ONE SENTENCE GAME RECAP
Saban rips off his clothes and streaks across a smoke-filled field naked but Colt gets hurt then UT does a dead-on impression of KU by giving Alabama a free TD to end the half then decides to make it close for Vegas but caps the whole thing off by offering up another free TD to Alabama to end the game. Congrats Tide.

I KNEW
... that Greg McMuffinroy could pull it off when they mentioned that he had never lost a football game in this life or any past lives a… Continue

I didn't have a blog back in 2001-2002 when Mark Mangino was hired, but I readily admit I was not excited about the choice. No, it didn't have anything to do with his weight. I did not want a member of Bill Snyder's coaching tree. I did not want ties to Kansas State. If we had success, I did not want KSU fans holding it over our heads that we had to go within their family to build a program. At the time, I didn't know they had a deep hatred of Mangino as the supposed orchestrator of the great as… Continue

FROM ROW 9, CONCRETE HELL
What a dumb way to lose a game. The real problem with Mangino-gate is that it confuses the issue of the on-the-field performance. It's pretty much always been a given that every KU football coach is literally one home loss to Missouri away from losing his job. The Arrowhead deal has maybe given both Mark Mangino and Gary Pinkel a sense of security in that respect. Still, let me just try to evaluate the football performance minus the political circus.

SIN #1: Let… Continue

1 (A+ 97%) Texas 11-0, 7-0
Smooth sailing at they head into College Station favored by 22-1/2 points.
(HD Weekly Rank: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1)

2) (B+ 89%) Oklahoma State 9-2, 6-1
Struggled with Colorado in Stillwater but won 31-28 -- that was weird. OSU travels to OU with a shot at a BCS bowl. No line on the game yet.
(HD Weekly Rank: 2-7-6-6-6-5-2-2-3-2-2-2)

3) (B+ 88%) Texas Tech 7-4, 4-3
A really nice rebuilding year for the Red Raiders. Nine wins still possible as they head to Waco for a… Continue

FROM THE BASEMENT
If we didn't have the whole Lew vs Mangino backdrop for the game, I'd be kicking off today's post by stating that this is not where I expect to be in year eight. A six-game losing streak and the fact that we did not look to be in the same league as Texas ... except, we sort of did. Up front, we ran the ball fairly well. At times, Reesing was under heat, but other times our offense was clicking and he seemed to have adequate time to operate. Dezmon Briscoe certainly fit i… Continue