Game Preview: Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma

I hate to be a wet rag, but we're getting blown out by Oklahoma for the following reasons:

-It's in Norman
-Sooners had a bye week to prepare
-OU needs a blow-out win to move up the BCS rankings with the season winding down
-They're pissed that they had a lackluster outing against Iowa State in the last game
-They have the 3rd ranked rushing defense in the nation, and the running game is the only thing we have going for us this year.

All of this adds up to bad, bad signs for the Aggies. Let's just hope that it's not going to be the 77-0 debacle of a couple of years ago in which Sports Illustrated felt compelled to write a whole feature piece on the route. My favorite part of that story was when Terrence Murphy was quoted as saying something along the lines of, "If I'd caught that first pass, it would have been 77-7." Painfully hilarious.

Bradford will have about 250 yards and 4 TDs, Malcolm Kelly will get his 100 yards+ receiving, and They'll gain another 200 yards on the ground. In the meantime, they'll stack eight men in the box, but we'll try to pound out the triple option anyway and gain nothing in the ground for three quarters before trying to pass when we're behind. It'll basically be like the Kansas game but worse because OU is a more talented team, and Stoops is one of the top coaches in the country. Our only chance is for Bradford to suddenly wake up tomorrow and realize that he's a redshirt freshmen who'd still be riding the pine if Rhett Bomar hadn't royally fucked up. Or for McGee and Bennett to realize that were two of the most highly-recruited players out of Texas, ignore Franchione's plays, and go ballistic on the OU defense with a tag team aerial attack between the two of them. Not gonna happen. I'm predicting that the final score will be 42-7.

Next update: Sunday--The Franchione Fire-O-Meter heats up.