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Posted Thursday November 20, 2008, About: Big 12 could get 3 BCS bids

Edit: Tech less than 24 points in Norman.

Posted Thursday November 20, 2008, About: Big 12 could get 3 BCS bids

Best teams (in no order):
Florida - Scary speed on both sides of the field, good coach. Not sure about any weaknesses, maybe not having faced a Big 12 skilled offense?
Alabama - Awesome lines on both sides of the field, good coach. Weakness - Haven't seemed dominant enough on offense. A good run defense would slow them down big time.
Tech - Awesome offense, decent defense. Weakness - Having to play in Norman (obviously they can still win). Also, OU's defense has done well against Leach (less than 24 points in all games)
Texas - Great team overall. Weakness - Not too many. Youth and injuries on defense, but playing well. Also having to play 4 ranked teams in a row.
OU - Great team overall, excellent offense. Weakness - Defense has been giving up big plays (they also made a ton of big plays though). Special teams are bad.

Second level team (i.e. people talk about them, but they would lose most games to any team above)
USC - There defense is good, though not the greatest ever or anything close like many people seem to think. There offense is inexplicably weak considering all the talent they have. Carroll is a great big game coach though.

Lesser -
Any Big 10 team. Anyone that thinks Penn State or Ohio State has much of a chance against any team above knows little about football. A bad game against Iowa is understandable (e.g. no one is going to say Florida sucks cause they lost to Ole Miss), but their overall season has not shown enough to offset that lost. And Ohio State is still just an average/good team, even with Pryor and Beanie.

Posted Thursday November 20, 2008, About: Big 12 could get 3 BCS bids

Are you serious? USC has played Washington, Washington State, Arizona State, etc. Those games definitely will skew numbers. Oregon State had something to say about how good USC's defense is. OU and Tech have played some cream puffs as well, but take into consideration how many more possessions offenses get against those teams. When you have scoring drives of less than 2 minutes, your opponents have more opportunities to score. And Penn State? They just lost to freaking Iowa, so why are they even brought up? Mandel has an article comparing yards per play from a week or two ago. Check that out and see how the teams compare. I swear, people love to just pull out statistics without knowing jack about football.

Posted Monday October 20, 2008, About: Vols land No. 1 RB recruit

AFAIK, he was frustrated/upset with OU for not recruiting him early. OU had Bryce Brown rated higher. OU really started talking to Oku after Brown (and his older brother) committed to Miami.

Plus, there are rumors that Oku didn't want to compete with the OU backfield, but as I said, those are rumors so who knows.