SB Nation User Blog: ccmachine

Sam Bradford Has Ligament Damage

ccmachine — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:21:02 -0000

Sam Bradford will be playing with a soft cast on his non-throwing hand in the Big 12 Championship Game Saturday evening. He suffered the injury on Oklahoma’s first possession of the Bedlam game and it was the main contributing factory to his fumbled snap when under center.

Because of the injury Oklahoma will be using the shotgun most, if not all, of the time. That will most likely have implications on the running game and could make goal line situations more interesting.

Get Ready For Missouri!

ccmachine — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:48:22 -0000

This should get you fired up!

Its Big 12 Championship week and the Sooners will be representing the South for the third consecutive year and the seventh time in nine seasons. Oklahoma won’t have an experience advantage over their opponent because the Missouri Tigers are making their second consecutive trip to the championship game.

Rock M Nation becomes our rival site this week. They cover the Tigers like no one else and seem to have already found their battle cry for the week.

Missouri becomes America's team this week as it tries to set the BCS world aflame, taking on Oklahoma next Saturday at Arrowhead for the Big 12 Title.

And, don't forget: 2003 Kansas State.

Results Against Common Opponents

Opponent	Oklahoma Result	Missouri Result
Nebraska	62-28 W	52-17 W
OSU	61-51 W	23-28 L
Texas	35-35 L	31-56 L
Baylor	49-17 W	31-28 W
Kansas State	58-35 W	41-24 W
Kansas	45-31 W	37-40 L

They don’t play the game on paper but if they did I would take the Sooners and the points. However, the way it is with the game being played on the field and all we’d better discuss it before rushing to any judgment. Happy Big 12 Championship Week!

A Letter Of Apology To Texas Fans

ccmachine — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:36:22 -0000

Hey gang,

CCMachine here, I just wanted to drop by and say congrats on a great season. I realize that this could sound like congratulations in jest but please trust me that it isn’t. While I’ll never apologize for Oklahoma playing in the Big 12 Championship Game I will offer a sincere apology for the circumstances in which the Sooners were selected. I didn’t think that it was a fair situation for any of the teams involved.

I was in the Cotton Bowl when the Longhorns beat OU and made no excuses for the loss then nor do I now. In fact, I walked out of the State Fair shocked at how physical Texas was. I’ll give the Longhorns every ounce of credit that they deserve and say that you guys have a very solid case and every right to be mad as heck.

Let me also say that I appreciate your visits to Crimson and Cream Machine and have enjoyed most of the comments left by Texas fans. As long as there is Oklahoma and Texas there will be banter between the two and I can’t help but think how much this is going to add to the rivalry next October.

OU isn’t at fault for the decisions made and neither are the fans. The system is what it is and has been in place since 1995 I guess. Everyone knew what the possible scenarios were and agreed to them long ago. I know that doesn’t make anything better but it does show that there isn’t any blame to put on Oklahoma’s shoulders. All they did was finish the season strong.

I know that you will all be rooting for the Tigers Saturday night and I wouldn’t expect anything different. I just wanted to stop by and say that as a member of your hated rival I am sorry for the way things went down today. Why I don’t totally agree with everything that comes from your camp I certainly understand your beef.

Warning!!!

ccmachine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:16:50 -0000

Our goal here at Crimson and Cream Machine is to build an online community of Sooner fans to discuss and share opinions on Sooner athletics. While all opinions are welcome here please be warned that profanity and/or consistent flaming will result in posts or comments being deleted and even in some cases users being banned.

That is all. Thanks!

Oklahoma Sooners – 2008 Big 12 South Champions

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:55:15 -0000

With apologies to the Texas Longhorns I think I’ll celebrate a south division championship now. It is Oklahoma’s third consecutive (2006 – 08) and seventh overall (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008). We knew that someone was going to get hosed and while all three teams had legitimate arguments (I really did understand them all – didn’t agree with them all but understood them) but in the end it was Oklahoma’s overall body of work that led them to Kansas City.

Now the Sooners must turn full attention to the Missouri Tigers and not worry, or even care, what the critics are saying. With the conference championship in Kansas City it will be like a home game for the Missouri Tigers and you know that they will be looking for both redemption in the 2008 season and revenge from the 2007 season. There are middle linebacker questions to address as well as coverage issues on one of the Big 12’s best receivers. We’ll get into that this week but for right now let’s just take a big sigh of relief.

Can I get someone to holla’ back – BOOMER!!!

BCS		Harris Poll			USA Today			Computer Rankings
	TEAM	BCS AVG	PRVS	RK	PTS	%	RK	PTS	%	COMP AVG	A&H	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW	%
1	Alabama	.9713	1	1	2815	.9965	1	1521	.9974	3	25	25	23	21	22	22	.920
2	Oklahoma	.9351	3	4	2569	.9094	2	1397	.9161	1	22	24	24	25	25	25	.980
3	Texas	.9223	2	3	2575	.9115	3	1396	.9154	2	23	22	25	23	24	24	.940
4	Florida	.8851	4	2	2619	.9271	4	1385	.9082	6	20	23	22	20	20	19	.820
5	USC	.8076	5	5	2378	.8418	5	1298	.8511	8	17	21	19	19	18	17	.730
6	Utah	.7844	6	7	2111	.7473	7	1153	.7561	5	24	19	21	22	21	21	.850
7	Texas Tech	.7805	7	8	2090	.7398	8	1116	.7318	4	21	20	20	24	23	23	.870
8	Penn State	.7373	8	6	2177	.7706	6	1176	.7711	9	18	16	17	16	16	18	.670
9	Boise State	.7034	9	9	1937	.6857	9	1044	.6846	7	19	18	18	18	19	20	.740
10	Ohio State	.6340	10	10	1856	.6570	10	999	.6551	11	16	17	16	11	13	14	.590
11	TCU	.5633	14	12	1502	.5317	11	836	.5482	10	15	13	12	17	17	16	.610
12	Ball State	.5306	15	11	1526	.5402	13	765	.5016	12	13	15	15	12	9	15	.550
13	Cincinnati	.4831	16	13	1425	.5044	12	770	.5049	15	12	9	14	9	11	12	.440
14	Oklahoma State	.4276	12	14	1217	.4308	15	613	.4020	T-13	7	12	7	13	15	13	.450
15	Georgia Tech	.4046	22	16	1065	.3770	16	590	.3869	T-13	10	11	10	15	14	9	.450
16	Georgia	.3311	11	20	833	.2949	19	440	.2885	16	14	10	13	8	8	10	.410
17	Boston College	.3202	21	19	834	.2952	20	435	.2852	17	9	3	9	14	12	8	.380
18	BYU	.3142	18	17	990	.3504	18	461	.3023	18	6	14	6	5	6	11	.290
19	Oregon	.3041	23	15	1076	.3809	14	658	.4315	23	0	7	4	0	0	6	.100
20	Missouri	.2818	13	18	896	.3172	17	470	.3082	20	8	8	5	4	4	5	.220
21	Michigan State	.2550	19	21	688	.2435	21	414	.2715	19	11	5	11	1	2	7	.250
22	Northwestern	.1216	24	22	414	.1465	22	333	.2184	NR	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
23	Pitt	.1012	25	23	346	.1225	23	154	.1010	T-24	5	1	8	0	0	2	.080
24	Florida State	.0768	20	29	30	.0106	29	15	.0098	21	4	0	3	10	10	4	.210
25	Virginia Tech	.0573	NR	27	71	.0251	26	41	.0269	22	0	0	2	7	7	3	.120

Fasten Your Seat Belts Texas Gets The Harris Poll Nod

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:05:59 -0000

Harris Poll
RANK	TEAM	RECORD	PTS	PVS
1.	Alabama (107)	12-0	2815	1
2.	Florida (4)	11-1	2619	2
3.	Texas (1)	11-1	2575	4
4.	Oklahoma	11-1	2569	3
5.	USC	10-1	2378	5
6.	Penn State	11-1	2177	6
7.	Utah (1)	12-0	2111	8
8.	Texas Tech	11-1	2090	7
9.	Boise State	12-0	1937	9
10.	Ohio State	10-2	1856	10
11.	Ball State	12-0	1526	14
12.	TCU	10-2	1502	15
13.	Cincinnati	10-2	1425	16
14.	Oklahoma State	9-3	1217	12
15.	Oregon	9-3	1076	19
16.	Georgia Tech	8-3	1065	22
17.	Brigham Young	10-2	990	18
18.	Missouri	9-3	896	11
19.	Boston College	9-3	834	20
20.	Georgia	9-3	833	13
21.	Michigan State	9-3	688	21
22.	Northwestern	9-3	414	24
23.	Pittsburgh	8-3	346	25
24.	Mississippi	8-4	239	NR
25.	Oregon State	8-4	211	17

Others Receiving Votes

Tulsa 87, Virginia Tech 71, Iowa 60, Florida State 30, Nebraska 20, California 18, Rice 12, West Virginia 9, North Carolina 9, Kansas 6, Connecticut 5, WESTRNMICHIGAN 4, LSU 3, Maryland 2.

Dropped From Rankings

Florida State 23.

Official announcement in about fifteen minutes but I don’t think Texas made enough ground overall. Keep your fingers crossed!

Press Conference Called for 4:00 this afternoon (11-30)

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:39:30 -0000

Press Conference Called for 4:00 this afternoon (11-30)

OU has called a press conference for 4:00 this afternoon. The BCS will have been announced by then so any guess as to what this is about is as good as mine.

Sooners #2 In Coaches Poll (Ahead of Texas)

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:15:20 -0000

USA Today Coaches' Poll
RANK	TEAM	RECORD	PTS	PVS
1.	Alabama (58)	12-0	1521	1
2.	Oklahoma (2)	11-1	1397	2
3.	Texas	11-1	1396	4
4.	Florida (1)	11-1	1385	3
5.	USC	10-1	1298	5
6.	Penn State	11-1	1176	6
7.	Utah	12-0	1153	7
8.	Texas Tech	11-1	1116	8
9.	Boise State	12-0	1044	9
10.	Ohio State	10-2	999	10
11.	TCU	10-2	836	14
12.	Cincinnati	10-2	770	16
13.	Ball State	12-0	765	15
14.	Oregon	9-3	658	18
15.	Oklahoma State	9-3	613	12
16.	Georgia Tech	8-3	590	23
17.	Missouri	9-3	470	11
18.	Brigham Young	10-2	461	19
19.	Georgia	9-3	440	13
20.	Boston College	9-3	435	22
21.	Michigan State	9-3	414	21
22.	Northwestern	9-3	333	20
23.	Pittsburgh	8-3	154	NR
24.	Oregon State	8-4	127	17
25.	Mississippi	8-4	126	NR

Others Receiving Votes

Virginia Tech 41, Iowa 31, Tulsa 21, Florida State 15, Nebraska 11, Kansas 10, Connecticut 5, North Carolina 5, Rice 5, California 4.

Dropped From Rankings

Florida State 24, West Virginia 25.

Oklahoma’s Football Resume

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:17:52 -0000

The regular season is over and everything is in the hands of the voters. The computers, even though no one understands how they work, are unbiased and operate only on facts. There is nothing to sway with the computers but the Coaches Poll and the secret society known as the Harris Poll is a different story. That said, here is Oklahoma’s 2008 resume to be submitted to the pollsters in hopes of gaining access to the Big 12 Championship game next weekend. Keep in mind that the Big 12 South Champion will be determined by an entire body of work and not just one weekend of football. That’s good news for the Texas Longhorns because they lost to a team who had to come from behind and beat Baylor by only a touchdown. I digress…

2008 OU Football Resume

Overall Record: 11-1

Key Wins:      52-26 over #16 Big East Champion Cincinnati

                        35-10 over #14 TCU

                        65-21 over # 7 Texas Tech

                        61-41 over #12 Oklahoma State (On the Road!)

Key Loss:       45-35 to #2 Texas at the Cotton Bowl

Qualifications:            Nation’s Top Scoring Offense

                                    Big 12’s Top Rated Quarterback

                                    Outscored Opponents 640 – 298 (+342)

                                    Won By An Average Margin Of 53-25

Previous Experience: Big 12 South Champs 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007

                                     Big 12 Champs 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007

All we can do from here is…..wait.

Post Bedlam Thoughts

ccmachine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:50:49 -0000

Wow! What an amazing game. Oklahoma had to earn their points tonight and that is a huge statement for the opponent. I believe that the Cowboys are every bit worthy of their top 15 ranking and shouldn’t fall too far after a 20 point loss at home. On the other hand Oklahoma showed that they are one of the best teams in the country by winning a big game on the road which is something that neither Texas nor Texas Tech can claim. As I say that it is important that we don’t lose the value of this win by tainting it with the BCS talk. It is relevant to the cause but I pointed out the road win simply because it is a major accomplishment for this team because no one seems to win road games against ranked teams in the Big 12.

Here are a few other thoughts…

OSU needs to fire their strength and conditioning coach. Either that or admit that part of their defensive strategy was to have guys pretend to be hurt in order to slow down Oklahoma’s no huddle. I’ve not seen more players down in a game, have trainers come out and tend to them and then go back in a few minutes later since the last World Cup.

Giving up 41 points to O-State is okay with me. This wasn’t the Sisters of the Poor that OU was playing. Again, there is a reason why the Cowboys were ranked #12 in the nation and, like Oklahoma last week with Tech, OSU had two weeks to prepare a game plan for attacking the Sooner defense.

Oklahoma has the best offense in the nation, hands down! Oklahoma has now scored 60 plus points in the last four games in a row. They are the nation’s top scoring offense and have so many different ways that they can burn you.

Jermaine Gresham is the best tight end in the country! His stat line tonight tells us all we need to know about this argument – 9 receptions, 158 yards, 2 touchdowns.

Sam Bradford should be the Heisman front runner! He is just money! Is there really another quarterback that you’d want to have the ball in his hands with the game on the line?

Another middle linebacker gone? It looks like Austin Box’s injury is a torn MCL. I would love nothing more than for that information to come back incorrect but it sure didn’t look good. In his place Mike Balogun played very well and looks to be OU’s third guy in the middle this season. Fourth if you count Nic Harris starting the Kansas game.

Oklahoma State can keep the 12,000 extra tickets! We’ll take a 20 point win anyway.

Zac Robinson has a new nickname! From this point on we’ll refer to him as Zac “Butterfingers” Robinson. His interception set up OU’s first score and his drops were also turned into Sooner points.

Bob Stoops gave Mack Brown a lesson in class. I called the shot in yesterday’s post and said that we would be hearing Mack Brown begging for votes during the telecast. At the end of the game when Bob Stoops was given opportunity he declined to do the same stating that Oklahoma had done their talking on the field. As a Sooner fan I want to see Oklahoma in Kansas City next week but only if they truly earned it and not because my coach and other fans begged for it by renting airplanes and getting airtime on the competition’s game.