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One interesting thing about OU's team that lost to Nebraska 69-7 (I was there actually)...

Was that the Freshmen on that team...... were national champions as Seniors. About three of them started in that Nebraska game and were also starters when OU beat FSU for the championship.

Pretty typical of Missouri teams in the 1970s. They were hell on out of conference powerhouse teams in that decade.... but would lose to the dregs of the Big 8.

They beat Alabama and Notre Dame during that decade as well.

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72, while not old by today’s standards, is still getting on up there, especially if you don’t take the best care of yourself. Not saying that about him bait in general. But I think there was a poster above who noted he had been ill for a couple of years.

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72 gets younger as you get older.

I remember my 80 something grandfather....

Every time I went to see him in his small town he would tell us who had died.

A lot of times he would say "He was just a young guy... He was only 75"... which to a HS student like me... seemed strange.

Sadly, it doesn't seem so strange 50 years later.

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OU recently had Baker from Tech, Kyler from A&M, and Hurts made it to NYC

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Transfer portal didn't exist when Mayfield and Murray transferred. They both had to sit out a year per the old rule. Both came to OU after their freshman season at Tech and A&M.

The transfer portal was implemented the year that Hurts came to OU (2019)... but he came as a grad transfer... which had been in place for a few years prior to 2019

For OU...

Hollywood Smothers is the first guy to ever play for OU and then transfer to Texas. (despite being at NC State in between).

There have been about seven guys who have played/(attended) for Texas and then transferred to OU.

OU has a couple of skill players who are now at Kentucky... who will play at Norman this year.

We have a highly popular former LB who married one of our legendary softball players (who is pregnant) that is at Northwestern along with another former OU Running back... whose little brother is still at OU.

And as with most teams... other guys spread all over the place. I'll probably watch the skill guys play if they are on TV and there isn't a more intriguing game to watch.

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Jason White and Adrian Peterson

Sam Bradford and DeMarco Murray

Baker Mayfileld and Joe Mixon and CeeDee Lamb

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For OU... in 1971... Greg Pruitt and Jack Mildren came in 3rd and 6th. Probably the highest OU combo besides White and Peterson.

I don't think the other pairs/trios you mentioned were all top ten vote getters in the same season.

Everybody is good in August.

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Well, considering the subject is “all-time”, then it is highly applicable. Now had he limited it to the past 10-20 years, then you’d have a point.

But he said “all time”, so you don’t.

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I don't know why these guys can't understand this. I think part of it is they really believe that schools like Oklahoma and Nebraska (or Texas) would not have been any good back in the day had they played in the SEC. So they feel obligated to discredit the history of those programs.

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Auburn has been a better job than TN for half a century.

Similar expectations from the fanbases, but Auburn is in a much better location in terms of proximity to high school talent.

Tennessee is also burdened by having a top 2 alumni city being 400+ miles away (Memphis). That complicates engagement with large donors. 75%+ of Auburn's season ticket holders / big donors live within about 120 miles of Auburn.

When it comes to what constitutes a program being a "good job", I can't think of one area that Tennessee is better than Auburn.

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Gotta push back on this a little bit.

While your comments about donors in Memphis is an interesting one...

The rest of the post requires some counter argument.

First, recruiting wise... Tennessee is actually in a better position than Auburn IMO... They can recruit the south... they can recruit North Carolina and the DMV and they can actually reach into Ohio. Also, they have no real in state competition for players. There certainly isn't a Bama to contend with in state... that is for sure.

NIL changes that... but Tennessee probably has more resources than all but a handful of programs. Throw in one of the largest stadiums with a fan following that is second to none...

I'd have rank Tennessee above Auburn in terms of what a coach has to work with. In fact I'd rate them ahead of OU.

But winning matters a lot too. And both Auburn recently and OU historically have a bit of an edge on the Vols.

Granted, NIL changes this... but they are in

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No conference realignment program has ever won the SEC or won a natty as a SEC member. Until a non original SEC team wins anything of significance under a SEC logo, no one cares about yalls history. Yall joined us, not the other way around

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That is not what the thread is about.

According to your way of thinking... Oklahoma and Texas' entire football history consists of 2024-2025.

As I said... it is entirely fair to surmise that OU and Texas would not have been as successful in the SEC historically as they were in the SWC/Big 8/Big 12 ....

But once again... OU and Texas have a winning record against Tennessee against Tennessee as members of other conferences (6-2)... and that group of five teams were 8-8 historically against the Vols.

I could keep going on down the line... point being... those five teams held their own against the SEC before joining the conference. Whether you "care" or not.

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They poured orange dye all over our players white jersey's as they ran out of the tunnel.

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I remember OU players saying that the Tech fans got them with ink one year when they were coming onto the field.

I don't think the players thought all that much about it. Just a prank. Some OU fans got bent about it... of course.