OT: BIGX11 Championship Game = bad football
This game has tons of action, but whoooo boy are these teams unsound and poorly coached. I am amazed at the bad football being played by both sides. Both teams are trying to give the game away. Even if Oklahoma State wins, no way the selection committee looks at this game and sees them as 1 of the top 4 teams in the country.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:07 PM ^
I am slightly reassured that Baylor got 4 picks in this game; feels like the universe has a limit of how many picks they'll give away and fewer for Iowa the better.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
Let's hope so!
December 4th, 2021 at 4:05 PM ^
Well it also helps when you have a QB with 3 picks versus 12 now on the season. I know people are freaking themselves out but UM is better at every offensive position than Ok State.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:08 PM ^
A 12-1 OSU should get in even while playing like garbage today over an 11-1 ND that didnt beat anybody all year.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:39 PM ^
But OSU is 10-2 and not playing today
/s
December 4th, 2021 at 3:40 PM ^
10-2*
December 4th, 2021 at 3:41 PM ^
Caught me before I caught myself. Corrected.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:43 PM ^
Any Big 12 team with a loss does not deserve to be in the playoffs. That conference shouldn’t even be a P5 conference
December 4th, 2021 at 3:12 PM ^
These teams are flawed big time
December 4th, 2021 at 3:14 PM ^
Michigan would smoke either of these teams. It feels great to say that while watching a P5 conference championship.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:16 PM ^
agree 100%
December 4th, 2021 at 4:38 PM ^
I was hoping we’d get Oklahoma state if we won. They’d have gotten destroyed and I don’t go on that ledge of confidence often.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:17 PM ^
You don’t think the Big Twailve is an elite conference? Go play innermurals brother!
December 4th, 2021 at 3:29 PM ^
Going the way of the big east when Miami, BC, and Syracuse jumped to the ACC
December 4th, 2021 at 3:19 PM ^
Bad football and inane coaching decisions
December 4th, 2021 at 3:19 PM ^
Does Mike Gundy dye his hair?
December 4th, 2021 at 3:29 PM ^
He's a man and he's 54!
December 4th, 2021 at 3:20 PM ^
These teams are pretty sound on defense, but it's weird to see a Big 12 game with such poor play on offense. The total might not hit 40
December 4th, 2021 at 3:25 PM ^
OK forget that. Sanders threw a "500" ball and Baylor did not pick it off.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:25 PM ^
Exciting now though - especially with a rooting outcome that could mean the end of NDs chances!
December 4th, 2021 at 3:28 PM ^
Preferred schadenfreude is ND doesn't make it
Alternative schadenfreude is Brian Kelly leaves days before his team makes the playoff -- and Freeman's first game is vs Georgia and second game is @OSU
December 4th, 2021 at 3:55 PM ^
No best alternative scenero if ND makes it in is Cincy loses, Georgia wins and the committee makes ND 3 so UM can dismantle them. I would be very confident about that matchup versus a statue in Coan.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:28 PM ^
But it's the ultimate hair match: mullet v. shaved head.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:28 PM ^
All game these announcers have claimed how great both defenses are and I'm just not seeing it. Would love to see Michigan matched up against either one.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:58 PM ^
I'd love to have some of what those announcers are smoking.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:29 PM ^
Lol Baylor using their timeouts so that OSU can use their whole playbook
December 4th, 2021 at 3:30 PM ^
Baylor sucks on defense
*Edit* except at goal line
December 4th, 2021 at 3:30 PM ^
Didn't like that 3rd down call. Got lucky with the PI
December 4th, 2021 at 3:32 PM ^
Holy cowpokes the Bears stopped them!
December 4th, 2021 at 3:32 PM ^
L-O-Fucking-L
December 4th, 2021 at 3:33 PM ^
The OP's title aged so very deliciously well. LO.....chair.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:32 PM ^
Wow chaos
December 4th, 2021 at 3:32 PM ^
Okie State had eight attempts within the two, and scored three points. Wow.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:33 PM ^
That was an incredible 4th and goal play!
December 4th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Exciting finish, great play by #42.
December 4th, 2021 at 4:06 PM ^
That last play was straight out of Hollywood, except it should have been in slow motion with no sound but the footsteps and the whistle.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Got to think his momentum would have gotten the score if he didn't bounce it. HH would have plowed that guy right off the tackle.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:36 PM ^
It almost felt like he was going for style points instead of taking the shortest path to the end zone.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
This is Okie State’s fault for copying Clemson’s uniforms. They Clemsoned away this game.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
That was some of the worst play calling I've ever seen.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:34 PM ^
Could not have been a closer game. Seemed like Ok State choked, though credit Baylor defense.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:35 PM ^
Unbelievable that Oklahoma State shit the bed twice inside the 2 in the 4th quarter.
They don’t deserve a second thought. Horrific execution. Horrific play-calling. Embarrassing display of football.
December 4th, 2021 at 4:07 PM ^
Yeah, twice in the course of this game at least, I found myself thinking, "OK, HERE is where Oklahoma State edges this out..." and each time, minutes later, nothing has happened. Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox as red zone offense indeed.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:36 PM ^
Ok State lost the game…Baylor didn’t win it.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:36 PM ^
The second half devolved into a total sludgefart. Near the end of the 4th I said out loud: "holy shit, somebody got a 1st down!" Thank God that game is over.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:40 PM ^
Now that RBs are allowed and even encouraged to push the pile, why the hell wouldn’t the QB sneak be more a staple in goaline offenses?
December 4th, 2021 at 4:05 PM ^
More like Oklahoma State lost the game, Baylor tried so very hard to lose, but failed to do so.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:36 PM ^
Also - this is where the SEC has it over everyone else: their refs are well enough trained that if the team capable of making the playoffs is screwing up, there'll be a handy holding call to bail them out.
December 4th, 2021 at 3:38 PM ^
Means UM should get the calls tonight, right?
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Yeah. I know.