* 14-13
** 41-39-1
*** 18-24-1
**** 8-3
Seems like this season has gone fast. It hasn't been one of my better years, but nevertheless there is nothing more fun to me than capping, betting and watching football. Especially college football. Hopefully we can make a killing in the bowl season like we did last year. I should have my bowl thread up in a couple weeks. I plan on doing like I did last year and make a list of the running dogs, see how many of them are good plays, and then have some good discussions in the thread before we pull the trigger on a game. This is absolutely the best way to do it. Bowl games aren't easy to hit from even the best cappers. And the more information we get from everybody in the thread from their individual teams the better chance we have.
OSU coach Mike Gundy had the best idea this week that I've heard about solving our conference problems when it comes to picking the best team to represent this conference in a national championship game. And that would be to do away with the North and South Divisions of this conference which has been heavily tilted to the South for the last few years, and instead just go with the two highest rated BCS teams in the conference playing in the Big 12 CG at the end of the season. Sounds like a plan to me. This year it would have been an OU-Texas rematch that we all wanted to see, instead of OU having to go to Kansas City to play no better than the fifth best team in the conference and leaving Texas out in the cold. It's not right. And it makes no sense if you really want your best and highest rated team representing your conference in a BCS bowl. Really, I think the way the Pac-10 does it is the best. They play every team in 9 conference games. Even though we can't play all of the teams every year, going to a 9 game conference schedule with 3 non-conference games seems like the best way to go. Personally I think it should be that way for all of the conferences. It may not take all of the BCS controversy out of the equation. But it would take most of it out.
Like I've said here many times before, if you want to seriously become a BCS contender you have to toughen your non-conference schedule. And many teams to this day refuse to do it. I know at OU since day one Bob Stoops and AD Castiglione have made it a point to schedule at least one marquee game every year, and one good mid-major team. And in some years like this year OU has scheduled two BCS teams. And even though Washington wasn't any good this year, 7 to 10 years ago when OU scheduled them it was a different story. If your sick of seeing OU in BCS championship games instead of other teams, look no further than their schedule. And if you think this Texas BCS controversy hasn't happened before, OU's opponent FSU in the 2000 BCS championship game got beat in a head to head by Miami that year, yet FSU went to the title game with the same record based on their better SOS. And this is also why Auburn didn't beat out OU for the BCS title game in 2004. What is shocking to me is the teams that say they still don't care about their OOC schedule. And it surprised me even more when Mack Brown said that the Horns no longer desire to have one marquee non-conference opponent on their schedule. To me, if you don't do it, then don't complain when this comes up again, and you've got an identical record to a conference or a non-conference team that keeps you behind in the BCS computers. Like I said I was really surprised to hear this come out of Texas. By the way the Horns four opponenets next season are Wyoming, Central Florida, UTEP and La Monroe....Good luck. Teams better start learning to play the BCS game because I've got news for you, the BCS isn't going away. Not in 5 years. And probably not in 10 years. ESPN just signed a 5 year contract with the BCS. There is way the BCS is going away. There's too much money tied into this system and the bowls. And that money and those contracts won't end for a long time. The the majority of the university presidents and AD's are also against a playoff. And if they don't want it, it's never going to happen. Because they ARE the NCAA..And if you think that coming up with a feasible playoff system and the controversy surrounding this years BCS is going to help get things get changed all I've got to say is nuh-uh. I've got news for you, the BCS loves this controversy. It's giving them a ton of publicity. They love it. Teams better start learning to play the BCS game if they ever have a desire to play in one.
The Big 12 Championship:
OU (-16.5) over Missouri **
I'm not really big on the huge spread for this championship game. Especially since Missouri has nothing to lose here.. But right now I just can't bet against OU. Everything seems to be going their way including the lucky breaks like tipped balls and lucky bounces. They appear right now like they are not only good, but also have a little Karma on their side. Their playing a Missouri team who is a little banged up right now. Especially on the defensive side of the ball. And I've also heard that receivers Machlin and Coffman are hobbling around practice a little this week. There's no doubt that Missouri has a dangerous offense. But like last week, how many points is it going to take for them to cover this game? If you had told me that OSU was going to score 41 on OU last week, I would have bet the farm on OSU to cover in that game. But OU's offense is simply too high octane for the averge at best defenses that the Sooners have faced for the last few weeks. The best two defenses that OU faced this year was Texas and TCU. And nobody else in the Big 12 is even close to those defenses. With OU's running game in high gear, I don't see anybody outrushing them even though Missouri is a borderline running dog in this game. I believe Missouri could put up close to what OSU did last week and still not cover this spread. They just have too low rated of a pass defense to stay on the same field with them for 60 minutes. I think the Tigers might possibly give OU a good game through two quarters. But I wonder how much a wounded team who just came off an emotional 40-37 loss to Kansas has left in their tank for OU's no huddle offense in the second half. Missouri is still a dangerous team, which is why I'm not betting this game big. But with all of the media outlets in the country slamming OU this week and saying they don't deserve to go to this game over Texas, I can see it's only putting fuel on the fire with these OU players. Look for OU to play a better defensive game than you saw last week. And for the Sooners to rub it in a little here. We may not get quite as high a scoring game as expected in the cold night weather of kansas City. I'm looking for a 45-24 type of game.
** 41-39-1
*** 18-24-1
**** 8-3
Seems like this season has gone fast. It hasn't been one of my better years, but nevertheless there is nothing more fun to me than capping, betting and watching football. Especially college football. Hopefully we can make a killing in the bowl season like we did last year. I should have my bowl thread up in a couple weeks. I plan on doing like I did last year and make a list of the running dogs, see how many of them are good plays, and then have some good discussions in the thread before we pull the trigger on a game. This is absolutely the best way to do it. Bowl games aren't easy to hit from even the best cappers. And the more information we get from everybody in the thread from their individual teams the better chance we have.
OSU coach Mike Gundy had the best idea this week that I've heard about solving our conference problems when it comes to picking the best team to represent this conference in a national championship game. And that would be to do away with the North and South Divisions of this conference which has been heavily tilted to the South for the last few years, and instead just go with the two highest rated BCS teams in the conference playing in the Big 12 CG at the end of the season. Sounds like a plan to me. This year it would have been an OU-Texas rematch that we all wanted to see, instead of OU having to go to Kansas City to play no better than the fifth best team in the conference and leaving Texas out in the cold. It's not right. And it makes no sense if you really want your best and highest rated team representing your conference in a BCS bowl. Really, I think the way the Pac-10 does it is the best. They play every team in 9 conference games. Even though we can't play all of the teams every year, going to a 9 game conference schedule with 3 non-conference games seems like the best way to go. Personally I think it should be that way for all of the conferences. It may not take all of the BCS controversy out of the equation. But it would take most of it out.
Like I've said here many times before, if you want to seriously become a BCS contender you have to toughen your non-conference schedule. And many teams to this day refuse to do it. I know at OU since day one Bob Stoops and AD Castiglione have made it a point to schedule at least one marquee game every year, and one good mid-major team. And in some years like this year OU has scheduled two BCS teams. And even though Washington wasn't any good this year, 7 to 10 years ago when OU scheduled them it was a different story. If your sick of seeing OU in BCS championship games instead of other teams, look no further than their schedule. And if you think this Texas BCS controversy hasn't happened before, OU's opponent FSU in the 2000 BCS championship game got beat in a head to head by Miami that year, yet FSU went to the title game with the same record based on their better SOS. And this is also why Auburn didn't beat out OU for the BCS title game in 2004. What is shocking to me is the teams that say they still don't care about their OOC schedule. And it surprised me even more when Mack Brown said that the Horns no longer desire to have one marquee non-conference opponent on their schedule. To me, if you don't do it, then don't complain when this comes up again, and you've got an identical record to a conference or a non-conference team that keeps you behind in the BCS computers. Like I said I was really surprised to hear this come out of Texas. By the way the Horns four opponenets next season are Wyoming, Central Florida, UTEP and La Monroe....Good luck. Teams better start learning to play the BCS game because I've got news for you, the BCS isn't going away. Not in 5 years. And probably not in 10 years. ESPN just signed a 5 year contract with the BCS. There is way the BCS is going away. There's too much money tied into this system and the bowls. And that money and those contracts won't end for a long time. The the majority of the university presidents and AD's are also against a playoff. And if they don't want it, it's never going to happen. Because they ARE the NCAA..And if you think that coming up with a feasible playoff system and the controversy surrounding this years BCS is going to help get things get changed all I've got to say is nuh-uh. I've got news for you, the BCS loves this controversy. It's giving them a ton of publicity. They love it. Teams better start learning to play the BCS game if they ever have a desire to play in one.
The Big 12 Championship:
OU (-16.5) over Missouri **
I'm not really big on the huge spread for this championship game. Especially since Missouri has nothing to lose here.. But right now I just can't bet against OU. Everything seems to be going their way including the lucky breaks like tipped balls and lucky bounces. They appear right now like they are not only good, but also have a little Karma on their side. Their playing a Missouri team who is a little banged up right now. Especially on the defensive side of the ball. And I've also heard that receivers Machlin and Coffman are hobbling around practice a little this week. There's no doubt that Missouri has a dangerous offense. But like last week, how many points is it going to take for them to cover this game? If you had told me that OSU was going to score 41 on OU last week, I would have bet the farm on OSU to cover in that game. But OU's offense is simply too high octane for the averge at best defenses that the Sooners have faced for the last few weeks. The best two defenses that OU faced this year was Texas and TCU. And nobody else in the Big 12 is even close to those defenses. With OU's running game in high gear, I don't see anybody outrushing them even though Missouri is a borderline running dog in this game. I believe Missouri could put up close to what OSU did last week and still not cover this spread. They just have too low rated of a pass defense to stay on the same field with them for 60 minutes. I think the Tigers might possibly give OU a good game through two quarters. But I wonder how much a wounded team who just came off an emotional 40-37 loss to Kansas has left in their tank for OU's no huddle offense in the second half. Missouri is still a dangerous team, which is why I'm not betting this game big. But with all of the media outlets in the country slamming OU this week and saying they don't deserve to go to this game over Texas, I can see it's only putting fuel on the fire with these OU players. Look for OU to play a better defensive game than you saw last week. And for the Sooners to rub it in a little here. We may not get quite as high a scoring game as expected in the cold night weather of kansas City. I'm looking for a 45-24 type of game.
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