Sooners, Mountaineers Grab Inside Lanes in Big XII Race

Published on 4-Nov-2018 by Alan Adamsson

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Sooners, Mountaineers Grab Inside Lanes in Big XII Race

The two games that really mattered in Texas this weekend totaled 180 points, and that's without overtime.

We should all be numb to these sortsa scores now. The Big XII has all but trademarked them.

Besides, everyone looks like they're having a helluva time. Maybe even the coaches.

 

It's still quite possible the survivor outta this conference is gonna take its act into battle against the likes of Alabama, Notre Dame, or Clemson.

You know, teams that ... like ... play defense.

 

It's a concept, all right.

But hell, as St Herman so profoundly puts it ...

 

That's right, and frankly, it doesn't matter if you do the LSU 9 Alabama 6 thing or the weekly Big XII pinball parade.

There's no eye test needed when it comes to the win-loss column.

So sit back and join Hedley Lamarr in sitting back and enjoying the show:

 

 

For the record, Grier's 2-point conversion came after their first successful 2-point slant-in pass conversion that was called back because of a late Texas timeout.

This gambit saved what surely woulda been an infinite round of overtime rounds and a toppling of Georgia Tech's all-time scoring record when they beat Cumberland 222-0 back in 1916.

Meanwhile, in Lubbock, where Buddy Holly's career really took off ...

 

 

Damn right.

And as always, past performance is no guarantee of future results:

 

There's a place for this style of football in a playoff system, but being rea, the CFP would have to expand before it gets its due.

The odds of this happening under the current setup and sentiments, though ...