Watch'n the Holiday Bowl. Here is the Oklahoma fight song:

[El Supremo]

Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
Boomer Sooner.
OU SUCKS!

[OKNancy]

1. I'm Sooner Born

and Sooner Bred
and when I die I'll be Sooner dead

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Go Sooners :P

[RoyGBiv]

2. BOOMER!!!

[NaturalHigh]

7. SOONER!

[Solar]

6. The Holiday Bowl

The good ol' Holiday Bowl: once again proving that the 2nd best Pac-10 team that was supposedly 'cheated' out of the BCS really didn't deserve it anyway. Texas Tech proved Cal didn't deserve to be in the Rose Bowl over Texas last year and Oklahoma proved Oregon didn't deserve a berth this year either.

The "weak" Big 12, which I fully admit is in a down year, beats the 2nd best team from the supposedly powerhouse Pac 10 and is currently 3-1. Something tells me people will be very suprised come the Rose Bowl.

AND as a rare sight, this Texas fan sends his congrats to the Sooners :)

[Sandpiper]

11. Just remember

OU would be the third best college football program in the city of Los Angeles.


:P


Seriously though, I picked OU for the upset last night.

[RoyGBiv]

16. This Sooner fan ...

This Sooner fan thanks you and is sending major good vibes your direction for next week.

[RoyGBiv]

3. WOOHOO!!!!!!

By the way, if OU sucks, Oregon must be truly smelly. :-)

[OKNancy]

4. Beat the #6 team

with an unranked team with a freshman QB ( it showed actually).
I'm very happy.

[RoyGBiv]

5. I'm ecstatic ...

I wasn't willing to take OU and points for this game. Not losing by more than a field goal would have made me happy. Actually winning ... even my upstairs neighbor, who never speaks to anyone, came down and high-fived me when he heard me yelling in screaming. :-)

[NaturalHigh]

8. My wife was fully prepared for me to have a heart attack.

When the Sooners made a few errors and got a few bad calls from the officials, I honestly didn't know if I could sit through the entire game; it was that stressful.

It's good to be back in the game. OUr Sooners should definitely be ranked after this win, and they should be back in the thick of things next year.

[bmbmd]

9. I keep hearing Stoops mentioned

as a great candidate for future NFL head coaching vacancies. After this game, I bet his stock went straight down.

[NaturalHigh]

10. I wouldn't bet on that.

It's not like OU was the favorite in this game. The Sooners were underdogs, playing in front of a fairly hostile crowd against the #6 team, and they won. I think that speaks pretty well for Bob Stoops.

Frankly, though, I think Stoops is smart enough not to make the move to the NFL. He has a good deal at Oklahoma, and he doesn't have to deal with prima dona pro players.

[bmbmd]

12. First quarter, driving right down the field, dominating

the line of scrimmage, third and one, premier running back, crappy freshman quarterback throws incomplete in the endzone, sooners settle for field goal. First of many significant coaching errors. Same idiot freshman qb spiking ball on own goal line with eighteen seconds left-last of many significant judgement erros. You would think your qb would know the rules....

[NaturalHigh]

13. Spiking the football at the end was pretty stupid.

Then again, the kid is just nineteen years old, and he got a real ass-chewing from Stoops afterward. Bomar has improved a lot since the season started, and he's just going to keep getting better. As for the play-calling, last night was Kevin Wilson's first game as offensive coordinator, and he still did a much better job than his predecessor, Chuck "third and" Long.

[RoyGBiv]

15. Sigh of relief ...

I swear a heard a collective sigh of relief all across Sooner-land when Chuck Long got hired elsewhere. He was starting to create an offense that reminded me far too much of the Gibbs years. Gee, which stupid play everyone knows is coming are they going to run this time? The first one or the second one? It was pretty pitiful that my MOM could see the routes the offense would take just by the way they approached the line.

[NaturalHigh]

17. I was nearly hysterical with relief when Long left.

Nine out of ten times, I could tell you what play Long was going to call by who was in the backfield.

[RoyGBiv]

14. That wasn't a mistake ...

It was a risk. As the old saying goes, when you take a risk and it succeeds, you're a genius. If it fails, you're an idiot. Stoops takes risks and always has, usually of the "didn't think that was coming" variety. It worked best with Heupel as quarterback because Heupel, while lacking the kind of physical attributes that translate to the pros, was an extremely smart quarterback. Bomar is a freshman with a helluva a lot of unrefined talent. Had he been having a day like he's had against some teams, that play would have worked well.

The risk was taken because Peterson is still not physically 100%, not even close, and he was a target. Had he gotten the ball and failed, the terminal critics would be saying the same kind of thing. You have Bomar, who has shown moments of brilliance in tight situations, ready to make a pass, but he went to a less than 100% running back. Looks like Stoops still hasn't shaken the legacy of smashmouth football at Oklahoma and went with tradition rather than intelligence. (BTW, that's a very close paraphrase of an article critical of Stoops earlier in the season when the decision he made in that situation was in fact reversed.)

As for the ball spiking incident, I think it was rather clear that incident damn near ruined the whole experience for Stoops and his players by how pissed he got about it, and rightly pissed. It wasn't like Stoops told Bomar to do that.

So, I really don't see the basis of your argument. *I* don't personally think Stoops will go pro, at least not in the near future. As already mentioned, he has an incredibily sweet deal at OU, and it would difficult for the kind of pro team in need of a coach to offer him the kind of incentives he has with OU.

As a related aside, it's always funny to me to find people who hate OU or Michigan or Notre Dame or whatever team no matter what. They can do no right. They lose a game, and they are idiots. They win a close game, and they are lucky idiots. They win a blowout, and they are arrogant show-offs. So, ya know, whatever. As an OU fan, I wasn't making excuses for them the last two years, and as an OU fan, I'm certainly not going to make excuses for the teams they beat this year, particularly when all the "experts" said one of those teams was supposedly going to clean their clocks without breaking a sweat. The scoreboard writes the final chapter. Oregon fans and other terminal critics need to deal with it, just as OU fans were forced to deal with USC and LSU.

[bmbmd]

18. You have an answer for everything.

What did you think of the clock management in the fourth quarter?
Ou should have beaten UO by two touchdowns.

[RoyGBiv]

19. Very poor execution ...

I don't live in a black and white world.

Ciao.

[fishwax]

20. i doubt that, considering this was an upset win

and stoops righted a ship that was looking thoroughly swamped early in the season, ending the year with an upset win against a top 5 team.

[RoyGBiv]

21. Woulda, coulda ...

Would have ended the year with 7 wins in a row if not for the Tech game. :grr:

[fishwax]

22. yep. that one still gets me

i try not to complain about officiating, but oy! Oh well, still a very strong finish for a very young team. I feel plenty of reason to feel hope for next year ...

[RoyGBiv]

23. Same here ...

I am not a person that blames things on the refs, and in all fairness, OU's defense did break down a bit during that final drive. BUT ... in all may days of watching football, I have never seen such a stream of bad calls during a single drive. One could certainly be forgiven for thinking the refs were trying to manufacture a touchdown for Tech at all costs. Almost as bad as the last call was the one before it that was actually overturned, and it's only "almost" as bad because the review process is in place. But, in my mind, it showed how the refs were leaning. Just really shitty officiating.

It's really been bad everywhere this year, actually. I've watched several games in which I held no stake personally, and I felt one side or the other got completely hosed by the officiating.

[KamaAina]

24. Here is the Yale fight song:

Boola Boola!
Boola Boola!
Boola Boola!
Boola Boola!
...and so on.

Guess which team had it first? Hint: it's the second-winningest all-time behind Michigan, I made better grades there than either Kerry or (obviously) King Dumbass**, and it's in New Haven, not Norman.

So not only is it a boring song, but OU actually plagiarized it from us. Ye gods!

K-A
Y'85 cum laude