This is a what have you done for me lately/complete resume poll. Each week I’ll be adjusting positions based on how teams have played, who they have played, and finally how they lost. Last week’s poll won’t have an appreciable impact on this week’s. A team ranked 19^th, may stay 19^th despite 3 teams losing ahead of them.

As always comments are appreciated and will be integrated into the final ballot

OU Recruiting Update 11/1

Current Verbals:

1. Blake Bell- QB
2. Roy Finch- RB
3. Brennan Clay - RB
4. Sheldon McClain - WR- Mid Term
5. Joe Powell- WR
6. Trey Franks - WR/KR/PR
7. Justin McCay- WR/ATH
8. Tyrus Thompson - OT
9. Bronson Irwin - OG/OT - Mid Term
10. Austin Woods - OC - Mid Term
11. Adam Snead - OG
12. Darryl Williams - OT
13. Trey Millard - HBack/TE
14. Daniel Noble - DT
15. Torrea Peterson - DT
16. Chuka Ndulue - DE
17. Aaron Franklin - OLB
18. Jarrett Lake - OLB
19. Rashad Favors - MLB - Mid Term
20. Quentin Hayes- DB
21. Eddrick Loften- DB
22. Julian Wilson- ATH-DB
23. James Haynes - DB
24. Aaron Colvin- DB

Kind of a strange game last night. Really OU's closest struggle at home during this current streak since Missouri in 2007 or the dreaded Baylor OT game in 2005.  A tale of 4 quarters, 1st and 4th Qtrs belonging to a dominating OU offense and OU defense, and then 2nd and 3rd Qtrs where KState exposed the OU defense and controlled the clock. Then we had a nightmarish glimpse back into 2008's kickoff return coverage.

When you have no ideas, no tradition and no creativity whatsoever, you just take somebody else's time-honored trade and call it your own.

OSU fans are known for waving the wheat (H/T Kansas) and firing their pistols (H/T Tech). This weekend, in a take-off of the Aggies-who-are-actually-somewhat-ok-because-they-have-all-of-those-"cool"-traditions, students are calling for a blackout.

In college sports, I figure you can never go wrong rooting against teams wearing orange: Florida. Miami. Tennessee. Clemson. Auburn. Syracuse. Illinois. Boise State. I hate all of them. Oregon State? Well, hell, they're another OSU, and they have the crappiest-looking college campus I've ever set foot on, so screw them, too. I can't think of any good reason to hate Bowling Green and Bucknell, but that's only because they're so easy to ignore.

So what should a Sooner fan do when the Sooners' two most-hated orange-clad rivals play each other? Just keep in mind the cardinal rule:

Always root for the Sooners and what's good for them.

And its corollary:

If it's bad for the Longhorns, it's probably good for the Sooners.

Let's start our preview of Saturday night's ritual beatdown of the Kansas State Mildcats with the one thing that the old coach is worried about:

I'm worried that 90-pound Bill Snyder will keel over at any time.

Well, don't say we didn't warn you.

It's a common story, I'm sure you've heard it before.

After getting 50 dropped on you in your own house by your biggest, most hated rival, you deflect attention not by talking about what went wrong, not by saying the other team was better ... no, you talk about the size of people's girlfriends.

Most of you probably saw this yesterday. I'm just catching up as I don't normally get the Vikes' games where I am, unless I'm paying $4 per beer in some douchy sportsbar, glued both to the Minnesota game and my laptop.