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your Sooners looked good yesterday CW

They did look good. After 10 games of mostly looking bad, it's a bit of a relief. I don't know if that's a one-off, or if Bama just didn't come to play, or if some freshmen are starting to play better. We'll see next Saturday in Baton Rouge, I guess.
Meanwhile, the Horns cruised.
I think your guys have just as good a chance of winning the CCG as any of the other possible participants. As others have commented, about 5 SEC teams have looked dominant at times, but they've all looked bad at other times.
You have two losable games ahead of you. I think you would make the CFP with 2 losses overall, but not with 3.

Wanted to mention this here on the Georgia thread....

At the end of the Kentucky game, Texas just handed the ball off, picked up 5-6 yards a pop, ground the clock down and the defense into submission. 

I.

F**KING.

LOVE THAT. 

It's everything my team once was, and everything we're not.  Our dumbass fans complained for years about having a boa constrictor defense, crazy-elite special teams, and a running game that could go on everyone even when they knew it was coming.  Countless times I saw them hold a 10ish point lead for the last 8 minutes or so and when teams absolutely had to have the ball back, we just ran, ran some more, and then ran some more, until the clock hit zero, and you could see the light go out of the opposing defense's eyes a little more with every 1st down. 

Texas did it against Alabama last year and they did it against Kentucky last weekend.  If there were such a thing as a football boner, the end of those games would've given me one.  Forget the long ball.  Ground-n-pound is sexy as hell.  

Yeah, it's an odd thing.  Last year there was some debate on the best OL in cfb, with many saying it was UGA, who understandably got more attention, and others saying it was the less heralded LSU unit.  In truth, our guys were only elite in pass pro.  This group has been together for almost 3 years now, and they've never been good at run blocking.  I've never seen OLs so amazing at one aspect and so weak/inept in another.  The new center this year has been a problem in both, but that doesn't explain the last two years. 

How many OL did UGA return from last year's team?  

Wanted to mention this here on the Georgia thread....

At the end of the Kentucky game, Texas just handed the ball off, picked up 5-6 yards a pop, ground the clock down and the defense into submission. 

I.

F**KING.

LOVE THAT. 

It's everything my team once was, and everything we're not.  Our dumbass fans complained for years about having a boa constrictor defense, crazy-elite special teams, and a running game that could go on everyone even when they knew it was coming.  Countless times I saw them hold a 10ish point lead for the last 8 minutes or so and when teams absolutely had to have the ball back, we just ran, ran some more, and then ran some more, until the clock hit zero, and you could see the light go out of the opposing defense's eyes a little more with every 1st down. 

Texas did it against Alabama last year and they did it against Kentucky last weekend.  If there were such a thing as a football boner, the end of those games would've given me one.  Forget the long ball.  Ground-n-pound is sexy as hell. 

Same here.  I'd been yelling at my TV all game long to just RTDB, and especially after Ewers was clearly injured and couldn't move around in the pocket at all.  And yet Sark stubbornly kept on trying to have the hobbled Ewers throw, which resulted directly in that stupid interception/fumble directly to the Kentucky defender for their second and final TD. 

Finally at the end, Sark go it, and just went full cram-it-down-their-throat.  It was glorious.

He's a truly exceptional play-designer, and a very good play-caller, but he still has these stubborn tendencies that are a liability.  I'd very much like to see him mature past that and evolve into his final form.

I believe UGA designed their defense against Texas to dare the Longhorns to run inside. They stacked the edges and flats while playing safeties deep. At that time, Texas declined to test that middle. Arky, with 2 weeks to prepare, presented an equivalent defense (but differently manned).
Sark and Flood surely recognized that vulnerability and worked to address it. Many of those runs were blocked inside. It's still not the preferred option, but that's 2 games in a row that Texas bled out the opposition.

Recognition that college football still comes down to playing defense and running the ball.

Amen brutha.

Maybe yall could write an open letter to Louisiana residents about that. 

Well on to the playoffs for Texas.  I really don't know anything about Clemson.  I think I watched part of their game against Georgia, feels like a lifetime ago.