OU jumps tu in BCS

by miketag on Nov 30, 2008 4:44 PM CST Comment 5 comments

The BCS is out and OU passed tu. IMO this was a no brainer. Ever since Demarco Murray regained confidence in his knee, OU has been an offensive juggernaut. They scored 61 at Stillwater against a team that tu scored 27 at home against. If OU and tu played today, OU would win by 2-3 TDs. The big difference to me is Murray. The sips are going to bitch and whine, but the bottom line is that they played noone on non-conference play and lost to a Tech team that OU dominated. The tu coaches deserve all the credit in the world for getting the most out of this group. To win 11 games with no running game and a suspect secondary is quite a feat. It is a tribute to the senior leadership on the team that they got that done. However, that does not mean they are the best team in the conference nor that they deserve to play for the national title.

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This is a myth:

OU has been an offensive juggernaut. They scored 61 at Stillwater against a team that tu scored 27 at home against. If OU and tu played today, OU would win by 2-3 TDs. The big difference to me is Murray.

Stats: I think this “confidence” is just weaker competition. Tell me which of those games he regained confidence in? It looks like A&M just stands out as terrible against the run.

Other than at A&M, K-State, and Tech only his first 3 games did he manage to exceed his season average yards/carry.

Against the best defenses on OU’s schedule he averaged less than 2 yds/carry. 1.8 ypc vs TCU & 0.9 ypc vs UT.

I’m not going to claim that Murray’s not a good RB, or even that UT has a better one, but I completely disagree with the assertion that he was really bad against UT and way better afterward. UT simply shut him down, holding OU to 1.8 ypc in the process. I’d also argue that his “improvement” is due to the opposing D more than any other factor.

Why is everybody so distracted by offense that they forget defense?

by ajax77777 on Nov 30, 2008 6:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I think his knee injury really bothered him mentally for most of this season. He clearly wasn’t the same player he was in ‘07. Not that I’m bothered by that, but he was not as aggressive.

by Tech92 on Nov 30, 2008 10:24 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Which game did things change then?

Statistically the only late season game that’s really an anomaly is A&M and UT’s short yardage back, COJO, managed 12.8 yds/carry on 8 carries against A&M’s run defense.

by ajax77777 on Dec 1, 2008 7:32 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The game where he came back to form

was the Kansas game. He was running harder than he had all season and ran with the confidence that he had last season before the knee injury. He looked like the DeMarco who was running and jumping all over Texas last season during the Kansas game and ever since he has regained that “swagger” if you will. At least that coming from an OU student who has seem him play every game so far.

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by Jubanator14 on Dec 1, 2008 4:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

when I asked ccmachine about Murray before we played OU

he mentioned that he had averaged 80 yds rushing per game in the last few games and expected him to do well against A&M.

I finally saw the player Murray had been hyped to be against Tech and against Okie State. He was running with power, breaking tackles, cutting on a dime, just showing himself to be a complete playmaker.

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by Beergut on Dec 2, 2008 12:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs