justaguy40
Mosheim, TN
age: 40
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I say USC & Whoever comes out of the big 12 between Texas Oklahoma & Missouri. The SEC is by far the best but with so many powerhouse teams they'll probably knock each other from contention. A shame We don't have a playoff.
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mountainman7
Chattanooga, TN
age: 41
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justaguy40 wrote, "I say USC & Whoever comes out of the big 12 between Texas Oklahoma & Missouri. The SEC is by far the best but with so many powerhouse teams they'll probably knock each other from contention. A shame We don't have a playoff."
One humorous scenario could suggest that Oklahoma gets relegated to the Fiesta Bowl for the third year in a row. The Fiesta Bowl committee offers OU a chance at redemption, allowing Stoops and his troops to think the "third time is a charm". No Statue of Liberty plays, no getting run over by a Mack Truck. Everything's going well for the Sooners. That is, until the OU coaching staff encounters weird dreams about alien spacecraft (oddly looking like bronchos and mountaineers) making a pit stop by the team's motel on the way to Roswell, New Mexico for an ET reunion with extraterrestrials and Drew Barrymore. Stoops gets up in the middle of the night, swearing his staff to secrecy about the game plan he has in mind for the Fiesta Bowl. His players buy into the game plan. They go out in force onto the football field, arm in arm in unity, proving that the third time is indeed a charm, instead of being noted in the Trivial Pursuit, 2015 sports edition, "Who is the only college football team to lose three Fiesta Bowl games in a row?"
OU is down by two and marching down the field. Led by Sam Bradford, OU is the red zone in the last minute of the game, with thoughts of the completing the second coming of Eli Manning's winning drive vs. the Patriots dancing in OU's heads. Once again, thoughts of alien exterrestrial aircraft come through the OU coaching staff's heads. They look up, and the closing scenes of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" begin playing. The OU coaching staff all become dizzy, disorganized, disoriented, and Bradford isn't sure what to do. OU's staff gets taken up into the spacecraft for future evaluation. Fortunately through all of this, OU still has time for a game-winning field goal. The ball is hiked, put down, and kicked into the air. However, as the football hits the bottom of the uprights, it skids around on the bottom then begins breakdancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". The OU fans go wild, thinking that redemption has arrived. However, "Thriller" stops playing, the ball never crosses the crossbar and goes back out of the end zone and ends up at the five yard line.
Upon return from the alien spaceship, Stoops gets fired (for his inability to win the big game during the winter holidays), and OU gets a five-year ban from the Fiesta Bowl committee from playing in the Fiesta Bowl. Stoops manages to overcome his alien nightmares, and goes on to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for all the things he accomplished for the Sooners. The 2015 sports edition of Trivial Pursuit comes out on the shelves. One of the questions is, "Name the nationally known college football team that was beat in the Fiesta Bowl three consecutive years (Hint: They were affected by the Statue of Liberty in year one, a Mack Truck in year two, and alien spacecraft in year three). The "Boz", Brian Bosworth, comes back to OU wearing a new shirt, "NCAA...National Communists Against Aliens".
A few years later, the NCAA playoffs come to fruition for BCS schools. Ohio State is playing against OU in the first round of the BCS playoffs, due to both teams inability to win the big game during the winter holidays in the past couple of years. After 15 overtimes, the score is knotted at 13-13. All the players have no energy left in them. It's come down to Brutus and the Sooner Schooner playing for the right of that mascot's team to face the winner of the Michigan vs. Texas matchup in round two.
On a more realistic note, OU has as good a chance as Missouri, Wisconsin (who I feel will win the Big 10 this year), and several of the top SEC teams to get into the national championship game. Although USC is the best team in the Pac 10, it could still lose a conference game (especially if it ends up being UCLA of all teams at the end of USC's season) - which could cost USC an opportunity to play in the national championship game. USC vs. Ohio State *again*, this time in the Rose Bowl? Boring, *yawn*.
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