Judging by the turn this thread took, UT vs. ATM is the new Bedlam. I thought that there was a separate thread for that game, but I guess I was wrong.
There wasn't much bedlam in Death Valley last night. Congrats to LSU for a dominating performance in all three phases of the game. The Tigers converted a bunch of 3rd-down plays. Nussmeier hit two TD bombs despite good coverage. Special teams produced a 100-yard KO return. And defense limited the Sooner offense to 10 points, all in the 1st half.
Maybe next year . . . .
I don't keep up with our program the way I used to (or yours either), so I can't really speculate on what kind of team we might have next year.
Two things I do want to note after watching this game are:
1) Can I just say how weird it was to see OU on our field? I didn't watch a lot of their games this year so I missed a number of their run-ins with SEC teams, and it was just a bizarre feeling I didn't expect to watch Oklahoma play us in Tiger Stadium. I watched all of Texas' games, but a number of those are things I'm used to seeing--at least from old times--like @A&M, Arkansas, OU at the neutral site, etc. The other oddest feeling I had this season was watching Florida in DKR.....that just felt so surreal. I think I had the same reaction several times back in 2012 when A&M joined, but by this point they're an SEC fixture. Apparently I'm still getting used to the new guys, and the whole time I watched this game I felt like these guys are wearing a familiar Norman-based uniform, but that can't really be
the OU, not in our house.
2) I really want an explanation on why our purple jerseys appear royal blue on ESPN networks. I've seen them in person and I sometimes have friends at games, and they assure me our jerseys, as well as our endzone, are still actually purple. But has anyone noticed how when LSU wears the rare purple jerseys, they don't at all look purple on tv? I remember the old TigerVision games back when Tier 3 rights were still a thing, and we usually had purple jerseys for those games, and they looked purple. But I've noticed for years on ESPN that they aren't the right color. I feel like we're being misrepresented, and I want to know what's up with that.
2a) I also want to know why we wore the purple jerseys at all. Usually in this case our odd tradition would've dictated the away-whites most people are familiar with. I know it used to be the case the visiting team had the option on which jerseys to wear, and so wearing the away-whites at home was afforded to us by the visiting teams, except in rare cases when visitors chose to be punks and deny it for no reason, in which case we usually walloped them for their trouble....but I don't know that it's the case anymore. Or why OU would've denied it. I did noticed we were wearing white pants and helmets, instead of gold, so I'm assuming it was some odd special-uni kind of thing. But it's an odd time in the season to have done the one-off Nike uniform, and I've never seen them do purple (or blue, on tv) jerseys when doing the one-offs.
