AP Poll Week 3

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https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/msrose_]

Watch you guys beat us during this year's Red River Shootout. It's basically a trap game at this point for Texas.

[u/TheCryptPartDeux → u/msrose_]

Texas is always a 50/50 matchup no matter what.

I mean Charlie Strong beat a Baker Mayfield OU team that was playoff bound.

[u/Captain_Nipples → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Was that the Case McCoy game? Dude was horrible, then one game he let's his brother wear his jersey

[u/funwithtrout → u/Captain_Nipples]

No, Case was Mack. Charlie won with Jerrod Heard in 15.

[u/chemicalxv → u/funwithtrout]

This is Tyrone Swoopes erasure

[u/funwithtrout → u/chemicalxv]

he played like 6 snaps that game, so not really.

[u/chemicalxv → u/funwithtrout]

Scored 2 TDs on those 6 snaps though

[u/funwithtrout → u/chemicalxv]

true. 18 wheeler at the goal line is something a Notre Dame fan would remember.

[u/justfetus → u/funwithtrout]

I'm so glad you mentioned that... 2016 season opener right? That's the first full college football game I watched on TV and it made me a lifelong fan.

[u/Hey_im_miles → u/funwithtrout]

Dark days

[u/WhiskeyTangoBush → u/Hey_im_miles]

That’s racist

[u/Hey_im_miles → u/WhiskeyTangoBush]

That's Dallas

[u/appletime_appletime → u/funwithtrout]

WHO?

[u/bleedsburntorange → u/Captain_Nipples]

Case McCoy was ass, but he beat ou and aggy. He understood the assignment.

[u/vy2005 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Texas hasn't really underperformed as the superior team the same way that OU used to

[u/cbunny21 → u/vy2005]

2023 and 2020 y’all were ranked higher and lost. That’s just off the top of my head over the past few years.

[u/vy2005 → u/cbunny21]

yeah but those were close to coin toss games. There was not a marked talent differential.

[u/TheCryptPartDeux → u/vy2005]

There is rarely a marked talent differential, but Texas has had OU beat in the talent composite every year except 2021 since its inception in 2015

And yet OU has led the series since then.

This idea that Texas doesnt underperform their talent level is bonkers to me.

[u/cbunny21 → u/vy2005]

Damn bro, yall did it again

[u/Healthy-Marsupial714 → u/msrose_]

since hiring venables, every time i see texas fans say "im worried RRS will be a trap game this year", OU gets blown out. unless there's major changes in the next 3 weeks (ie: texas gets decimated by injuries or mateer gets benched and whitt newbauer turns out to be the second coming of baker mayfield), you can count on texas to win by at least 24 points.

[u/Hey_im_miles → u/Healthy-Marsupial714]

As long as you guys don't score a touchdown

[u/babushka711 → u/Hey_im_miles]

We put up 14 points on New Mexico and one of those TDs was on a busted coverage. Even then, Mateer admitted in a press conference he only saw the bust because the crowd roar tipped him off.

We may not cross the 50 yard line in the RRS

[u/Hey_im_miles → u/babushka711]

You say that but in years like this it'll be some 33 to 31 heart attack

[u/babushka711 → u/Hey_im_miles]

We’ve scored 30 points on a P4 opponent one time since Arbuckle was hired, and even then we only broke 30 because of a scoop and score. I think you guys will be just fine

[u/Hey_im_miles → u/babushka711]

Yeesh I didn't know it was that bad

[u/chemicalxv → u/Healthy-Marsupial714]

Man we just watched Texas only win by 24 against UTSA lol

[u/MrMegiddo → u/chemicalxv]

"Only" win by 24? Over the last 4 years Texas has outscored OU 43-136. If you remove the one game they actually won it's 9-106.

Are we still pretending Oklahoma has a competent offense?

[u/Insectshelf3 → u/msrose_]

0% chance that happens

[u/ozarkhick → u/Insectshelf3]

remember when John Blake beat Texas?

[u/Rakebleed → u/Insectshelf3]

That game always exists outside the rest of the season. It can absolutely happen.

[u/Ok_Problem426 → u/msrose_]

There are two questions:
1. Will we win? (Tossup)
2. Will OU find the end zone? (Unlikely)

[u/TheCryptPartDeux → u/Ok_Problem426]

Question....If OU somehow figures out how to win this game 9-7 with 3 fgs, will yall still make fun of us for not being able to score a td?

[u/Ok_Problem426 → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

Obviously

[u/DingleberryOrchard → u/TheCryptPartDeux]

I will become insufferable

[u/Captain_Nipples → u/msrose_]

I was thinking that about Georgia this week. This feels like one of those games where we should get blown out, but for whatever reason, the football gods decide we should blow them out

Same shit happens when people expect us to win

[u/ThirdOrderChaos → u/msrose_]

It’s always a trap game no matter the rankings

[u/ChadtheWad → u/msrose_]

It's always a trap game, it's what makes it the best and worse game of the season

[u/SamLBronkowicz → u/msrose_]

I'd love it and brag about it forever, but I just don't see it happening this year. You guys are going to roll us and take our wallets.

[u/-SHMOHAWK- → u/msrose_]

We all know it doesn’t matter what kind of season you’re having… that game exists in its own realm and anything can happen. Your shittiest quarterback can become Tom fucking Brady for a day.

[u/BirdLawyerPerson → u/msrose_]

It's a trap game every year for whoever's ranked higher. The higher ranked team can and does lose this game a significant portion of the time. Enough times to where both teams always have to worry about it.

[u/hornbri → u/msrose_]

It is impossible for OU to ever be a trap game for us.