snoodmonger

Are you kidding? Mizzou can score 14 points in about 3 seconds. I wouldn't write this off yet.

not sure what daniel is complaining about there.

That outside really is open all day for the Sooners. I don't know why they're running btw the tackles so much.

yama-hama

i guess i'm a wuss, 'cause i'd be sprinting outta that stadium with that 100k check. oh, wait. you get 75K no matter what? I might've taken a shot at it then.

nice play by Mizzou

rucker is a man-child.

^^^^I can't believe I'll actually be rooting for K State

Sheesh. All year I've thought this OU team was not much better than the rest of the Big XII, but watching them today.... They'll donkey punch us if they win tonight and we play them in the Fiesta Bowl.

Allen Patrick is good.

KU vs So Cal tomorrow. With Rush still slow, I wonder who will "guard" Mayo.

I believe Mizzou has gone three and out around ten times ALL season. When KU did it to them on the first two drives last week, that was the first time in a while.

it's amazing the difference a legit d line makes.

Yet watch the media pile on if the report names one of those people by whom the media feels wronged. (Sosa and Bonds are prime examples.) They'll never let it die, no matter how little the fans care, because there's nothing more vindictive than a slighted reporter. If Sosa's name comes up, you'll be able to see Phil Rogers' boner from outer Mongolia. Put me in the camp of people who don't care much either way. And count me as another person tired of the Bob Costas/Billy Crystal vision of baseball. Baseball is more than just those flickering black and white highlight reels that get them all hard. The fact that so many dusty-ass media farts still present it that way--as some treasured, pristine homage to the days of yore--is why many in the younger generation see it as the dull sport their grandpas used to love.

what was wrong with him? shoulder, right? did he have surgery?

^^^I heard Vance Nicholson messed around and got himself a triple/double. BALLIN'.

rumor has it that KSU's Bill Walker pissed himself right in front of the KSU bench last night. that's not figurative language. he stuffed a towel down his shorts and peed into it.

50 rpg? brick city.

haha, sulley.

AP Preseason 1. USC (62) 0-0 1,622 ---------9-2, 8th 2. LSU (2) 0-0 1,511 ---------10-2, 5th 3. West Virginia (1) 0-0 1,396 --10-1, 2nd 4. Texas 0-0 1,375-----------9-3, 17th 5. Michigan 0-0 1,371 -------- 8-4, NR 6. Florida 0-0 1,276-----------9-3, 10th 7. Wisconsin 0-0 1,192 -------9-3, 19th 8. Oklahoma 0-0 1,166 ------- 10-2, 9th 9. Virginia Tech 0-0 1,148 ----- 10-2, 6th 10. Louisville 0-0 1,031-------- 5-6, NR 11. Ohio State 0-0 876 -------- 11-1, 3rd 12. California 0-0 790 -------- 6-5, NR 13. Georgia 0-0 782 -----------10-2, 4th 14. UCLA 0-0 605-------------6-5, NR 15. Tennessee 0-0 571 ---------9-3, 14th 16. Rutgers 0-0 560------------7-4, NR 17. Penn State 0-0 542----------8-4, NR 18. Auburn 0-0 519 -----------8-4, 23rd 19. Florida State 0-0 392 -------7-5, NR 20. Nebraska 0-0 377----------5-7, NR 21. Arkansas 0-0 376 ----------8-4, NR 22. TCU 0-0 283--------------7-5, NR 23. Hawaii 0-0 256------------11-0, 11th 24. Boise State 0-0 187---------10-2, 24th 25. Texas A&M 0-0 162---------7-5, NR Others Receiving Votes Missouri 128, 11-1, 1st Georgia Tech 94, Boston College-12th, Oregon-18th, South Carolina 69, Miami (FL) 68, Alabama 66, Oregon State 42, Wake Forest 40, South Florida-25th, Arizona State-13th, Brigham Young 21st, Southern Miss 12, Notre Dame 11, Virginia--22nd, Clemson-16th, Oklahoma State 3, Texas Tech 2, Purdue 1, Houston 1, Kentucky 1, North Carolina State 1. Currently ranked but did not receive votes pre-season: Kansas (7th) Illinois (15th) Cincinnati (20th) Now reflecting the current AP poll

Part of the reason is the 2 team per conference limit. More deserving teams might be on the outside looking in due to that rule. Part of it is tradition. Another part of it is the tie-in system. This is from the DMN article. I assume it applies to the Rose Bowl RE: Pac 10/Big 10 affiliation, too. Honestly, I don't see any way the Rose Bowl is ever frozen out of the BCS system. But making sure they take care of the Big 10 and Pac 10 ensures those conferences won't switch allegiances.

That's pathetic. Yikes. And I thought KU's non-con had been pathetic. All these premium schools have figured out you can make tons of money by never playing road games. Before our new AD came, we'd play a lot of non-con roadies. But now we've got a guy who's milking every penny he can into the department. In a lot of ways, that's great. Our athletic department was straight from the 1970s before he came, and it was killing most of our sports programs. The downside is, though, stuff like the neutral field for the Border War and soft, home only non-con scheduling in hoops. We have done a bit better than Duke, though. And this year we have true roadies against USC, Boston College, and G-Tech.

I think it's simply rematches that are forbidden, not sure. Since we never played this year, that doesn't come into play. Three cheers for imbalanced scheduling! I know you're already a big fan of it. :wink: The writer claims that the BCS games who select before the Fiesta are much more likely to pass over Mizzou in favor of more attractive choices. (Example: Rose takes USC and UI to maintain Pac-10/Big-10 politics. Orange takes, I dunno, Georgia and somebody?) The writer thinks the Fiesta will pass on ASU because having the local team will hurt the economy.

According to the Dallas Morning News, KU is in the Fiesta no matter what happens this weekend between OU/MU. If MU wins, KU goes and plays ASU or UofI in the Fiesta Bowl. (MU to NC game, OU to Cotton) If MU loses, KU goes and plays OU in the Fiesta Bowl. (MU to the Cotton Bowl) I'm as big a KU homer as it gets, and I'd love to see us slip into a BCS game, but Mizzou would be getting the screw job of all screw jobs if the second scenario happens. That would mean they would be passed over for a BCS game in favor of not only one, but TWO teams they beat head-to-head (KU & UofI), one of which also has more losses. It's pretty much impossible to justify. Don't get me wrong--part of me would find it hilarious, because I love watching horrible things happen to Missouri and its fans. But the objective part of me finds the thing pretty appalling. Linkola

Yeah, it's a 4 year deal. I can't remember the matchups. KU already beat 'Zona Texas plays UCLA KSU against Oregon maybe? I believe two Pac 10 teams play twice because of the disparity in conference size. ('Zona may plat aTm, too?) EDIT: Here's the schedule: Nov. 25 - Arizona at KU Nov. 29 - Oregon at Kansas State; Oklahoma at USC Dec. 1 - Washington at Oklahoma State; Missouri at California Dec. 2 - Arizona State at Nebraska; Stanford at Colorado; Texas A&M at Arizona; Texas at UCLA Dec. 22 - Texas Tech vs. Stanford (Dallas)