at their regular ESPN3 site. You won't get the ESPN air staff though. They're airing the game with free streaming with the Auburn radio air crew. Here's the direct link:
Streaming Online - WatchESPN

(http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/1473962/size/condensed/)If you have Cox cable, and have your sign-in credentials, you can see the game in higher quality online streaming with the regular ESPN team.

man this Film Room on ESPN News is football porn for the x's and o's junkie...I love it

It's another exciting game tonight no matter who you are for. This has been one of the best years ever for great BCS games.

Goodbye, BCS. Hello playoffs!

Once more, for those who didn't record it, ESPNU is showing the Sugar Bowl.

A big exception to that is the OU - Texas game, Pete. I've been going since 1965 and it's always been about gloating or boasting by both sides. I've enjoyed my share of "poor Texas" chants at the end of the game. LOL

I'm of the younger generation (not sure how much longer I can claim that), and I've heard quite a few stories, specifically OU-Texas, that seem to indicate that trash-talking and related antics did exist before this generation.

Unless there was a serious amount of alcohol involved I have never had problems with Texas fans who actually attend events. Things with OU - UT have calmed down significantly over the past 30 to 40 years and today I see very little hate among the attending fans.
The Texas arrogance can still be annoying, but unlike others, they have actually accomplished something that matters and its far more than some of the one and done schools.

Interesting photo poster from Alabama

Think Alabama is motivated after losing to OU? Check out this poster | News OK (http://newsok.com/think-alabama-is-motivated-after-losing-to-ou-check-out-this-poster/article/3923489)

As a farewell to the BCS era, guess who was the best.

Oklahoma football: Sooners rank No. 1 in overall BCS | News OK (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-football-sooners-rank-no.-1-in-overall-bcs/article/3940047)