Just so we're all clear, are you saying there was a conspiracy among the refs to screw Mizzou and let OSU win?
Ben, just step away from the keyboard buddy... every team is gonna have 1 loss again this year... don't get too worked up.
If you're asking if it was a bad call, I'll agree that it looks like it was from looking at that still frame. I wasn't watching the last quarter, had to leave the house, so I don't know what the replays looked like. Maybe the were clear and conclusive, I honestly don't know. Sometimes one frame taken from a still is not representative of what the refs have to look at though. But let's assume for a sec that it was clearly a bad call. Do you think there was a pro-OSU/anti-Mizzou agenda?
MIZZOU LOST. LSU LOST. OU LOST. UT will be number 1 tomorrow! (unless alabama gets it ) Wow- Texas Tech is gonna be in top 5, right? hook 'em
any austin horn fans bored in austin? of course none of you are, but im having a housewarming/early halloween party tonight. theres creepy punch. also, its funny when people dont know how to chill beer the fastest and youre like salt ice water bam. Thank you Mythbusters and uh science. good time to be a longhorn. its like any team though. there are good times and there are bad times. sometimes you get steve francis or dino rajah when you wish you were getting Hakeem/Bird. you guys be safe tonight. its really fun out tonight.
Yes, lots of teams will have one loss, and if we go into Austin and kick the **** out of Texas, we'll be right in the middle of it. The problem? There have to be no undefeateds from major conferences. Why? Let's assume one of Alabama/Penn State somehow runs the table, and Missouri/Oklahoma/Texas wins the Big XII with one loss. Would they be the deserving team? Absolutely. But they're going to get shafted for one-loss USC, who doesn't play a single team worth a **** and won't for the remainder of the season, but somehow has ESPN up their collective asses like every year. No, in theory, we shouldn't be out of it, but I'm afraid we are due to factors that are completely out of our control and completely unrelated to quantifiable on-field data.
In this particular game, there seemed to be. On Oklahoma State's first touchdown drive, Bryant made a catch, possessed the ball and took two steps before fumbling (Mizzou recovered on the 40). Very easy call to make, and the play wasn't blown dead, making it reviewable. Not only was the call blown on the field, but it wasn't even reviewed. Likewise, there were several calls on Mizzou's end, including an obvious touchdown, that conveniently were reviewed. I don't know what to think, really, other than there were a combination of very strange circumstances that took place with the replay system that seemed to all go against Mizzou. That's all I can say with any conviction.
I didn't watch all of the game, but OSU outplayed Missouri from the time I was watching. I am not sure when the interception this picture the cat has been posting but if it was the last one the reviewed it. They kept showing several angles of the play and all angles were poor, there was always some guy in the way. Had the ball been ruled incomplete I am sure it would have been an incompletion, just not enough evidence. From the picture it looks like an incompletion but he might have had possesion before. I don't know. Tough way to lose, I still think your head over heals better than anyone else in the big 12 north. Just now forces Missouri to win the big 12 championship to make it to a bcs bowl, after getting shafted last season.
This was the last one, and the picture is directly from the television replays (note the ESPN on the bottom right). They had the right angle -- but they were so busy celebrating Oklahoma State's win that they didn't look at it objectively and didn't look closer at the angle that had that. Yes, we should win the Big 12 North with ease, but it's not about that. It's about competing for a national title, and we pissed away the right to control our own destiny by dropping point blank first downs and batting them for interceptions, kicking a ****ing field goal on fourth and a foot from the one-foot line, missing field goals, getting screwed on multiple calls, having Maclin injured, having Chase throw passes that I've never seen him throw in three years... etc. With Missouri, you don't get a chance to compete on a national level every year. We legitimately had one, and we may have given it all away... by basically beating ourselves, with a little help from the officials thrown in. I don't mind losing if it's like the Big 12 game last year to OU, where we were simply outclassed. You tip your hat and say you just weren't good enough. Tonight, we were good enough... and we self-destructed on every possible level. If we finish 12-1 and on the outside looking in, this is the kind of game that will haunt you for the rest of your life, and I'm already expecting it. This is officially the worst sports week of my life. I spent all Sunday whining about how the Texans loss was the toughest to take of any in my entire life. It took all of six days to prove me wrong. This game really, really sucks sometimes.
Very true. If we get passed by a team that lost at home to Ole Miss... I don't know what I'll do. This sucks beyond belief.
. We may have lost to Ole Miss, but if UF wins out the rest of the season, they (along with basically any other one loss SEC team) will have a strong resume based on the ranked teams they have to defeat toward the end of the year. Teams that have earned their respect year after year tend to get the benefit of the doubt. A bunch of Big12 teams still have a shot though, but the strength of the Big12 as a whole needs to stay high. I don't know if Mizzou has a strong enough defense to make it out of the Big12 without another loss, but I will sure be cheering for you to knock off Texas next week.
Texas Tech looked miserable today, and, even with the losses, should expect to drop this week in the polls. That said, if Tech wins out, they're still in the Championship game. But today was gawd-awful.
Any predictions on what the Coaches poll is going to look like? It seems so up in the air where teams are going to land after this weekend.
Cheer up. If you saw the Rockets/Celtics game tonight, you saw why the Rockets are an obvious championship contender. Ron Ron seriously roughed up Paul Pierce, threw Ray Allen out of bounds and did NOT get a technical. All in the 1st period. Following his lead, Tracy threw Bill Walker to the floor after getting shoved and Ron Ron restrained Yao from going after Walker on a different play. The Rockets have a nasty attitude on the floor now. The softness is gone. I don't know if that helped much but I tried.
