Correction

Don't know where I was getting my facts, but the Oklahoma Centennial as previously reported was not Nov 7, it was Nov 16.

LandThieves regrets the error. On the other hand, if you were looking for facts here, you probably came to the wrong place anyway.

So you're wondering how Texas Tech matches up to the

Sooners on the gridiron?

Offense		Texas Tech averages 543 / game; Sooners "only" average 459. The Sooners average 45 ppg, Tech averages 42.5. Michael Crabtree is the nation's best receiver. Think Malcolm Kelly in an offense that featured him.
Defense		Sooners are 16th in total defense, even after playing offensive leaders Tulsa and Missouri. TT is 49th.
Special Teams		OU is 3rd in the country in KO returns, courtesy of DeMarco Murray. Both teams have kickers that have struggled this year, and are middle of the road in the punt return game.
Stadium Name		Jones AT&T Stadium. So, it's a little corporate sounding. But it's simple.
Coaching		I'm a big Leach fan, but I have to go w Coach Stoops staff overall.
Cool Alumni		TT boasts Harold Welch, the First Father-in-law, and Ed Rappaport, interim director of the National Hurricane Center. Wikipedia entry was pretty lame.
Shafted by Hometown referees	Tie

Big day for Sooner Sports

Arizona is dominating - in the sense of "giving up lots of yard and losing time of possession 2-1, but scoring on D and special teams" - Oregon on ESPN.

Other thoughts on the Arizona / Oregon game:
Dennis Dixon has hurt his knee on an ugly play. No contact, just a cut and he was down. Dennis is having a great year, and as much as I want the Ducks to lose, I wouldn't wish ill on the kid. I hope he's back next week.

Interesting data elements:
Arizona's record under Stoops for the season, and in November:
2004 3-8 (2-2)
2005 3-8 (2-2)
2006 6-6 (3-1)
2007 4-6 (1-0)
Mike Stoops' Arizona squad is 8-5 in November and 8-23 in other months.

Over that same period, here is Oregon's record under Bellotti
2004 5-6 (0-3)
2005 10-2 (3-0)
2006 7-6 (1-3)
2007 8-1 (1-0)
Oregon is 5-6 in November and 25-9 the other months.

That info is free of charge, folks. And might have been even more insightful BEFORE the game started.

LandThieves Expands Territory

Coppell, US America (LTP) - LandThieves continues to create alliances to dominate the Big 12, and national landscapes. We've added two more accomplices. For Bugeater coverage, check out the folks at midwestcoastbias.com. For overall Big 12 coverage, check out the Big XII War Blog.

Testigate Part Duex

It's been quiet on the Testigate front in Oklahoma, but now we have this in Wisconsin, a normally hospitable place. The topic in question grabs your attention at about the 3:40 mark, when Ruvell Martin does the Lambeau Leap after scoring a TD. As you can see from this picture, a fan greets him with what can best be described as a "testicle tear" move.

A radio station in Milwaukee is looking for the offending grabber. We'll keep you posted on this matter. If you watch the video, you realize it's not our culprit from OKC, and the gent appears to skinney to have been a Husker defender.

Texas Tech and Officiating

It's been tempting to poke fun at the Great Pirate this week after his post game rant, but I just couldn't do it. Then, in the wee hours of this morning, I read this from my compadres at DiscoTech! I think it's an interesting reasoned analysis of the situation that I highly recommend.

LandThieves Poll #6

This week's poll has serious flaws, as you'll soon find out. I've got to work on my math.

1. Ohio State - according to the official LT scoring system, the Buckeyes maintain their number one ranking despite losing to Illinois. One of the anomalies here is that even though the Buckeye's have not played many folks with any sort of national rep, they MAC and 1-AA schools they played non conference have middle of the road records as well. So their strength of schedule is deceivingly high.
2. Oregon - the Ducks play at Arizona on Thursday night. I have to believe the HeadVisor is camping out in Tucson, giving his brother some help this week. He can coach the Sooners on Friday and Saturday. That loss to Cal is looking less impressive week by week.
3. LSU - the Tigers travel to Oxford to play Ole Miss this week. According to media reports, this game went into OT last year. Tough to imagine that happening again. Then again, if Les is stumping for the UM job all week, they could lay an egg anywhere along the way. If you don't believe me, dial up the video of the Oklahoma State - Ohio State Alamo Bowl when less was "coaching" his final game for the Cowboys.
4. Kansas - the Jayhawks beat someone we've heard of. Kansas is rising in the human polls after beating the Bugeaters (w/l record 5-6) and Boone State (5-5). Iowa State, winners of their last two, travel to Lawrence this week. Central Michigan may be the only team, outside of Mizzou, that Kansas plays this year that achieves 7 wins.
5. West Virginia - the Mountaineer defense is 4th in total defense, per the NCAA. That surprised me.
6. Arizona State - the Sun Devils squeak by the schizophrenic UCLA Bruins, and now they get the week off before spending Thanksgiving with the Men of Troy.
7. Oklahoma - playing "the B" hurts the ol' strength of schedule a bit. Playing in Lubbock can hurt the WL record a bit. I'm not surprised that OU is 9-1 at this point. I'm surprised the loss is to Colorado.
8. Illinois - the Zooker wins a big game. The Illini jumped from 18-8 this week.
9. Virginia Tech - how times have changed. Hokies last three games are FSU, Miami-FL, and Virginia. And Virginia is by far the toughest teams of those three.
10. Missouri - the Tigers travel to the Little Apple this week to play Willie and Friends. Who were slapped around by Nebraska last week.
11. Clemson - another team that's used to collapsing late hasn't yet.
12. Florida - Tim Tebow is awesome. Believe the hype.
13. South Florida - has played the second toughest sched of the top 25, next to the 12th ranked Gators.
14. Georgia - Auburn had allowed 44 points in the previous 5 games. Georgia got 45 in one.
15. Virginia - a tip of the hat to the Cavaliers for humiliating the Canes before the lights go out in the Orange Bowl.
16. Cincinnati - thanks for shutting up the "hey, look at the Huskies" folks.
17. Texas - they are due an arrest.
18. Southern Cal - are they still selling John David Booty for Heisman?
19. Michigan - the Badger flogging of the Wolverines put to bed that talk of "Michigan is one of the better teams in college fb right now".
20. Boston College - my, they've fallen.
21. Connecticut - nice performance against Cincinnati this week.
22. Northern Iowa
23. Penn State
24. Kentucky
25. Auburn