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This has been an easy one to research, for the most part. Oklahoma has several message boards, and they are all very accessible. However, I almost did this in a 2-part segment. Their message boards were spewing with overconfidence about this game before the season started, that's toned down a decent bit after Week 1.
They are still extremely confident, but it seems they realize this won't be the same game as last year. Here's what the Oklahoma faithful are saying regarding Saturday's home opener in Neyland Stadium:
-To start off, this isn't relevant to this game, and not surprising, but man these people hate Texas. There is as much talk about Texas as there is about our game.
-Need someone to forward this to Hurd:
-I have seen the term "we will light them up" probably 15 times reading through their threads.
-They do have SERIOUS concerns at O-line. As a fan base, this is getting brought up often. Not just pass protection but apparently their run blocking is awful (which explains the terrible ground effort against Akron.)
-Analysis of our BG game:
-The general feeling is that they believe if they stop our run game, and don't let the crowd affect them, this will be an easy win.
-There IS a Baker Mayfield for Heisman Watch after his performance in the Akron game........ so...... ya know..... everyone watch out.
-I've seen this mentioned a few times, they keep saying "We (Oklahoma) have 4 running backs on our squad that will play on Sundays." I think it's fair to assume that's an exaggeration.
-They see the opening line with them favored by 3 as "easy money." Although interestingly enough, on one of their boards they have a thread about the line saying "OU -3" and the thread consists of about 10 posts of them griping about being the underdogs. I don't think they ever figured out that -3 means they opened as 3 point favorites.
-To no one's surprise, they feel the key to this game is to exploit our secondary.
-Ugh..... there is a thread warning Sooner fans who are traveling to make sure to use "gender neutral" pronouns. We deserve that one.
-There is a good bit of discussion about Neyland, but it's a mixed bag. To some, it's going to be an awesome sight to see, and may really affect the team. To others, it's overrated:
-Although they are confident they will win, general score predictions have them winning by 3-7 with it being a somewhat low/mid-scoring affair (mid 20's-ish)
-Our fans are very well received on their boards, as their fans are here.
-They feel the same as we do in regards to perception of their team, in the sense of "We will know everything we need to know about our 2015 squad on the Sunday morning after this game."
-I posted this last year, but I'm sorry it's too good not to post again:
I may be making them sound worse than they are, but this is definitely a 180 degree flip from what I saw from them last year. Last year they seemed to have a great deal of respect for us as a team, this year they seem to think this is a small bump in the road. Let's get loud in Neyland and send them limping back to the Little 12. GBO!!
They are still extremely confident, but it seems they realize this won't be the same game as last year. Here's what the Oklahoma faithful are saying regarding Saturday's home opener in Neyland Stadium:
-To start off, this isn't relevant to this game, and not surprising, but man these people hate Texas. There is as much talk about Texas as there is about our game.
-Need someone to forward this to Hurd:
-I have seen the term "we will light them up" probably 15 times reading through their threads.
-They do have SERIOUS concerns at O-line. As a fan base, this is getting brought up often. Not just pass protection but apparently their run blocking is awful (which explains the terrible ground effort against Akron.)
-Analysis of our BG game:
-The general feeling is that they believe if they stop our run game, and don't let the crowd affect them, this will be an easy win.
-There IS a Baker Mayfield for Heisman Watch after his performance in the Akron game........ so...... ya know..... everyone watch out.
-I've seen this mentioned a few times, they keep saying "We (Oklahoma) have 4 running backs on our squad that will play on Sundays." I think it's fair to assume that's an exaggeration.
-They see the opening line with them favored by 3 as "easy money." Although interestingly enough, on one of their boards they have a thread about the line saying "OU -3" and the thread consists of about 10 posts of them griping about being the underdogs. I don't think they ever figured out that -3 means they opened as 3 point favorites.
-To no one's surprise, they feel the key to this game is to exploit our secondary.
-Ugh..... there is a thread warning Sooner fans who are traveling to make sure to use "gender neutral" pronouns. We deserve that one.
-There is a good bit of discussion about Neyland, but it's a mixed bag. To some, it's going to be an awesome sight to see, and may really affect the team. To others, it's overrated:
-Although they are confident they will win, general score predictions have them winning by 3-7 with it being a somewhat low/mid-scoring affair (mid 20's-ish)
-Our fans are very well received on their boards, as their fans are here.
-They feel the same as we do in regards to perception of their team, in the sense of "We will know everything we need to know about our 2015 squad on the Sunday morning after this game."
-I posted this last year, but I'm sorry it's too good not to post again:
I may be making them sound worse than they are, but this is definitely a 180 degree flip from what I saw from them last year. Last year they seemed to have a great deal of respect for us as a team, this year they seem to think this is a small bump in the road. Let's get loud in Neyland and send them limping back to the Little 12. GBO!!
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