The Coin Toss

What could be a bigger match up than this? #2 vs #5 and absolutely everything any team plays for is riding on the outcome of this game. Whoever loses this game will lose their shot at the Big XII championship and their shot at the national championship. This IS the biggest game of the year, nothing this season has had more to be decided upon it than this game. Sports fan, writers, announcers, Game day crew, and even movie writers should be foaming at the mouth for this game. No pressure or anything Raiders and Sooners!

Every eye in America will be tuning into ABC at 7 pm Saturday night to watch this one. If your wanting to watch a shootout, you better be ready! You have the #1 ranked offense, in Oklahoma, against the #3 ranked offense in Tech. Oh by the way these offenses are going against the #52 ranked scoring defense (Tech), and the #56 scoring defense (Oklahoma). Now it’s very hard to say that either of these teams are bad defenses considering that most of the points scored against them come late in the game when the mop up crews are in.

I think that this game will come down to whose defense shows up and whose stayed at home. You are not going to totally shut down either offense. Techs Head Coach Mike Leach is probably one of the better offensive minds in college football. I think he will definitely be moving on the greener pastures and coaching on Sundays someday. Oklahoma has been trying to find his replacement since 2000, and I believe they have in Kevin Wilson.  This offensive strategy he has brought to Oklahoma has turned into what it is, the best in the country.

The question of the day, or even the week, is,  which defense will be clicking on Saturday? Will Frank Alexander step up and replace All American Austin English? Will Austin Box come into his own this weekend and be able to cover Eric Morris sneaking across the middle? How well can Brian Jackson cover Michael Crabtree? Or will it be Lendy Holmes put in man coverage on him? All of these questions have got to be brewing throughout Norman, OK.  Now on the other hand, will Techs defense be able to push through the nations top offensive line? Will they be able to cover Jermaine Gresham? Are their cover corners going to handle the stable of receivers Oklahoma has? Are they going to be able to stop the rushing attack that has come back into form in the last few weeks in Norman?

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind the offenses will be scoring, but the suspect defenses on both sides of the ball will have to come out on the main stage and show off what we have not seen yet this year. This game has the resume of ending 100-99 at the final whistle. Who can stop who?

When the smoke clears, all the schooner stampedes have ended, all the crowd roars are over, and all the finger pistols are holstered, you will look up to the southern sky and in plain view you will see one of the biggest high definition TVs you have ever seen. On that board you will see the ending results of the greatest college football shootout ever. Oklahoma 66 Texas Tech 52. Boomer Sooner!