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Topic: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #714 on: April 09, 2019, 09:22:57 PM »
Supposedly UGA was in discussions with OU, but perhaps this is in lieu of that for OU.
Sooners heard that rumor too.  Maybe this was the source of it: https://thespun.com/college-football/georgia-oklahoma-football-series-schedules.
I rather take exception to this in the story.
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Oklahoma’s next decade worth of non-conference opponents is a little murkier. Aside from games against Big Ten giants Michigan and Nebraska, and a 2020 game against Tennessee the Sooners have relatively little meat on their non-conference schedule.
OU's OOC opponents from 2020 to 2036 include: Nebraska x 4; Tennessee x 2; Michigan x2; Alabama x2; Clemson x2; LSU x2.
OU's got seasons with no marquee OOC game so far in 2023, 2031, and 2034.  2023 will mark the centennial of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, so we're hoping for a big-name rival.  Some of us jumped to the conclusion that the supposed games with Georgia might include one in Norman that season.  That would have been good news.  Not the biggest of big names, but big, and one who's got scoreboard on us in our only meeting and who is at the top of their game right now.
But my default big-name program is always Notre Dame, even though the Irish "are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven," they are what they are.  We played a singleton game at South Bend in 1999, and I'd like to see a decades-later follow-up in Norman. 2023 would be a good year for that.
Other teams we don't have scheduled down the road (and haven't played semi-recently) that I'd like to see us play start with USC--the butt-kicking we took in the 2004-season Orange Bowl NC game still stings like two losses.  And then, in no particular order:
Penn State
Wisconsin
Stanford
Florida
I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking about.
We've never played Michigan State.  That should end some day.
We're 0-1 vs. Navy.  We should try to find an opportunity to address that some day.
We're 3-4 vs. Miami.  I'd like to see a series with the Canes.  We went 33-3 from 1985 through 1987.  The three losses were to Miami, and they cost us two national championships.  Incredibly, the other Miami win was one of Randy Shannon's insufficient-number-to-keep-his-job wins as Miami HFC--21-20 in 2009 over Bob Stoops.
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #715 on: April 09, 2019, 09:25:24 PM »
I'd probably travel to Norman for a game against Big Red. And we all know who Big Red is around here.  :72:
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #716 on: April 09, 2019, 10:07:38 PM »
It's kind of absurd how big non-con games are already being scheduled in the 2030s. Michigan is set through 2027 with Washington, UCLA, Texas, and Oklahoma, but hopefully they'll get a 2028/2029 series scheduled before all the other top programs are unavailable. According FBSchedules.com Tennessee still appears to be free, which would be a nice opportunity to avenge the 2001 Citrus Bowl, as is Texas A&M, but beyond that are the likes of California, Mississippi, and West Virginia, with those options being surprisingly limited, as well.
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #717 on: April 09, 2019, 10:15:00 PM »
Here's UGA's 24/7 site with a board discussion of the supposed OU-Georgia series as a 2023 game in Norman and a 2031 game in Athens.  The source cited is an OKC radio station.  I have heard that former-Sooner-now-radio-host Dusty Dvoraceck announced it.

https://247sports.com/college/georgia/Board/19/Contents/UGAOU-Football-Game-131007141/
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #718 on: April 09, 2019, 10:21:09 PM »
It's kind of absurd how big non-con games are already being scheduled in the 2030s. Michigan is set through 2027 with Washington, UCLA, Texas, and Oklahoma, but hopefully they'll get a 2028/2029 series scheduled before all the other top programs are unavailable. According FBSchedules.com Tennessee still appears to be free, which would be a nice opportunity to avenge the 2001 Citrus Bowl, as is Texas A&M, but beyond that are the likes of California, Mississippi, and West Virginia, with those options being surprisingly limited, as well.
I'm looking forward to the OU-Michigan series.  Strange that the two programs have only met once.  Les Miles was playing for Michigan in the 1975 (season) Orange Bowl game.  I wonder if he ate any of the turf there at the old stadium.
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #719 on: April 09, 2019, 10:38:49 PM »
I wouldn't put it past Miles but that was during the regrettable period when the OB had astroturf.

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #720 on: April 09, 2019, 11:07:03 PM »
I'd probably travel to Norman for a game against Big Red. And we all know who Big Red is around here.  :72:
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #721 on: April 09, 2019, 11:11:35 PM »
good luck to those Big Red cheese eaters

I'll be in Norman on Sept 18th, 2021
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #722 on: April 10, 2019, 12:27:20 PM »
I wouldn't put it past Miles but that was during the regrettable period when the OB had astroturf.
Heh!  So it was.  I forgot about that short-lived experiment.

Les would have had a hard time eating that turf.
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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #723 on: April 10, 2019, 12:30:10 PM »
Heh!  So it was.  I forgot about that short-lived experiment.

Les would have had a hard time eating that turf.
That had never really occurred to me until you said it.  They show footage all the time, because I believe that was the first year the Big Ten dropped the Rose Bowl or nothing rule.

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #724 on: April 10, 2019, 12:41:08 PM »
I went over to the park to jog, the weather is amazing, dogwoods and azaleas out all over, really something I missed for 38 years.

I need to drive the wife around in NW ATL today a bit before traffic gets trafficky, which is about now.

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #725 on: April 10, 2019, 01:13:54 PM »
UGA cancelled a game with Indiana ..... State.  

"The elimination of the game only gives Georgia more flexibility when it comes to adding Oklahoma to the schedule in 2023. Dawgs247 has confirmed that serious talks are ongoing between the Bulldogs and Sooners to add that game. The Bulldogs would travel to Norman in 2023 and Oklahoma would make the return trip in 2031."

Has anyone ever seen an 8 year split in a H&A series like this?  I hope it happens.  We are undefeated against OU all time.

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #726 on: April 10, 2019, 01:19:32 PM »
UGA cancelled a game with Indiana ..... State.  

"The elimination of the game only gives Georgia more flexibility when it comes to adding Oklahoma to the schedule in 2023. Dawgs247 has confirmed that serious talks are ongoing between the Bulldogs and Sooners to add that game. The Bulldogs would travel to Norman in 2023 and Oklahoma would make the return trip in 2031."

Has anyone ever seen an 8 year split in a H&A series like this?  I hope it happens.  We are undefeated against OU all time.
MSU did a 2 for 1 with Boise State where the first game in East Lansing was in 2012, and the balance of the series is like 2021 and 2022

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Re: 2019 Offseason Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #727 on: April 10, 2019, 04:23:38 PM »
OU played Air Force in Colorado Springs in 2001 and had the return game in Norman in 2010.

I saw some grumbling on the UGA 24/7 site yesterday about the first game being in Norman (presuming the series ends up being a go).

I think that reflects misguided thinking.  I think having the away game first is an advantage.  Steal a road win, then win in your own house for a series sweep.

OU lost the first games at home against Notre Dame and Ohio State in 2012 and 2015.  That created a lot of pressure to win the return game on the road in 2013 and 2016.

The game we lost to Randy Shannon's Miami Hurricanes was the return game in Miami.  We beat the Canes 51-13 in 2007, Shannon's first year, then lost 21-20 in Miami in 2009.  I imagine Shannon learned more from the 2007 game than Bob Stoops did.
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