The theme of the SEC is It Just Means More. For most OU fans, football has meant more for most of their lives. And over that time there have been quite a few gut punch losses. The Oregon game with the phantom onside kick recovery comes to mind. As does the playoff loss to Georgia. Even though the stakes were much lower, our last game against Mizzou was a similar gut punch for me. I almost took the whole week off from thinking about college football (with the exception of Pick'em). It seemed to be just the break I neeeded. While I may not have my normal level of excitement about Sooner football, the stomach pains have severely lessened. Sooner football fandom is a disease with no cure, it seems.
And of coarse when you need a bounce back game, what opponent could be better than...checking notes...Alabama? Welcome to the SEC. Even before discovering that this team was snake bit in the WR room, had all of their OL portal transfers turn out to be underwhelming, and learned that their 5 star QB had a lot more to learn, the Alabama game was always going to be one of our most difficult. Despite the Crimson Tide coming in with 2 losses, it doesn't look any easier 10 games into the season. That said, my blood my runs Sooner crimson, not Alabama crimson, and I cannot pick against the home team. I don't know how they do it, but they do it.
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Bama 20
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
