Bob McCarty Writes

It appears I blew it when it came to predicting the outcomes of the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played last night in San Diego.
In my second annual college football bowl game predictions post, I had picked #13 Oklahoma State to defeat #17 Oregon, 29-20.  Unfortunately, the Ducks had other plans for the Cowboys of my [...]

[Read more →]

Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below:
Monday, Dec. [...]

[Read more →]

Bob Stoops’ fifth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners delivered the #2 Texas Tech Red Raiders football program its worst defeat ever — that’s right, EVER! — a 65-21 drubbing Saturday night at The Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium in Norman.*  More importantly, however, the boys in Crimson ‘n’ Cream sent a strongly-worded message to the rest of the college [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been so busy writing about politics during the past few weeks that I haven’t had time to cover college football much.  Tonight, however, I had to share my disgust with the latest BCS rankings.  Somehow, those rankings place the Utah Utes above my Oklahoma State Cowboys.  My question is, “How?”
A comparison of the two [...]

[Read more →]

Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the seventh week of college football action, and Oklahoma State Cowboys running back Kendall Hunter is one of them.
During #17 Oklahoma State’s 28-23 defeat of Missouri in Columbia Saturday night, Hunter rushed for 154 yards and a touchdown.  A 5′ [...]

[Read more →]