As always, thanks to Joel at Rocky Top Talk for making these charts available to us.Unfortunately for us, this chart reads like a diagram of heartbreak.

Our women's soccer team will face Memphis in an NCAA Tournament first round game in Baton Rouge, LA on Friday. This makes our 15th consecutive appearance in the women's soccer NCAA Tournament. The Aggies will play Memphis at 4 p.m., and LSU will host Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 7 p.m. (Arkansas-Pine Bluff? Is the NCAA aware this isn't the baseball tournament, and they aren't required to send the SWAC champion to Baton Rouge?). The winners of the two first round games will face off on Sunday at 1 p.m.

I must say that I am a little disappointed we won't get the opportunity to host first and second round games at the Aggie Soccer Complex. I know LSU is currently ranked in the top 10 (#10 in the NSCA poll), but their 14-4-4 record isn't that much better than A&M's 14-6-2 record. Add in the fact that LSU's soccer stadium can only hold crowds of 1,200, while the capacity of the Aggie Soccer Complex is 3,500, and financially it just makes more sense to have the Aggies host the first and second round games. We have a state-of-the-art facility that is arguably the best soccer complex in the nation. I just think it does more for the sport to have games before bigger crowds in better facilities. I'm sure the NCAA tournament committee sees things differently, though.

UPDATE: Per Crimson and Cream Machine, DE Auston English is now also out for our game, and the rest of the season, with a ruptured tendon in his ankle.

A lifeless loss to Kansas State. An inspiring win at Texas Tech. A dominating win against improving Iowa State. A fourth-quarter meltdown against lowly Colorado.

Texas A&M (5-4, 2-3 Big 12) has produced puzzling results in the last month, flashing Top 25 potential at times and sputtering at key moments in others.

Apparently, Chris Duncan of the Associated Press thinks we're inconsistent. It amazes me that members of the sports media can't make the connection between playing lots of freshmen and inconsistency. One of the hallmarks of youth in sports is that you're going to get inconsistent results. I guess it is asking too much for Duncan or other writers to actually thnk before they write, though. The irony is that we didn't lose the Colorado game because we are inconsistent, this team has been fairly consistent in that they have a stellar offense and a poor defense. We lost to Colorado because we failed to do the little things that make sure you don't lose the game, like protect the football. Two turnovers in the fourth quarter ultimately doomed us.

In other important news, Sooner left guard Brody Eldridge is out for the game Saturday after injuring his shoulder against Nebraska last Saturday. Per Bob Stoops and offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson, Eldridge has been OU's highest graded lineman this season. Hopefully, our interior DL will be able to get a push against OU, and put some pressure on Landry Jones. NT Eddie Brown had a sack against Colorado Saturday, his third of the season, so hopefully the light is beginning to turn on for him.  Five of our seven sacks were by either DL or Jack linebackers(Von Miller had two sacks, Matt Featherston had one), so hopefully that bodes well for our defensive front this Saturday. Landry Jones doesn't appear to be as mobile as Tyler Hansen is, so hopefully we'll be able to get more pressure on him. 

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Texas A&M running back Cyrus Gray (32) celebrates with teammates Ken Wood (26) and Kenny Brown (15) after a touchdown against Colorado during the second quarter of the game in Boulder, Colo, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

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Cyrus Gray's 99 yard kickoff return for a TD and 181 total yards on four returns (45.25 yards avg) against Colorado was good enough for conference writers to vote him the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week.  This is Gray's first award this season, and the first conference award of any kind for an Aggie player this year. Hopefully, this is the first of several awards to come as the Aggies head into the toughest part of the season.

I was surprised to see that the offensive player of the week award went to QB Nick Florence of Baylor, and was not split with texas WR Jordan Shipley. Passing for a school-record 427 yards and 3 TDs on the road as you help break an 11-game conference road losing streak is impressive, but no more impressive than the 11 receptions for 273 yards and 1 TD Shipley had against Central Florida. I know texas was playing at home, and I know it is only Central Florida, but you don't see 200 yard receiving efforts often, much less a 273 yard effort. If Baron Batch deserved to share last week's Offensive PLayer of the Week award with Landry Jones, we should have had co-offensive players of the week this week, too, with both Shipley and Florence being honored.

Oklahoma is currently a 16-point  favorite over Texas A&M right now; I expect many gamblers to bet that number up. We'll be playing in Norman, where we've never been able to beat a Bob Stoops-coached team, and our defense just gave up 35 points to the worst offense in the Big 12 in Colorado last Saturday.

Oklahoma struggled to score points against Nebraska in their 10-3 loss, but A&M doesn't have a defensive lineman of the caliber of Ndamukong Suh, so I don't expect their struggles to continue. Add in the fact that Landry Jones won't be throwing five interceptions to our players, and you begin to see our predicament. Oklahoma averages just at 30 points a game, and 139 yards rushing with 273 yards passing. Playing our defense, you can expect those numbers to go up. If we can't stop Colorado's offense, we're not going to do much better playing OU in Norman. We have the worst pass defense in the Big 12, giving up an average of 249 yards per game, and one of the worst run defenses, giving up an average of 156 yards per game. Simply put, we really don't stop anyone.

The Sooners give up an average of 12.3 points per game, good for second in the conference behind Nebraska. OU has held opponents to an average of 179.6 yards per game passing and 86.8 yards per game rushing. Our offense will have their work cut out for them. We need to find a way to neutralize tackles DeMarcus Granger and Gerald McCoy, who might be the best second-best tackle tandem in the nation, behind Nebrask's Suh and Jared Crick. Complicating matters is the fact that defensive end Jeremy Beal is one of the Big 12 leaders in sacks, with 9.5 on the season so far. Our offensive line will need to come up big just to keep Jerrod Johnson upright, and give us a chance to run the ball and throw it around a little.

Right now, that 16-point line doesn't llike a bad bet for gamblers. Oklahoma will be angry after their poor offensive performance against Nebraska, and will want to take it out on us by scoring a decisive victory. With our defense's poor play, I am not sure how much resistance we'll offer. I am just hopeful we can make it a competitive game at this point..

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Texas A&M running back Christine Michael (33) breaks a tackle by Colorado cornerback Jalil Brown (23) and runs for a touchdown during the fourth quarter of the Texas A&M-Colorado game. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

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My thoughts:

• When you are on the road and faced with a 4th and goal to go situation inside the opponent's 3 yard line, I think you take the points and the FG early in the game to get on the board; late in the game, you go for the jugular and go for the TD. We did that backwards yesterday, going for the TD in the first quarter, taking the points in the 4th quarter.
• I understood the reasn we went with an Empty set so often (we had the talent to exploit their secondary), but I don't like the routes we ran. If we are going to go with 0 personnel that often, we need a shallow cross or drag route over the midde so we can take advantage of their willingness to blitz. They were getting pressure on us when we went empty, so we needed to make them pay for that.
• The strength of our offensive line is the guards and the center, so it is understandable why we kept trying to run up the middle. We had more our most success running against Colorado by going off-tackle, especially to the right side. I'm surprised we didn't adjust and run to that side more.

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Well, looks like our dream of making it to a bowl game is just that, a dream. We have one more realistic shot to make it to six wins, that being Baylor at home. This was just a pathetic effort by our defense. 35 points given up to the worst offense in the Big 12. Just pathetic.

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This is your live gamethread. BEAT THE HELL OUTTA CU!!!!!