Daily Bullets – 10.7

Kyle Porter —  October 7, 2011 — 3 Comments

Wisconsin and OSU are the two best redzone teams in the country. (NewsOK)

Really strong, thoughtful column by James Poling about how terrible it is that the Kansas game isn’t on TV. (O’Colly)

Mike Holder is the lowest paid athletic director in the Big 12? (Holy Turf)

Robin Ventura is the 39th manager in White Sox history. That seems like a lot of skippers, no? (okstate.com)

Weeden says OSU still has the deep ball in its arsenal. (NewsOK)

LeBryan Nash, Big 12 preseason freshman of the year. (Big 12 Sports)

Pretty crazy stat: OSU hasn’t started back-to-back seasons 5-0 since 1944-45. (ESPN)

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Weeden by the Numbers

Kyle Porter —  October 7, 2011 — 14 Comments

Welcome to Pistols Firing 2.0 – we’ll take a tour over the next few weeks but there are too many posts to get to today, starting with the one below.

As part of our new, cleaner website I wanted to make something to show it off with so I set out to make my first infographic. 57 hours later I had something reasonable I could show you. Hope you enjoy it!

And hope you enjoy the career Brandon Weeden is putting together.

Click graph below to enlarge

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5 Teams That Could Go Undefeated

Kyle Porter —  October 6, 2011 — 12 Comments

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On Tuesday we looked at #15-#11, yesterday we looked at #10-#6, now let’s look at the five most likely teams to run the table and be undefeated at Christmas.

5. Oklahoma 

Most likely loss: at Oklahoma State

Schedule difficulty: 6 (out of 10)

Upset lurking: at Baylor

Analysis: at Baylor and at K-State are sneaky, but they’re going to murder A&M and Tech at home. I fully expect 11-0 heading into Bedlam.

Chance of going undefeated: 55%

4. Houston

Most likely loss: at Tulsa

Schedule difficulty: 2 (out of 10)

Upset lurking: at Tulane

Analysis: They haven’t exactly been blowing people away (average margin of victory over D-1 teams: 7 pts), but they also don’t really need to. I think they’ll probably lose because they aren’t really that good, but they shouldn’t, not with this schedule: ECU, Marshall, Rice, UAB, Tulane, SMU, and Tulsa.

Chance of going undefeated: 65%

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Week 6 Lines

Kyle Porter —  October 6, 2011 — Leave a comment

Amilian joins me to talk week 6 lines and why he thinks my BlogPoll is flawed.

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Daily Bullets – 10.6

Kyle Porter —  October 6, 2011 — 3 Comments

Great story on Andrew McGee. Reminds me of the podcast I did with him :) (NewsOK)

Nerdy recruiting news: this dude could provide retribution for us stealing CJ Curry. (ESPN Insider)

Some great thoughts here from Berry Tramel on what Mizzou’s perceived departure means for Oklahoma State. (NewsOK)

I wrote a column for the O’Colly about (gasp) why we should be rooting for OU right now. (O’Colly)

David Boren says the Big 12 is almost ready to extend invitations. (NewsOK)

I agree with John Helsley, this team hasn’t put together a complete game yet. When they do, it’s going to be scary. (NewsOK)

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Best Chance of Going Undefeated

Kyle Porter —  October 5, 2011 — 6 Comments

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For the next few days we’ll take a look at the 15 remaining unbeatens, who they have left, their best chance to lose, who might stun them, and (most importantly) how all of this affects OSU.

Yesterday we looked at 15-11, today we’ll look at 10-6.

From least likely to go undefeated to most:

10. Georgia Tech

Most likely loss: Clemson at home

Schedule difficulty: 6 (out of 10)

Upset lurking: at The U

OSU is affected: they could only be affected if the winner of the Georgia Tech Clemson game on October 29 runs the table.

Analysis: Their defense is questionable (giving up 35 to NC State?) but their option attack will not be stopped. The thing that scares me about teams that run so well is that they don’t really have off games. The Ramblin’ Wreck gets Clemson and Va Tech at home in back-to-back weeks at the end of October/beginning of November. They could be looking at perfection if they get through that.

Chance of going undefeated: 30%

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Can You Name a KU Player?

Kyle Porter —  October 5, 2011 — 1 Comment

Q comes back on to talk undefeated seasons, how good Wisconsin is, and we see how many KU football players we can actually name.

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Daily Bullets – 10.5

Kyle Porter —  October 5, 2011 — 5 Comments

Bill Haisten says what I’ve been harping on, fans should enjoy this while it lasts. (Tulsa World)

Burns Hargis is the new chairman of the Big 12 board of directors. (NewsOK)

He’s not serious that parents send their kids to OSU because of “the rant”, is he? (Rivals)

Wow, ALbert Chen says “If Oklahoma State and Texas A&M are indeed the Sooners’ greatest threats in the Big 12, then Oklahoma should waltz its way through the conference.” (Sports Illustrated)

Ubben’s mailbags are really funny. The last Q/A killed me. (ESPN)

The blocking levied by OSU’s group of receivers has been one of the most underrated aspects of how successful Weeden has been this year. Good stuff by John Helsley. (NewsOK)

Bill Haisten on how much tailgating has improved in Stillwater. (Tulsa World)

Somehow the Big 12 remains the best conference in the country even though our 3rd (4th? 5th?) best team just got beat by the SEC’s 6th (7th? 8th?) best team. (ESPN)

Weeden kills me, here’s a hilarious article about his preferred method of transportation. (O’Colly)

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Somebody’s Getting Auburn’d

Kyle Porter —  October 4, 2011 — 8 Comments

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You guys remember what happened.

Auburn went to Tennessee, to Ole Miss, to Alabama, beat Georgia and LSU at home, and Tennessee again in the SEC title game to complete the 13-0 sweep and…were rewarded with a 2-loss Virginia Tech team in the Sugar Bowl.

12-0 OU and 12-0 SC played for the national title. War Eagle’s cries fell upon the deaf ears of the bureaucratic machinery that is the Bowl Championship Series. They had been perfect in the nation’s nastiest conference and had nothing to show for it. Nice season guys, do it again next year and maybe you’ll get a look.

It was a nightmarish scenario for an organization that’s pretty used to nightmarish scenarios. The scariest thing about it all?

It could happen again. And this time OSU’s involved.

For the next few days we’ll take a look at the 15 remaining unbeatens, who they have left, their best chance to lose, who might stun them, and (most importantly) how all of this affects OSU.

From least likely to go undefeated to most:

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Scooter and Jack Visit the State Fair

Kyle Porter —  October 4, 2011 — Leave a comment

Scooter and Jack rejoin the Pistolcast to talk about their favorite Texas State Fair memories, thoughts on Ball State, and just how they expect to stop Fozzy Whittaker.

There’s about 45 seconds of silence at the beginning of the podcast (my bad!) but it gets going after that.

You can follow Scoots and Jack on Twitter here.

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Daily Bullets – 10.4

Kyle Porter —  October 4, 2011 — 2 Comments

I should just post this article and leave off the rest of them because it’s a walk off. (O’Colly)

My gosh, Kansas is giving up 252 yards per game on the ground. (NewsOK)

Gina Mizell on just how far back the KU OSU rivalry goes. (NewsOK)

Gundy learned his moves in…chapel? (NewsOK)

Good look at your Cowboys in the NFL from this weekend. Dez and Dan are cleaning up down in Big D. (okstate.com)

Sittler says Weeden2Blackmon has created a Heisman dilemma. Pretty sure we’ve been talking about this for 3 months. (Tulsa World)

The OSU Texas game will be at 2:30 next weekend. The scheduling gods continue to smile upon us. (okstate.com)

Andy Katz says LeBryan could end up on the Wooden Award Watch list. (ESPN)

So it really is staying together, huh. (ESPN)

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BlogPoll – Week 6

Kyle Porter —  October 3, 2011 — 19 Comments

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I thought this was supposed to be getting easier!

If you don’t think LSU and Bama are the two best teams in the country then I’m not sure what to tell you. I was talking to my buddy, Sheets, yesterday about their matchup and he said, “the final when they play is going to be like 3-0 on a 48-yard field goal.” Can we just call that the title game and be done with it?

Wisconsin was outstanding in their “I guess we have to call it a ‘test’ because Nebraska was a top ten team but it was more like a pop quiz or group homework assignment” outing against Nebraska. Camp Randall was everything you want from a home crowd in early October ready to assert itself onto the national stage. The Brewers took the first two from Arizona, Green Bay rolled, it is a very good time to be a beer distributor in the state of Wisconsin right now.

I feel kind of bad for OU actually (no I don’t) considering they’ve more than taken care of business thus far and I’ve had to drop them the last two weeks because of what other teams did. Same for Boise and Oklahoma State.

Speaking of my Cowboys, we’re all aware that if Texas beats OU on Saturday (they won’t) that OSU will be facing its second matchup between top ten teams in the state of Texas within four weeks. Either way I just hope Venables hits Case in the mouth over and over again so they’re good and bloodied up when we roll into Austin.

Auburn – welcome back to the party with a resounding W in Columbia.

Michigan State – ditto, even though you’re going to have to pick it up offensively.

Big 12 – congrats on being the only conference with four undefeated teams (you actually have five). I don’t expect that to last much past this weekend (one of OU/Texas falls, Tech could lose at home to A&M, and K-State could do the same to Mizzou).

Full poll after the jump

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