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Frothy.

I plead guilty of froth.  Just enjoying it while it lasts, which might be just through this Friday for all I know.

Actually it's that Big 12 championship game, if OU continues to win out and makes it, that gives me the most pause.  It will be a repeat of some game played through the season, and so that team will already have a good read on the Sooners.

If OU does win out, they would make the playoffs almost for sure, just based on the regular season record including beating three top 10 caliber teams in tOSU, oSu, and TCU.  This year it would have been far better not to have a championship game.  Ironic.

Yep, seasons like this are special and not to be taken for granted.

I really, really don't get the B12 CG with a round robin schedule and without divisions.  

The Big 12 has an uncanny way of doing it to itself.  This gem of an idea is sure to bring same payback.

. . . Actually it's that Big 12 championship game, if OU continues to win out and makes it, that gives me the most pause.  It will be a repeat of some game played through the season, and so that team will already have a good read on the Sooners.

If OU does win out, they would make the playoffs almost for sure, just based on the regular season record including beating three top 10 caliber teams in tOSU, oSu, and TCU.  This year it would have been far better not to have a championship game.  Ironic.

Conventional wisdom among fans close to the program is that Riley went dead-solid-conservative in the 2nd half against TCU to avoid giving away anything more than what he had already done.

If TCU beats OU in the CG the CG game will be voted out before March

Well, maybe TT can upset TCU out in the windswept godforsaken desolation of west Texas, although I would guess in that landscape a horned frog would feel right at home ... so fat chance, probably

Then again it's not like a rematch with OSU would be a cake walk either.  And I'm not counting WVU as a possibility because if we don't beat them next weekend it's probably moot anyway

All either TCU or Okie State have to do is bring their A game, and OU would be in a peck of trouble, with their good but not great defense.

Conventional wisdom among fans close to the program is that Riley went dead-solid-conservative in the 2nd half against TCU to avoid giving away anything more than what he had already done.

C-Dubb!  Good to see you.  Riley went stone conservative all right, Baker threw only 6 passes in the second half.  What was much weirder was to see Patterson basically throw in the towel in the 3rd quarter.