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Yeah it's freaking crazy man. I used to literally see all of these bands in dive bars and now they are selling 180,000 tickets for four straight stadium shows. I can't even wrap my mind around that.

I had like 4 different groups of friends, maybe 20 people in total, all trying to get tickets this morning. I'd say the success rate was maybe 10-20%. Both shows were announced as sold out a few hours ago. OSU Athletics also announced they are adding two more shows - Thursday and Sunday - and there would be details soon on when those would go on sale.

LOL you know what I mean. But good point given what week it is... 😆

Yeah it's kind of rough. You can check Cushing and Yale... maybe Ponca City although it's a bit further. You might have to end up staying in Tulsa or OKC. Maybe rent a car service if you don't want to mess with driving. It can get a little pricey but if you have group of people it isn't too bad. Also - talked to one of my buddies who works at OSU. They had 140,000+ ticket early ticket requests after the first show was announced, which is why they added the second.

Yeah I hadn't paid that much attention to it since we basically don't have a rivalry game any more. But I think there is a method to the madness and you hit the nail on the head at the end. If we know anything about Yormark it's that he's always working to get every revenue edge that he possibly can. And if that's putting rivalry games on "normal" regular season weeks where they may grab more viewers than they would on the main "rivalry" weekends when they are competing for eyeballs with the SEC and B1G rivalries. I might be upset about it if we still had a rivalry game and it was being played in early October or something but, again, since I don't any more it's not really a big deal to me.

Yeah they've added some over the years but it's still pretty rough trying to get a room on most game days. This thing is gonna be insane.

So much this. But the same three people that bring this stupid bullshit up over and over again won't acknowledge this next 20 times it comes up either. Bedlam football will absolutely happen again but it won't be until the mid-2030s, NO DIFFERENT than any other new P4 team we chose to schedule for non-conference. Like if we wanted to start new series with Ole Miss or Ohio State or Tennessee or whoever, it wouldn't happen until the mid 2030s at the earliest either. I'm not sure what's so fucking difficult to understand about that, given that it's been the norm in P4 non-conference scheduling for... let's see... the last several fucking decades.

We have several non-conference series coming up against better teams than OU.

Derp. I typed "giving" but meant "getting."

Saw Colorado is getting 1.5 points against Baylor on Saturday. I have a feeling the Baylor defense might cause some problems for them. If Baylor can muster any offense, I think they'll win.

Like I said earlier - that was the most Gundiest win of all the Gundy wins.

LOL Gundy was cooking at that press conference.

I mean... we'll see. It also depends what you mean by "relevance on a national scale." The Big 12 currently has 5 teams ranked in the top 25, one fewer than the B1G and one more than the ACC. And it's not like the top Big 12 programs have relied on recruiting at an elite level - these are programs that win by savvy recruiting/portal management, coaching and development. There is still a place for that in the post-NIL/transfer portal world. Yes, the Blue Bloods of the B1G/SEC will always have the greatest advantage, but that's nothing new.

Look I’m not saying Nebraska is great. I’m just saying Rhuel has an established track record. He took Temple from 2 wins to double-digit wins in year 3. He took post-Briles Baylor that was in shambles and got them to 11 wins in year 3. I’m just saying it’s pretty stark juxtaposition when you see how these two teams looked against each other in year 2 of their respective coaching regimes.

TBF, Rhule has shown he's a damn good college football program builder. His first three years at Temple were 2 wins, 6 wins, 10 wins. His three at Baylor were 1 win, 7 wins, 11 wins. It looks like he has Nebraska on a similar trajectory.

We could have consolidated the north-central-eastern Oklahoma / Arkansas corridor this weekend if stupid Tulsa hadn't lost to Arkansas State.

Yeah and on top of that, they got lucky on that last dumb pass before their FG attempt. Had the guy caught it, time would have expired before they could get the FG team on to the field. They felt like a team that is wildly talented but somewhat undisciplined and sloppy. I could see them pulling a big upset on someone if they can manage to play 60 minutes of clean football.

Yeah it's crazy. But really what it came down to was that Arkansas didn't get NEARLY the lead they should have in the first half when they were completely and utterly dominant. The way that first half went, the score should have been something like 28-0 or 35-0, but it was just 21-7 because of the pick six and OSU started to kind of stabilize things toward the end of the second quarter. So Arkansas' huge disparity in total yardage was really all just the first half, where they out-gained us 342 to 93. And to show you just how bad it was, 55 of OSU's 93 yards came on the opening drive of the game. So after the opening drive basically we did nothing on offense for the entire first half as Arkansas marched up and down the field. And yet they were only up 21-7 because of the pick six. The second half was more how I thought the full game might actually go. OSU actually out-gained Arkansas in the second half, 292 to 277 and outscored them 24-10. (prior to OT) And, of course, the 3 turnovers helped, although Bowman did also throw one INT so we were +2 on turnovers.

Sure coaching helps. And there are always outlier examples. Just from years and years of watching CFB, unless you are a blue blood that can pull 5-star guys every year, the most common way to have a good OL is multi-year development and continuity.

Who could have expected that having a competent offensive line required multi-year development and continuity instead of getting a bunch of guys from the portal and starting from scratch every year except literally everyone?

That was the most Gundyist of Gundy wins ever. Play like ass for a half and look like you have no chance, but then somehow, someway figure out how to pull the game out of the fire. Just another one to add to his ridiculous record in one-possession games, and take yet another few years off the shelf-life of my liver.

Pretty interesting that both Arkansas and SDSU both opened as 9-point dogs. I think the SDSU ended up getting pushed to like 10.5. Will be interesting to see where the money goes on this game. I personally would take Arkansas and the points. This game feels like a classic one-possession Gundy game.

Not sure I trust the betting public on this one.

Colorado is only -2.5 against NDSU based on S&P+? Jesus that's basically a toss-up. If they lose that game, 1-11 or 2-10 is in play.

Yeah part of the problem is the way their schedule sets up. Yes they get to play what most consider the top 3 teams in the Big 12 (K-State, Utah, OSU) all at home, but with the caveat that both Utah and OSU are late in the year... 2 of their last 3 games. I think there's a decent chance they are floundering and wouldn't be surprised if Hunter and Sanders opt out if they are something like 2-6 after their game with Tech in Lubbock on Nov. 9. Then they have to finish with Utah, @ Kansas, Oklahoma State. Those three games could get real ugly if they have given up at that point...