bottom line the winner's qb wins the heisman trophy.......this game is worth about 25 million to bradford and harrell.......BOOMER,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEEERRRRR

I'll respond, I think you are really wrong on some points. I watched the UT TD return replays, Jackson gets clipped big time, I forgot who got clipped on the 2nd but Jackson did. You need to rewatch it. Just becaue the announcer or the media didn't comment or replay it for you does not mean it did not happen. I already said how OU was better. Plus Bradord can make all the throws, Harrell has to put a tad too much air under it to hit the outs and flags--it doesn't usually show because his guys are wide open. It says in this very article that Harrell has thrown 8 INTs to Bradford's 6! If the article is wrong, sorry, but that is the source that I used. 8 > 6 OU definitely salts the game, did you not watch the Nebraska game? Salted the entire 2nd half. OU has better corners than UT, Nebraska and OSU in the games that I have seen. That maybe my opinion, but I think it is also prolly fact if the research was done. Bayless and some others I don't know have both said UT dominate OU. I am not making this up as you would like to believe. I said statistically OU has the best homefield advantage, based on W-L, SOS and such. I wish I had the link that I saw that computation to prove it to you. I did not say it is the loudest or most rowdy, it isn't. On blitzing, the corner blitz from the blindside I like. I don't like the LBs blitzing unless it is a zone blitz, and delayed blitz? You have got to be kidding me?! It will prolly never get to Harrell, and take a man out of coverage! Harrell lives in the shotgun and would like to get rid of the ball very quickly, which he is an expert at. Even if a guy comes unblocked, if it is from 5 yards deep the ball will be out of Harrells hands and floating to the vacated hole. OSU blitzed a ton, and the blitzes where well designed, but Harrell picked them apart like a kid in the candy store. i would like any blitzers on the line of scrimmmage prior to the snap, mix in some zone blitzes like that. See how the Steelers run there blitz package (i know it is a 3-4, but similar things can be done in a 4-3 with our DEs and Safeties). Spying the eyes of Harrell is a good idea. I know McCoy can't look off a WR, not sure how good Harrell is, definitely worth a shot. You are wrong about the people polls. You go back and look, we were ahead of UT after they lost. You are wrong about Cincy and their QB. There coach did not let Mauk practice with the team ever, he stood on the sidelines in street clothes during the offseason pending his appeal for an extra year. Mauk was never listed their starter. Washington wasn't a good team, they were a one man team, now they don't have that one man anymore, and are horrible. The computers don't look at the rosters. How is that hard to understand that that injury is unfortunate as it will falsely lower the SOS? Nebraska got 28 points in garbage time, their was a lot of garbage time in that game, as it was over after the 1st quarter. OU has had 2 games out and out costed by the refs, no ifs and or buts. Many more have been more sublty been decided by the refs, OU has one many in lou of bias officials. Tell me that the self-proclaimed "Ausin Mafia" isn't biased with a straight face! I have seen refs get their picture taken with Mac Brown prior to kickoff at the RRS, I have seen replays of refs cheering after signalling a long TD for UT, and most of all I have seen the horrible calls. Don't be so naive.

If you dont know your facts dont quote old ones. the INTs for Harrell are 8, not 5. The TT site only is up to date through 11/9 OOPS!!!

Please, Hiffdas, don't insult OU fans. OU did barely lose to Texas, that's a given. Everyone who watched the game knew that. But there were no clips on that return, and OU benefited from some bad calls in that game was well. And no analysts have said that Texas dominated the Sooners. All they've said is that Tech beat Texas at home, the Sooners would have beat Tech in Norman. The only advantage is that Texas beat OU on a neutral field. Now, as for your "facts," OU's offense has more weapons and is more explosive. But how can you say it's better? There's no facts to prove it. It's loaded with more talent, but Tech can match the Sooner offense point for point. The only difference is that it's harder for a team to stop the Sooners because of the plethora of talent. OU never "salts" the clock after the half regardless of how much they're up. They usually wait until the second possession of the fourth quarter to put in the second team. They usually start running the ball more about the last part of the third quarter. In Big 12 play, Tech has played the tougher schedule. Tech has already played OSU and Texas. OU has only played Texas. Tech put up 39 and 56 points on those teams, both of which were playing GREAT defense going in. OU managed just 35 on Texas. OU put up 45 on Kansas at home. Tech put up more than 60 in Lawrence. The only advantage OU has is how they played Nebraska, and the fact that they played TCU and Cincy in the non-conference. Tech's quarterback has thrown LESS interceptions, has been sacked less times, and has better completion percentage. Harrell throws much more than Bradford, and by most stats, his completion percentage should be lower, not higher. You can't conclude that Bradford is the better quarterback, especially considering Harrell has put up the better numbers over the past two seasons, and even more important, Bradford has yet to beat Harrell. Yes, OU got cheated out of a win in Lubbock three years ago. They also got cheated out of a win at Oregon in 2006. We got over it. The game last year shouldn't have been decided by Bradford's concussion. The defense still should have held its ground. And Hazle played well enough for the Sooners to win has the defense done its job. How can you say that OU has the best corners Tech has faced all year when OU's near the bottom of the league in pass yards allowed per game? OU may well have the best, I'm not arguing that point, but that's a waste of time to say. OU does, however, have the best safety tandem Tech has faced all year in Nic Harris and Lendy Holmes. Stoops is 59-2 at home and the win streak is at 23 games, but the best home field advantage in the country? Please. Where do you come up with this? Most people would rather play in Norman than Doak Royal Stadium in Austin or the Big House or Death Valley or the Swamp. They have the nation's longest win streak, not the nation's best home field advantage. The two don't fall hand in hand. BYU had the nation's longest win streak prior to the TCU game. Did that make them the best team in college football? Harrell has seen defensive game plans ALL YEAR aimed at stopping him from passing like he does. One problem. Tech can run the ball as well. They have 10 100-yard rushing games this season, eight more than last season. You can't just STOP a pass. You have to be in position. They won't ALLOW ANYTHING. Tech will FIND openings. Actually, I disagree about the blitz. I think a corner blitz with Franks is exactly what the Sooners should do. There's not an offensive lineman fast enough to pick him up, especially on a delayed blitz. They also need a spy in the secondary following Harrell's eyes. Then they need the line to provide pressure and not let Harrell get comfortable in the pocket. He can't run well, so they need to make him run. Just because he beat OSU with the shovel and screen pass doesn't mean that's what they'll use against OU. OSU had the long and medium pass covered well, so they went so what OSU wasn't covering. It'll be different against OU. Refs make terrible calls, but rarely (see Oregon) do they ever lose a game for a team. Besides, calling a game on the refs before it's even played is a cop out. Get over officiating. OU usually has very fair, it not biased their way, officiating. OU won't get conservative. They'll run the ball between the tackles a few times and it won't work, but all in all, they'll be fine offensivly as long as they're still clicking like they were against K State, Nebraska and A&M. Dropped below Texas? Check the stats, Hiffdas. OU was NEVER ahead of Texas. OU dropped below Florida that weekend because they had just beaten Georgia 49-10. They didn't lost votes to Texas. While I don't agree that Florida has done enough in beating overrated LSU and Georgia teams to jump ahead of OU, I still think they're played the best football in the country right now. If I can see that, an expert can tear it down and show you the various ways they are. Florida, as this point, deserves to be ahead of OU, end of story. We couldn't hold Nebraska under 28. Florida held a great Georgia offense to 10. Nuff' said. The computers recognize Cincy, and they recognize TCU, who, coincidentally, dropped BELOW a BYU team they beat 32-7 in the BCS following a 13-10 loss to currently undefeated No. 7 Utah. The computers don't just have some bias against OU. They have it against a lot of teams. If OU beats Tech, there's a chance they'll fall behind both Utah and Boise. Is that right? We actually didn't play Cincy with its starting quarterback. At that time, Mauk was still awaiting his last hope of being reinstated. And Cincy has gone on to win six of its last eight since the OU game with the third string quarterback. The quarterback OU played against and his backup are both out with injuries. That quarterback still guided them to a win over West Virginia, and has a chance to wrap up the Big East possibly against Pitt this weekend. And comparing the Washington that played OU and BYU to the Washington team now will get you no where. Not with OU fans, not with the computers. That same Locker led team got BLOWN OUT by a mediocre Oregon team in the first game of the year.

I am getting pumped up for the game. As long as we don't have a stupid defensive game plan, I think OU crushes TT. The media is really worrying and hacking me off though. It seems they have already decided that if their is a 3 way tie between OU, TT, and UT that UT deserves to be ranked higher because of the head to head victory over OU. It is illogical to determine the winner of this 3 way tie in head-to-head fashion, as no team can claim it head to head over the other 2. UT was behind 107 out of the 120 minutes played against TT and OU. The facts are, OU barely lost to UT, they were leading the entire game until the last 1/8th of the game. UT scored over half its points when Reynolds was lost for the game, currently his replacement is playing well. UT benefitting from bad late hit calls, a controversial INT getting ruled an incompletion and KO return TD that had 2 clips not called. A lot of national media (several ESPN guys, ABC, Fox) keep saying UT dominated OU which is just a lie. National media is also saying that OU will not be able to stop TT and they should outscore OU. What the heck? Here are the facts: ~OU has the better offense. ~OU scores more points per game. ~OU scores more points per game and begins salting the clock away after 2 quarters. ~OU scores more points per game playing a harder schedule. ~OU has the better QB with more TDs, less INTs, better measurables and better accuracy. ~OU has better running backs. ~OU has better WRs and TEs with the lone exception of Crabtree. ~TT has a great line, but OU's is great as well and full of NFL talent. ~TT won 2 out of the last 3--I hear this all the time--well one was decided by the refs and OU has the apology to prove it. The second loss Bradford received a concussion on the first OU offensive play of the game, and would have been tied at the end of regulation if not for another bad call. Both losses were in Lubbock, not Norman. TT averages 16 points per game in Norman. ~OU will have the best CBs that Harrell has faced all year. ~Finally OU is at home. OU with Stoops is 53-2 at home, has the nations longest home winning streak, and thus statistically has the best home field advantage in college football. I am not saying TT couldn't win, they can, especially if we combine poor gameplan with poor play, but OU should beat them down or outscore them at the very least. Barring injurry to Bradford, or uncharacteristic plethora of turnovers... For TT to win they need: ~ OU to have a defensive game plan that caters to Harrell. OU better not allow the 3-8 yard pass to the middle all night, as that is the easiest pass to throw and what Harrell will look to first every play. ~Need not to blitz very much and surely not blitz from 5 yards behind the line of scrimage leaving short passes over the middle open, RBs uncovered on swings and flares, and the myriad of screens and shovel passes open. Make Harrell beat us on the sidelines and on long passes. This is my BIG KEY to the game. ~TT really needs Cristal's officiating team to ref the game. He screwed us twice before in Lubbock. Drawing Bible's crew would be a wild card as he is then son of Coach Bible who I believe is in the UT Hall of Fame, and is absolutely horridly biased towards UT. UT needs OU to win, so Bible may not stick it to us like he usually does. ~OU goes conservative too early and without a big enough lead, letting TT back into the game. OU's special teams suck at KO coverage and FG and extra point attempts. OU had pretty good punt coverage (we don't punt much) and good return men. This wouldnormally be a big advantage to TT, but they also have very bad special teams. The media's stupidity and bias worries me as they influence voters. How else could one explain why OU has dropped below UT in both people polls? OU lost many votes to UT the week that OU hung 35 in the first quarter on Nebraska, while UT beat up on a mediocre team. How could that change people's mind into thinking UT was better than OU if they previously had OU higher? Call me paranoid if you want, but there is something to this trend. OU is also dropping below Florida. I guess it is better to lose to an unranked team at home than a top 5 team on a neutral field that happens to be an arch rival without your team leader at MLB, despite leading said team most of the game with some really bad calls go against you? I wish that was sarcasm. The computers maybe OU's only hope, but even then they don't realize that we played Cincy with their starting QB while everyone else played agianst their backup, and when we blew out Washington they had Locker at QB and a coach and the team hadn't bailed on the season yet. About Washington, everyone forgets that with Locker they should have taken BYU to overtime if not for a crazy celebration call, without Locker they get blown out by everyone.

Harrell has thrown five picks, not eight.

BOOMER SOONER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The year was 1975...OU hosted #15 ranked Pittsburgh and future Heisman winner, Tony Dorsett. The OU defense shut down Pitt's highly touted rushing attack limiting the Panthers to 79 yards rushing on the day. Sooners won 46-10 and went on to win their fifth national championship.

A little payback for last years lost!!!