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It's a fitting time for Red River Shootout
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Bowl recaps and analysis:
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EagleBank: Wake 29, Navy 19 | CFN
New Mexico: Colo. St. 40, Fresno St. 35
St. Petersburg: S. Florida 41, Memphis 14
Las Vegas: Arizona 31, BYU 21 | CFN
New Orleans: SMU 30, Troy 27 (OT) | CFN
Poinsettia: TCU 17, Boise St. 16 | CFN
Hawaii: Notre Dame 49, Hawaii 21 | CFN
Motor City: FAU 24, Cen. Mich. 21 | CFN
Meineke: W. Virginia 31, UNC 30 | CFN
Champs Sports: Fla. St. 42, Wis. 13 | CFN
Emerald: Cal 24, Miami 17 | CFN
Independence: La. Tech 17, NIU 10 | CFN
Papajohns.com: Rutgers 29, N.C. St. 23
Alamo: Mizzou 30, N'west. 23 (OT) | CFN
Humanitarian: Maryland 42, Nevada 35
Texas: Rice 38, W. Michigan 14
Holiday: Oregon 42, Oklahoma St. 31 | CFN
Armed Forces: Houston 34, Air Force 28
Sun: Oregon St. 3, Pittsburgh 0 | CFN
Music City: Vandy 16, BC 14 | CFN
Insight: Kansas 42, Minnesota 21
Chick-fil-A: LSU 38, Georgia Tech 3
Outback: Iowa 31, South Carolina 10 | CFN
Capital One: Georgia 24, MSU 12 | CFN
Gator: Nebraska 26, Clemson 21
Rose: USC 38, Penn St. 24 | Analysis
Orange: Va. Tech 20, Cincinnati 7
Cotton: Ole Miss 47, Texas Tech 34
Liberty: Kentucky 25, East Carolina 19
Sugar: Utah 31, Alabama 17
International: UConn 38, Buffalo 20
Fiesta: Texas 24, Ohio St. 21 | Analysis
GMAC: Tulsa 45, Ball St. 13
BCS title: Florida 24, Oklahoma 14
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Of course not! Personally, I tried to learn my lesson, but it wasn't as much fun as deciding that this week's Texas-Oklahoma game is the most important game in the history of football or college. Oklahoma fans will take exception to that sentence. To them, it's the Oklahoma-Texas game.
What's on the line? Almost certainly a spot in the Big 12 title game, which could lead to a spot in the national title game. Maybe the Heisman Trophy for Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford or Texas quarterback Colt McCoy. This is serious stuff for a game that, like all Big 12 games this year, will be contested not on a field but on PlayStation 3.
How else do you explain these numbers? The Big 12 is home to the No. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 scoring offenses in the nation. Kansas State is averaging 43.2 points per game and is sixth in its own conference. Baylor is scoring 30.8 points per game (Baylor!) and is 10th in the league.
Big 12 quarterbacks are No. 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10 in the nation in total offense. (The roll call, in order: Texas Tech's Graham Harrell, Kansas's Todd Reesing, Missouri's Chase Daniel, Oklahoma's Bradford and Texas's McCoy.)
Oklahoma is averaging 49.6 points per game, Texas is averaging 47.2 and this probably won't even be the highest-scoring Big 12 game of the day. Missouri is averaging 53.4 points and Oklahoma State is averaging 52.6.
Unlike most Big 12 schools this year, Texas and Oklahoma play stout defense, too, so don't be surprised if this is a low-scoring affair. But it sure would be fun to see the Red River Shootout live up to its label.
(As a brief aside: I have never known what to make of the Oklahoma-Texas/Texas-Oklahoma game being played in Dallas every year. On the one hand, it's a century-old tradition, and I love all century-old traditions except for, you know, laws that prohibit women from voting, slavery, etc. And according to Google Maps, it takes 3 hours 1 minute to get from Norman to Dallas and 3 hours 7 minutes to get from Austin to Dallas, so I appreciate the symbolism. But I wonder: if they alternated between Norman and Austin like a normal rivalry, and suddenly they announced they would play in Dallas every year, wouldn't everybody go nuts? Do we love this tradition simply because it is a tradition? And if so, is that so wrong? And wasn't this aside supposed to be brief?)
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