Oklahoma Falls Again
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:40 PM ^
Eh. Early season losses. They'll still be in contention for the playoffs.
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:42 PM ^
Sarcasm orrrrr???
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:49 PM ^
I caught the /s, even if he didn't write it.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:12 AM ^
I'm a staunch advocate of the /s
In the year 2020, my expectations for stupidity are out the window
October 4th, 2020 at 1:31 AM ^
Call me naive, but I still give benefits of doubt.
October 4th, 2020 at 4:58 AM ^
If you have to put a \s then you're not funny or you think you're audience is dumb. It should be obvious. It's like making a joke and saying "not" at them end of it. Kinds of kills the joke
October 4th, 2020 at 9:11 AM ^
But if a mod doesn’t get the sarcasm you might get banned so have that S handy
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:46 PM ^
Doomer Sooner!!!
October 4th, 2020 at 2:31 AM ^
He should be called Spencer Rattled instead of Rattler.
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:46 PM ^
Did they still plant their flag midfield?
October 4th, 2020 at 9:10 AM ^
....if they did, wonder if Lincoln was aware, I mean fully aware, and did he apologize later?
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:47 PM ^
Meantime, Mike Leach pulled a Mike Leach, following a thrilling win with an absolute turd of a loss to a shitty team. So sick of those who claim he’s a genius. He’s a gimmick.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:03 AM ^
Yeah, you'd think by this point the Leach formula would be well-known and yet people keep falling for it.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:31 AM ^
I’d rather beat Ohio state half the time and still end up with 2-3 losses than never beat them and end up with 2-3 losses.... but hey that’s me!
October 4th, 2020 at 12:42 AM ^
Beating OSU every other year but fucking it up with losses to Rutgers or Maryland would set this place absolutely on fire
October 4th, 2020 at 1:04 AM ^
Yeah replace OSU losses with Indiana losses with the same big ten/no playoffs results would have people just as pissed.
October 4th, 2020 at 1:16 AM ^
So it would be the 90s? I'd take that over what we have now.
At least we could destroy OSU's seasons and have those bragging rights.
October 4th, 2020 at 5:45 AM ^
That approached was called "The 90's".
October 4th, 2020 at 9:12 AM ^
The 90's, Good Times!
October 4th, 2020 at 10:24 AM ^
This place--let's face it--is full of people who like to be on fire. They'll find something.
October 4th, 2020 at 2:53 AM ^
Mike Leach is a gimmick? Since when is being a national treasure a gimmick?
October 4th, 2020 at 7:24 AM ^
I'm thinking Arkansas is far improved from last year. Just last week they were up 10-5 on Georgia mid third. Then Arkansas ran out of steam and Georgia pulled away. Looks to me like Arkansas is a well coached team that can play ugly games decently.
October 4th, 2020 at 8:35 AM ^
My favorite is that all the ESPN asswipes immediately moved Mississippi State into the 4th best team slot after last week.
October 4th, 2020 at 9:03 AM ^
I wouldn’t say he’s a gimmick. He has had very good success at schools that have never been football powers
October 4th, 2020 at 9:13 AM ^
He’s coaching Mississippi st. He doesn’t have a huge recruiting advantage like Texas and Oklahoma who lose to lesser teams but he just beat LSU.
October 4th, 2020 at 10:15 AM ^
I think we're going to find that LSU is not nearly the team they were last season. A two loss season is the high end of their upside. I think they go 8-4, if they end up playing all 12 games.
October 5th, 2020 at 6:28 AM ^
Yet you called him "talented on the field" in your last post about him. Which is it?
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:48 PM ^
hopefully donovan edwards is watching
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:49 PM ^
Lincoln Riley missed his chance to jump to the NFL. Great offensive mind and could have hired a solid NFL defensive staff to manage that side of the ball.
Big 12 plays no defense, but now his overall coaching ability will be questioned to the point where the NFL jump will be tougher.
All the Riley > Harbaugh folk need to shut it. Michigan in any other division besides the SEC West (Bama) or B1G East (OSU) would almost certainly have 2 or more playoff appearances under Harbaugh.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:06 AM ^
I wouldn’t be so quick on that. Riley has had 10x the success Kingsbury did in college and Kliff managed to get an NFL HC job after being fired from Texas Tech
October 4th, 2020 at 12:14 AM ^
If Riley keeps his career trajectory going, hopefully he can one day too lose to the lions at home
October 4th, 2020 at 12:07 AM ^
I do wonder if Riley sticks around after this year. He'd have a built-in excuse for leaving for the NFL without too much shine taken off, but he's 0-3 in bowl games and his offense this year has underwhelmed.
October 4th, 2020 at 2:02 AM ^
Riley is legit overrated.
B12 football is basically an offensive show without any real regard for defense.
I'm sure the Lions have him on their post Patricia short list.
October 4th, 2020 at 2:57 AM ^
Overrated? Agree. After all, who would want Lincoln Riley when Rhett Lashlee is out there.
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:50 PM ^
Skip Bayless is gonna lose his mind, which makes me happy inside.
October 4th, 2020 at 1:04 PM ^
He will pretend to lose his mind, but the theatrics as with all sports debate shows will be over the top.
Most importantly, Lebron will somehow make up 50% of the conversation around Lincoln Riley and the Sooners.
October 3rd, 2020 at 11:59 PM ^
Iowa state is better than anyone else in the country at farting up gimme wins but pulling off ridiculous upsets
October 4th, 2020 at 12:06 AM ^
As mentioned earlier, don't rule out Mike Leach on that count...
October 4th, 2020 at 2:03 AM ^
Clearly, their coach does not belong at Michigan in future.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:04 AM ^
Did I hear right? First time beating Oklahoma at home since 1960?
If we’re rounding off numbers to the nearest hundred years, that’s a century ago.
October 4th, 2020 at 1:36 AM ^
If we’re rounding off numbers to the nearest thousand years, then the last time it happened was also today.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:08 AM ^
They don't have the OL of the past half decade nor the transfer QBs. Rattler might be really good at some point, but he's still a freshman. The defense is still the same--soft and mistake prone. At some point it isn't the coordinator you bring in, but the head coach who doesn't give a shit about it.
For the first time in his head coaching career, Lincoln Riley is going to have to do something other than just be an OC. I'll be very curious how he reacts to adversity. I think they lose next week to Texas and at least 2 more this season.
Whatever Harbaugh's issues, he was able to take the shit of last September and grind out 9 wins. They weren't all pretty, but that's what good coaches do.
October 4th, 2020 at 1:05 AM ^
Isn't Rattler a sophmore?
October 4th, 2020 at 1:11 AM ^
I think hes a true freshman
October 4th, 2020 at 1:23 AM ^
He’s a RS Frosh.
I remember specifically not liking him from that QB1 (?) series with him being a dick to former M commit JD Johnson who was his Jr. understudy in high school.
October 4th, 2020 at 2:05 AM ^
This.
Spencer Rattler just hasn't been good enough to cover for that defense. Jalen Hurts was that good. Rattler, not even close.
October 4th, 2020 at 8:02 AM ^
The media predicted MichIvan to win the B10 prior to last season (not sure why). Still, if you want to give Harbaugh credit for getting the team turned around after a brutal September (Army, Wisconsin), you should at least ask why the team looked so damn awful for the first month of the season.
October 4th, 2020 at 10:26 AM ^
An excellent point. I've mentioned multiple times that all the data points to Harbaugh being a good, but not transcendent coach which is what Michigan fans thought they were getting 6 years ago. Last year was a microcosm of that. Michigan was bad in September. And yet after the Wisconsin game, they found a way to go 7-2 with a tight loss to Penn State and, in what is now a tradition, the loss to OSU. Mediocre coaches would have let that spiral out of control to go 7-5, 6-6 or worse.
I don't know why the team was bad in September. The most damning indictment of the QB whisperer is that the QBs don't seem very good. The offense has most recently seemed a hodgepodge of ideas as opposed to something cohesive. The defense is what it is--a unit that will always have great statistics because they beat up on bad offenses, but will struggle when they play against better talent.
October 4th, 2020 at 10:51 PM ^
I noticed that Swenson is still starting for them.
October 4th, 2020 at 12:25 AM ^
Rattler has some Shea in him.