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I erroneously labeled this show “year of the QB” yesterday when it is, in fact, called “Depth Chart” even though it’s part of a larget production called “year of the QB”…or something like that. Year of the QB sounds like a fortune gone wrong so I’m not sure.

Anyway, I had a lot of thoughts about the hour of Oklahoma State television (is this what it feels like to be a Texas fan and have the Longhorn network?!) from last night. Here are twenty of them:

1. How many Nike shirts does Weeden own? Over or under 150?

2. Todd Monken, my gosh, I understand the occasional curse word and I honestly don’t have an opinion one way or another (though I choose not to partake) but that was a gratuitous display of the English language. My wife finally just started burying her face in her hands every time he came on screen. You have to have some sense of the fact that you’re on national television.

3. Chelf on the moped was all kinds of classic. I mean there was nothing about it that didn’t remind me of this.

4. In part of the opening Gundy said, “there are 122 teams that play big-time football.” Am I missing something or is he off by 2? Or is he counting Sacramento State since they beat Oregon State this year?

5. Is it bad that I didn’t realize Herbstreit was narrating until about 15 minutes in?

6. That freshman orientation introduction thing where they talk to what I assume to be big time boosters feels a little…too SEC for me. It was awkward.

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How easy has my job been this year? Soccer and football are a combined 20-0, new uniforms for multiple teams, a seemingly infinite number of quotes from great personalities like #81, #3, and Mike Gundy. It feels like the plane is just on autopilot and I’m here to make sure nothing gets screwed up.

Okay, on to the real reason we’re here: to take a quick gander at some clips previewing tonight’s “year of the QB” starring Brandon Weeden. Here we go…

I can honestly say I’ve sat at my kitchen table in a Masters pullover with my wife and talked about grocery shopping and our schedules. I wasn’t quarterbacking the #6 college football team in the country at the time, but still.

Also I love this exchange:

Melanie: “our deal hasn’t worked out very well.”
Brandon: “what?”
Melanie: “I keep the house clean, you go to the store.”
Brandon: “oh, I know.”
Melanie: “when is that going to start”
Brandon: “whenever you want.”

Been there too…

Also, the paper handoff at the end is hilarious. I don’t know if it’s awkward or weird or staged (obviously?) but Weeden is like “welp, here I am on the front of the Oklahoman, okay cya later!”

I feel like this isn’t the first time Monken has said a curse word in film. What would ESPN have done if Holgorsen was still here for this? I mean that would have taken days to edit. “Uh yeah, we taped for 39 hours and have 3 minutes of material that won’t have the FCC all over us, thanks Dana.”

This group just kills me.

My favorite part..

Walsh: “hot”
Chelf: “toasted”
Walsh: “toasted”

One more after the jump

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ESPN has a guy named Brad Edwards who they call their “BCS expert” (otherwise known as “the dude ESPN hired to help convince college football fans that having the BCS instead of a playoff is a good thing because it makes them roughly the same amount of money as Guatemala produced in the aggregate last year” but that seems like too long of a title to put under your bio pic online).

Anyway, this guy has been analyzing how the BCS is calculated for years and projects that the first BCS standings (which will be released this weekend) will be these four teams in some order:

1. LSU
2. Oklahoma
3. Alabama
4. Oklahoma State

I don’t think I need to explain to you what this means, but in case you passed out at your desk and bludgeoned your forehead with the escape key, I’ll lay it out…

If Oklahoma State wins the next seven games (six of which they will be favored in) they will play in New Orleans on January 9, 2012 for the national championship.

Edwards goes on to say:

These teams need no help. The first three on this list are self-explanatory, but the fourth may surprise some people. Simply, the BCS computers consider the Big 12 to be the strongest conference in college football, so any team that runs the table through that league will be highly ranked in that portion of the BCS formula. And wins at Texas A&M and Texas should do a lot to position the Cowboys well enough that a season-ending win over Oklahoma likely would get them whatever additional support they might need in the polls to reach the BCS top two.

I agree with his assessment of OSU’s road wins. At A&M and (hypothetically) at Texas are both better road wins than anything Wisconsin or Boise (or even Stanford) is going to put up this year, but I don’t understand how the computers consider the Big 12 to be “the strongest conference.”

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