GoSooners Plays For Week 11

[GoSooners]

As a Sooner fan, the OU/Nebraska game was a tough one to watch. How quickly things can change in a period of a year. It's hard to believe that the final score of this season's game ended up at 10-3, when last year the score was 35-0...After one quarter! But what it came down to with the 2009 version of OU is they had similar plays, different players, different execution and different results. I knew that OU was going to have some problems on offense this year. Even if Bradford and Gresham had played. But in three of their four losses OU has only scored 13, 13 and 3 points. This is just unacceptable after averaging over 50 ppg last season. OU has also become a one dimensional team. Landry Jones threw 58 passes the other night! This isn't OU football. To me, there is just no excuse for not being able to run the ball. Stoops either needs to start recruiting better, or get an offensive line coach that isn't so hard on these kids that he's causing 10 at a time to leave the team each season. And not having a FG kicker is also unacceptable. Literally every game the Sooners have lost this year could have been decided by a decent FG kicker. You also add up all of the injuries this year, and it's been a nightmare. DE Austin English is now out for the season. And Brody Eldridge, Stoops favorite player is gone for the season. To give you some idea what a big blow this was, Eldridge is such a good athlete that in his career he's played TE, fullback, center, right guard, left guard, and most importantly captain of the team. So last weekend's game againt the Huskers were pretty much the last straw in losing the leader of the team.. Things aren't looking good. And it's beginning to look like OU will limp into bowl season with a 6-6 record. If they make it at all.. From what I've been hearing, OU is a very disheartened team right now. I originally thought they would rebound and have an easy time with the Aggies this weekend. But after hearing the things I have for the last day, I have serious doubts this will happen. So taking those 20 points is very tempting right now.

Season Record 56-53-1

* Plays 19-10
** Plays 30-35-1
*** Plays 7-5
**** Plays 0-3 (My best bet plays are retired for the season)


Tuesday Night:

7 Point Teaser (-130) *

Ohio (+8.5) over Buffalo
Game Total (UNDER 53.5)

Ohio is in the thick of the MAC race sitting at 3-1. Buffalo is sitting at 1-3 and for all practical purposes out of the race. We're talking about a 6-3 team getting +8.5 points from a 3-5 team who is dealing with a couple injuries and a QB who will be sitting out the first quarter of the game. Ohio has pretty much been in every game they've played this year. That includes games against UCONN and Tennessee. So with the good defense that they consistently play every game, I don't see them letting Buffalo get away here. As for the total, the averaged lined game for Ohio this year has been 47 points. And Ohio is 5-3 with the under. And no game they have played in has been lined higher than 52.5. So this 53.5 is looking pretty good. Especially considering that with the exception of Buffalo's wild OT game last week withstanding, every conference game they've played has gone well under this total number. And without their leading RB or QB in the game for at least the first quarter, I can see a conservative game played. At least for the first part of the first half. Enough so that we should go under this number with the total.

 

[oceanguy]

BOL tonight and this week :toast:

 

[GoSooners]

BOL tonight and this week :toast:

Thanks Ocean..Good luck this week.<><>

 

[indiana]

G.Sooners......

You re a solid capper... this is just a hicup in the way of a good year...Looking forward to this weeks plays... BOL this week

indy

 

[linebets]

GS... your crazy. A&M made KState look like a superstar team. This is still a terrible defensive secondary. If ou gets past the line of scrimmage its over. The only thing i would worry about is Jones getting pressure. The only reason i see A&M staying in this game is like jb said A&M is hungry for a win against oklahoma and texas. And it seems like oklahoma will be A&Ms closest test for playing texas on turkey day.

some of us were joking around about an aggie curse. That curse being on tv. A&M has been on tv this year 4 times: Arkansas(L) Oklahoma State(L) Kansas State(L) Colorado(L).

gl this week GS

 

[GoSooners]

linebets...OU has nobody left on offense. I just heard tonight that yet another offensive line starter is out for the season. Jarvis Jones cracked his heel bone and is gone for the year. I would usually say they'll just move all purpose lineman Eldridge over to the tackle position. But he gone for the year too. It's getting so bad they might have to play DeMarco Murray on the line. I'm serious! We have nobody left. OU is just snakebit this season. This is as bad as it gets for a football team<!-- beta sharing begins -->






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NORMAN — The injury bombshells keep rocking the Oklahoma football program.

On Tuesday, Bob Stoops announced that yet another starting offensive lineman, sophomore Jarvis Jones, is out for the season. Stoops said Jones had a fractured heel.

A day earlier, Stoops said senior Brody Eldridge, the starting left guard who had been an All-Big 12 performer at fullback and also was a key blocker at tight end, was out for the year with a shoulder injury (Stoops on Tuesday amended that to say it was Eldridge's neck).

Defensively, Stoops also said Monday that senior end Auston English was out for the year with a tendon injury in his left foot and was scheduled for Tuesday surgery.

Jones' injury is the fifth season-ending ailment to a starter — the fourth on offense — so far. Tight end Jermaine Gresham, quarterback Sam Bradford, Eldridge and Jones have all been taken out of action.

"That's hard, when you don't have those guys on the field that have been there, that have played it a bunch, who are ready for the situation," Stoops said. "Auston, I just feel horrible for those guys. And Brody Eldridge, gol-lee, he's just been an incredible guy, a leader, the toughness, sacrificing being a tight end to being on the interior <!-- 300x250 Advertisement --><SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!--yld_mgr.place_ad_here("InContent");//--></SCRIPT><!-- SpaceID=2022776002 loc=LREC noad -->

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line, you just really hurt for those guys. The last thing he wants is to be sitting on the sideline. He wants to be playing. And both of 'em in their senior years, it's disappointing for them also."

Stoops said he didn't expect freshman Josh Aladenoye or junior college transfer Jeff Vinson to be used during the Sooners' last three games. Vinson is listed as the second-team left tackle on the depth chart released Tuesday. Stoops also said he expected tight end Eric Mensik to contribute at tackle.

The preseason began on a sour note when freshman linebacker Tom Wort went down with a torn knee ligament. Coaches said they expected Wort to be a regular contributor. Just days after that, senior linebacker Mike Balogun was declared ineligible. Gresham also went down with a knee injury in the preseason.

Starting wide receivers Ryan Broyles and Brandon Caleb, starting running back DeMarco Murray and starting left guard Brian Simmons also have missed a combined eight games with various injuries. Caleb is still nursing a sore ankle this week but hasn't been cleared to play, and Simmons, with a bad knee, is "still a couple weeks away," Stoops said. Freshman guard Tyler Evans has been hobbled by an ankle injury as well.

The Sooners, who host Texas A&M this week, are 5-4, unranked for the first time since 2005, then they finished 8-4. This year, Stoops said, is "obviously" more frustrating than that season.

"You're constantly moving parts," he said. "You've got more and more players that aren't able to play."

 

[linebets]

its a rough season for yall there is no doubt about that. But your team has much more depth than many teams, and there is no better to play for a team that is struggling/injury ridden than A&M. While the injuries lead me to believe it wont be as bad of a blowout as i originally thought saw coming, i still dont see A&M winning. The only depth that A&M has at this point is at the RB/WR position. 8 of our defensive positions 2nd string are True Freshman. 7 starters are Sophomores or below, 2 are true freshmen 1 is a redshirt freshman.

Is it just me or do the big12 lines look about right this week? I was first thinking of tt/osu and really liking osu at -4, but im not entirely sure of osu's pass coverage. I was thinking neb/ksu and taking ksu +4 but nebraska defensive production has been crazy. Then i thought that i liked texas/baylor and liking baylor+24 since texas offense has looked suspect for much of the year. Colts roommate whats his name? gosh they dont mention him enough, has pretty much toted that offense. But baylor doesnt have an offensive or defensive game to speak of... minus that odd mizzu game?!?! What are your thoughts?

 

[MrGoodDr]

GS....Best of luck with your Big 12 card this week. Looking forward to your writeups this week as always!

 

[mgk222]

Good start to the week.thanx GoSooners.
Enjoy reading your college threads..BOL this week.

 

[GoSooners]

Is it just me or do the big12 lines look about right this week? I was first thinking of tt/osu and really liking osu at -4, but im not entirely sure of osu's pass coverage. I was thinking neb/ksu and taking ksu +4 but nebraska defensive production has been crazy. Then i thought that i liked texas/baylor and liking baylor+24 since texas offense has looked suspect for much of the year. Colts roommate whats his name? gosh they dont mention him enough, has pretty much toted that offense. But baylor doesnt have an offensive or defensive game to speak of... minus that odd mizzu game?!?! What are your thoughts?

I've been pretty busy the last couple of days so I'm just now putting my stats together on these Big 12 games. I'll get a better idea about them tomorrow. I agree with you about Texas offense. But they have improved things a little the last couple of weeks by letting Shipley run some long routes to open up the defenses a little. And it seems to be helping as opposed to the dinks and dunks they were doing earlier.. It only took OC Greg Davis 10 weeks to figure this out...LOL. Texas Tech/OSU will probably be the most entertaining game of the weekend. What the linesmakers are telling us though is with just a 2.5 point opening line, and giving OSU 3 points for home field advantage, on a neutral field they are saying Texas Tech is a half point better. So they don't think that much of OSU here. I think another thing that gives TT a slight advantage is they are coming off a bye week. And Leach has a pretty good record ATS coming off a bye week. So it could get interesting. This is one of those lines that I'll be watching close. If it should start creeping up then TT might be a play. But I won't know for sure about it until I see some stats.

 

[GoSooners]

Good start to the week.thanx GoSooners.
Enjoy reading your college threads..BOL this week.

Thanks...I had to sweat the total out a little. But it was all good in the end...Good luck to you this week.

 

[solrosenberg]

GS did you used to use the name "Danieloklasooner" or something like this a few years ago??

 

[BaylorBear]

I would think twice about putting money on Baylor +24 against Texas. If there's one thing that I think Mack Brown will take out of last year's debacle with Texas and the BCS, it is how Art Briles voted Texas #5, in the final coaches poll. This hasn't been asked or talked about much in Waco, but I feel this will be a payback game. Add to that all my fraternity buddies liking the Bear alot this week and Texas could be a play. Texas can name the score on Offense, and I don't see how Baylor scores an offensive TD against the TX defense. Add to that a 40-50% filled stadium with Longhorns, and this will almost be a home game (1.5 hours from Austin). Just my two cents. Thanks for your writeups GoSooners. I enjoy your sense.

 

[GoSooners]

GS did you used to use the name "Danieloklasooner" or something like this a few years ago??

No, I've always gone by the name GoSooners.

 

[GoSooners]

I would think twice about putting money on Baylor +24 against Texas. If there's one thing that I think Mack Brown will take out of last year's debacle with Texas and the BCS, it is how Art Briles voted Texas #5, in the final coaches poll. This hasn't been asked or talked about much in Waco, but I feel this will be a payback game. Add to that all my fraternity buddies liking the Bear alot this week and Texas could be a play. Texas can name the score on Offense, and I don't see how Baylor scores an offensive TD against the TX defense. Add to that a 40-50% filled stadium with Longhorns, and this will almost be a home game (1.5 hours from Austin). Just my two cents. Thanks for your writeups GoSooners. I enjoy your sense.

I agree. I think you either have to side with Texas or pass. Many bettors may think that when a team gives 24 points, they think you need to score a ton of points to cover. But in the case of Texas and their defense this isn't true. Texas was favored by 31 on the road to Wyoming and ended up tying the line by scoring just 41. They tied the line again vs OU and they scored just 16 points. And at OSU and Mizzou they gave up just 7 and 14 points. So you have to figure that Baylor will probably have trouble making it past 10 points in this game. Which means all that Texas has to do is score 35 to cover. And Baylor has given up 30 points or more against Missouri, OSU, OU and UCONN. And none of the other teams they've played had any kind of offense, or else they would have probably been in the 30's or 40's too. So I see no reason why Texas can't score around that 35 and still be able cover the number. It might end up pretty close to the spread, so I doubt I'll play it. But just using common sense you have to side with the Horns or nothing. And even though they have Kansas on board the next week, I don't believe that is a big enough game to take their minds off the Bears. The bottom line is the two best defenses that baylor has played this year have been OU and Nebraska. They scored just 7 on OU. And 10 on Nebraska. But 7 of that 10 was an interception for a TD. So between those two teams their offense scored just 10 points. They'll be doing real good to get to that number here. I'm thinking it's going to end up a 35-7 type of game.

 

[GoSooners]

7 Point Teaser *

Toledo (+24.5) over Central Michigan
Game Total (UNDER 70.5)

Both teams are coming off a bye week. But the way the Toledo defense was getting worn down, they look like they were the one that could benefit the most. Toledo also gets their starting QB Opelt back after missing the last couple games with a shoulder injury. On the other side of the ball CMU is a little banged up on offense. Although i expect most if not all of their starters to play. The turf toe injury to their WR/PR Brown is a concern since he leads the nation in punt return yardage. With a lingering turf toe injry, which usually takes a few weeks to heal, it will more than likely take a huge special teams threat away. At any rate I expect Toledo to give a good effort here. They've only been blown out once this year by this number against a non-bcs team. And have been pretty competetive in the last few weeks. CMU on the other hand has only won one game by more than 14 points in the month of October. And that was against the worst team in the conference EMU. Statistically, Toledo is the best offense that CMU has played since Buffalo back on Oct. 3. A game that they won just 20-13. So although I expect CMU to have a fairly comfortable win here, I feel that 24 points is too many points to give at this point of the season against a 4-5 team that is shooting for bowl eligibilty. As for the 70.5 total, not one game CMU has played this year has gone over this number. 4 of Toledo's games have gone over the number. But those games were played against poor defensive teams. And CMU has a pretty good defense for a MAC team. Which is why they are in the position they are now of being the leading candidate to win ther conference. So the under also looks good here.

 

[BlipsMcGee]

As a big 12 guy, I would love your input on the Mizzou/K St. game. IMO, this seems like a great spot for MIZZOU with K St. riding high after beating their in-state rival. Liking MIZZOU to shut down K St's rushing game and take this one.

Thanks as usual for your input.

 

[GoSooners]

As a big 12 guy, I would love your input on the Mizzou/K St. game. IMO, this seems like a great spot for MIZZOU with K St. riding high after beating their in-state rival. Liking MIZZOU to shut down K St's rushing game and take this one.

Thanks as usual for your input.

That is the big question. Can Mizzou shut down KSU's running game? My feeling is Mizzou will bring it this week after their embarassing loss to Baylor at home. When I look at the stats between the two teams, it's fairly even. Mizzou actually has the better defense by a small margin. And their offensive stats are also a tad better. What makes the game a little difficult to cap is KSU has played better in the last 4 weeks than they did the first 4. And against KU, OU, CU, A&M, & TT their last 5 games they have gained more yards per carry rushing than these teams normally give up. So it will be interesting to see if Mizzou can break that streak. The situational spot definitely belongs to Mizzou here. They still need to win one more game to become bowl eligible. Although they'll probably beat ISU at home next week, their probably thinking "why chance it". They know that after losing at home to Baylor that nothing is a gimme anymore. And on the other side, KSU would like to win this game to keep their momentum going into the last game with Nebraska that will decide the Big 12 North. But a win here isn't necessary. They have only two conference losses, so KSU can afford to lose this game and still play for the North Championship next week at Nebraska. A big deal in my opinion. Plus you have to wonder how much emotion was spent last week in beating their in-state rivals Kansas. That win took a lot of pressure off of the Cats. It not only made them bowl eligible, it guaranteed that they control their own destiny for the North title. They won't have those kinds of things to play for this week. So right now, I'm kind of liking Mizzou in the dog role. Another thing I'm liking here is 75% of the public is on KSU, but there is a small amount of reverse line movement with KSU going from 1 point favorites to Mizzou now being favored by 1 in a few books.

 

[CornHunka]

GoSooners, love your analysis and read your threads each week, but I don't think K-State is bowl eligible yet. Isn't one of their wins over a 1-AA (or whatever the hell the letters are now) team in UMass?

 

[GoSooners]

GoSooners, love your analysis and read your threads each week, but I don't think K-State is bowl eligible yet. Isn't one of their wins over a 1-AA (or whatever the hell the letters are now) team in UMass?

If this is the case I may not play the game. I'll look it up and see if I can find an article on it. But I forgot about them playing two FCS teams this year.