OSU has had its fair share of embarrassing losses during Mike Gundy’s tenure. Things feel different this time.
WHISKEY CUP STANDINGS
Trent last week: 8-5 (.615)
Trent overall: 31-10 (.756)
Nate last week: 9-4 (.692)
Nate overall: 28-13 (.682)
No. 16 Oklahoma 35, Cincinnati 28. These two oh-so-briefly conference foes have played twice, in 2008 in Norman and in 2010 at Cincy. OU won both games but the second was a 31-29 nailbiter, similar to the way I expect this one will be. OU’s offense looks close to immortal, but hasn’t had a real test yet this year. Dillon Gabriel threw three picks in his last visit to Nippert Stadium, as a freshman at UCF.
SMU 24, TCU 42. TCU leads the Battle for the Iron Skillet 52-42-7. That makes this the 102nd meeting between these two, for those counting, played every year since 1915, though the brass at TCU have recently hinted at discontinuing the game. Why do the brass everywhere have to be fucking morons?
BYU 38, Kansas 37. Vegas likes Kansas more than it likes BYU, but the Mormons just got through going on the road and beating a fairly salty Arkansas squad in Fayetteville. Can they do it again?
Texas Tech 27, West Virginia 20. Neal Browne bought himself some time by making Pitt eat shit last week, but this feels like exactly the kind of game WVU has routinely lost during his tenure in Morgantown.
Oklahoma State 3, Iowa State 14. Miserable: the only word to describe the vibe around the OSU football program right now. Mike Gundy has made inexplicable statement after inexplicable statement all week—which you can go find yourself if you want, I sure as hell ain’t looking them up all over again—to the tune of all three quarterbacks having played well last week (the fuck?!), continuing to play all three this week (the fuck?!), the team itself having no really big problems (the fuck?!), the team not planning to do anything differently (the fuck?!) and others. It’s easy to forget that Iowa State also embarrassed itself last week, losing 10-7 to Ohio, though at least the Cyclones were on the road, whereas the Pokes took the wateriest of shits into their own socks in front of sixty thousand of the Loyal and True. A somewhat incredible stat: going back to 2015, the last eight games between ISU and OSU have all been settled by one score or less.
Sam Houston 10, Houston 35. Several Big 12 teams have had incredibly disappointing starts to the season—here’s looking at you Baylor, Iowa State, and OSU, but has any team in the conference had a worse opening slate than Houston? That loss to Rice still stings.
No. 3 Texas 31, Baylor 34. Another old SWC and Big 12 rivalry game bites the dust here, in the 113th meeting between BU and UT. This is my upset of the week. The Bears have won the last two times these teams have met in Waco.
UCF 31, Kansas State 42. What an incredibly frustrating loss for K-State last week. The Wildcats outplayed MU, and then lost on an incredible 61-yard field goal. That one hurt a bit.