Decided to drop in, see some of you still hate us
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Score was reasonably close to what I expected, but the game was surprising in a lot of other ways. Obviously the Big XII didn't play defense in the regular season, save Texas, but apparently Oklahoma remembered where they'd left their running defense during the long layoff. Or maybe our OC was more distracted by his impending head coaching job than I thought. At any rate, our offense was less impressive than I thought. The defense did the usual bang up job.
Some thoughts:
- The Sooners are the Buffalo Bills of college ball.
- What craptacular announcers. Ignoring the Tebow stuff, they lost track of downs, called a guy whose knee was destroyed 'questionable', and did a piss poor job of explaining how the defenses were reigning in the offenses.
- Oklahoma holds rather blatantly.
- Officiating was typical awful ACC officiating. I'd have rather had the Big East or Big 10 provide the refs.
- The synchronized way Oklahoma's players would look to the sideline and back reminded me of a flock of birds.
- There were some pretty good hits in this game
- If Urban Meyer leaves for Notre Dame, we're in good hands with Charlie Strong. If not, someone else is, hopefully not in the SEC.
- Major Wright is the Florida player whose performance most sticks out in my mind. Some of those hits were positively brutal.