Oklahoma Predictions
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Oklahoma has the #1 D in the conference. They also haven't played OK ST TCU or Baylor.
OKlahoma has the #3 scoring defense, but statistically, we will be the 2nd best defense they've faced this year
We average 10 more yards on the ground/game than them. We are the best rushing team they've faced
ISU allows 20 more yards/game/rush than them. They haven't faced a team that rushes as well as we do.
They throw for 70 more yards game than us. We are the 2nd best passing team they will have faced.
They average 60 more yards than us. Again, were 2nd best team they've faced.
We average more yards offensively than they do defensively and vice versa.
Basically what im saying is were going to win.
OKlahoma has the #3 scoring defense, but statistically, we will be the 2nd best defense they've faced this year
We average 10 more yards on the ground/game than them. We are the best rushing team they've faced
ISU allows 20 more yards/game/rush than them. They haven't faced a team that rushes as well as we do.
They throw for 70 more yards game than us. We are the 2nd best passing team they will have faced.
They average 60 more yards than us. Again, were 2nd best team they've faced.
We average more yards offensively than they do defensively and vice versa.
Basically what im saying is were going to win.
1998 lost 17-14. Had the lead with very little time left. Oklahoma was driving and we dropped and easy interception to seal the game. Oklahoma went on to score and win after the drop.
Here's a write up:
The formation of the Big 12 Conference ended a 67-year continuous streak of ISU-OU games. As a result, Iowa State would only get one game against the Sooners in the John Blake era, the worst in Oklahoma football in generations. The Halloween 1998 game was in Norman against a redshirt freshman quarterback making his first start. Coming into the game, Iowa State had won one Big 12 game in the three years of the conference's existence. Oklahoma had won five. (Three of those combined six were against Baylor.)
Darren Davis and ISU scored first. The Cyclones did not trail until there was 1:12 remaining in the fourth quarter. And then that redshirt freshman, John Sills, threw a 44-yard touchdown pass. It was Oklahoma's first conference win of the year.
"There is no statistical category for Iowa State's 17-14 loss to Oklahoma," Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter Marc Morehouse wrote. "Even the finger of blame would turn away in sympathy." 1998 was Dan McCarney's second chance to beat Oklahoma, and it may have been the best. He would have to wait another year for his first Big 12 road win. "If Dustin Avey had hung onto a sure interception on first down of the Sooners' winning drive, game over," Morehouse wrote. "If the Cyclones had come away with TDs on either of [Todd] Bandhauer's interceptions — one came from the Sooners' 16 in the first quarter, the other came from their 21 in the fourth quarter — game over."
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Did some digging. Since the B12 was formed in 1994 we have played Oklahoma 13 times. Our average margin of defeat is 28 points. The closest we came was a 3 point loss and the biggest drubbing came in 2010 when we lost by 52. I don't see us hanging within 21.
Interesting question. Looks like the answer is the first time we played them in a Big 12 (as opposed to Big 8) game back in 1998.
Since Bob Stoops took over, the closest we've been is a 10 point loss in Ames in 2007.
And the closest it's been in Norman against Stoops is a 20-point loss in 2011, the week after our home upset win over #2 OSU.
1998: 17-14 in Norman
1999: 31-10 in Ames
2002: 49-3 in Norman
2003: 53-7 in Ames
2006: 34-9 in Norman
2007: 17-7 in Ames
2010: 52-0 in Norman
2011: 26-6 in Norman
2012: 35-20 in Ames
2013: 48-10 in Norman
2014: 59-14 in Ames
(I'm bored.)
Wouldn't picking ISU over OU be kind of like picking Grand Valley State to win tonight? Sorry I just cannot pick GVS. Good luck Cyclones.
http://www.winsipedia.com/oklahoma/vs/iowa-state
The past is the past I agree. Stoops will not let up for one second so Lanning and the boys better play lights out and the D better get some turnovers to even have a chance.
The past is the past I agree. Stoops will not let up for one second so Lanning and the boys better play lights out and the D better get some turnovers to even have a chance.
Game was in Ames, and was really only close because:
1) it was windy as f and Bradford's passes were wobbly all day
2) we only scored once in 4 first half opportunities inside the red zone
I'm going to go 35-17. We're learning how to keep scores down but this game vs. a top opponent comes to soon. We'll see the benefits down the line.
I think it will be like the TCU game. we will keep it close for a while, but Oklahoma's class of athlete takes over in the second half. Stoops is the man. 48-28 OU
I'll go with OU 31 - ISU 17. Respectable effort, but for them to have a chance at an upset they would need a superhuman effort from Warren and/or Lanning and another big game from the defense.
