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The only thing stopping A&M this weekend should be A&M getting in its own head about not having won in BR.  I won't be surprised if LSU has a bit of a bounce-back game and plays tough, but they're going to gift A&M a lot of chances.  If A&M is capable of accepting those gifts and not beating themselves, they should win.  LSU constantly finding new ways to shoot themselves in the foot is not just an out-of-control skid, at this point it's baked into the identity of the team.  They wouldn't look any different if they sat around planning ways to self-destruct.  

I think out of A&M, @Bama, @OU, I won't be surprised if LSU finds a way to win one of those.  Probably fair to say I'd be more surprised if they lose all three, as they should be expected to.  I'd be very surprised if they win two of those, but not one.  If I had to pick, I'd pick A&M, but it's not because I think LSU matches up favorably with them, or anything.  

But if Baker gets his head out of his arse and the Tigers get a few starters back, the LSU defense is still a lethal bunch who could make life hard for A&M.  Maybe enough to let this helpless, middle-school-caliber O-line max out it's 24 pt. capability and claw out a win.  

But.....if some key Tiger defensive guys remain out and/or Baker calls another game like that, A&M will win fairly easily.

  

With two losses already, Brian Kelly and his team are backed into a corner and will lash out like a wild beast. LSU's own fans will fill Death Valley readier to turn on Kelly than root for their own team (Both Brian Kelly and LSU fans deserve each other). This will make for an unpredictable game. If A&M can take an emotional Tigers team punch for punch into halftime, I like the Aggie's chances in the 2nd Half as the fans drunkenly begin unleashing their ire and discontent at the Tiger's sideline. Fans won't be angry at A&M - they will be turning on their own team for the rest of the season.

Meanwhile, looking at the rest Oklahoma's schedule 

 

Both Brian Kelly and LSU fans deserve each other

Rude.

You've clearly never been to an LSU game, met many of the amazing fans, and consumed the great food and participated in the fine hospitality you'd be offered if you had.  Many of them don't deserve the jackass that is BK.

Now, the contingent of the fanbase who bitched and moaned their way through the most successful period of LSU football history, as their team went on one the great runs in cfb, not just for LSU, but for anyone, and who could never do anything but complain about not winning by enough, not winning pretty enough, not being as successful as that school in Tuscaloosa, and focusing on everything but the excellent number of W's racked up, and who perpetually ignored the warnings of myself and others like me, that the "idiot" they despised would not be easily replaced and almost certainly not matched or surpassed anytime soon......those fans deserve Brian Kelly.  

Rude.

You've clearly never been to an LSU game, met many of the amazing fans, and consumed the great food and participated in the fine hospitality you'd be offered if you had.  Many of them don't deserve the jackass that is BK.

Now, the contingent of the fanbase who bitched and moaned their way through the most successful period of LSU football history, as their team went on one the great runs in cfb, not just for LSU, but for anyone, and who could never do anything but complain about not winning by enough, not winning pretty enough, not being as successful as that school in Tuscaloosa, and focusing on everything but the excellent number of W's racked up, and who perpetually ignored the warnings of myself and others like me, that the "idiot" they despised would not be easily replaced and almost certainly not matched or surpassed anytime soon......those fans deserve Brian Kelly. 

And such fans certainly aren't unique to LSU.  I've encountered fans like that from almost every college football team.  Even historically unsuccessful ones.  Heck, even the military academies.

And such fans certainly aren't unique to LSU.  I've encountered fans like that from almost every college football team.  Even historically unsuccessful ones.  Heck, even the military academies.

I'm sure you're correct.  However, your point about how it also happens to fans of unsuccessful teams kind of underscores my beef with our fans.  Whereas many fans think they can have better with a different coach, LSU fans actually had better, and refused to see it.  I feel like there's a special penance you owe when you live the good life and refuse to be grateful for it.  Somehow, deliberately ignoring what you do have seems worse to me than merely being delusional about what you could have.

YMMV 

. . . Meanwhile, looking at the rest Oklahoma's schedule

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Not to whine or complain, but OU got pretty challenging conference schedules for 2024-25.

In 2024, OU's SEC opponents went 75-31 overall.

We did get a couple of breaks, though. We don't face Georgia and, this year, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.

Speaking of Georgia, I think I have detected a pattern to the Kirby Smart-era Dawgs. When they get down, as they occasionally do, they do not quit. You may think that your team has a pretty comfortable lead, but Kirby Smart is scheming and motivating, and the next thing you know, Georgia is back in the game.

Lincoln "Muleshoe" Riley learned this at the Rose Bowl after the 2017 season. OU scored just before halftime to go up 17 points, and Riley ordered up a pooch kickoff to preclude a big return. Quick as a flash, Georgia got in FG range and kicked a good one as time expired. That changed the character of the game. The 3-scores lead shrank to 2 scores, and Georgia had seized the momentum.

Just this season, I have seen Tennessee and Ole Miss surrender what seemed to be good leads and end up losing.

I don't like Kirby Smart, but I respect him. If you have him down, you've got to go ahead and kill him.

On the subject of the SEC HFA, OU's experience is that we have been able to lose at home and on the road with almost equal facility.

So far, home-field advantage does not seem to have heavily influenced our SEC record. Our SEC losses so far have been:

2024
Tennessee (H)
Texas (N)
S. Carolina (H)
Ole Miss (A)
Missouri (A)
LSU (A)

2025
Texas (N)

This will change as Oklahoma regains it’s footing.