College Football 2016

Last season the UH Cougars went 13-1, beating Florida St in the Peach Bowl. I don't know enough about their schedule, how many starters will be returning, etc. to make any predictions. Their season opener is against the Oklahoma Sooners, and I don't think it's ever safe to look past the Sooners.

I root for the OSU Cowboys because they've been in the Sooners' shadow for so long.

 

ABC is showing the Sooners v Cougars game, and

we're getting it locally starting in about five minutes.

A win by the Cougs (last I heard they were 11 point underdogs) would give them a huge boost in confidence.
A loss, esp a lopsided one, could seriously test their resolve.

 

Cougars 33, Sooners 23. Yes, Cougars, yes!!

I don't know what, if any, difference it would've made, but I was wondering about the Sooners burning two timeouts early in the 3rd quarter.

The Cougars were 11 point underdogs + They won by 10 = A 21 point victory .

 

A lot of experts are skeptical of the Cougars ability to maintain their success of last season, which is fair enough given their up-and-down history.

The Sooners loss will make it extremely difficult, but certainly not impossible, for them to be a top ranked by the end of the season. The Cougars have made the Sooners margin of error very, very slim.

I've yet to find a good video of Boutte's hit. One wouldn't load at all, and two didn't show the hit very clearly.

 

Serious question--Is it my imagination, or are the refs in college football lenient about holding by offensive linemen?

There were a few plays in OU-UH game where it looked as though one of the Sooners OL was trying to tear the shoulder pads off some of the Cougars. Yes, I'm biased, but some of the 'takedowns' were pretty flagrant.

 

That's a given in football; if every hold on the OL was called the games would average 18 hours . I'm curious to know if the refs in the college games are even more lenient. And I wasn't joking about the shoulder pad grabs & takedowns.

 

Nobody expected Lamar to be competitive against UH, so the embarrassing loss was expected. I give the Cougars kudos for not making a humiliating loss.

 

That's how i felt about my dawgs game

 

I don't normally follow college FB, much less watch the games, but the Buckeyes vs Sooners should be a good one. If the Sooners lose to another top-ranked team, they can pretty much kiss any dreams of a national championship goodbye.

Since I sort of follow the OSU Cowboys, one of the officials admitted that he blew the call. I don't know what the appeal process--if there is one--entails, but something tells me the end result will be: Shit happens, deal with it.

 

Pretty sure that the results of the game won't change, but I did hear that the MAC has suspended the crew of officials for two games for blowing the call in that OSU/CMU game. Feel bad for the Cowboys. They should be playing with a Chip on their shoulders from here on out. (Sorry/not sorry for the pun)