Big 12 Trap Games: OSU at Baylor
Oklahoma State at Baylor is another one of the Big 12 trap games I like for the 2012 season. This is a game where scheduling could mean everything. Since the conference gets two new schools this year, the Big 12 schedules have been shuffled around to where these teams aren’t playing each other in the normal order they have for the last few years.
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I think this is a good play. I, too, think Baylor is going to be good this season even with RG3 gone. They may not be AS good, but they will definitely be competitive, which is more than they use to be before Briles took over the program.
As a side note, I think Briles is the reason Baylor will remain competitive for the next several years. Briles is flat out goofy in media interviews (Texas Hick), but he sure knows his football.
If there were only one game that Oklahoma State could win every season, they would want it to be against Oklahoma. It has always been that way and always will. Like you said, they will leave it all on the field in that game and the Baylor game should be a major letdown.
BS…I just think these schedule shuffles are tougher on teams than people think. I mean would Ohio State/Michigan settle for a midseason game instead of it being the usual last game of the season? The OU/OSU game is exactly the same way, only on a smaller scale. I once heard an OU offensive lineman being interviewed after an OSU game. OSU went something like 3-9 that year, but the lineman said that he had never been hit as hard throughout an entire game and for the whole season as he did against OSU that day. And OSU had basically nothing to play for except beating OU. THAT’S how much the game means to them.
I agree with you about Briles being the Texas hick type of guy in his interviews. But one place this guy goes over well in is these HS football players homes. He’s done a hell of a job of recruiting compared to the coaches before him. Plus he’s been able to lure some high quality transfers to Waco. They say he may have a top 25 recruiting class for 2013. So there’s something about this guy that the players really like.